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Creative Editions The Whale That Inspired Moby Dick Swims Again
Artists and writers are showing some sympathy for the real-life, man-eating Mocha Dick.
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Fantagraphics The True Heroes of Comic Books, Revealed
Drew Friedman's new book vividly illustrates the men and women behind the early comics boom.
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Oak Knoll Press The Lost Graphic Designs of a Short-Lived Democracy
History nearly forgot the avant-garde, sometimes agitational publishing culture that flourished in the Republic of Latvia between world wars.
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courtesy of Chank Diesel A Font That Speaks for Silent Film
Before talkies, type mattered enormously to movies, though the typists rarely got their due. A film festival has spurred the resurrection of one of those antique letter faces.
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courtesy of Peter Kuper and Seth Tobocman World War 3 Has Raged for 35 Years
The comics zine stays angry, even if it doesn't have Reagan to skewer anymore.
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Courtesy of MoSEX A Bounce House of Breasts
... and other carnal carnival attractions have arrived at NYC's Museum of Sex.
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House Industries Why Invent New Fonts?
House Industries' revival of a retro typeface is part art, part marketing tool.
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endpaper from Ah-Ha to Zig-Zag: 31 Objects from … Maira Kalman's Colorful National Knickknack Collection
The author-illustrator chose a pair of pants, among other idiosyncratic objects, to showcase at the Smithsonian Design Museum in Manhattan when it re-opens this December.
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courtesy Holly Longuski My Dad, the Famous Painter?
Holly Longuski's quest to find out whether she's the daughter of Howard Chandler Christy brought her to a greater understanding of her mother, one of Christy's models.
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Courtesy of the Local History Collection, Orange Public … How Jews Designed the Modern American Home
The mid-century modernists who fled Hitler helped shape a visual aesthetic that's still pervasive, as shown in a new museum exhibit.
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Mmuseumm A 'Mindblowing' 80-Square-Foot Museum of Random Junk
For the third summer in a row, Mmuseumm is showcasing items both banal and extraordinary in a lower-Manhattan freight elevator.
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Interscope / NEET The Crazy Design Future of M.I.A.'s New Video
Finally, hip-hop for a 3D-printed, post-Snowden world.
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Seven Stories Press Cancer Treatment as Comic Book
Matt Freedman scrawled the pages of Relatively Indolent but Relentless as he underwent radiation therapy, with engrossing, surprisingly funny results.
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AP Fashion's Cultural-Appropriation Debate: Pointless
Waves upon waves of backlash haven't stopped Western designers from continuing to swipe recklessly from other cultures. Critics should change the subject by examining the histories of what gets swiped—and more importantly, what doesn't.
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All images courtesy of Perez Art Museum Miami, … Collecting Art, Without Knowing What Kind of Art You're Collecting
The biggest holding of concrete poetry in the world sits in a Miami duplex, gathered by a couple who initially didn't know what "concrete poetry" was.
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Andrea Monfried Editions LLC The Best Art Deco Designer Who Almost No One Remembers
Hildreth Meière's huge mural commissions were rare for a woman in her day, but it was her fusion of classical and mid-century style that brought her fame.
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Hyphen The Utopian Origins of Restroom Symbols
A new book spotlights the creation and many applications of Isotype, the modernist visual language that lives on in signage all around us.
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The Lost, Surprisingly Soulful Art of Corporate Identity
A book compiles some of the most influential, paperbound graphic bibles from a previous era of business.
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Jaka Vinšek The Real, Fabulous Knick Knacks of Fictional, Fabulous Females
When an NYC antiques gallery closed down, its owner kept the storefront alive by decorating the homes of invented, swashbuckling characters.
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Prisca Martaguet A New Legend of French Design
An exhibit and book about the work of typographer Philippe Apeloig marks the culmination of an extraordinary career and, he says, the start of a new artistic phase.
