
Smashing Magazine put together an excellent collection of book covers.
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Smashing Magazine put together an excellent collection of book covers.

Pentagram has just announced the Black Book, a new 800-page overview of their recent work. The book is a compilation of over 400 projects from the last several years, arranged in alphabetical order, like a dictionary, and printed on Bible paper, like a Bible, complete with tabbed sections and ribbons for bookmarking. It covers pretty much everything they do, from architecture to graphics, buildings to websites, branding to signage, interiors, packaging, exhibitions, interfaces, furniture, products, brochures, magazines, and houses, all in simple picture-and-caption form.
Unfortunately the Black Book is not available for purchase. You can try your luck and win your very own copy by being one of the first 50 people to write in at the e-mail address below.
blackbook [at] pentagram [dot] com

Excellent packaging design by Paul Rand for IBM Sweden.

Cities is a collection of prints featuring famous city names in a beautiful typographic layout. Screenprinted on canvas and designed and manufactured by Granada Design of Barcelona, the prints are available now for 38 Euros in the following cities: Barcelona, New York, London, Paris, Berlin, Roma, Tokyo, Los Angeles, Dubai and Amsterdamn.
Extra credit: Who can name that typeface?

If I ever make it to Switzerland I definitely have to check out the Max Huber Museum.

Interesting little project by 20 year old designer Kasper Ledet of a hand made type based on Helvetica. Kasper printed a pattern on sticker sheets and cut out the letters with a scalpel. Very nice.