Category Archives: Books

Making of Fantastic Mr Fox

By Andy | Published: November 27, 2009

A lovely new book designed by Angus Hyland. More over at the Pentagram blog.

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the ride journal is one of those mags / journals i don’t need to flick through, i pick it up and take it straight to the till; no flicking needed, you know you’re guaranteed a good read. it sounds horribly cliched but you can read the book by its cover, the care and attention to [...]

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Travel Italia

By Chungaiz | Published: September 9, 2009

The Golden Age of Italian Travel Posters is beautiful. Organised by region, featuring 170 posters from 1920-60, as commissioned by the Italian State Tourism Board and Italian State Railways. Click here to look inside

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Huxley, Not Orwell, Was Right About “The Future” (i.e: Today)

By Chungaiz | Published: August 18, 2009

Related to the notes I’m keeping on The Future Of Media, here’s a great cartoon strip by Stuart McMillan based on words by Neil Postman – as featured in the book “Amusing Ourselves To Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Showbusiness”. I reckon Postman’s book would go nicely on your reading list with “Everything Bad Is [...]

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Fantastic Mr Fox

By Chungaiz | Published: August 3, 2009

Another interesting childhood tale being made into a film (well, stop motion animation). Fantastic Mr Fox is directed by Wes Anderson (Tenenbaum’s, Life Acquatic etc) and stars off-beat staples such as Bill Murray, Jason Schwartzman, Owen Wilson, but is headed up by Anderson newcomers George Clooney as Mr Fox, and Meryl Streep as Mrs Fox. [...]

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Pulp Art Book

By Chungaiz | Published: July 9, 2009

How incredibly awesome are these photographs? Apparently the story is that the photographer, Neil Krug (Ladytron, Boards of Canada, Range Life Records), collaborated with supermodel Joni Harbeck and due to overwhelming demand on Flickr they’ve decided to publish a volume of over 200 images as a book. You can buy them as prints on the site. Check [...]

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Where the Wild Things Are

By Chungaiz | Published: March 30, 2009

Directed by Spike Jonze, starring Forest Whitaker and James Gandolfini, and co-written by Dave Eggers, the release of classic children’s book “Where The Wild Things Are” as a film could be perfectly timed to tap into the feelings of nostalgia, family, belonging and childhood that the recession seems to be demanding. I’m sure we’ll post more [...]

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The Aeneid on Facebook

By Chungaiz | Published: February 24, 2009

Is this the geekiest thing we’ve ever posted? Probably. But at least we didnt make it! Mind you, wish that we had – it’s hilarious, if you’ve got any interest in Aeneas or The Classics. Click to read more.

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Bibliodyssey

By Chungaiz | Published: February 16, 2009

Bibliodyssey is a great resource for images from rare books. For me though, it functions as a source of inspiration – you never know what’s going to be showcased – skeletons, astronomy, flowers, monsters, maps, architecture… check it out..

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Contagious 2008 RoundUp

By Chungaiz | Published: January 8, 2009

The Contagious 2008 round up PDF has been released. A fantastic resource of all the cool things that happened in digital marketing in the widest possible sense. Review Obama’s campaign tactics, Radiohead’s House of Cards video and other music marketing, games like Little Big Planet and GTA IV, films like Dark Knight and Cloverfield, Olympics [...]