The Map As Art by Katharine Harmon
Katharine Harmon makes a point for The Map as Art.By Mark Kaufman Because of the standard I don’t have a MAC adapter for this digital projector issue, we almost didn’t get to see the Katharine Harmon’s lecture last night. Happily Ms. Harmon and the audience kept up a lively Q+A session for her new book […]
The Dictionary of Graphic Images
By Mark Kaufman It’s long out of print, all of the images are in black and white, and the terms blog and Twitter did not yet exist, but as you can see from my dog-eared copy it is an absolute treasure. The book The Dictionary of Graphic Images by Phillip Thompson & Peter Davenport, with […]
A Great Book and A Great Opportunity
By Mark KaufmanI didn’t do anything the entire long weekend except to sit in my yard and read several books I picked up at the Fantagraphics store last week. A particularly riveting read was the book The Comics Journal Library Vol. 4: Drawing the Line, edited by Gary Groth. Groth interviews Jules Feiffer, Ed Sorel, […]
Peter Sis, Back in the Day.
By Mark KaufmanI don’t normally pay much attention to children’s books except when I buy them for my nieces and nephews, but I do like when the Children’s Books Special Section show up in The New York Times Book Review. I see things I am not readily familiar with which is always a good thing. […]
Drawmark Book Club No.1
By Mark KaufmanOver at Design Observer the last couple of days, Steven Heller mused about bad, copy heavy advertising and kiddie porn(?). With that in mind I thought I’d start a book club, and the first one I’d recommend is the book Advertising Design and Typography by Alex W. White. This book has several things […]