Montague Projects Blog

Daily Book Graphics #993

2012-01-28T11:51:00.001-05:00

Daily Book Graphics #992

2012-01-27T12:10:00.000-05:00

Daily Book Graphics #991

2012-01-26T18:44:00.001-05:00

Daily Book Graphics #990

2012-01-25T11:38:00.003-05:00

Daily Book Graphics #989

2012-01-24T12:00:00.000-05:00

Design Damage

2012-01-23T11:13:00.001-05:00

When this catalog (which I designed) was published in September of 2010 I dropped off a copy at the tiny cafe I go to every day (I also do their design). This is what it looks like now. Pristine version here.

Daily Book Graphics #988

2012-01-23T09:00:00.000-05:00

Daily Book Graphics #987

2012-01-22T19:51:00.001-05:00

Daily Book Graphics #986

2012-01-21T12:09:00.000-05:00

Daily Book Graphics #985

2012-01-20T17:37:00.002-05:00

Daily Book Graphics #984

2012-01-19T11:24:00.000-05:00

Black Out

2012-01-18T12:44:00.002-05:00

I'm doing my part for the anti SOPA movement - No books today.

Daily Book Graphics #983

2012-01-17T11:20:00.000-05:00

Daily Book Graphics #982

2012-01-16T00:30:00.000-05:00

Daily Book Graphics #981

2012-01-15T08:30:00.000-05:00

Daily Book Graphics #980

2012-01-14T20:43:00.000-05:00

Daily Book Graphics #979

2012-01-13T12:20:00.004-05:00

Daily Book Graphics #978

2012-01-12T01:00:00.000-05:00

Daily Book Graphics #977

2012-01-11T00:30:00.000-05:00

Daily Book Graphics #976

2012-01-10T16:05:00.001-05:00

Daily Book Graphics #975

2012-01-09T09:34:00.001-05:00

Daily Book Graphics #974

2012-01-09T09:32:00.000-05:00

Daily Book Graphics #973

2012-01-07T15:07:00.000-05:00

Identity for the Echo Art Fair

2012-01-06T13:27:00.001-05:00

I recently designed the identity and web site for the echo Art Fair a contemporary art fair in it's second year in Buffalo, New York. The fair happens July 7-8 of this summer. The images below are from the simple slide show of multiplying booth graphics I have on the landing page.

Daily Book Graphics #972

2012-01-06T13:03:00.001-05:00

Daily Book Graphics #971

2012-01-05T11:52:00.000-05:00

Daily Book Graphics #970 / Science Study Series Part 3

2012-01-04T09:00:00.000-05:00

Boum Bang

2012-01-03T08:54:00.000-05:00

There is a short article about me on the French website Boum! Bang! I don't read French but the piece seems to cover the range of my current activities. They posted a lot of my images. Check it out.

Daily Book Graphics #969 / Science Study Series Part 2

2012-01-03T08:30:00.000-05:00

Daily Book Graphics #968 / Science Study Series Part 1

2012-01-02T12:23:00.002-05:00

©1959 / Design: George Giusti / There is an interesting credit in this book which reads: Typography by Edward Gorey it turns out that it is the Edward Gorey of Gashlycrumb Tinies fame. He worked in the Doubleday art department in the 50s

Daily Book Graphics #967

2012-01-01T12:58:00.001-05:00

Daily Book Graphics #966

2011-12-31T18:43:00.000-05:00

Daily Book Graphics #965

2011-12-30T12:18:00.001-05:00

Daily Book Graphics #964

2011-12-29T07:30:00.000-05:00

Daily Book Graphics #963

2011-12-28T10:10:00.002-05:00

Daily Book Graphics #962

2011-12-27T13:57:00.003-05:00

Daily Book Graphics #961

2011-12-26T08:00:00.000-05:00

Daily Book Graphics #960

2011-12-25T12:17:00.002-05:00

Daily Book Graphics #959

2011-12-24T01:00:00.000-05:00

Daily Book Graphics #958

2011-12-23T00:29:00.001-05:00

Daily Book Graphics #957

2011-12-22T01:30:00.000-05:00

Daily Book Graphics #956

2011-12-21T11:36:00.000-05:00

Daily Book Graphics #955

2011-12-20T11:39:00.003-05:00

Daily Book Graphics #954

2011-12-19T07:00:00.000-05:00

Daily Book Graphics #952

2011-12-18T17:46:00.001-05:00

Daily Book Graphics #952

2011-12-17T17:34:00.001-05:00

©1969 / The credit on the back cover reads: The design on the cover is based on the author's diagram of color serialization. Color interaction is much stronger in the upper section, with squares inside squares, than in the lower section, with circles in the squares (see p. 165).
There is a publisher's note that the author died after signing off on the manuscript, illustrations and captions but before drafting the acknowledgements. Quite sad.

Daily Book Graphics #951 / Three Pelicans

2011-12-16T12:16:00.000-05:00

Daily Book Graphics #950

2011-12-15T11:23:00.001-05:00

©1973 / Design: Frank Nofer / I had seen this cover on Flickr a couple years ago but I just acquired my own copy this week. I think this is one of the most remarkable covers I've posted and one of the weirdest books. It is a "novel" about the end times complete with timelines and charts and illustrated with stock photos. This particular copy was signed by the author.

Daily Book Graphics #949

2011-12-14T09:00:00.000-05:00

Reader's of this blog may know that I'm on a lonely quest to find as many covers by John+Mary Condon as I can. I have a Flickr group dedicated to their work that has just five members and only one contributor, me. I'm fascinated by their ultra disciplined modernist practice. I find that their work ranges from brilliant to boring the first book above is an example of the former, the second, an example of the latter.

Daily Book Graphics #948

2011-12-13T21:37:00.003-05:00

Daily Book Graphics #947

2011-12-13T00:30:00.000-05:00

Daily Book Graphics #946

2011-12-12T09:00:00.000-05:00

Daily Book Graphics #945

2011-12-11T07:16:00.000-05:00

Daily Book Graphics #944

2011-12-10T19:13:00.001-05:00

Daily Book Graphics #943

2011-12-09T15:33:00.001-05:00

Daily Book Graphics #942

2011-12-08T07:30:00.000-05:00

I've been meaning to start featuring scans of underlined passages from the books I blog. I sort of want to see what knowledge and wisdom can be found in these bits of out of context information.

Daily Book Graphics #941

2011-12-07T13:22:00.001-05:00

Daily Book Graphics #940

2011-12-06T17:43:00.001-05:00

Daily Book Graphics #939

2011-12-05T00:00:00.000-05:00

Daily Book Graphics #938

2011-12-04T18:04:00.001-05:00

Daily Book Graphics #937

2011-12-03T13:42:00.001-05:00

Daily Book Graphics #936

2011-12-02T13:40:00.001-05:00

Daily Book Graphics #934

2011-12-01T11:20:00.001-05:00

No date, no design credit

Daily Book Graphics #933

2011-11-30T11:27:00.001-05:00

Daily Book Graphics #932

2011-11-29T10:29:00.001-05:00

Daily Book Graphics #931

2011-11-28T10:27:00.000-05:00

Daily Book Graphics #930

2011-11-27T11:16:00.001-05:00

Daily Book Graphics #929

2011-11-27T11:04:00.001-05:00

Daily Book Graphics #928

2011-11-25T10:48:00.001-05:00

Daily Book Graphics #927

2011-11-24T11:19:00.001-05:00

Daily Book Graphics #926

2011-11-23T00:30:00.000-05:00

Limits

2011-11-22T21:45:00.001-05:00

I found this recently in a local thrift store. It seems overly optimistic about the power of the individual.

Daily Book Graphics #925

2011-11-22T08:36:00.000-05:00

Daily Book Graphics #924

2011-11-21T07:30:00.000-05:00

Daily Book Graphics #923

2011-11-20T11:59:00.001-05:00

Daily Book Graphics #922

2011-11-19T11:13:00.001-05:00

Changes to the Layout

2011-11-18T13:16:00.001-05:00

Blogger has been making some changes to the interfaces and I'm making some changes to the layout of this blog. I've changed the template which is going to allow me to make the images bigger. Also, if you go HERE, you can see this blog as a dynamic thumbnail grid, it's pretty cool. You can see it any time by typing "/view/flipcard" after the URL.

Montague Projects in "Typography Sketchbooks"

2011-11-18T11:18:00.001-05:00

I'm happy to tell you that I have work in Steven Heller and Lita Talrico's book, Typography Sketchbooks. The book is packed with heavy hitters (Art Chantry, Ivan Chermayeff, Milton Glaser, Erik Spiekermann), I'm not entirely sure what I'm doing in their company! When asked to contribute for the theme of typography sketchbooks, I decided to use the notes and files from the design process for the Frazer/Montague Design logo. The first spread is from an actual notebook and the second is one of the sprawling Illustrator documents I generate when I am trying out different directions for the design of a logo. I might have been a little too honest, a lot of the work in this book looks like finished work that involves typography. Also, they don't show my final design, for the logo (below), but that's OK, the reader basically gets a sense of it from the first spread.

Daily Book Graphics #921

2011-11-18T00:30:00.000-05:00

Daily Book Graphics #920

2011-11-17T11:47:00.001-05:00

Daily Book Graphics #919

2011-11-16T10:54:00.001-05:00

Some Recent Client Work

2011-11-15T21:06:00.001-05:00

Poster / 11x17

Poster / 13x19

Print Ad - Artforum Magazine / Client: Stuart Shave Modern Art

Booklet Cover / Client: Just Buffalo Literary Center

Daily Book Graphics #918

2011-11-15T09:04:00.000-05:00

Daily Book Graphics #917

2011-11-14T10:43:00.001-05:00

Daily Book Graphics #916

2011-11-13T12:00:00.001-05:00

Secondary Occupants at UWAG

2011-11-12T18:45:00.001-05:00

I spent last week at the University of Waterloo (Canada's M.I.T.) installing my Secondary Occupants Collected & Observed project at the University's art gallery. The show is up until December 17th. Check it out if you are passing through the Waterloo/Kitchener area. Thanks to everyone at UWAG and the students and faculty in the art department.

Daily Book Graphics #915 / The 1000th Book Cover!!!

2011-11-12T14:35:00.001-05:00

This is the 1,000th book cover I have uploaded for the Daily Book Graphics project! If you include the non-cover book graphics it's the 1,628th image.

Daily Book Graphics #914

2011-11-07T00:37:00.000-05:00

Daily Book Graphics #913

2011-11-06T00:30:00.000-04:00

Daily Book Graphics #912

2011-11-05T00:24:00.000-04:00

Daily Book Graphics #911

2011-11-04T19:53:00.000-04:00

Daily Book Graphics #910

2011-11-03T23:37:00.000-04:00

Daily Book Graphics #909

2011-11-02T16:55:00.003-04:00

Daily Book Graphics #908

2011-11-01T18:13:00.001-04:00

Daily Book Graphics #907

2011-10-31T22:32:00.001-04:00

Daily Book Graphics #906

2011-10-30T13:14:00.000-04:00

Daily Book Graphics #905

2011-10-29T14:29:00.001-04:00

Daily Book Graphics #904

2011-10-28T11:17:00.000-04:00

Daily Book Graphics #903

2011-10-27T14:26:00.001-04:00

Daily Book Graphics #902

2011-10-26T15:05:00.001-04:00