Montague Projects in "Typography Sketchbooks"

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.

The Daily Heller on Stray Shopping Carts

I just found out that the indispensable Steven Heller wrote about the Stray Shopping Cart Project on his blog The Daily Heller today. Heller is the co-author of The Design Entrepreneurs, which has an interview with me in it. I previously posted about it here.

I'm in a Steven Heller Book!

Last week I received a copy of The Design Entrepreneur, by Steven Heller and Lita Talrico in my mailbox. The book interviews designers (and some design/art types like me) about, as the subtitle reads, "Turning graphic design into goods that sell." The book is full of impressive design figures like, Constantin Boym, Seymour Chwast, Jim Coudal, Jessica Helfland, Shepard Fairy, Ellen Lupton, Gary Panter, Mike Mills, and dozens of others. Buffalo typography titan Rich Kegler (P22 Type Foundry) is also interviewed in the book. It was his suggestion that I send my book to Steven Heller (Thanks Rich!)

Heller, is one of the few writers on graphic design that matters. His writing played a big part in my self education in design. I'm very excited to be included in one of his books.

My spread

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