Daily Book Graphics #178 / The Realm of Art

©1967, no design credit.

Daily Book Graphics #177 / Burl Ives

I find these illustrations kind of disturbing. First printing 1953, this printing 1964, illustrations: Lamartine Le Goullon and Robert J. Lee

Daily Book Graphics #176 / Man-Eaters

First published in 1944, this edition 1966.

Daily Book Graphics #175 / Spiders

I was excited to find Spiders (1947) in a used bookstore last year, books about spiders are generally hard to come by, and this one has a number of nice color plates. I don't really like the cover, it seems odd to use a stylized illustration of a spider when the illustrations within the book are of such a high technical quality. This short book provides some general information about spiders and color illustrations of the more common British species. W.S. Bristowe (1901-1975), was a well known British arachnologist, and strangely he is also the person who discovered the true story of Anna Leonowens, the woman whose memoirs inspired the King and I, or so Wikipedia tells me. See my work about spiders here.

Daily Book Graphics #174 / Modern Sex

Pretty racy stuff for 1959.

Daily Book Graphics #173 / Brotherhood of Evil

I really like the title lettering. ©1960, no illustration credit other than "K.D." under the wrist on the cover.

I finally got to design a record cover

After 12 years of being a graphic designer I have finally gotten to design the cover of a 12 inch record. Records were the whole reason I got into the business in the first place, I can't believe I had to wait this long. The job was for the excellent Buffalo based band Odiorne, the single is called Mountain Moon. Odiorne is led by Jimy Chambers, the former drummer for Mercury Rev. It took us a while to figure out how the artwork was going to happen, how the sleeves would be printed, etc., but I'm pretty happy with the results. The guys played at Mohawk Place on Tuesday night which was my first chance to see the final vinyl. It was a great show, by all means check them out live and buy their records!

We were restricted to one color printing, one side only

We used a sticker for the back info

Sticker

Daily Book Graphics #172 / Apparitions

This 1963 book advances the idea that "...ghosts are subjective and telepathic, created by regions of the personality outside the field of normal consciousness." The author's full name is George Nugent Merle Tyrrell, quite a name indeed.

Daily Book Graphics #171 / The Consumer

This book is meant to be some sort of guide to the perils of consumerism. ©1970