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Crush commissioned to give Agatha Christie co-ordinated makeover - Design News - Brand Republic »
Crush has created 12 contemporary cover designs for new editions of Agatha Christie novels due be published later this month.
Harper Collins commissioned Crush to create the cover designs for Agatha Christie novels including ‘The 13 Problems’, ‘A Pocket Full of Rye’ and ‘Elephants Can Remember’.
Crush was briefed to update the look and feel of the titles and create contemporary covers while retaining the heritage and era of the stories.
Tags: /agatha christie /makeover /rebranding /crush
Buffalo, a City Filled With Architectural History, Looks to the Future - NYTimes.com »
ONE of the most cynical clichés in architecture is that poverty is good for preservation. The poor don’t bulldoze historic neighborhoods to make way for fancy new high-rises.
That assumption came to mind when I stepped off a plane here recently. Buffalo is home to some of the greatest American architecture of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with major architects like Henry Hobson Richardson, Frederick Law Olmsted, Louis Sullivan and Frank Lloyd Wright building marvels here. Together they shaped one of the grandest early visions of the democratic American city.
Yet Buffalo is more commonly identified with the crumbling infrastructure, abandoned homes and dwindling jobs that have defined the Rust Belt for the past 50 years. And for decades its architecture has seemed strangely frozen in time.
Nathan Gardels: Ghosts of Obama's Hyde Park Manse »
Because he is the first African-American president, Barack Obama’s Hyde Park home is destined to become a national landmark like his idol Abraham Lincoln’s house in Springfield. But perhaps even Barack and Michelle themselves don’t know that the spirit of social justice inhabited that house at 51st and Greenwood well before they did.
Exhibition Highlights. Magic Pencil Exhibition: Children's Book Illustration Today »
Magic Pencil – Children’s Book Illustration Today
is a display of more than 300 paintings and drawings for children by Britain’s ‘starriest’ illustrators. It examines how and why they work. It also shows that the strong tradition of British children’s book illustration is actively flourishing in the 21st century.
Popular author and illustrator Quentin Blake has made the selection from living, British artists. It wasn’t easy. But here is his final choice – a mix of well known names and new stars on the block:
• Angela Barrett
• Patrick Benson
• Stephen Biesty
• Quentin Blake
• Raymond Briggs
• John Burningham
• Emma Chichester Clark
• Lauren Child
• Sara Fanelli
• Michael Foreman
• Tony Ross
• Posy Simmonds
• Charlotte Voake
Tags: /british library /sara fanelli /pegasus /the magic pencil /children's book illustration today
Knitting Through the Downturn - City Room Blog - NYTimes.com »
The world’s most expensive hobby just got a little more affordable for NYC thanks to Lion Brand. Sure, Lion’s store will stock the requisite icky acrylics, but you’ll also be able to touch some of the notable new blends which include newer not-so-icky acrylics, wool blends, and some exotic fibers. (BTW, cashmere comes from goats.) Lion offers decent quality craft yarns and a few heirloom/garment quality yarns at wholesale-esque and craft store prices, and you just can’t get that here without venturing to Queens or Long Island…or Smiley’s, which is its own circle of hell (complete with crocheted cozy).
Our filthy garment-knitting secret remains JaggerSpun commercial yarn, but you can bet we’ll stop in at Lion, and not just because our friend Tracey works there.
Also, if you want to learn to knit (even something dorky), please feel free to contact us.
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Reblogged from the rich girls are weeping take notes.
Fifty three thousand jobs in El Paso are because of Cd. Juárez, for every 10 jobs we create in Juárez, we create one on this side of the border. What El Pasoans did, very wisely, was started to think not just of themselves as being in competition with Juárez, Sunland Park and Las Cruces, but embracing a new program called REDCo.
El Paso Mayor, John Cook"
A daily newspaper that caters to those readers who need their morning paper light and down to a five-minute read that is overwhelmingly positive and hopeful about El Paso is not fulfilling its responsibility as a newspaper.
Fence or no fence, over 25,000 El Pasoans everyday drive into Juarez to work in maquilas and several hundred thousand people from Juarez come into El Paso everyday to work, attend our schools and keep our economy afloat. Surely those people deserve the news of the day that matters. Too bad they don’t get it from the El Paso Times.
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Lisa Deglioantoni, Editor in chief of El Paso Media Group
— Media Watch: How often do you get it? A lot more than the El Paso Times. - Newspaper Tree El Paso
Tags: /newspapertree /elpaso /texas /el paso times /who is the valued one /who deserves our time /who do they think they are kidding /hiding behind shriner clowns
FontBooklet No. 1 »
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FontBooklet No. 1 was published this summer and covered some of our favorite sans and serif text faces with a handy perforation across the middle so you could pair and compare typefaces.
Unfortunately we are out of copies of this edition, but you can view it online and if there is sufficient demand I’ll bet we can convince someone here at the office to take another trip to the press.
Privacy (in the Age of Obama) - n + 1 »
Source: AP Photo/Alex Brandon
There were many such moments, I think, throughout the campaign, but the last, fittingly enough, came when it was over, and once more between the no-longer-candidate and his wife. After Obama delivered his victory speech in Grant Park in Chicago, and after Joe Biden came out to greet him, and the families of both came out to celebrate with them, there was a moment when only Obama and his wife remained on the stage. They embraced, and before they kissed they touched noses, and one knew not whether it was accidental, capricious, or a kind of shared ritual, a way of marking that kiss as between only them. “I love you,” Michelle, the wife, said to the husband, just elected president, with hundreds of thousands of people there in the park and perhaps a hundred million or more watching the close-up on television, and yet what was unmistakable was that she did not say it to us and she did not say it for us—that it was not a public declaration of love, in spite of the hundred million people or more looking on, but instead a private affirmation.
