Holy cow those are some wine labels:
They’re by Tomer Hanuka for the wine makers Some Young Punks. That’s Tomer Hanuka who you may know as being no slob with a book cover:
You’re a spoof! A joke! Your poster should be a half-bright pastiche. Not a legitimate, even kind of stunning piece of work in its own right.
Oh well.
(via The Font Feed)
This is all great stuff, and I want to see more of this. Publishers, get on it. From Penguin, two posters of the fantastic covers for the new set of Penguin Deluxe Classics:
Poster from cover of Moby Dick by Herman Melville, art by Tony Millionaire
Poster from cover of White Noise by Don Delillo, art by Michael Cho, design by Paul Buckley
Then the very delightful design blog Kitsune Noir has begun the Kitsune Noir Poster Club by asking five artists to produce a poster based on a book they love. The results of which include another take on Moby Dick:
Poster inspired by Herman Melville’s Moby Dick, by Mark Weaver
But I think my two favourites are these, coming from opposite ends of the austerity scale:
Poster inspired by David Foster Wallace’s Infinte Jest, by Cody Hoyt
Poster inspired by Henry David Thoreau’s Walden, by Jez Burrows
The other two titles are Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five and Cormac McCarthy’s The Road.
And then there’s Penguin designer and, more importantly, ≥ regular Stefanie Posavec, who has a print at 20x200. It’s based on Walter Benjamin’s ‘The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction’, and uses the same technique to visualize the text as she’s used before for On the Road.
Walter Benjamin: A Literary Organism Analysis print, by Stefanie Posavec
I am wishing I had more money right now.
Guys.
Send me money.
Got to say, Teux Deux is a pretty great execution of a simple to-do list. Via (and designed by) Swiss Miss. It’s elegant and uncomplicated:
I haven’t mentioned Detainee 063 here again since the post announcing that it was happening and one (good) reason for that is that I don’t particularly want this to turn into the web’s first books/design/torture blog. Some combinations just seem strange together.
But then it’s already been kind of a strange day on the internet for me.
On Monday, the site got its first real burst of attention, getting linked by Kottke (thanks to Ben Pieratt) and from there finding it’s way to Metafilter. And then last night Boing Boing posted about it. From having daily visits in the low double digits and about the same number of followers on Twitter, in the last few days it’s had more than 12,000 visits, and it’s now got more than 400 followers on Twitter and another couple of hundred for the RSS feed. Those are numbers that plenty of big sites could laugh off, but it’s definitely good news for something like this, and I’m very happy about it. (What will be interesting will be to see how quickly and how sharply people on Twitter stop following the site. It’s not a particularly pleasant experience to follow, and I wouldn’t blame anybody.)
Then today, something I’d written went up at the McSweeney’s website – an article titled ‘I am locking the Wikipedia article on our sex life’.
So there you go, whether you want to think about the horrendous torture policies of the Bush administration and the damage they’ve done to human lives and to the course of justice in the war of terror, or you just want jokes about vaginas, I’ve got you covered.
And thank you for visiting the web’s first books/design/torture/sex comedy blog.