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Category Archives: Art
Color the Classics
Puffin + Pantone is a series of classic novels paired with their perfect Pantone color match. Each cover is made to resemble the globally recognized color chip that’s defined Pantone as the standard in color communication all over the world. Puffin … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Books
Tagged Black Beauty, Heidi, Pantone, Penguin Classics, Tom Sawyer
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Art Mystery or Art Prank
You don’t have to be a street art sucker like me to be intrigued by the tale of the Cookie Monster “мир, земля, печенье” (“Peace, Land, and Cookies” in Russian) mural that popped up on a commercial building in Peoria, … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Art, History
Tagged Cookie Monster, Lenin, Mural Art, Sesame Street, Street Art
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Sea of Cortez
We know it as the Gulf of California, but in 1940 it was called the Sea of Cortez. In that year, the novelist John Steinbeck and marine biologist Ed Ricketts traveled there to research a book project on the region’s … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Books, USA, Writing
Tagged Art Books, John Steinbeck, Letterpress, Mexico, Printing
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Philly becomes electric
Just in time to brighten up our gloomy holiday season, Philly’s newest street art mural has been unveiled. Electric Philadelphia! was created by muralist David Guinn and light artist Drew Billiau with help from Mural Arts Philadelphia and Visit Philadelphia. The 8,500-square-foot art installation can … Continue reading
The Freedom to be Free
Penguin Great Ideas is a series of mainly non-fiction books published by Penguin Books. Titles contained within this series are considered to be world-changing, influential and inspirational. Topics covered include history, philosophy, politics, science and culture. The project has resulted in six series of twenty … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Asia, Books, Europe, History, USA, Writing
Tagged Bushido, Peter Kropotkin, Philosophy, politics, Publishing, religion
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The Feast of Venus
Last year, the Belgian tourist bureau VisitFlanders commissioned the folks at SkullMapping to create a wonderful bit of projection mapping to entertain passengers while they waited for flights at Brussels National Airport. With some clever digital trickery, a cheeky little … Continue reading
Posted in Air Travel, Animation, Art, Europe, Film, Museums, Public Transport, Tech, Tourism
Tagged Belgium, Brussels, Painting, Peter Paul Rubens
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Uses of Books
Uses of Books at the End of the World by Kristen Radtke
Travel Between The Pages 