spotlightOn : Arts
As designers, most of us here have a foot in other arts, just check out our bios. So it seems natural that our love for music, film, visual arts, poetry... would propel us to take on a large number of books about those subjects. Here are just a few.

The Vallance Bible

By Jeffrey Vallance  •  Grand Central Press

THE Word according to Jeffrey Vallance. This book, evoking the form of a Christian Bible, collects drawings and thoughts of the author on the topic of creation, religiosity and spiritual awakening.

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Sylvia Kristel, from Emmanuel to Chabrol

By Jeremy Richey  •  Cult Epics

THE most thorough and opulent survey of the career of ’70s/’80s Dutch film icon Sylvia Kristel. Available as a standalone cloth-bound hardback, and as a box set including poster and special edition DVDs.

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Hi Jax & Hi Jinx

By Dame Darcy  •  Feral House

DAME Darcy is a unique and important voice in alt comics, entertaining readers and influencing peers with her Meat Cake series. If that’s all she did it would be impressive. But she’s also lead a rock band, worked as a sea captain, been a mermaid, and was the best contestant in the history of dating shows. We designed her autobiography.

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Bawdy Tales & Trifles of Devilries

Illustrations by Eugène Lepoittevin  •  Feral House

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EUGÈNE Lepoittevin was a 19th Century French painter of some renown. His subjects tended toward bucolic landscapes and turbulent seascapes, but in his spare time he drew dicks. Like Seth’s notebook in Superbad amount of dicks. And other stuff that went with the dicks. And some of it is collected here along with appropriate prose and limericks, bundled in a classy, square, red faux-leather hardcover volume. It’s the dick book for the person who really wants a dick book but is afraid to make one themselves.

Easy Listening Acid Trip

By Joseph Lanza  •  Feral House

JOSEPH Lanza is known for having authored the definitive appreciation of elevator music. In this, his latest book on music, he journeys into the world of psychedelic pop, its origins, its importance, and we tagged along.

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Brooklyn Review

Literary Journal

THE 25th edition of the Brooklyn Review, an annual journal of art, literature and poetry. Cover art by Alison Elizabeth Taylor.

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Dancing with the Midwives

By Ann Faison  •  Black Dragonfly Press

AN artist’s account, in poetry, prose and drawings, of the still birth of her daughter and the time after.
This book reminded me of another I designed decades ago because it had similar proportions. The pages in that shape felt to me like wings.

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The Mudd Club

By Richard Boch  •  Feral House

TOOK a consciously low-brow approach to the layout and design of Richard Boch’s memoir The Mudd Club. Boch, a doorman and regular at the club’s peak, casually recounts the atmosphere and emotions of the years of nights spent in this subcultural nexus.

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Lollapalooza

Music & Arts Festival

BLEW the dust off of this project for the sake of nostalgia. 2004 was an ill-fated year for Lollapalooza. It was the second year back for the resurrected festival and, despite everyone’s hard work, poor ticket sales lead to the cancellation of all dates that summer. The magazine may have come out, and early ads had definitely begun to run. We were about half finished with the identity and branding when the decision was made. Double bummer because I think I could’ve gotten free tickets.

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