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Old Ink: The Yellow Book

An original printing of 'The Yellow Book', 1894 I have been interested in The Yellow Book, a legendary late-Victorian literary magazine, since my introduction to the work of Aubrey Beardsley. I found a...

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500 Years Of Book Design

A critical and curious history. This book is a collection of pages and spreads spanning 500 years, reproduced photographically from the collection of the British Library in London, with observations by...

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Style adapts to new communication technologies

The Chicago Manual of Style's 16th edition, a new handbook for a changing publishing environment. The word “book” appears 753 times in the recently released 16th edition of the Chicago Manual of Style....

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Best American Comics 2010

Graphic selections from the best of the best. There’s a book that’s a required addition to our household library each year, it’s The Best American Comics annual which is a part of the Best American...

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The Phone Book: a curious history

The book that everyone uses but no one reads. Ammon Shea once spent an entire year reading the Oxford English Dictionary, from cover to cover. He recounted the enlightening experience in his book...

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As the digital and analog collide…

How will printed objects fit into our material future? As we monitor the pulse of printed communication, the ever-present question resurfaces: What will happen to our relationship with books, magazines...

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Ray Fenwick’s MASCOTS, coming soon.

Bound in one volume: paint, typography, language and humor. Ray Fenwick is not just an image maker. He has a command for language that places his work on the border between the personal and the...

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Book review: Tobias Frere-Jones | Gerrit Noordzij Prize Exhibition monograph

TFJ's typographic monograph shines. Though published in 2009, I didn’t come across Tobias Frere-Jones’ first monograph until this year. In 2006, Frere-Jones became the first American to receive the...

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Jillian Tamaki + Penguin Threads

Literary Embroidery Brooklyn based illustrator Jillian Tamaki recently created three amazing book covers for Penguin USA. Crafted over the course of two months, the illustrations and lettering were...

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Good Ink: American Shorts

You may have noticed that we took a break this fall from regular posting at Bangback. One big reason for this is that in August of 2011, the Pinball team started an endeavor to publish content in our...

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