REPOST: LOS ANGELES

This is a total repost from Love Aesthetics. I know, I know, it's lazy, but trust me, it's well worth it.

The following are photos from Nicholas Alan Cope's book Whitewash, with a foreword by Rick Owens. Out on April 16.

I love this - it could not be any more different from the dirty, exciting LA I know. You should go to her original post because lord knows I'm not the best at describing what I like. I go on tangents where the sentences are too long and probably aren't grammatically correct and I use too many fillers and it sounds like a crazed 2nd grader is speaking. So click here. 

PS: Love Aesthetics must be one of my favorites out there. She's super consistent, she has a ridiculous eye for detail, the posts are so well put together and my amount of respect for her pushed me to write a gushing comment on her blog to which she reciprocated back when this blog was in its wee, butt-ugly days. Which is pretty embarrassing given what a mess this blog is compared to hers. But whatever. It's mine.

PPS: In case you can't tell, I got the idea of doing the mix matched image sizes thing from her. I still can't seem to get the proportions right but whatever. I'll get there.

I LIKE THE TACTILE

I watched this talk over Spring Break. The speaker is Chip Kidd, the book designer. He's pretty entertaining and I really how he explains the importance of an attractive book cover.

He designed the cover for IQ84.

I have it on my Kindle.

I know absolutely nothing about the novel. The cover intrigues me - it's why I want to read the book. So when I sat down to read it on the Kindle, I couldn't get past the first paragraph. I need to feel the heftiness and the satisfaction of flipping through the pages and seeing exactly how far I'm into the book instead of a percentage. I like looking back at the cover every once in a while and see how each time the cover becomes more and more familiar, more personal. That being said, Kindles are great for poolside reading - there's no glare and it weighs next to nothing. Kindles are meant for easy reads, books you don't care enough about to buy and keep and admire on your shelf.

books

These are the two books I want to read asap (aka when this hellish semester is done).

Thinking With Type was for my type class last year. We never used it but I really love everything about it - the cover, the page layouts, the type of paper - the only problem is the first bits of the book are really boring. They talk about the construction of letters and all that jazz, which I guess is necessary, but it's really interesting to learn about the history of type. Although the next typography book I want to buy is going to be less about the history and more about a particular type of typography.

You can see some tracing paper from last year! I should look through that again...I actually really did enjoy those projects.

And that's the Bauhaus book. Not the most interesting book for pictures, but more about the history. It was only $16 so I guess I got what I paid for. And, let's be real here. I know nothing about Bauhaus so I really should just suck it up and read about.