The Golden Book Gown
By the Branta Webcrawler • Nov 30th, 2011 • Category: Branta Recommends, Brave New World, From the Interweb, Graphic Stories, In the Other Arts, Recommended Artistic Consumption
Archives for the ‘Graphic Stories’ Category
Library Phantom Returns
By the Branta Webcrawler • Nov 30th, 2011 • Category: Editor's Picks, From the Interweb, Graphic Stories, Ha Ha
Crime and No Punishment
By the Branta Webcrawler • Nov 28th, 2011 • Category: From the Interweb, Graphic Stories, Ha Ha
Artist Who Gave Computing a Human Face
By the Branta Webcrawler • Nov 22nd, 2011 • Category: Brave New World, Editor's Picks, Graphic Stories, In the Other ArtsThere was an ineffably disarming and safe quality about her designs. Like their self-effacing creator — who still makes a point of surfing in the ocean several mornings a week — they radiated good vibes. To creative innovators in the ’80s who didn’t see themselves as computer geeks, Kare’s icons said: Stop stressing out about technology. Go ahead, dive in!
Steve Silberman/Neurotribes
IKEA’s epic Swedish fontroversy
By the Branta Webcrawler • Nov 3rd, 2011 • Category: Branta Recommends, Essays, From the Interweb, Graphic StoriesFont wars are usually little spats among the cognoscenti, and very welcome, too; they generate publicity and informed debate. But this war had spilled out beyond its normal narrow confines.
Simon Garfield/The National Post
Roadsworth in Fredericton: October 6th
By the Branta Webcrawler • Oct 4th, 2011 • Category: Feature Post, Goose Lane Authors, Graphic Stories, Typography, Video2:00 pm New Brunswick College of Craft & Design, 457 Queen Street (Author talk & Book Signing)
5:00 pm at East Side, 520 Queen Street (Book Signing & Art Demo)
7:00 pm at Picaroons Brewtique, 422 Queen Street (Books. Beer. Music)
The Dead Sea Scrolls make their online debut
By the Branta Webcrawler • Sep 26th, 2011 • Category: Brave New World, Editor's Picks, From the Interweb, Graphic StoriesThe Dead Sea Scrolls, believed to be the oldest extant Biblical texts, are available for viewing online for the first time as of today. According to PCWorld, the online exhibit, curated by Jerusalem’s Israel Museum, is going live in time for the start of Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, at sunset this coming Wednesday.
Steven W. Beattie/Quill & Quire
Best of the Art of Google Books
By the Branta Webcrawler • Sep 24th, 2011 • Category: Brave New World, Editor's Picks, Graphic Stories, TypographyWhile Google Maps with Street View has been known to photograph things that are out of the ordinary, Google Books isn’t something you’d think capable of doing the same. The Art of Google Books by Krissy Wilson aims to “recognize book digitization as re-photography, and to value the signs of use that accompany these texts as worthy of documentation and study.”
Tanja M. Laden/Flavorwire
The 20 Most Iconic Book Covers Ever
By the Branta Webcrawler • Sep 5th, 2011 • Category: Editor's Picks, Graphic Stories, Lists
Art of the Menu
By the Branta Webcrawler • Aug 9th, 2011 • Category: Branta Recommends, Call for Submissions, From the Interweb, Graphic StoriesOur goal is to showcase great menus from around the world. They can be old, they can be new. They surely have to be great. In each showcased menu the ideal structure to the post is to show one or more photos of the menu as it exists in real life along with “flat”, digital versions so that we can all take in the typography and layout details.
