Hey, I hope you are good. It’s a stressful time and everyone is super busy trying to hold it together, but here we are at ..read more

Hey, I hope you’re keeping safe and well wherever you are. Apart from the weird Toronto weather, it is definitely FALL here with the kids ..read more

The Cari Vander Yacht illustrations of people distracted by reading that accompany the New Yorker‘s announcement of the 2024 National Book Awards longlists are really ..read more

Hey, I hope you’re keeping safe and well. I feel like I just finished July’s post and now it’s the end of August. There are ..read more

I wonder what it is like to live in uninteresting — boring, even — times? It must be nice. While I continue to ponder that ..read more

Tom Gauld for The Guardian. This is pretty much me whenever we go on vacation, although I usually bring more anxiety to the mix ..read more

This is pretty much why I don’t write anything I don’t have to. Asher Perlman’s book of cartoons, Well, This is Me, is available now ..read more

Opening in New York this week at IFC Center, Modernism, Inc. is a new documentary about architect Eliot Noyes, a pioneer of modern corporate design during America’s post-war economic boom. Director Jason Cohn (also co-director of Eames: The Architect and the Painter) recently discussed Noyes and his legacy with Steven Heller for PRINT: Eliot Noyes started out as a disciple of Walter Gropius and the Bauhaus, which was a specific flavor of Modernism that developed in Europe between the wars. There was a kind of idealism—a social reform aspect—to it. Modern design promised to improve people’s l ..read more

Another lovely illustration by cartoonist Klaas Verplancke for the cover of the latest New Yorker. It has been an unseasonably hot June in Toronto ..read more

Hey everyone. I hope you keeping well. It’s another big post this month. There are lots of new covers, but also quite a few that I missed (or didn’t have the design credit for!) from earlier this year too. I expect that’ll keep happening over the next couple of posts as I try to catch up over the summer, so feel free to send me stuff I might have overlooked. Now is the time! The Abyss by Fernando Vallejo; design by Janet Hansen (New Directions / June 2024) Ask Me Again by Clare Sestanovich; design by Janet Hansen (Knopf / June 2024) A Janet Hansen one-two to open proceedings… Blessings by C ..read more