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Still on the hunt for that perfect gift for the Art Director or Photo Editor in your life?  Well, look no further!  We've gathered some favorites that will be a great addition to your bookshelf.  Plus, you can buy them all now at our online SPD Book Store.   For a limited time, readers can also get a special discount on SPD Annuals HERE.  Just use promo code: holiday at checkout.
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Must Read: iPad Design Lab

Having spent some time with Mario Garcia's new iBook, the only way to start off this post is... THE TAKEAWAY: If you're working in publishing, iPad Design Lab is a timely and informative must read. … MORE

Chasing Beauty

Hey all,
I wanted to take a moment and share a non-mag project I worked on that just hit stores.
My friend, photographer Richard Phibbs was having his first book published and asked me to do all the typography for the book. (Which i had to think about for all of two seconds.)

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The Beautiful & the Damned: Punk Photographs of Ann Summa

Los Angeles-based photographer Ann Summa has a new book, The Beautiful & the Damned: Punk Photographs of Ann Summa. It's a document of the LA punk scene circa 1978-84, with over 150 photographs, many of them never seen before. In addition to photos of seminal LA bands like the Germs, the Screamers, and X, there are plenty of photographs of the punk scene. And there a lot of portraits of musicians who played in LA, like the Clash, Pretenders, Talking Heads, Iggy Pop, and many more.

Summa is one of our favorite photographers, and the new book shows off her early, gritty, black and white punk photographer days to brilliant effect. These are raw, artful images with impact and passion. We've got a soft spot for anything about early punk, and this book is simply a great document of that period.

There's a book release party on Friday, October 8 (that's tonight!), from 5-7pm at Bookmarc at 400 Bleecker Street. As an added bonus, Exene Cervenka will be performing at 6.30 (she also wrote the forward to Summa's book).
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Drew Friedman's Killer New Book, "Too Soon"

Over the past 15 years, Drew Friedman has been one of the most popular and prolific illustrators in the magazine world. His caricatures and cartoons have graced the pages and covers of everything from The New Yorker to Entertainment Weekly to the Weekly Standard. And although these days most of his work is in color, he still publishes work in classic black and white as well.

Now Friedman has a brilliant new collection of his magazine work, Too Soon?: Famous/Infamous Faces 1995-2010, published by Fantagraphics Books. It's hardcover, 200+ pages, packed with hundreds of  comics and caricatures and even more laughs. And it's graced with a wonderful introductory essay by Friedman that is a great history of both his illustration career and magazine illustration in general over the past 15 years.

Check out some of our favorite Friedman illos from the book on the next page, and see even more on his Drawger page.
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The Making of Dan Winters' 'Periodical Photographs'

In late 2007, I received a life-changing phone call from one of my best friends, a photographer named Dan Winters. He and I had become inseparable collaborators nearly 10 years ago, after a summer afternoon spent photographing (and gorging on) a particularly fine crop of Texas Hill Country peaches. Since then, we've worked together nearly every month in some form or fashion, both during my tenure at Texas Monthly, and now at WIRED.
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