How Design Legend Irving Harper Created The Herman Miller Logo

In 1946, Harper, responsible for creating the iconic Marshmallow sofa, designed the logo that the company uses to this day. [Editor’s note: The following is republished from WHY, a new digital platform from Herman Miller.] Imagining a sheet of paper as a building site will give you a good sense for Irving Harper’s approach to graphic design. As the Swiss magazine Graphis noted in a 1953 survey of his print work for the Nelson Office, it’s an approach not dissimilar to that of an architect. “The page on which to print is regarded as a site on which to build…pictorial material, often broken into fragments, is organized by asymmetrical harmonies.”Read Full Story     Continue reading at 'Fast Company'

[ Fast Company | 2013-07-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
News tagged with: #digital platform #good sense #graphic design

Other Publishing stories related to: 'How Design Legend Irving Harper Created The Herman Miller Logo'


Shaller leaves HC for newly created role at S&S UK

Luke Shaller will join Simon & Schuster UK as c.f.o. for its UK and international dealings in a newly created role, following almost a decade with HarperCollins. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-02-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with: #ss uk


Phaidon to publish 'celebration' of interior design

Phaidon will publish a celebration of interior design in May, following in the footsteps of its landmark art and fashion books. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-02-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with: #fashion books


London Book Fair Designates its Official 2019 Illustrator and Poet

The Jamaican-English poet Raymond Antrobus and 'Elmer the Patchwork Elephant' illustrator David McKee are singled out for official status this year by London Book Fair, which has special programming in both idioms. The post London Book Fair Designates its Official 2019 Illustrator and Poet... Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives

[ Publishing Perspectives | 2019-02-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with: #patchwork elephant


Profile and Aitken Alexander create academics' non-fiction prize

Profile Books and Aitken Alexander have launched the Profile Aitken Alexander Non-Fiction Prize, awarded to the best debut trade non-fiction proposal from an academic. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-02-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with: #profile books #non-fiction prize #aitken alexander


Daunt, Sturgeon and Miller to headline Scottish Book Trade Conference

Waterstones m.d. James Daunt, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon and anti-Brexit campaigner Gina Miller will deliver speeches at the Publishing Scotland and BA Annual Scottish Book Trade Conference 2019. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-02-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with: #james daunt #publishing scotland


Harper Inspire novel to tell C S Lewis love story

Harper Inspire has acquired a fictional re-telling of one of the most famous love stories set in the world of books – the love affair between the US writer and poet Joy Davidman and C S Lewis. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-01-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with: #harper inspire #love affair


CWA creates festival liaison role

The Crime Writers' Association has created the role of festival liaison officer to strengthen the links between crime writers and literary festivals. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-01-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with: #crime writers #literary festivals


Canongate takes on designer Yousefzada's memoir

Canongate will publish designer Osman Yousefzada’s memoir The Go-Between, about growing up in a tight-knit Pashtun community in Birmingham and discovering design. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-01-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this |


Germany’s Bertelsmann Creates a ‘Content Alliance’ for Its Divisions

As many publishers move to widen cross-format development of content, Bertelsmann forms a cooperative council of its companies' managing directors, in part to help create 'cross-divisional offers for creative professionals.' The post Germany’s Bertelsmann Creates a ‘Content Alliance’ for Its... Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives

[ Publishing Perspectives | 2019-01-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with: #content alliance #publishers move #managing directors


Tim Waterstone: 'Childhood scars pushed me to create bookshop chain'

A difficult relationship with his father was one of the factors which pushed Tim Waterstone to succeed in establishing the bookshop chain that bears his name, the retail entrepreneur has revealed in an extract from his forthcoming memoir, published in the Daily Mail. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-01-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with: #tim waterstone #difficult relationship #bookshop chain #forthcoming memoir #daily mail


WI14: Atwood, Morgenstern Create A Buzz Among Booksellers

Margaret Atwood and Erin Morgenstern engaged Thursday morning in conversation in front of booksellers that created a buzz lasting all day, as booksellers eagerly anticipate the release this fall of both authors' next novels. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2019-01-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with: #margaret atwood


Drummond Moir joins Ebury, as two non-fiction hubs created

Drummond Moir is joining Ebury from Hodder in the role of deputy publisher, as the Penguin Random House division announces the launch of two new narrative non-fiction hubs. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-01-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with: #joining ebury #deputy publisher


Abraha joins Jacaranda in newly created role

Magdalene Abraha is leaving Bloomsbury to join Jacaranda Publishers in a newly created role as group editorial and marketing manager. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-01-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with: #marketing manager


Ex-'Hearthstone' Designers Are Working on a New Marvel Game

Plus unfortunate controversy in the competitive 'Overwatch' scene, a publishing giant goes on the market, and more gaming news. Continue reading at Wired

[ Wired | 2019-01-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with: #publishing giant


Tokyo’s New Bunkitsu Bookstore: Designed With an Admission Fee

In an effort to re-fashion the experience of a bookstore with discovery of a book, a new outlet in Japan curates a collection of high-end cultural titles. The post Tokyo’s New Bunkitsu Bookstore: Designed With an Admission Fee appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives

[ Publishing Perspectives | 2019-01-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this |


What's next for the Dodgers? Bryce Harper? J.T. Realmuto? A look at the possibilities

Last Saturday, a post appeared on Major League Baseball’s Instagram account featuring a photo of Bryce Harper and a question splashed across the bottom: Are the Dodgers the favorites for Bryce? It’s a possibility the baseball universe is pondering as the winter progresses without an obvious... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times

[ Los Angeles Times | 2018-12-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with: #bryce harper


AdoramaPix photo book review: A great tool that creates beautiful, hard-bound books

If you live in New York City, you might be familiar with the professional photography shop Adorama in lower Manhattan. The company has taken its photo printing to the web with AdoramaPix, where you can order prints and create various products, including photo books.Whatever Adorama learned... Continue reading at PC World

[ PC World | 2018-12-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with: #square starting #portrait starting #landscape starting #lay flat


Pentagram designs a Harry Potter font, and it’s magical

It’s called “Crimes New Roman.” Harry Potter, the beloved children’s books by J.K. Rowling, is now a bona fide franchise, with books, theme parks, and countless movies. The latest? The Crimes of Grindelwald, a sequel to the spin-off Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them. It’s playing in movie... Continue reading at Fast Company

[ Fast Company | 2018-12-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with: #harry potter #beloved children #theme parks #fantastic beasts #movie theaters


Johns' 'beautiful' Japanese time-slip novel the stuff of Legend

Legend Press has snapped up Ana Johns' "beautiful" time-slip novel, The Woman in the White Kimono, billed as “competition for Memoirs of a Geisha”. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-11-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with: #legend press


Three ways Stan Lee helped create the modern superhero movie

By the time the Marvel Cinematic Universe experienced its Big Bang with the 2008 smash “Iron Man,” Stan Lee had long since retired from official duties at Marvel, settling into a role as a revered spiritual grandfather to the comic book world, as close to a flesh-and-blood superhero as fans could... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times

[ Los Angeles Times | 2018-11-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with: #big bang #stan lee #official duties