Chip Kidd: Rising Sun

Another blast from the past. This really grabbed me when I was a little High School freshman. Mamma say What IS that awesome font??? I fed it through olde reliable WhatTheFont and got nothing! To those who don't know, this novel is a non sci-fi Crichton, about Japanese business intrigue (land of the rising sun, yo). The novel is a mystery, launched when the body of a beautiful model is discovered lying dead on the boardroom table. It was also a film with Sean Connery as the detective. I like that little highlight at the top of the red circle. It makes the circle look lick-able.

Allison Saltzman: Lit Life

It's an oldie but a goodie (from 2001). Photo by Tina Barney. How much do we love the typography? the colors? the whole freaking layout?

Criterion Collection: Gems of Part Deux

Hiroshima, Mon Amour: A French actress (Emmanuelle Riva) and a Japanese architect (Eiji Okada) engage in a brief, intense affair in postwar Hiroshima, their consuming fascination impelling them to exorcise their own scarred memories of love and suffering.

The Honeymoon Killers: Martha Beck (Shirley Stoler) is sullen, overweight and heartbreakingly alone. Desperate for affection, she joins Aunt Carrie’s Friendship Club and strikes up a correspondence with Ray Fernandez (Tony Lo Bianco), a suave, charismatic smooth talker who could be the man of her dreams—or a wicked con artist bound for trouble.

Criterion Collection: Gems of Part 1

How freakin gorgeous?????!!!! Not sure who designed these, anyone know? These DVD covers rock. In Divorce Italian Style, "Baron Ferdinando Cefalù (Marcello Mastroianni) longs to marry his nubile young cousin Angela (Stefania Sandrelli), but one obstacle stands in his way: his fatuous and fawning wife, Rosalia (Daniela Rocca). His solution? Since divorce is illegal, he hatches a plan to lure his spouse into the arms of another and then murder her in a justifiable effort to save his honor."

Kicking and Screaming: "Paralyzed by postgraduation ennui, a group of college friends remain on campus, patching together a community for themselves in order to deny the real-world futures awaiting them." (from the Criterion Website)

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