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by Nate Ashley and Trent DeBord, February 11, 2021 8:26 AM
It’s no surprise that Powell’s in-house design team are book lovers and collectors. As a special valentine to all of us, they’ve dipped into their personal libraries to share the art books and cover designs they couldn’t help but take home.
OWN LABEL: SAINSBURY'S DESIGN STUDIO, 1962-1977 by Jonny Trunk
America has never quite embraced modernism on a basic, day-to-day level. Minimalism is viewed at pretentious or suspicious. What is this company trying to hide?? If a product doesn't smack you in the face with "They Live" levels of propaganda, it shouldn't be trusted.
UK supermarket, Sainsbury's, got right to the point. Frozen peas and carrots? Green circles, orange squares. Sainsbury's Salad Cream? It's salad cream. If you have already decided you need salad cream in your life, what else do you really need to be told? The fonts are simple (helvetica bold, naturally), decorations minimal, proclamations of healthy, organic, or bespoke, nonexistent.
Visual design collector/hero Jonny Trunk was given unprecedented access to the Sainsbury supermarket's vast design archive — perhaps the most incredible collection of modernist, minimalist packaging ever assembled...
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by Nate Ashley, August 28, 2012 2:03 PM
H. P. Lovecraft created a world full of frightful and disturbing creatures that would go on to influence popular culture in ways he could never have imagined. While he graced the pages of the Weird Tales pulp magazine, his work was never published in book format until after his death (aside from the crudely issued The Shadow over Innsmouth). This handsome Penguin edition of The Call of Cthulhu boasts an impressive collection of Lovecraft's work and is a great introduction to the "cosmic horror" of the Cthulhu
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by Nate Ashley, August 28, 2012 1:12 PM
Whether you're a fan of Peter Benchley's original book, Spielberg's film, or the island itself, this behind-the-scenes coffee-table book is a must-have. Filled with firsthand stories, Jaws rarities, and photos taken by islanders while the movie was being filmed in 1974, Jaws: Memories from Martha's Vineyard is a book you can really sink your teeth
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by Nate Ashley, August 16, 2012 10:01 AM
Alien Vault: The Definitive Story of the Making of the Film is hands down the best companion piece to the original Alien movie. Extensive behind-the-scenes photos, storyboards, and concept art are all nicely rounded out by inclusions of reproduced artifacts. If you already enjoyed the film, this book will only deepen your appreciation for everyone involved in the making of the sci-fi
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by Nate Ashley, February 16, 2012 4:19 PM
Although he was prolific and could write a mean horror novel, Richard Laymon was most popular outside of the United States. He could grab you by the end of the first page and take you on one wild ride 'til the end of the book. In the Dark is a great example of his twisted sense of fun and games. Anyone who appreciates an early 80s slasher film will enjoy Laymon. Other top notch novels by this lowbrow cult favorite are: The Cellar, Night in The Lonesome October, and Midnight's
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by Nate Ashley, February 16, 2012 12:06 PM
Dylan Dog does a great job of rolling up elements of the macabre, humor, and romantacism into one classic Italian comic book rich with cinematic undertones. Dylan himself is based on Rupert Everett, while his comedic sidekick is a Groucho Marx impersonator. Once I picked this up I was hooked. Unfortunately, only seven stories have been translated into English while there are over 200 issues in
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by Nate Ashley, December 26, 2011 5:19 PM
The Master of Horror's interpretation of the werewolf myth is frighteningly captured with the help of Bernie Wrightson's illustrations. Both went on to work together for the Creepshow and Dark Tower series. Find out why no King collection is complete without this classic
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by Nate Ashley, December 26, 2011 4:20 PM
Koontz has a real knack for getting you hooked, then throwing a curveball of a twist that keeps you turning those pages until you read the last sentence. Intensity saw two film adaptations, one a mini-series, the other the infamous French rip-off High Tension. I'd recommend sticking with the book, for a tight wound thriller in its true form. Intensity lives up to its
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by Nate Ashley, November 7, 2011 2:16 PM
Zombies, zombies, zombies!!! They're everywhere! Face it, you're surrounded and there's no escape from the living dead in pop culture. When it comes to the history of zombies in film, this is an indispensable guide. If you think you've seen it all, then check this book out for those pesky zombies that may have slipped under your radar. Judging by FAB Press'S past releases, you'll want to snatch this up before it goes out of print and up in
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by Nate Ashley, November 2, 2011 3:49 PM
Most of us have been introduced to this work through John Carpenter's film adaptation The Thing or Howard Hawks's The Thing From Another World. Originally penned in 1936, John W. Campbell's Who Goes There? is a must read for any sci-fi/horror fan. It was voted "one of the best science fiction novellas ever written" by the Science Fiction Writers of America. Now available in a paperback edition with William F. Nolan's original screen treatment
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