dust and drag

newyorker:

We asked Chris Ware, who drew this week’s cover, “Mother’s Day,” to discuss the New Yorker covers that inspired him.

Since I draw more or less like a robot, it’s good to have something human to inspire me every once in a while. While I dutifully admire the manly, punchy gags of Peter Arno and Charles Addams, the “old school” New Yorker cover artists I think most about are actually all women. Ilonka Karasz’s bucolic diorama-like vistas and the unapologetic warm sentiment of Edna Eicke stir up fond memories of childhood with a tactile power truly unusual for drawings intended only for print.

See the past covers that have inspired Ware and his commentary here.

fantagraphics:

Franz Kafka’s Metamorphosis by Sammy Harkham on Flickr.

Sammy Harkham cover for the Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition.

letterheady:

Hunter S. Thompson, 1969 | Source

karenh:

from the desk of…Chip Kidd

Book cover designer Peter Mendelsund interviews Chip Kidd about his work space.

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skinned-teen:

The Euthanasia Coaster is a concept for a steel roller coaster designed to kill its passengers. In 2010, it was designed and made into a scale model by Julijonas Urbonas, a PhD candidate at the Royal College of Art in London. Urbonas, who has worked at an amusement park, stated that the goal of his concept roller coaster is to take lives “with elegance and euphoria”. It is a ride to the death. The seven loops or ‘inversions’ put the human body under such stress that it causes the brain to be starved of oxygen, as the heart simply cannot push blood against the enormous g-forces. Even if it kills you, it is designed to still be a fun death. An honourable thought, if rather macabre.

(via saylors)

karenh:

Crosley Spinnerette Portable Turntable Suitcase with USB

“Preserving your vinyl collection to your computer is simply a click away. Easily take your favorite vinyl and convert them to digital files in just seconds. Simply plug in the USB cable, play your record and watch as the Spinnerette creates digital files on your computer…” —Dijital Fix

(first discovered via NYMag)

Meh. I want it.

Beauties.

(Source: eudaimonist)

danielclowes:

Back cover of An Anthology of Graphic Fiction, Cartoons, and True Stories: Volume 2.

ckck:

NASA just revealed the design of the Space Launch System (or SLS), which unlike the Space Shuttle will be able to take humans beyond Earth’s orbit to places like the moon or Mars. View bigger.