A Consumer's Guide to Times Square Advertising

Creative Time always does some pretty interesting things. A Consumer's Guide to Times Square Advertising is a booklet that takes you on a self-guided tour of Times Square and the mega-ads there. If you can't make it for the pickup dates, simply go to the link above and download your own copy.

mushroomgirlsvirus

Sounds scary, huh? Well, it's not. mushroomgirlsvirus is a soon-to-be-released tome by brilliant visual artist Deanne Cheuk. Last fall she exhibited this work in Philly at the 222 Vine gallery, and now it seems that she has expanded this theme. I'll have to ask her myself!! I'll give an update once I get the lowdown.

In the meantime, you can see more of her work on her zine neomu.

BOOK SMARTS

Just when you've seen enough of these cute little tomes next to the regiter (impulse buys, as the industry calls them), along comes
BOOK SMARTS. Refreshingly, the Book Smarts series (there are 3 in all) are quite well designed. And the catch phrases are not watered down with flowery language. Everything about this is straight-forward--the messages as well as the imagery. And that's good!

An Illustrated Bible: Not for Kids

The Flaming Fire Illustrated Bible.
This is really quite an interesting idea: an open forum of sorts where contributors post an illustration for each and every verse of the bible. It will eventually show us that the words are truly open to interpretation...