Design by Coralie Bickford-Smith

There’s a great post over at the Penguin Blog about 8 new Red Classics editions of Sherlock Holmes stories and novels.

The designer is quoted in one of…
New Sherlock Holmes

Feature Comics #120
Feature Comics #120

One must wonder about the sense of irony that might have gone into Eliot’s Spitzer’s choice of alias.

George Fox (Wikipedia)

"George Fox"

Milk bottles, steam engines, typewriters: these and other sounds of the past are available from Marnix Koolhaas’ Library of Vanished Sounds (aka the Museum of Lost Sounds).

In search of lost sound

The above images…
Lace Typography

Eerie #2
Eerie #2

From the Victorian Trade Card Collection at Miami…
Anthropomorphic Trade Cards

Bestselling Comics (2006) #2146
Bestselling Comics (2006) #2146

Find out here. Mine spells “errs” in part but I’m trying to not take it personally.

What does your phone number spell?

Designer credit to come

We can probably infer two things from the way the title is handled here: 1) getting tied up is a popular fantasy, and 2) some people are really into type set in all caps….

Who’s Been Sleeping in Your Head? The Secret World of Sexual Fantasies