The Poetry Foundation, on its well-designed, graphically lovely little web-site, has a handful of free poem posters (“For the Fridge”) that you can download as pdfs and then print and stick anywhere. You will instantly look well-read and graphically astute. (Or, you know, just bookish and weird.) (more…)

Neenah provides paper for any printing kind of printing fun, and offers lots of free swatch books to play with and dream about. The site also offers free “Classic Crest Identity Libraries” (get one here) which is a little paper case full of reference cards for designers and proof readers (check out the Proof Readers’ Marks card above). They also have cards featuring Fold Types, Binding Types, State Abbreviations and more. What’s fun about this freebie is that it’s useful, well-designed, and printed on very nice paper. Yays!

Pulitzer prize winning novel The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon is, actually, amazing. That’s beside the present point (but worth mentioning anyway). The “Amazing Website of Kavalier and Clay” documents some of this book’s many amanzing and not-so-amazing covers.

Print Magazine recently featured an article called “Cover Girls” about Young Adult Novel makeovers for each new generation of YA readers. Of course the re-design of YA novels makes lots of sense, since that age group is swiftly changing and very focused on cool. But why does Kavalier & Clay need to be redesigned dozens of times in the last mere eight years? (more…)