PaperPosts:
Print, paper, mail art and ephemera

I've got a box full type catalogues and promotional bits and pieces from Emigre and a few other foundries. They are quite interesting snapshots of type trends in the '90s and have that signature Emigre feel.

So I've had almost a whole year of enjoyment looking at my Studio on Fire calendar for 2010. Each month's wonderful card with it's illustration by them and/or their friends. I'm really looking forward to seeing what the 2011 calendar/piece will look like. Check out…

Exercices de Style by Raymond Queneau. This has to be one of my most treasured books. What makes this so special is again collaboration. This time between the author (Raymond Queneau), the designer (Robert Massin) and the illustrator (Jacques Carelman). This edition published by Gallimard…

Atlas Press are a small(ish) publishing house that specialize in avant garde literature. If it's Oulipian, 'pataphysics, Dada or Expressionist these guys are likely to publish it. I first found out about them when I discovered George Perec and the OuLiPo, and through their books…

Graphic design in the service of opposition, protest or giving a voice to those that don't have one has always been an interest of mine. I've got tonnes of stuff from politically charged individuals who use their talents to disrupt, upset and challenge the status…

Here's another 'flip it round to read the other half' style book. This one is the brilliant I Seem to be a Verb by the legendary R. Buckminster Fuller. One of those magical social/utopianist paper backs from the end of the '60s. It's designed by Quentin…

A few years back I saw some of Sam Winston's work at a Courtauld Institute show. He's London based and I really love his work, it ticks all the right boxes for me - language, literature, words, typography, process, patterns, story telling and humour. Last…