Posters by Saul Bass

Posters by Saul Bass found via THIS MUST BE THE PLACE (post 1 / 2 / 3 / 4)

Tim Lahan

Today I'm wearing the Team Grilled Cheese t-shirt I got from Lunch League, so I thought it'd be an appropriate time to do a post featuring all designs Tim Lahan created for them.

A small grilled cheese tale for you - I remember being about eight years old & watching TGIF with my sister. We were lying on my parent's bed & it was getting towards the end of the glorious block of sitcom fun (so, it was probably about 9:45pm, BUT IT SEEMED SO LATE). My stomach was suddenly attacked with a wave of hunger and I said - "I wish I could have a grilled cheese sandwich". I think the hunger stemmed from seeing a commercial featuring a hamburger, and I knew that eating a hamburger was definitely impossible at that point of the night for little 8 year old me, but I must have thought a grilled cheese was in the realm of possibility.

Even so, I was shocked and ECSTATIC when my mom actually went downstairs and proceeded to prepare a grilled cheese sandwich for me. & I felt distinctly adult sitting at the kitchen counter post-TGIF eating the thing. Plus several pickles (because when you had a grilled cheese sandwich in my house, there was no way you weren't also having a few pickle spears - and they'd get bread crumbs stuck to them which always annoyed me in a very slight way).

End of random story. Random story that I tell because I remember this whole thing so freaking clearly.

It's lunchtime (at least in my US eastern time zone) so you should go make or procure a grilled cheese sandwich.

Faber & Faber's The Romantics Series

Faber & Faber sent me their new poetry series - The Romantics. As you can see below, each book is beautifully (oh so beautifully) designed.

Some information -

Award-winning designer Miriam Rosenbloon has continued the great Faber tradition of commissioning original prints for book jackets; collaborating with the leading British printmakers of today to create a distinctive and highly collectable series look. The set draws inspiration from the classic designs of Josiah Wedgwood (who had strong links to the poets from the Romantic period) and references the historical origins of the poems themselves. Inside each volume is a set of glorious bespoke endpapers, created especially to point towards the historical technique of marbling. 

I've been slowly working my way through each volume. I haven't read nearly enough poetry since graduating from college, so it's been a treat.

Tonight - Keats. Maybe I'll watch Bright Star after I finish.

If you want to learn more about the design process behind the books you may want to read an interview that I found over at It's Nice That.

Faber & Faber also keeps a wonderful flickr account: it's full of old book covers from their archives. I picked out some of my favorites...