Tiled Backgrounds Designer →

Sweet. (via kiyo, via joelaz)

Scanned Images, Engravings and Pictures From Old Books →

This site is genius.

FontStruct →

This is so awesome: a Web app that lets you build your own fonts. It’s like Kuler for fontheads. I love it.

Via angad, via joelaz.

Some of Esquire’s classic covers, from the days when magazines were big enough to hold some great art on the front.

aatw:

Jordan Crane’s amazing cover for Michael Chabon’s Maps and Legends

That is absolutely beautiful.

Shift-Cmd-Cover →

People would ask, So what do you do for a living, and I’d reply, I’m a book designer, actually, and they’d nod and squint a little and say something like, So … that’s the covers?

dannygarcia:

For those of us that didn’t go to design school and never learned what this meant.

No, don’t look at it. It’s a curse, I tell you. Ever since I learned what good kerning is I can’t stop noticing bad kerning everywhere!