From Blog to Book: the anatomy of design

Submitted by rocketsquirrel on Thu, 2007/05/31 - 1:36pm.

So Steven Heller, a senior art director at the NY Times, professor at the School of Visual Arts in New York, editor of the AIGA Voice, and author of more than 100 books on graphic design, illustration, and popular culture and his coauthor, Mirko Illic, former art director for Time Magazine's international edition, happened to read my now-latent blog back in 2004.

A slightly different (made for print) version of the above blog graphic just ended up in their new book, "the anatomy of design: uncovering the influences and inspirations in modern graphic design."

Mirko Illic contacted me about this project a year and a half ago. I didn't think my graphic would make it into the final cut for the book.

It did. Me: speechless.

Note to all bloggers: you never know who is reading your blog.



redmondkr's picture
Congratulations! Great idea!

Back in 2002, I posted a photo of Geronimo's grave stone at find a grave.com. About a month ago a lady from the University of Arizona in Tempe emailed me asking for a high resolution version and permission to use it in an upcoming documentary being produced by KAET Public Television.

It took me a while to remember where she could have seen my picture. "Geronimo grave" in Google brought up that page as the first hit.


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Carole Borges's picture
Congrats to you Rocketsquirrel!

You're right about the fact that you never know about blogs. Last year I posted a comment on an art site and the editor of a boating magazine called Pacific Yachting (it was about boats and art) read it and asked to reprint it in his mag. After we'd been corresponding for awhile, I sent him a short essay I'd written about sailing my boat alone from Lauderdale to Key West. Viola! It will appear along with my essay and a poem in the September issue. He also actually paid me quite well.

You just never know....

By the way...I love the sign.

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