TEXTURE

Photos by textile designer Pascale Gueracague, who was recently featured here. 

HAND DRAWN

Calligraphy by illustrator Leanne Shapton. Found at the Book Cover Archive.

KARL

MAKING IT

WHITE FUNGUS

Experimental arts magazine based in Taipei. One of the few magazines whose cover remains basically the same from issue to issue. More here.

EARLY TIMES

Early i-D magazine covers, found here.

AVALANCHE

Recently I met and visited art collector Steven Leiber at his office in San Francisco's Marina district. He has an amazing collection of art, artist books and ephemera, some of which is for sale on his website. During our visit he brought up the magazine Avalanche, an art publication from the early to mid 70s. According to Chelsea College, who held an exhibition of the magazine a few years ago:

The short-lived New York based art magazine Avalanche, which existed between 1970 and 1976, not only captured a sense of its time, but also engaged critically with the relationship between printed matter and artwork. Founded by Liza Bear and Willoughby Sharp Avalanche set out to foreground artistic ideas, with interviews with artists and artists' projects the mainstays of the magazine. Bear and Sharp aimed to cut directly to the creative quick, assembling a serious publication with an artist-led voice.

Printed Matter in New York has more recently reissued the complete set. Photos from Walker Art Center blog.

GEOMETRY

Drawings by dutch designer Louis Reith.

CRISP

New Zealand-based Pilot magazine, designed by nz studio Inhouse.

SSENSE

Images from ssense.com; discovered the Montreal-based shopping site this afternoon while cruising around http://manishtama.blogspot.com/ -- good stuff.

AJIT CHAUHAN