The legendary California type foundry Emigre Graphics, founded by Rudy VanderLans and Zuzana Licko, is releasing a “best of” book. This will be the first from the influential design magazine Emigre since it stopped publishing in 2005.
512 page Emigre No. 70: The Look Back Issues – Celebrating 25 Years in Graphic Design will cover the best from a quarter century of the magazine’s content.
They explain the story:
During the late 1980s and throughout the 1990s, graphic design was experiencing one of its most exciting and transformative periods. The Apple Macintosh computer had been introduced, design schools were exploring French linguistic theory, [...]

More often than not the inane musings of bored employees and drunk students, one Facebook status update has been separated from the chaff by Beverly Hills’ United Talent Agency and literary agency Fletcher & Co., who are pitching it for a film. The status update in question?
“Lisa Hamilton Day’s Pomeranian raided Chinese takeout bag overnight, opened and ate a fortune cookie. Her fortune: You have strong spiritual powers, and you should develop them.”
Agents representing Ms. Day are shopping around for a book and movie deal about her Pomeranian and its superpowers. And although Beverly Hills Chihuahua made millions of dollars, [...]

Earlier this year at the Guardian, Clay Shirky of Here Comes Everybody, made the prediction that book publishers would soon turn to on demand manufacturing solutions as a response to the media landscape becoming increasingly digital.
Recently we came across On Demand Books based out of New York. Like a physical analog to Amazon’s kindle, On Demand Books’ “Espresso machine” pulls from a digital catalogue and prints, and binds and vends books on the fly. On Demand Books’ catalog is currently somewhere around 500 thousand titles or so and looking to expand past 1 million titles by the time summer passes. [...]

After eight years of fantastic public pranks, Improv Everywhere is releasing a behind-the-scenes book about some of their most successful endeavors. Causing a Scene, Extraordinary Pranks in Ordinary Places with Improv Everywhere comes out today (you can also read the first two chapters online here), and if you’re in New York, Improv Everywhere founder Charlie Todd will be doing a book signing at Bryant Park tomorrow.
PSFK interviewed Charlie late last year about how he goes about injecting a spirit of playfulness into everyday life. Watch below.

It seems like the perfect formula for a date book: Jane Austen + undead ultraviolence. Last seen guiding people “How to Survive a Horror Movie”, Seth Grahame-Smith hijacks the classic author’s “Pride and Prejudice” with an unexpected and critically acclaimed zombie angle.
“Pride and Prejudice and Zombies” is set to be the first of a series of Quirk Classics that fool around with influential literature. To comply with copyright laws however, it’s likely that only stories published in the United States before 1923 will qualify. The publisher, Quirk Books, has mentioned some of their favorite fan-suggested titles on their website (publishing [...]