Ace Jet 170

Tea but no seas

 

A few weeks ago Michael Hodgson from Ph.D in Santa Monica very generously sent me a pile of stuff he'd picked up in a local thrift shop; numerous copies of the Ford Times, which I'll be posting about over the next couple of weeks; they're really interesting. He also slipped in a copy of their little self-promotional booklet, Terms and Conditions. It's a kind of dictionary, the book explains, "This particular version of the dictionary gathers together 16 years' worth of biases, interests, opinions and obsessions". It's small and beautifully formed.

    

It's a lovely piece of work and so is Michael's letterpress printed business card...

Hanna Hunting

Nick Asbury is trying to track down info on illustrator John Hanna, responsible for these lovely covers. If anyone knows anything, please drop him a line.

Penguin Sci-Fi

James Pardey is building a superb archive of Penguin Science Fiction cover designs. PCS members: watch out for James' articles in The Collector.

Plot Watch: At it

  

Talking of pest control, sordid though it may be, plotters far and wide will be heartened by the sight of ladybird's doing the wild thing...but even for these little fellas, two's company...

Pop (up) Art

   

I was never into the comic book/graphic novel thing. Friends were when I was younger: Steve, who took over from me as studio junior in my first job, was into all the Frank Miller stuff. Super cool and interesting but my mind was on typographical matters. Ten years later it was Mike, my lodger. A superb illustrator but a house-mate from hell; he attempted to indoctrinate me in the super-hero way but again, I was thinking about other things (like how I could get rid of him).

So I'm no aficionado by any stretch of the imagination and have no idea if this X-Men pop-up book would be considered by such to be worthy of interest. All I know is that, on face value, it appears to be ace: Nicely produced with admirable attention to detail; nifty, irregular polygonal shape; ingenious pop-up constructions; and respectful use of original artwork, it would seem. Bought it in England last week for three quid.

Clamentation

It's sad when iconic faces/names from your childhood depart. I was on holiday so missed Freud's death last week and only just found out by accident. If you didn't know him, here's a taster.

Meany

  

Graham from Zoot emailed me yesterday about the Ink Posters project, asking if I might feature their lovely posters here. I said I would but only if I got something back. Nothing big or costly, I wasn't specifically after a freebie. Some photos of them printing the stuff would have been OK; I just wanted to say more than just, "look at these cool posters". To be honest, he caught me at the wrong time and now I think I was a bit of a pain in the arse. Ace Jet's not about advertising other people's stuff really and I don't want to get inundated with requests but every now and then someone emails me about something really ace, like what Graham did yesterday; lovely posters.

So, sorry Graham, I know I wasn't rude or anything and you were equally polite, and I expect we'll be seeing a lot of your beautiful posters around the interweb.

Everyone else, go and have a look; personally, I like the architectural tree.

Found Type Friday #73

   

A return to our old village isn't complete without a bit of Great Central.

Plot Watch: Pond Life

   

Introducing future pest control:

_ 1 pond

_ Miscellaneous plant life

_ 37 tadpoles

It Lives!

The Return of the King.