Last week, music website Pitchfork was bought by publishing powerhouse Condé Nast, in a bold move that suggests music journalism isn’t quite dead yet. A testament to the quality of the website’s output of top quality content, Pitchfork also creates a quarterly publication, The Pitchfork Review and a weekly app magazine. Behind it all is a crack design team brimming with talent so we were eager to find out which books stand tall on their collective bookshelf. With individual selections from Pitchfork’s vice president Mike Renaud, its digital art director Joy Burke and senior graphic designer Jessica Visčius, it’s a fantastically varied compilation of alternative design books, snippets of visual inspiration and the mind boggling world of programming. h3. Bob Gill: Bob Gill, so far.
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Creative director of Phaidon Press Julia Hasting on spectacular new book Akademie X
A few weeks back, an enormous book the colour of a tube of Love Hearts landed on my desk. It was Akademie X: Lessons in Life an Art. Not often does a book look this succulent: the weight, texture and little details were enough to have the whole editorial team cooing over it. Published by Phaidon, it’s a collection of lessons written by artists such a Miranda July, Katharine Grosse, Walead Beshty, Marina Abramovic, Tim Rollins, John Stezaker and many others.
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