notes.husk.org. scribblings by Paul Mison.

The Day Before, Liam Gillick’s London Underground Pocket Tube map cover, 2007. (The Metropolitan line did run on the ninth, but it wasn’t open to the public until the tenth.)

gawkercom:

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg may have waited until a day after Sandy hit to suggest that climate change may have played a significant part in generating the devastating superstorm, but the latest issue of his weekly business magazine is not pussyfooting around.

A prospective cover for Cloud Atlas, by Rebecca Kern.

A tale of two covers: the UK and US Cloud Atlas editions.

See also: the movie tie-in cover; Random House Canada’s side by side of different books (including this one).

The Sunday Times Magazine cover, 3rd July 2011, a winner of the D&AD Cover Award (as seen at coverjunkie.com, via Tom Coates). The photo-montage is a reference to half of Fiona Banner’s wonderful Harrier and Jaguar, displayed as part of Tate Britain’s Duveen Commission in 2010.

I know there’s a whole series of photos of the Space Shuttle moving its way through Los Angeles that I could post here, but there’s something depressing about a spacecraft - flawed, yes, but still powerful and occasionally even graceful - dragged down to the level of crawling through suburban streets, like just another child being driven to the museum by its parents.

I’d rather wait until Endeavour is unveiled in place, since unlike Atlantis, Discovery, and Enterprise, it’ll be mounted as a full launch stack, vertical and poised: the opposite of the image above.

Step Aboard BART, an Oakland Tribune special, from Bay Area Rapid Transit celebrates 40 years of service at the same paper’s website.

Studio Parris Wakefield:

Tasked with the brief of ‘deep space and nebulae’, Howard Wakefield researched through the collection of Nasa imagery at SpaceImages. While tempted with a nebula called Factory, its name was too good to be true, for it didn’t compare with the more expansive deep blue nebula of Hubble NGC 346 SMC. Peter Saville was keen to see how it could be transformed from being purely documentary, so suggested an inverted, monochrome version.

Architectural Signing and Graphics by John Follis and Dave Hammer, as posted by Joe Kral to Flickr.

A Sign Systems Manual by Theo Crosby, Alan Fletcher, and Colin Forbes, as posted by Joe Kral to Flickr.

If you’re curious, there’s a set of photos from inside the book on Flickr, and a few on Amazon (although you’ll do well to find the book).

Eight years of BBC handbook covers, from 1961 to 1969. Some are from Between Channel’s three posts on the handbooks, but where his graphics were a little smaller, I headed off to Deptford Dralons and LoopZilla on Flickr.

The BBC Handbook was produced annually (with a short break) for nearly sixty years. As the British Online Archives site puts it,

Sir Ian Jacob, a former Director General of the BBC provides us with a useful statement of the handbooks’ aims:

“To provide a clear and reliable guide to the workings of the BBC, to survey the year’s work in British broadcasting, and to bring together as much information about the BBC as can be assembled within the covers of a small book.” (BBC Handbook, 1955)

Most of the handbooks follow the same template – a review of the BBC’s year, information on notable programmes, and other basic factual material including names of senior staff and governors, engineering developments, audience trends, the accounts, and a copy of the BBC’s charter.

There’s something particularly charming about the covers in this decade of change, with the Light, Home, and Third radio programmes still appearing on one early cover before television steps completely into the limelight by 1969.

To see all the 1960s covers, try Auntie’s Nuggets.