SportsFilter (Free subscription) | 12/07/2009
& More Japanese Baseball Cards . All from the collection of John Gall , author of Sayonara Home Run!: The Art of the Japanese Baseball Card. These are markedly different from their North American equivalents.
oyster-sauce (Free subscription) | 11/28/2009
VLADIMIR NABOKOV SPECIMEN BOX PROJECT I have officially been hiding under a rock, recovering from consuming copious amounts of Thanksgiving treats over the last few days. Upon awaking from my food slumber yesterday, I picked up the latest copy of New York Magazine , and discovered the Nabokov Specimen Box Project. John Gall, Art Director for Vintage and Anchor Books , commissioned twenty-one designers...
Subtraction (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
The Book Cover Archive surveys the best covers from each of the last ten years. Includes John Gall ’s crowd-pleasing cover for “ A General Theory of Love ,” which is among my favorites.
automatism (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
Some of my recent favourite designs from the Book Covers site. Beautiful. From top to bottom: The Interrogative Mood: A Novel? by Padgett Powell (Ecco), designed by Alison Forner; Honored Guest by Joy Williams (Vintage), designed by Abby Weintraub; St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves by Karen Russell (Vintage), illustration by Mary Evans Picture Library, designed by John Gall; Rebels Wit Attitude:...
Global Voices Online (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
At Design Observer, John Gall writes about the redesign of Vladimir Nabokov's book covers: “All twenty-one of them.” (Link via Maud Newton.)
The Eagle Texas and Region (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
FORT HOOD, Texas -- The Army psychiatrist accused in the fatal shootings at Fort Hood may be paralyzed from the waist down after being shot multiple times during the attack, his attorney told The Associated Press on Friday.Civilian attorney John Gall ...
The Book Design Review (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
Lots of folks are talking about the John Gall-curated Nabokov redesigns . And well they should -- it's not often that we see an author's entire body of work redesigned by such an impressive cadre of designers. Three days before Gall posted the series at Design Observer , though, a BDR reader wrote in about the "best Nabokov cover I've ever seen--blows the sh**ty Vintage/Random House motif out...
New at Pentagram (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
Michael Bierut designs one in John Gall's series of new Nabokov covers.
<HTMLGIANT> (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
Over at Design Observer, John Gall has shared this cool project of redesigned Nabokov book covers, which he created by taking photographs of specimen boxes. The boxes were assembled by a variety of designers, whom he names in the post. Have a click over. (via @parisreview)
The Book Design Review (Free subscription) | 09/08/2009
Green Metropolis design credit to come Underground designed by John Gall and Jamie Keenan I'm a chump for transit map-related designs. I know there are tons more. Do you have a favorite? Send it in (thebookdesignreview@yahoo.com) or leave a URL in the comments and I'll post it.
The Crawfish Boxes (Free subscription) | 07/23/2009
More photos » by Pat Sullivan - AP See ya in a fortnight, Big Puma. Browse more photos » First of all, thanks to Joe and Timmy for breaking this story. This is not the kind of news you want to hear heading into another tremendously important week-one that sees the Astros head on a two series road trip against both the Cubs and the Cards. Richard Justice's take on the situation can be found...
Alternate Brain (Free subscription) | 06/21/2009
As most regulars readers know, I try to keep my book peddling divorced (aside from posting an occasional fan letter that's relevant) from this site so as not to take away from what we do here at the Brain. That said, a lot of people have been bugging me to set up a page to make picking up a copy (or two ... or three ... heh ...) easier (even got an earful about it from John Gall this past week). So...
Alternate Brain (Free subscription) | 06/17/2009
I had the distinct honor and privilege to meet up with regular reader and commenter John Gall, his lovely wife Delaine, and his college buddy Bob at a local seafood place the Mrs.* and I used to frequent when we were dating. John and his wife were in from Iowa, visiting Bob (who lives about 4 hours north of the Island) and made the trip down so Delaine could finally see the ocean (seems John made a...
best4poker.co.uk (Free subscription) | 06/04/2009
"A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be patched up to make it work. You have to start over with a working simple system." This saying is written by John Gall on his book, Systemantics: How Systems Work and Especially How They Fail.
Salt Lake Tribune (Free subscription) | 05/26/2009
Two Salt Lake errors led to three unearned runs, as the host Round Rock Express downed the Bees 4-2 on Monday night in Round Rock, Texas. Salt Lake led 1-0 in the third and Round Rock had runners at first and second with no outs when John Gall hit a would-be double play ball that went through
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