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It’s our fourth installment of the 7-Day Book Covers Challenge. The book cover design we’re posting is for the book “Man of Malaysia” by Tan Kok Seng For four years while in college I spent every summer and winter — about five months of the year — in the SouthContinue Reading

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This clip shows a high-resolution digital billboard in South Korea displaying an anamorphic-illusion video of a wave breaking in tank atop a building in COEX K-Pop Square in Seoul. “Wave” was created by DStrict, a Korean digital design agency based in the capital, and is said to be the world’sContinue Reading

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The third installment in our 7-Day Book Covers Challenge is “Mutations.” This singular book was produced by groundbreaking Dutch “starchitect” Rem Koolhaas and the Harvard Project of the City. “Mutations” is a highly-visual survey and atlas of urbanization and architecture and its impacts as part of the hyper-accelerated growth ofContinue Reading

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Here’s the second post of our 7-Day Book Covers Challenge. The book is “Obey the Giant: Life in the Image World” by design critic Rick Poyner. His book is a collection of essays exploring aspects of design, contemporary visual culture and aesthetics in the 2000’s. The title is a referenceContinue Reading

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We keep stumbling upon discarded personal protective equipment in our neighborhood. Pictured here is yet another glove we found thrown out on the street. COVID-19 and the coronavirus quarantine have spawned many new behaviors and routines, as well as artifacts and detritus. It has thrown our daily lives off balanceContinue Reading

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We were recently invited by a friend via Instagram to post images as part of the “7-Day Book Covers Challenge.” We’re posting these favorites book covers here, as well as on our Instagram feed. Book No. 1 is “Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Capetown” by Paul Theroux. TherouxContinue Reading

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The Los Angeles County Public Health department recently started posting signs in local neighborhoods around the city with information on the coronavirus. Literally a sign of the times. The sign pictured here is along Barrington Avenue in the upscale Brentwood area on L.A.’s westside.

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A by-product of the coronavirus pandemic in many cities has been the appearance of “COVID-19 litter” on the streets. For the most part the litter is a discarded, used pair of gloves or a mask. Occasionally used sanitizing wipes can be found. Pictured here is a single discarded glove onContinue Reading

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In an ongoing series of posts we’re chronicling some of the evidence we encounter in daily life of the COVID-19 coronavirus and the unusual “new normal” circumstances we find ourselves in due to the pandemic quarantine. Pictured above are “social distancing” chalk markings on the sidewalk where customers wait inContinue Reading

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We’re now officially in Month Two of stay-at-home, social-distanced working-from-home (WFH), and self-quarantine here at Global Graphica HQ in Los Angeles due to the COVID19 coronavirus pandemic. To be more specific, we’re in Week Five. We actually marked the start of Week Five last Thursday around 1:00pm. That’s when aContinue Reading

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Artist Ed Ruscha has a deep and longstanding relationship with the city of Los Angeles. It’s where he studied art. It’s where he’s made his art and career. An dit’s home. His body of work reflects L.A., at times literally and directly, and other times obliquely, with a nod andContinue Reading