LA-based photographer Estevan Oriol has forged a career keeping things simple, and doing what he does best: capturing the world around him on film. He got his start in the early 90s as the tour manager…

Available on the Where the Wild Things Are Blu-Ray and DVD — which comes out today  — is a special feature, a completely unreleased 23-minute adaptation of another of Wild Things author Maurice Sendak’s books, Higglety Pigglety Pop! Starring…

I just stumbled across this treasure — the entire body of Calvin and Hobbes cartoons published in a tribute three-book boxset titled The Complete Calvin and Hobbes. Not only is Calvin and Hobbes a LIAS all…

Finally, a bookshelf that casts a cacophonous tempest of alphabet soup upon the tender pages of your literary collection. It also holds your books. Make a statement with the Between Lines book shelf — shape a…

The title of Go Faster by Gestalten books pretty much nails the whole point of motor racing. But beyond the pure mechanics, engineering and science of auto racing is an aesthetic as intrinsic to some societies…

Gestalten is one of our favorite publishers, and they’ve hit LIAS bullseye with their recent Boxed and Labelled tome — in their words, “a comprehensive overview of the most intelligent, innovative, playful and attractive examples of current packaging design.…

Our Canadian friend Patrick King sent this to us. It’s a short poem by the late and great poet, and one of his fellow countrymen, Al Purdy. Purdy never received much traction here in the states, but man was…

Dieter Rams has spent more than 40 years working at Braun, and has established himself as one of the most influential designers of the twentieth century. His elegantly clear visual language not only defined product design…