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The Fun of Food and Insults

Legendre Rutter — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 04:47:27 +0000

Two of the newest anthologies from Inculte Publishing treat readers to the clever and provocative visual metaphors of Yann Legendre. While he has designed covers for countless Inculte titles over the years, these books, “The Art of the Insult” by Elsa Delachair and “The Food of Writers” by Mathias Enard and Johan Faerber, are filled from front to back with Legendre’s playful pen illustrations. Find out more about these and other Legendre-designed books (in French) and how to order at inculte.fr.

Who Uses an Image Better?

Legendre Rutter — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 21:06:16 +0000

The following is a visual blog post, posing a simple question… Who uses images today more simply and elegantly than Yann Legendre, designer of dozens of book covers for the French publisher, Editions Inculte?

Dictionary of the Worst

Legendre Rutter — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 20:44:08 +0000

From Inculte Publishing and author Stéphane Legrand comes the wry and witty philosophical novel, Dictionaire du Pire. In the footsteps of Ambrose Bierce, who published Devil’s Dictionary in the early twentieth century, Legrand unfolds his vision of the world and man. Dictionaire du Pire explores the fields of philosophy, literature and politics with remarkable erudition. New definitions from the “dictionary of the worst” include:

WORSHIP, n..: Quantum of love necessary to bring a group of men together before engaging in the commission of a massacre.

EARRINGS, nfpl.: The part of the wife that moves during intercourse.

National Archives Building Book on C-SPAN

Legendre Rutter — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 16:46:40 +0000

On a recent C-SPAN program, author Patty Reinert Mason, along with Architect Scott Teixeira and Rick Blondo, National Archives Program Analyst, discuss the history of John Russell Pope’s architectural masterwork, the National Archives Building and the new book “The National Archives Building: Temple of American History.” Commissioned by Thora Colot, the Executive Director of the Foundation for the National Archives, the book became the result of more than a year’s worth of work by Legendre+Rutter, Mason, and project manager, Christina Gehring. To learn more about the history of the National Archives Building, you can watch the video program online.

“The National Archives Building: Temple of American History,” by Patty Reinert Mason, was designed by Legendre+Rutter