Mountain

A lifelong mountaineer takes up the relationship between man and mountain in a gorgeous new book

Sandy Hill’s book Mountain is a meditation on what many consider the last real frontier. A lifelong mountaineer, Hill’s experience—she was among the first to climb the highest peaks on all seven continents—makes for an insightful look at the colossal entities and how humans coexist within their foreboding landscapes. With 350 images by more than 160 photographers, Mountain starts out like any other coffee-table book, …

Word as Image

Ji Lee's entertaining book of letters in their most graphic element

Seeing the world through the eyes of Ji Lee means every billboard is a blank canvas, the alphabet has three-dimensional form and words are actually images. The former Creative Director at Google Creative Labs playfully communicates through visual design, depicting clever messages that are sometimes obvious and sometimes abstract, but always on point. Joining Univers Revolved in the collection of Lee’s independent projects to take …

Live…Suburbia!

Chronicles from America's disaffected, pre-digital youth

On the brink of adolescence my best skate buddy Tim and I found a statue of the Virgin Mary with red paint on it in the woods. Convinced that this was the site of a recent Satanic ritual, we gathered the other neighborhood kids and went with flashlights in the dark to investigate further. As we huddled around, I spent most of my time trying …