The first in a series of accessible and affordable art books from Front Forty Press, Front Forty Profiles No. 1 features the designs/illustrations of artist Mark McGinnis—whose work has appeared in solo exhibitions in both Chicago and Los Angeles and has been featured in the New York Times and Business Week. McGinnis uses icons, drawing, and printmaking processes to captivate and to communicate to his audience...
Doug Fogelson’s The Time After may seem self-contradictory. It is a beautiful book that stares into the bleakest dark hole imaginable to humans: the destruction of our earth. It does so through a combination of Fogelson’s own photography: vivid, multilayered and prismatic panoramas exploring cycles of life in the worlds around us, and texts by three gifted writers—frightening, enlightening, and mournful, but never maudlin...
The Global image Chicago projects doesn’t really celebrate our native ecology nearly as much as it does our culture, architecture, sports, business, and the like. Front Forty Press has created the Point of Contact activism project to help our fellow city dwellers remember that the local species and habitats need to be celebrated too!