November 2011
23 posts
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“Designers can’t wait to be “hired” to enhance or improve these offerings. We...”
– I’ve been banging this drum for some time. Designers need to be able to explain why they do what they do in terms to which others can relate. Yes, business leaders need to sharpen up too, and learn to respect and trust practitioners of a profession that might just provide the keys to a sustainable...
“1. Maybe the broad concept of a “positive” review has been misconstrued in our...”
– If you are interested in criticism, you have to dip into the comments on Sam Allingham’s review (including this one by Allingham) of Jonathan Lethem’s review of James Wood’s review of Lethem’s book. Eight years ago.
The Millions : The Disappointment Author: Lethem v....
Ann Beattie's 7 Truths About Writers
scribnerbooks:
7. Writers wear atrocious clothes when writing. So terrible that I have been asked, by the UPS man, “Are you all right?”
—from the New Yorker’s Book Bench blog to mark the publication of her new book, Mrs. Nixon
I was like this until my UPS man asked when I was due (before many of my friends noticed I was pregnant). Then I realized they are totally paying attention.
On getting rid of those pesky Word docs*
I’m having a conversation with 1pgbk about the future of books, and art books in particular. We’re already at three reblogs, and I can’t figure out how to Tumblrize a conversation, so I have started a new post in response to his last.
1. There was a quote going around recently (sorry, no attribution) about the growing divide of ebook publishing. Summed up: single writers can...
Designers = Buttons; Writers = New Narrative... →
1pgbk:
Despite the oddly we-love-you-but-we-don’t-respect-you tone towards designers and our button-making, there’s some frankness here. In order to make really great lit/book/narrative storytelling thingamajawn apps, we need a new type of writer.
No more Word documents would be a nice start.
But I do wonder about the costs for this. An obvious place to start making a book more than words is...
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The Title Design of Saul Bass (A Brief Visual...
casualoptimist:
I’ve been waiting for a book about Saul Bass since I was bookseller. Now Saul Bass: A Life In Film & Design is finally in bookstores, Ian Albinson of the brilliant Art of the Title has put together a brief visual history of some of Bass’s most celebrated work:
(For the record: Saul Bass: A Life in Film & Design is published by Laurence King and distributed in Canada...
“The next time you make breakfast, pay attention to the exquisitely intricate...”
– In A Brief Rant on the Future of Interaction Design, Bret Victor goes ballistic over some of those “Future of Technology” videos that have been doing the rounds of late. His problem: that the ideas contained therein are lame. Or, as he puts it:
This vision, from an interaction perspective, is not...
emrgency:
neil young unknown legend
seriously,...
Mondo Cavalli →
longformorg:
A profile of fashion designer Roberto Cavalli.
It’s 11 a.m. Cavalli has just risen from his wolf-fur-covered bed and said good morning to Boy, his tiger-striped Bengal cat, and Gino, his miniature monkey. At a breakfast table covered with a cloth of one of his swirling bird patterns, on which are placed four packs of cigarettes and two cigars, Cavalli sinks down on a leopard-print...
