Archive for category: Books
- Steve Jobs at Apple vs. Edwin Land at Polaroid (2011.11.07)
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Edwin Land of Polaroid did almost everything Steve Jobs did – invented new technologies, built factories to manufacture them, imposed absolute secrecy, stirred audiences with spectacle, trained customers to want the next step in the evolution of technology – but did it 30 years earlier
- ‘Counterpunch’ (2011.10.18)
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Fred Smeijers’s Counterpunch is coming out in a new edition. It’s tough and it’s demanding, but also enjoyable and understandable
- What’s Mark Steyn complaining about now? (2011.09.20)
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Mark Steyn’s endless peeves in After America
- Half an endorsement of Misha Glouberman (2011.09.19)
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A ringing endorsement of half of Half an endorsement of
The Chairs Are Where the People Go by Glouberman (“with” Heti)
- Everyone’s a critic of book covers (2011.09.18)
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How the Globe’s nonexpert critiques two business-book covers
- So: How’s your workout at your gay gym going today? (2011.08.31)
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Unidentified solder, Infidel
- Don’t let Swedes typeset your book cover (2011.07.01)
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Because »they’ll use the wrong quotation marks«
- ‘Web Typography’: The books (2011.06.23)
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How many Web-typography books are enough Web-typography books?