Archive for category: Books

Conversations with an agent    (2009.12.10)

Conversations with an agent. First of a series

Correcting the lower orders    (2009.12.08)

Correcting half a dozen Tumblr users on what they got wrong with publisher accountability

Publisher accountability (1)    (2009.12.07)

First in a series of posts documenting responses from, and misdeeds by, book publishers

Buying Tools of Change a new toolbelt    (2009.11.04)

Unfucking O’Reilly’s Tools of Change transcript

Title as punchline    (2009.09.13)

When you name your book Graphic Design Theory: Readings from the Field, isn’t that conceding defeat right there? (Is “the field” really where you’re gonna find “theory”?)

A ‘wayfinding’ book that doesn’t suck    (2009.09.07)

Finally. Since the rest of them pretty much do. But The Wayfinding Handbook by Gibson does not

‘The Language of Things’    (2009.07.31)

The Language of Things by Deyan Sudjic is all about flow. This is not a criticism

Robert Brownjohn quotes    (2009.07.31)

Quotes from Sex and Typography by Emily King

How much money does Cory Doctorow make?    (2009.07.29)

By his own admission, I estimate the figure is $200,000 to $300,000 a year