Archive for category: The print medium

Speaking at BookCamp 2010 on Saturday    (2010.05.13)

Scott Boms and I are talking about design and typography of E-books at BookCamp 2010.

Why Bob Miller left HarperStudio    (2010.05.12)

Because, according to his own accounting, he failed on most of the “innovations” on which this publishing imprint was founded

Thu, Mar 25 on Church St, hell froze over    (2010.03.28)

Xtra finally experiences a hot-beef-injection-like influx of italics

Graphic design, mishmashed    (2010.03.18)

Not only is Graphic Design, Referenced disorganized, it’s barely written in English sometimes. (But love the hand-sketched illos)

‘The horror vacui sensibility of the rich’    (2010.03.15)

Gary Indiana: ‘The horror vacui sensibility of the rich is a form of voodoo against the inevitable’

‘Typical teens, Stockholm’    (2010.03.14)

Scott Schuman takes a delightful fashion photograph of two ladies whose progeny may take over Sweden

‘How to Find an Agent for Your Nonfiction Book’ (sic)    (2010.03.12)

Some guy sold a book by querying an agent, and that guy’s friend treated it as news. And that sums up the future of publishing right there

‘Web Standards for E-Books’    (2010.03.09)

My new article on the use of ePub (hence XHTML) in electronic books is now out at A List Apart

Agent: Undeliverable    (2010.02.09)

What happens when one tries every trick in the book to actually sign an agent’s contract