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Monday Miscellany, June 1st, 2009

Don’t Forget the Rules of Typography — Nice work by graphic designer Evan Stremke (above). Also available as a handy PDF (via ffffinds). (Update: Evan appears to have redesigned his Rules of Typography. The image above shows the original version which personally I prefer. The new version is here)

The UnconferenceThe National Post reports on BookCamp TO, which takes place Saturday June 6th at the University of Toronto:

“I really think I’m going to get in trouble for saying this, but book publishing needs to stop being so insular. We need to stop just looking at our own industry for inspiration,” says Deanna McFadden, marketing manager, online content and strategy for HarperCollins. “The people who are doing BookCamp in Toronto are all smart people who understand where the industry is and where we need to go, and are really looking at innovative ways for us to keep book publishing alive and healthy.”

I’m going to be at BookCamp on Saturday, so please say hello if you’re there. And I’m still looking for feedback on the role of publishers in the digital age (see my post here). Please leave a comment if you have thoughts.

The London Review of Books now has a blog.

But Thank God I Ain’t Old — In a teaser for forthcoming  Heavy Rotation: Twenty Writers on the Albums That Changed Their Lives edited by Peter Terzian, literary critic James Wood waxes lyrical about The Who album Quadrophenia in The Guardian:

Quadrophenia is itself a nostalgic album – it wants to be there, back on those beaches and in those Soho clubs of the early 60s. So when I listen to the album now, nostalgia is doubled, since I am looking back at my own youth, and also back at the Who’s youth, at an era when I was not even born. I become nostalgic for a rebellion I never experienced and for an England I never knew.

Txt Island — A short film made with a few hundred spare pegboard letters by Chris Gavin at TANDEM Films (via I Like):