Mambo for Fonts — Flora Mambo is a new font from the P22 Type Foundry based on Jim Flora’s hand-lettering for the 1955 Mambo For Cats RCA Victor album cover.
Character — Type designer Matthew Carter profiled in The Boston Globe:
Around 1994, he started developing Verdana, a revolutionary font for having prevailed over technical constraints of that time, like coarse computer screen resolution. To hear Carter recall it, it was a pivotal moment: People were on the brink of reading as much — or more — on screen than on paper. And that transition has had a profound effect on the design process.
Carter also talks about his work in this short video for the Globe (via Eightface):
The Paris Review has made it’s entire interview archive — from the 1950’s to the present — available online (via The NY Observer).
An Education — James Bridle of BookTwo and Bookkake interviewed at Publishing Perspectives:
“There’s still a reluctance in the industry to give [e-books] their own space. They are still subsidiary to the traditional book forms… There still an incredible lack of understanding about them and the people who are doing the educating are Apple and Amazon, which means they are taking the market very quickly and we’re kind of letting them do that.”
The Likely Lads — Authors Lee Rourke (Canal) and Tom McCarthy (Remainder, C) in conversation at The Guardian.
And finally…
Writers from The Guardian and Observer newspapers talk about the books that sparked their passion for literature:
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