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Published January 15, 2010

Something for the Weekend

Salu, Bonjour! — The Caustic Cover Critic features the awesome work of designer Michael Salu. The typography is great.

And speaking of typography…

Knockout — The New York Times profile type jedis Hoefler & Frere-Jones:

Sitting in their New York studio in the charmingly ramshackle Cable Building, designed in 1892 by the flamboyant Beaux-Arts architect Stanford White, Mr. Hoefler and Mr. Frere-Jones are engaging advocates for their craft. They met in 1989, when they were working independently and found themselves hunting for the same antique typography books. “We’ve given up now because the prices have gone crazy,” said Mr. Frere-Jones. “Between us we own so many that if there’s something we don’t have, it’s either an uninteresting variation or there’s only one in the world and it costs $20,000.”

Schriftenkatalog — Beautiful pages from a 1960’s Dutch type catalogue on Flickr (via Inspire Me)

And… The history of the ampersand at the Webdesigner Depot (thanks Nic).

A Guide to Online Publicity (For Dummies) — Freelance writer, editor and blogger Lindsay Robertson’s common sense — but on the money — “do’s and don’ts” for flacks like me approaching bloggers like er… me (via Kottke).

And finally…

Two lovely posts at The Silver Lining featuring the work of Elaine Lustig Cohen: Part 1 and Part 2. There are more Elaine Lustig Cohen book covers at ephemera assemblyman and there is an amazing Flickr pool devoted to the design work of Alvin and Elaine Lustig here.

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Published May 25, 2009

Monday Miscellany, May 25th, 2009

Health Insurance and Shostakovich — Caustic Cover Critic interviews über-book designer Peter Mendelsund:

Book jackets, mind you — which are already needless, redundant, frivolous items in life’s already cluttered inventory — themselves need designing. This arcane little tidbit came as something of a shock to me. “Someone gets paid for that?”

The Ampersand — a blog about ampersands. Really.

Hard Decisions — the National Post interview Andrew Steeves, co-founder and co-publisher of Gaspereau Press, about their recently announced cutbacks:

I think it’s important to stress that I don’t think this is directly related to the more general economic downturn. Honestly, when you start a business from scratch you gradually try and figure out what size works for what you’re doing. I mean, you go through so many years where there isn’t a normal; the year previous can tell you nothing about what to expect.

And more good stuff from the National Post — In this month’s installment of their Ecology of Books series, Mark Medley talks to Evan Munday of Coach House Books, and looks at the thankless task of being a book publicist.

The Wankers Shelf — Nicholas Royle on the ethical dilemma presented by authors who are wankers (via 3:Am Magazine):

Do you have a Wankers shelf? I do. It’s for books by Wankers. Books that are so bad – or books by authors who are Wankers, whose books might actually be OK, from time to time, but they themselves are such unbearable Wankers – that you wonder if the best thing to do, rather than giving these books to charity, is to keep them out of circulation.

I fear the nuance is lost here for North American readers — but anyone associated with McSweeney’s is probably a Class A wanker if that helps. Martin Amis, he’s a definitive wanker. Who would be on your wanker shelf?

And lastly…, I may have rather unfairly dismissed the new volume of The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Century: 1910 as “mildly disappointing”, but — like most of Moore’s work — it is undisputedly clever and even if I read 1910 another half-a-dozen times, I’ll still miss half the allusions, references, and knowing winks… Fortunately Jess Nevins has posted some very helpful annotations for the amateur nerd (via LinkMachineGo).

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