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Agents of Change

May 28, 2010

There’s a great op-ed by Stephen Page, chief executive of Faber & Faber, in today’s Guardian about the iPad and publishing: It’s clear that publishers must move faster to establish our compelling and useful role in the modern life of reading. While acquiring new expertise, we must assert the best of our traditional strengths; providing [...]

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Missed Things: Thursday

October 15, 2009

Covers for The Invincible Iron Man No. 20 and 21 by Salvador Larroca and Frank D’Armata, with design by Rian Hughes (seen at the website of the author Matt Fraction). Is it just me, or do these have a whiff of Marber’s Penguin Crime series about them? Or is it more like Olly Moss? Grey [...]

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Midweek Miscellany September 16th, 2009

September 16, 2009

Rejected Covers by Klas Ernflo — Typography to make you weep (with either joy or envy). (via ISO50) Poet of Desolate Landscapes — Author Jonathan Lethem on J.G. Ballard in the New York Times: [V]ery few writers I’ve encountered, even those I’ve devoted myself to, have burrowed so deeply in my outlook, and in my [...]

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Midweek Miscellany, July 8th, 2009

July 8, 2009

A-Type — The Independent has a nice look at book design and Faber & Faber’s Eighty Years of Book Cover Design by Joseph Connolly: You could argue that the current renaissance in book design came about thanks to Penguin, always the most design-savvy of publishers. In 2004 they produced their first series of Great Ideas [...]

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Midweek Miscellany, May 13th, 2009

May 13, 2009

“Any colour, so long as it’s grey” — New typographic covers for the Faber editions of Samuel Beckett,  designed by London-based studio A2/SW/HK. You can see more from the series at Faber’s Flickr photostream. The Publishers’ Dilemma — Tobias Schirmer on publishing’s digital future: [D]igitalization is not about a product moving from its analogue to [...]

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