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Q & A with Jennifer Heuer

April 10, 2012

Jennifer Heuer is a book designer based in Brooklyn. Formerly a designer at HarperCollins and Simon & Schuster, she now runs her own studio out of the Pencil Factory. Jen’s striking inkblot design for 1000 Black Umbrellas by Daniel McGinn, published by Californian small press Write Bloody, was one of my favourite covers of last [...]

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Edward St. Aubyn on Writers & Company and Bookworm

March 26, 2012

In a fascinating conversation, Eleanor Wachtel talks to Edward St. Aubyn about his Patrick Melrose novels on CBC Radio’s Writers and Company: CBC Radio Writers & Company: Edward St. Aubyn mp3 KCRW’s Bookworm also recently broadcast a two-part interview with St. Aubyn about the books. Part One: KCRW Bookworm: Edward St. Aubyn Part One mp3 Part Two: KCRW [...]

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Jeanette Winterson on WNYC

March 23, 2012

Author Jeanette Winterson talks about her memoir Why be Happy When You Could be Normal? with Leonard Lopate on WNYC: WNYC Leonard Lopate: Jeanette Winterson mp3

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Q & A with Alistair Hall, We Made This

March 22, 2012

I first came across the London-based (and wonderfully-named) design studio We Made This by way of founder Alistair Hall’s prodigious collections of ephemera and found type on Flickr. The chances are I found these either via Ace Jet 170, a fellow designer and collector (and cyclist) who I interviewed last week, or Alistair’s page on Ffffound. It [...]

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Q & A with Richard Weston, Ace Jet 170

March 13, 2012

I don’t know exactly when I first discovered Ace Jet 170. It was a few years ago — at least four because I was reading it before I started The Casual Optimist. And it must have been recommended by someone (I Like? Noisy Decent Graphics?) because I don’t think I can have stumbled across it. [...]

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