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Midweek Miscellany

September 1, 2010

The mighty George Lois at home in New York City at The Selby. Start the Press — Robert Pinsky reviews The Book in the Renaissance by Andrew Pettegree for the New York Times: The story begins with money. Johannes Gutenberg did not find a way to profit from his technical achievements. The Gutenberg Bible, a [...]

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Something for the Weekend

August 27, 2010

Hornby Cover Versions — Some rather beautiful student work by Barcelona-based graphic designer Lucía Castro (although my inner-bookseller gets very twitchy at the thought of those soft off-white covers!). (via Cosa Visuales) Full of Refusals — Tom McCarthy interviewed for More Intelligent Life: [C]ontemporary literature has to deal with the challenges laid down by modernism. [...]

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Midweek Miscellany

August 25, 2010

Jardin de la Connaissance –  Berlin-based landscape architect Thilo Folkerts and artist Rodney Latourelle used 40,000 reclaimed books to create a ‘Garden of Knowledge’ for the 11th International Garden Festival in Grand-Métis, Quebec (via Kitsune Noir). A History of Print Culture — Assistant Professor of Media Culture,  C.W. Anderson,  provides his annotated syllabus for a [...]

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Something for the Weekend

August 20, 2010

Psycho Cover — Penguin art director Paul Buckley discusses his new book Penguin 75 with Imprint: I am very aware of how much product gets put out there that is completely unnecessary, be it music, movies, books, whatever—it seems that for every good piece of culture we experience, we are bombarded with 99 pieces of [...]

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Midweek Miscellany

August 18, 2010

The Eyes Have It — An interview with gentleman book cover designer and advertising copywriter David Gee about his design for Jim Hanas’s e-book short story collection Why They Cried. You can find my interview with David here. Writers on Process — Writers of every stripe talking about how they write (via Largehearted Boy). In [...]

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