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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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Practice and Space: Jay Ryan

February 29, 2012

The talented Jay Ryan, owner of The Bird Machine screen print poster workshop, interviewed as part of a series of short films about craftspeople in the Chicago area called Practice and Space: You can see more of Jay Ryan’s posters in two books collecting his work published by Akashic Books: 100 Squirrels, 134 Posters and Animals [...]

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Midweek Miscellany

February 15, 2012

Tracing History — Alice Rawsthorn on the beauty of printed books for the New York Times: Some things seem to designed to do their jobs perfectly, and the old-fashioned book is one. What else could be quite as efficient at packaging so many thousands of words in a form, which is sufficiently sturdy to protect [...]

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Earl Kallemeyn Letterpress

February 15, 2012

The New York Times has posted a short video interview with Earl Kallemeyn of Kallemeyn Press about the beauty of letterpress:

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James Gleick on the Future of Books

June 14, 2011

The Book Show recently broadcast James Gleick’s closing address to the Sydney Writers’ Festival, in which the author of The Information discusses the future of the printed book: THE BOOK SHOW: The Future of the Book with James Gleick

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