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Something for the Weekend, July 3rd, 2009

July 3, 2009

Who Was Abner Graboff? – Frustrated with the lack information available online about artist, designer and illustrator Abner Graboff, Ward “Ward-O-Matic” Jenkins decided to do some digging himself. His research — now available in a three part series – includes a host of great images of Graboff’s children’s books and book cover designs, as well [...]

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26 Things Not Related To Amazon

June 25, 2009

Oh dear. I’m really not an Amazon-hater. But this morning I inadvisedly took Fast Company magazine to task on Twitter for only writing book industry stories about Amazon and the Kindle. In their response, Fast Company rightly pointed out that the Fast Talk section of the April edition of the magazine featured technology — aside [...]

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Midweek Miscellany, June 17th, 2009

June 17, 2009

Claustrophobic and Irrational — I love these elegantly understated designs by Rodrigo Corral and Christopher Brand Jason Ramirez for Patricia Highsmith’s Ripley books published by W.W. Norton. A Strategy For Authenticity — Don Linn, prolific Twitterer and publisher at The Taunton Press, on O’Reilly’s Twitter Boot Camp and Twitter as a marketing channel: I’m relatively [...]

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Meanwhile, Elsewhere…

May 26, 2009

As is probably obvious, I spend a lot of time online clicking on stuff. The things I bookmark, tag, and mentally store away that are (vaguely) about books end up here in one form or another. But because I have eclectic interests, I bookmark a lot of photographs, illustrations, videos, and other things that just [...]

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Something for the Weekend

May 22, 2009

Das Boot — David Drummond’s cover for Canadian Water Politics Edited by Mark Sproule-Jones, Carolyn Johns, and B. Timothy Heinmiller has been selected for the AIGA 50 Books/50 Covers this year. The book is published by McGill-Queens University Press who clearly take pride in the look of their books and have some other rather nice [...]

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