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From My Desk…

October 21, 2010

I’ve mention Kate Donnelly’s blog a couple of times here previously, but now you can take a look at my office space on From The Desks Of… should you be so inclined. Other (more interesting) recent contributors to From The Desk Of… include book designers Peter Mendelsund and Coralie Bickford-Smith, and New Yorker critic Alex [...]

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Something for the Weekend

October 8, 2010

More Than Words — Yves Peters takes a typographical look at the winners of British Book Design and Production Awards 2010 for FontFeed. The winners all look wonderful, but, as Peters notes, it is a shame that only the publishers are credited, not the designers of the books. An Archaeology of Business Cards — Penguin [...]

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The Desk

September 16, 2010

The Desk is a fascinating mini-documentary about our complex relationships with our workspace. It features commentary from experts Alice Twemlow, Eric Abrahamson, Massimo Vignelli, David Miller, Kurt Andersen, Søren Kjær, Alfred Stadler, Jennifer Lai, and Ben Bajorek: Created by Imaginary Forces for L Studio, The Desk first episode in a series called ‘Lines’  that looks [...]

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Rework

July 28, 2010

Co-founder of 37 Signals and author of Rework Jason Fried talks to Peter Hopkins, co-founder of Big Think, in this hour-long interview for HP’s Input| Output series: It all seems like good advice, especially if you run a small business (or thinking of starting one), and while it’s hard to pin down any specific relevance [...]

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What Is There In Life If You Do Not Work?

July 21, 2010

A winsome post by William Zinsser, author of On Writing Well, on work and writing for The American Scholar: I’ve never defined myself as a writer, or, God forbid, an author. I’m a person–someone who goes to work every morning, like the plumber or the television repairman, and who goes home at the end of [...]

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