Mode of Transportation by VSA Partners for Mohawk Fine Papers, seen at For Print Only.
Convergence — Richard Nash on the Frankfurt Book Fair, the book business, and enhanced e-books:
The reality is that the lack of audio and video in book is a feature, not a bug. All art forms are defined as much by what they exclude as by what they include, by what is left out as much as what is put in, by performing addition by subtraction, by less being more. The rules of haiku, of villanelle, of science fiction all exist to describe what is disallowed so as to give the freedom of not-everything-being-possible to the artist. Which, again, is not to say artists ought not create transmedia works. They should, and will. It is instead to say that when frightened publishers start scheming to create them in cahoots with third-party vendors we can safely say that this is a policy designed not to create desirable consumer products nor to create art but to create a survival pod for the publisher. What problem does the enhanced eBook solve?
(While not exactly a fan of enhanced e-books myself, I have no doubt that some people would be equally critical if publishers weren’t experimenting in this area).
Daniel Justi’s new font Ataxia is now available from You Work from and MyFonts. My interview with Daniel is here.
And finally…
A neat book trailer for John Lanchester’s Whoops! Why Everyone Owes Everyone and No One Can Pay (I.O.U. in Canada and the US) with animated segments by Yum Yum London (who made the wonderful short Parallel Parking):
(h/t the funniest man who-used-to-work-at-Penguin, Alan Trotter)
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