Books, Design and Culture
In the first of a new podcast series from Quill and Quire, web editor Sue Carter Flinn talks with C. S. Richardson, vice-president and creative director at Random House Canada, about his 30-year career in book design:
Quillcast: C. S. Richardson mp3
Comments closedIn the latest Design Matters interview, Debbie Millman talks to Fast Company’s design editor Linda Tischler about the current state of American design and how services like Kickstarter are changing the way designers work:
DESIGN MATTERS: Linda Tischler, Fast Company mp3
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In this interview for CBC Radio show Spark, Ted Striphas, associate professor in the Department of Communication & Culture at Indiana University and author of The Late Age of Print, talks to Nora Young about algorithmic culture and the social implications of leaving discovery and serendipity to complex math:
CBC RADIO SPARK: Ted Striphas on Algorithmic Culture
Striphas has written a series of posts about algorithmic culture on his blog (also called The Late Age of Print funnily enough).
Comments closedAt some point I will stop blogging interviews with Art Spiegelman, but I’m still enjoying listening to him talk about his career, so here he is answering questions about MetaMaus on NPR’s Talk of the Nation:
“I wanted all the flaws to be on a one-to-one relationship with the reader so that it would feel more like looking at a diary, although it’s a forged diary, as you get to see when you’re looking at all the sketches and preliminary work.
“It wanted to have that feeling of handwriting. So I was working on stationery with a fountain pen and [correcting] with typewriter correction fluid. And I wanted it to feel like a manuscript because that would allow a kind of intimacy to it, and it would keep me from frill and decoration in the drawing.”
NPR TALK OF THE NATION: ‘MetaMaus’: The Story Behind Spiegelman’s Classic
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Ninety-Four year-old resistance fighter, concentration camp survivor and former UN speechwriter Stéphane Hessel talks to Anna Maria Tremonti about human rights and his bestselling book Time for Outrage! on CBC Radio’s The Current:
CBC RADIO THE CURRENT: Resistance Fighter Stephane Hessel
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Iranian cartoonist and filmmaker Marjane Satrapi, best known for her memoir Persepolis, talks to CBC Radio’s Eleanor Wachtel about her life, her work and a new film adaptation of her book Chicken with Plums:
CBC Radio Ideas: Wachtel on the Arts with Marjane Satrapi
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The Economist’s international editor, Edward Lucas, discusses the work of Vasily Grossman and the BBC adaptation of his novel Life and Fate:
The Economist: The Beauty and Horror of War
The Economist reviews the BBC adaptation here.
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Music journalist Simon Reyolds talks to Michael Silverblatt about his book Retromania: Pop Culture’s Addiction to Its Own Past on KCRW’s Bookworm:
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Colin Marshall talks to Professor Peter Toohey about his book Boredom: A Lively History for The Marketplace of Ideas:
The Marketplace of Idea: Boredom A Lively History by Peter Toohey
The painting on the cover of the book (shown above) is, of course, by that master ennui Edward Hopper.
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Author Ursula K. Le Guin talks to Eleanor Wachtel about writing, science fiction and short stories in this archive interview for CBC Radio show Writers & Co. from 1993:
CBC Radio Writers & Co: Ursula K. Le Guin
At the end of the interview, Le Guin reads her short story ‘Crosswords’ from the collection Searoad.
(image: Copyright © by Marian Wood Kolisch)
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A short interview with Simon Garfield author of Just My Type on NPR’s All in a Weekend:
NPR Weekend Edition: Just My Type, Simon Garfield
I love the story about a man who tried to go a day without Helvetica.
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Writer and music critic Tom Piazza discusses his new collection of essays, Devil Sent the Rain: Music and Writing in Desperate America, on NPR’s Weekend Edition:
NPR WEEKEND EDITION: Tom Piazza Devil Sent the Rain mp3
(via Largehearted Boy)
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