June 2011
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Tim Carmody on The Dictatorial Perpendicular:... →
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Post-Artifact Books & Publishing: Digital’s effect... →
December 2010
5 posts
The Page + The Screen: An Annotated Bibliography... →
A PDF of the unbound booklet we published earlier this year
The future of publishing is writable →
Trends of smaller, easier, and more personal content signal a shift away from read-only publishing
http://futureofthebook.org/social-reading/introduct... →
A Taxonomy of Social Reading: A Proposal by Bob Stein
Print isn't dead, it's just waiting for design to... →
June 2010
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Frame of Mine (Beta Version)
I am a forty-year-old mid-career graphic designer expanding into new fields of inquiry. By “new fields,” I mean the grey areas of exploration that are new to me and that exist between design, writing, architecture and art. These explorations take place beyond the day-to-day of my profession yet parallel it in ways that enrich my thinking as a whole. Call it interdisciplinary, trans-disciplinary,...
May 2010
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The Page + The Screen Ann-o-tated Bibliography (my...
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Battles, Matthew. “commonplacing & the modern longue durée.” [Weblog entry.] library ad infinitum: the republic of letters & the storm called progress. 23 Dec. 2009. 23 Dec. 2009. <http://mbattles.posterous.com/commonplacing-and-the-modern-longue-duree>
Battles discusses why fragmentary reading practices of today (e. g. clicking, linking, blogging, and tweeting) “evoke...
April 2010
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Reading: Thinking for a Living | Issue 2: Tools &...
Thinking for a Living is an online publication that is both thoughtfully edited and designed. Issue 2, according to founder Duane King, is “iPad optimized, swipe enabled.”
Contributions include:
Horizontalism and Readability By Frank Chimero
Six Prototypes for a Screensaver: A Retroactive History, Part 1 Six Prototypes for a Screensaver: A Retroactive History, Part 2 By David...
March 2010
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The Public School NY Reanimators Proposal
We’re thinking of doing a bit of a remix, possibly Jonathan Lethem style with a nod to DJ Spooky.
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Lined & Unlined: The radio on reading →
Those interested in a Serial Series will surely enjoy this episode of NPR’s On the Media, which came out just days after the The First/Last Newspaper concluded—one of those “in the air” kind of moments.
The episode begins by quoting a historian from 1685 who worries there are simply too…
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“My hope now is the demise of print publications about design will lead to a rise...”
– via A bit late (via aggregat456)
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The Public School NY Reanimators
On March 2, 2010, the first workshop for The Page + The Screen: Siting Text in the Early 21st Century and Beyond | Session 3 took place at The Reanimation Library at 543 Union Street in Brooklyn. Andrew Beccone, the founder and librarian, facilitated.
This is our work-in-progress.
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The hybrid format allows for peripheral... →
Archfarm: non-periodical fascicles on architecture
Hybrid formats provide opportunities to speak in-between and around larger subjects.
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“In an odd turn of events, it’s the affordances of... →
Loud, Crowded, and Out of Control: A New Model for Scholarly Publishing by Mark Sample (@samplereality). Sample’s post is a response to Dan Cohen’s The Social Contract of Scholarly Publishing.
The digital makes reading and writing an event. It is up to the reader to filter the noise. Sooner or later, critical thinking will be the skill in high demand.
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A call to action: Print designers get ready →
The form of the book by Mandy Brown via from a working library
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The future’s so bright, I gotta wear shades (or,... →
Books in the age of the iPad by Craig Mod
Whoa, Nelly! Not so fast.
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“…publications are sneaking into the space between the two modes [analog...”
– Taken out of context from blue lobsters by loud paper
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WatchParameters are applied so that one’s approach is carefully considered. Tools are no exception.
Video by Matt Storus for Michael Meredith’s GSD Options Studio at Harvard, Fall 2009
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