Notes on design: Design on the edge
Christopher King
A book designer is responsible for every aspect of the way a book looks and feels, from the jacket art and title page down to the page numbers and line… Read more »
A book designer is responsible for every aspect of the way a book looks and feels, from the jacket art and title page down to the page numbers and line… Read more »
The Gaspereau Press, the small Canadian publisher famous for its beautiful books, which it prints itself, has announced its response to the heated denunciations it faced when tens of thousands… Read more »
They’re talking evolution over at Business Week. In particular Matthew Ingram is talking about when a book is no longer a book. He is of course referring to e-books… Read more »
Organizers in London are using the 200th anniversary of the birth of Louis Braille — “whose invention in 1821 of a writing system based on embossed dots has had a… Read more »
The Friesens Corporation, the Canadian printer that produced North American editions of the five previous Harry Potter titles, will not print the newest volume, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince,… Read more »
Over $1 million has been donated to the World Jewish Congress in support of its Holocaust Survivors’ Memoirs Project since the project was launched by Elie Wiesel, who convinced Random… Read more »
The ASG Armenian Daily reports that “Numerous books are published in Armenia daily. Part of them is printed by state support.” So what does it take for the Armenian government… Read more »
A claim that “Johannes Gutenberg may be wrongly credited with producing the first Western book printed in movable type” has “caused an uproar among acaemics,” according to a report by… Read more »