Posts Tagged ‘books’

Chris Heathcote has posted his Pirates & Scalpels slideshow, as mentioned here, so you can get even greater context. —— There's a PaperCamp heading to a city near you. If that city happens to be New York, anyway. One in San Francisco is being mooted, with maybe more to come elsewhere. You could always set [...]

The next session's title, Why Everything On The Internet Is The Opposite Of How It Is In Print, intrigued me, and prompted some great discussion. Session leader, Mary Harrington, outlined what she thinks are the five qualities of books: – physicality – fixity – boundedness – authority – universality The physical shape of books is [...]

After a lacklustre lunch at Camino in Regent Quarter (tasty food but slow and surly service), I decided I should ignore the exciting conversations happening upstairs at PaperCamp in honour of some exciting conversations happening downstairs at BookCamp. First up was a session suggested by Kevin O'Neill (not that one) to discuss the creation of [...]

There were a couple more sessions before lunch. First was Cheathco's Pirates and Scalpels: travel guides/one shot books/newspapers. As Chris confessed right at the start, he has "something of an obsession" with guide books (delineated in more detail in this post), although he is not particularly precious about them as objects. Quite the opposite; all [...]

After Aaron's talk, Tom Taylor gave a little spiel about his microprinter, a standard till printer hooked up to the internet to print whatever you command it to, which in Tom's case are things like his daily calendar, weather reports, and @towerbridge opening times to help him plan his cycling route. Nifty! The notes for [...]

In the same way that it was cool to be told people liked my hand-made mini-cards, it was fun to rock up to the big table at PaperCamp and pull out my shoebox of printed stuff, instead of pulling out a laptop like everyone else. It felt a bit like a magic box of tricks [...]

One of the things that I'd planned to do when I launched this new site back in September was to use the space to interview some of the interesting creative people I know. Here we have the first of these, a Q&A with cartoonist Gary Northfield.

I found the emphasis behind the session for Future of the Book really fascinating, especially as it's one that's inciting so many contentious discussions at the moment. There was a minor kerfuffle about it on Twitter a month or so ago, prompted in part by something Tom Coates said, which was really interesting but awkward [...]

I have some posts coming up on the subject of modernist and mid-century graphic designers, inspired by a couple of books I was drooling over last week, and a talk that I went to on Tuesday. Both of these things encouraged me to dig out my copy of British Modern: Graphic Design Between The Wars, [...]