Posts Tagged ‘paper’

As you can probably tell from these extensive notes, I had fantastically interesting day on Saturday, learning about new projects, thinking in new ways, and making new friends, and spending all of Sunday thinking about them and writing about them. As Matt Ward said in his summation of PaperCamp, it was a fantastic convergence of [...]

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 underlined by the cost of [...]

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 [...]

So, there was this idea that Matt had, and I read about it and thought, oh, that's cool, I definitely want to go to that, and then forgot because I missed any more mentions of it. On Friday evening someone mentioned it on Twitter, and I remembered that I wanted to go. So, I wandered [...]