[caption id="attachment_270" align="alignright" width="185" caption="Lance Wyman's 1968 Olympic logotype is timeless and classic"][/caption] Years ago I wrote an article for Computer Arts Projects as a retrospective of graphic design over the past century. I did a bit of summing up then ...Read More
[caption id="" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Rupert Murdoch frowns up bloggers and news aggregators "][/caption] This is a post I wrote a little while back, but accidentally published as a page rather than as an entry. So I'm moving it. Sorry if it ...Read More
[caption id="attachment_158" align="alignright" width="317" caption="Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos shows the future of reading, and, according to Slate's Farhad Manjoo, the future of censorship"][/caption] I'm not one for thinking that we in the west are teetering on the edge of a police ...Read More
[caption id="" align="alignright" width="318" caption="ScrollMotion hopes to be the iTunes of books for Apple's latest iPhone"][/caption] One of these days I'll get my hands on a Kindle or a Sony e-Reader and figure out whether they really are the future, or ...Read More
[caption id="" align="alignright" width="309" caption="Governor Schwarzenegger says scrap paper, adopt e-readers for state students"][/caption] Not a lot of time just at the moment. But, I've just read that Arnold Schwarzenegger, Governor of California, (or Kellifwahnya, as he says) wants to get ...Read More
[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="168" caption="The EBM, thumbnail"][/caption] London has just seen its first espresso book machine become operational, in a West End branch of Blackwell's. I've been watching eagerly for signs of the demise of print as the digital revolution gathers ...Read More
[caption id="attachment_22" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Bookshelves aren't likely to lose their books anytime soon"][/caption] Being that I’m in publishing, I’ve been sitting down feeling pretty nervous of the predicted ‘death of print’. Magazines, books, everything that’s printed by a publisher with names ...Read More