From the monthly archives:

September 2010

Matthew Carter and the Future of the Book

September 30, 2010 5 comments
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Two videos show the reaction of Matthew Carter, master typographer, to winning a MacArthur grant, and three takes on the future of the book from IDEO. Text is separating from the book as new technologies take over.

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Beautiful Details, Beautiful Books: How to Recognize Oldstyle Typefaces

September 29, 2010 10 comments
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Beautiful Details, Beautiful Books: How to Recognize Oldstyle Typefaces including Bembo, a classic book typeface from fifteenth century Venice. Oldstyle typefaces are reliable choices for book design.

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Do You Know These 5 Ways to Use Negative Space in Your Book Design?

September 28, 2010 12 comments
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Learning to give different elements of the book page more or less emphasis depends on intelligent use of “negative space” in chapter openers, subheads, leading and other areas of book design.

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Writer For iPad by Oliver Reichenstein & Information Architects

September 27, 2010 35 comments
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Writer For iPad by Oliver Reichenstein & Information Architects, an entirely new idea in word processing in which all other functions are stripped away.

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This Week in the Blogs, September 19 – 25, 2010

September 26, 2010 1 comment
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This Week in the Self-Publishing Blogs, Sept 19-25, 2010 Joe Konrath, Jonathan Fields, Mark Coker, Cheryl Anne Gardner and Cecilia Sorochin, Michael N. Marcus on topics of interest to self-publishers

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