…if digital covers as we know them are so ‘dead,’ why do we hold them so gingerly? Treat them like print covers? We can’t hurt them. They’re dead. So let’s start hacking. Pull them apart, cut them into bits and see what we come up with… …an essay for book lovers and designers curious about where the cover has been, where it’s going, and what the ethos of covers means for digital book design…
interesting article on book cover design in the digital age
i’m off to germany for a few days tomorrow, get inspired and charge the batteries at the excellent documenta 13 in kassel, apparently bigger/better than ever this year; back late this week
the blog will not be on holiday by the way… it’s business as usual in my absence
there are advantages to computer based designs… for example, when it comes to a ‘minor’ text edit making type with hundreds of steel pins by hand (with an average of 3 hours per letter, including creating then destroying each one) is not good news… still we have finally completed the stop-motion animation (tv commercial) project this weekend and i will post it soon here on the blog…
three new family members and a serious glyph update to one of my latest favourite fonts: core humanist sans, including a proper euro character and many useful open type features and extra goodies, thanks to creator ‘alex scholing’ for the free updates
dutch photo blog ‘photo q’ have just launched a new online auction, always worth a look… there are often some real gems amongst their selection, this one has largely been curated by my friend and fanatical collector ‘han schoonhoven’