Month: May 2009

Friday Roundup

“Honour commercio’s energy yet aid the linkless proud, the plurable with everybody.” — Finnegans Wake Books from heaven : Books from earth 25 Intriguing Facts About Gabriel García…

The four-color process

This photo, which I took at the Snoeck Ducaju & Zoon printing plant in Ghent, Belgium, a few years back, clearly shows the four-color printing process. The workers…

When kerning goes bad, 2 . . .

. . . and here the font aids and abets. . via BuzzFeed (“I went to this store. It was a huge disappointment.”) .

Ugliest Google logo ever

Just saying. .

A designer’s resume

From bulooji’s photostream. . via Fosfor Gadgets .

Print vs. electronic technologies

I’m working on a reprint edition for another publisher of a book originally published by Mercury House sometime in the 1990s. The layout files were on a zip…

Copper Canyon to publish Chinese anthology

Copper Canyon has been selected by the NEA be the U.S. publisher for its International Literary Exchange with China. According to Publishers Weekly, “Copper Canyon will receive $117,000…

President Obama reads Where the Wild Things Are

Gotta love it. .

The Emperor’s New Brand

In a distant kingdom long ago a prince was born. He grew up quickly, as children do, and soon the king and queen assembled the most talented people…

Friday roundup

“Honour commercio’s energy yet aid the linkless proud, the plurable with everybody.” — Finnegans Wake Book tour hits 100 indie bookstores : Smart idea Times are tough in…

Major new Cortazar book appearing this week

Cortazar’s unpublished works have been collected and will be released at the Feria Internacional del Libro en Buenos Aires within a few days. This should be a big…

Poets ranked by the gravity of their beards

In his 1913 classic (if that’s the right word) publication entitled Poets Ranked by Beard Weight, Upton Uxbridge Underwood (1881–1937) ranked poets according to the gravity of their…