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Apt’s links for April 29th
The future is something with a fin on it: J.G. Ballard RIP ? Bookkake – Agreed.
Inside Steve Jobs? tear-down mansion – Apple 2.0 – “On Tuesday a California city council will reconsider Steve Jobs? longstanding request for permission to tear down the empty 84-year-old mansion that stands on the site where he wants to build [...]
Published: April 30, 2009. Read more →
Apt’s links for April 25th through April 28th
Bat For Lashes – Whats a Girl To Do | quietube – Thank You, James.
Rhett Dashwood – “Over the course of several months beginning October 2008 to April 2009 I’ve spent some of my spare time between commercial projects searching Google Maps hoping to discover land formations or buildings resembling letter forms. These are the [...]
Published: April 29, 2009. Read more →
Marion Deuchars, Illustrator
If you’re a designer or illustrator, you probably know Marion Deuchars’s work already. If you’re not, you probably do too – even if you don’t know the name.
People in publishing will know that Marion is responsible for many fantastic book covers, such as those above (for Penguin and Canongate), and our own personal favourites, the [...]
Published: April 27, 2009. Read more →
London Book Fail 09 – Fail
I gave a Pecha Kucha (hint: really fast presentation) to the Society of Young Publishers for their “Canon Tales – Chapter 2” session at this year’s London Book Fair.
[Canon Tales] aims to promote publishing as the richly creative industry that it is, blending fantastic speakers with rapid visuals to remind us that creativity [...]
Published: April 23, 2009. Read more →
Apt’s links for April 20th
magCulture.com / editorial design – “Monocle has quietly entered its third year, the spine now featuring an orange issue number key. It?s this sort of attention to detail that makes it so admired by designers.” Shame it’s borderline unreadable tosh.
CR Blog » Blog Archive » Disney: The Cut And Paste Years – “Or, ?I?m sure [...]
Published: April 21, 2009. Read more →
Portobello Books
Hot on the heels of Phase 2 of Granta Magazine, we should also be talking about the launch of the website of Granta’s sister publisher, Portobello Books.
Portobello Books is an independent publisher of “books with a purpose”:
It believes that enlightenment ought to be entertainment. There will be nothing dull, slow or clotted about the prose [...]
Published: April 17, 2009. Read more →
Public Performances, April 2009.
A very quick quartet of announcements:
Peter will be taking part in the SYP’s Canon Tales event at the London Book Fair on Tuesday 21st April. It’s a pecha kucha gig, and other speakers include Cory Doctorow, Jamie Byng (of Canongate and Peter’s former boss and current DJ partner) and design legend Jon Grey. I think [...]
Published: April 16, 2009. Read more →
Apt’s links for April 10th through April 14th
CR Blog » Blog Archive » The Art Of Necessity – “When the European avant-garde reached Spain in the 1930s, local printers found themselves ill-equipped to respond. Small printshops were mostly reliant on turn-of-the century typefaces: hardly fitting for expressing this bold new world. But, in a remarkable show of ingenuity, they found their own [...]
Published: April 15, 2009. Read more →
Granta Magazine, Part 2: Now with added wonders
It’s been almost a year since the launch of our new site for Granta Magazine, which we wrote about in this blog post. But as we noted then, the site wasn’t entirely done, and last week saw the launch of the second phase, which brought a new range of functions and new methods of subscription [...]
Published: April 9, 2009. Read more →
Apt’s links for April 7th through April 8th
adaptive path » why content management fails – “So why do these CMS projects almost always fail? [...] I?ve spoken to a number of Web teams that have used a CMS with varying levels of success. One problem I heard repeatedly was that the project worked fine, but nobody used the software once it was [...]