#24 CYPRIEN GAILLARD DUST LINES

My work starts where and when the archaeologists left off.

mono.kultur | Current.

a little bit from everywhere : Philip Roth predicts novel will be minority cult….

[…] Roth has long been pessimistic about the survival of the novel in a gaudy, short-attention-span culture, but his latest prophesy is one of his bleakest yet, predicting that the form will dwindle to a “cultic” minority enthusiasm within 25 years.

The author believes that the concentration and focus required to read a novel is becoming less and less prevalent, as potential readers turn instead to computers or to television. “I was being optimistic about 25 years really. I think it’s going to be cultic. I think always people will be reading them but it will be a small group of people. Maybe more people than now read Latin poetry, but somewhere in that range,” Roth told Tina Brown, editor-in-chief of The Daily Beast. […]

Copy Stand Weblog: DESIGNERS AS ARTISTS #1.

Vanity Press Plus: The Tweetbook | booktwo.org.

via Toxi on Twitter

Vanity Press Plus: The Tweetbook: @stml James archived his first 2 years on twitter as hardcopy book. Fantastic

Jen Stark

* nice and colorful paper cut sculputures

reCAPTCHA is a free CAPTCHA service that helps to digitize books, newspapers and old time radio shows. Check out our paper in Science about it (or read more below).

A CAPTCHA is a program that can tell whether its user is a human or a computer. You’ve probably seen them — colorful images with distorted text at the bottom of Web registration forms. CAPTCHAs are used by many websites to prevent abuse from “bots,” or automated programs usually written to generate spam. No computer program can read distorted text as well as humans can, so bots cannot navigate sites protected by CAPTCHAs.

What is reCAPTCHA?

via Kris Kenyon

Laser-cut art book by Olafur Eliasson

Laser-cut art book by Olafur Eliasson”

(via Preik – The design aggregator.)

it : éditions

it : éditions

It: aborde à part égale Image et Texte, sans que l’un ne soit jamais envisagé
comme l’illustration ni le commentaire de l’autre. It: cherche au travers de ses
publications à mettre en évidence la spécificité d’une pensée visuelle. Les différents
objets éditoriaux proposés appréhendent l’image comme un matériau ouvert.
C’est-à-dire que sa présentation, son agencement dans l’espace du livre nécessite
d’engager un réel processus de réflexion et de création, sous-tendu par un ensemble
de parti pris éditoriaux spécifiques. L’image, telle qu’elle est appréhendée dans
ces publications, est un vecteur de connaissance, une manière spécifique de traiter
différents sujets …

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(via manystuff.org.)

☼ Nice Events in London / Jost Hochuli: Systematic book design?

Jost Hochuli: Systematic book design?
Location: Bridewell Hall, St Bride Foundation
Description: The adjective ‘systematic’ (from the Greek word ‘systematikos’) means, in one dictionary definition: ‘proceeding from a system, methodical, planned; corresponding to a system’. Systematic book design thus means: book design that follows a plan fixed before the work begins. A conscious, rational procedure sooner or later reaches an end: the unconscious – or that which is a matter of feeling – plays a large and often decisive role in design. Using examples from some of his own works, Jost Hochuli will try to show where the irrational has resolved rational decisons.

After this talk Jost will be happy to answer questions both on book design and aspects of typographic detailing, the subject of his new book ’Detail in typography’. Copies of this book published by Hyphen Press will be available for on sale on the evening at a specially discounted rate.

About the speaker

Jost Hochuli is a Swiss typographer and graphic designer. After study at the Kunstgewerbeschule St.Gallen, he trained as a compositor with the printer Zollikofer and at the Kunstgewerbeschule Zürich; his education was completed in 1958–9 in Adrian Frutiger’s class at the Ecole Estienne. Since then he has practised as a freelance graphic designer, eventually specializing in book design. In 1979 he co-founded the co-operatively run publishing company VGS Verlagsgemeinschaft St.Gallen, for which much of his book design work has been done. He has taught at the schools at Zurich and then St Gallen since 1967. As writer and editor, his books include Book design in Switzerland (1993), Designing books (1996), and a major monograph on his work: Jost Hochuli: Printed matter, mainly books (2002). An English-language edition of his Detail in typography was published earlier this year. He has edited and designed the annually published ‘Typotron’ series of booklets (1983–98) and the Edition ‘Ostschweiz’ (from 2000).

Start Time: 19:00
Date: 2008-11-27

Most Beautiful Swiss Books 2007
Location: Cafe Oto, Dalston
Description: The Helvetic Centre and the Swiss Federal Office of Culture would like to invite you to the opening on the 19 November 2008 at 7pm. Hans Muster, director of Helvetic Centre will have a few words and guests from Switzerland will introduce the competition and the catalogue.
Please reserve Saturday afternoon 29 November for there will be a workshop held in the exhibition with guests from London and Switzerland. For further information go to www.helveticcentre.ch
Start Date: 2008-11-19
Start Time: 19:00

☼ Nice Events in London / Most Beautiful Swiss Books 2007