A night of typography at the EDO
Janet Froelich, creative director of the New York Times, and type designer Jonathan Hoefler are speaking about editorial typography Wednesday, April 9, 6:00-9:00pm, Rootstein Hopkins Space, London College of Fashion, 20 John Princes Street, W1G 0BJ.
It may be free, it may be £20. There is conflicting information.
Art Spiegelman couldn't get his 9/11 comics published in the US
Soon after the attacks, he quit the New Yorker to protest against the “widespread conformism” in the United States media, and the tendency to “throw a blanket of silence” over controversial material that might offend their customers. When he offered the New York Times and the New York Review of Books the chance to serialize his graphic novel about living through 9/11 in Lower Manhattan — he lives in Soho, and his daughter went to school near the World Trade Center — no mainstream American title would touch it. One said it would be “great for Europe.” In The Shadow Of No Towers was eventually run by the German Die Zeit, and published as a graphic novel to critical acclaim.
Not that this page is attempting to be all-Felix, all-the-time, but the man knows how to live like a publisher.
The six coins, ranging up to 50p, can be arranged to form the outline of the royal shield of arms, which is embossed in full on the £1 coin.
Compare these to the new US five dollar bill.
Monocle editor on media agency ignorance
Tyler Brûlé does not attend every meeting with London media agencies because he can, by his own admission, be “a bit short” when press buyers profess ignorance of the Monocle brand.
“I don’t know if media buyers are playing a game or not, but they are paid to understand the magazine market, and so they are not doing their job,” he says. “And our launch has not exactly been quiet.”
(Sorry, free reg. required on the article)
Short interview with Felix Dennis
Created Oz, The Week, and MacUser, the three of which mitigate his creation of Maxim.
Typographica's best fonts of 2007
Not in the article: What did the pub landlord say when he kicked out a collection of fonts? We don’t serve your type.
Great little essay about quotation marks
Regarding "." and “.”
Well, perhaps rather obviously, it’s a compromise created by the lack of space on original typewriter keyboards (more specifically, lack of space inside the typewriter for the extra workings for more keys). There wasn’t room to have an extra dedicated key for left or right quote/apostrophe marks, so a single key was used for a new “ambidextrous” set of quotes and apostrophes. As typewriters were a way of getting words hammered onto a page; faster than a scribe, easier to read than most people’s handwriting and always consistent, no matter who was doing the typing, this compromise was acceptable. If you wanted to publish your words, you would send it to a printer where typesetters would take your words and use their typographic skills to make them readable and (hopefully) beautiful.
How to save money running a start-up
Having started up the same paper about a dozen times, I agree with this list. I would add: “Get cheap office space in the bad part of town.” Also, incorporate a completely separate company to own your brand name, then license it back.