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Why We Are So Rude Online
Miss Cellania, neatorama.com

There’s some­thing about typ­ing your thoughts on the inter­net that makes some per­fect­ly nice peo­ple act like jerks. It’s not just the anonymi­ty, because even on social net­work­ing sites where our iden­ti­ties are dis­played to our con­tacts…

Interesting research

Stunning Shredded Book Sculptures by Jukhee Kwon
alice, mymodernmet.com

Korean-born, London-based artist Jukhee Kwon is a ris­ing new artist who’s mak­ing a name for her­self with these mon­u­men­tal sculp­tures that look as if pages of books are des­per­ate­ly try­ing to escape. One of her newest pieces was just…

Escaping pages…

Plympton Is A Studio For Serialized Fiction, And Yes, It’s Collaborating With Amazon
Anthony Ha, techcrunch.com

So Ama­zon launched a new pub­lish­ing pro­gram called Kin­dle Seri­als yes­ter­day, but it’s not the only com­pa­ny with seri­al­ized fic­tion on its mind. In fact, three of the eight Kin­dle Seri­als launch titles were cre­at­ed in…

Serialized fiction is back, and it’s bigger than ever before!

Educational / Institutional Copies Now Available - News - Indie Game: The Movie - A Video Game Documentary
indiegamethemovie.com

With Sum­mer com­ing to an end and the school year creep­ing up, it seems the per­fect time to let you know that the Educational/Institutional copy of Indie Game: The Movie is now avail­able for schools, uni­ver­si­ties, libraries and other…

Good news!

Studying Typography Through Fossilized Letters
Katie Hosmer, mymodernmet.com

Typog­ra­phy has evolved in so many ways, from the very first marks in hiero­glyph­ics to today’s mod­ern let­ter­ing, used every­where from cre­ative posters, to glossy mag­a­zines, to bill­boards in Times Square. Evo­lu­tion of Type is an…

Letter are links to the past

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Fuchsia Macaree
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Alphabet of untranslatable words

Scent of a kitten: the 20 irrefutable theories of book cover design
Posted by Jen Bowden, guardian.co.uk

Do you judge a book by its cover? Designers Jon Gray and Jamie Keenan shared their theories on attracting readers – from cute cats to alluring perfume – at the Edinburgh book festival

1. Face theory

Research suggests that human beings spend 48…

Book cover design notes

The New Tablet Reality for E-Books: Will Readers Read Less?
Jeremy Greenfield, forbes.com

Whether you like it or not, it’s now a tablet world — we just live in it.

Accord­ing to a recent sur­vey, one out of every five e-book read­ers use a Kin­dle Fire to read and almost as many use an iPad. Some 35% use a Kin­dle e-ink read­er but t…

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