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Category Archives: Publishing
Science, publishing and writing style
Two examples of each today, and some ideas about outreach, power and sustainability: 1. Cambridge, UK, home of Propagandum Towers and a university or two, every year hosts an excellent science festival. For two weeks thousands of people teaching and learning heavy-duty … Continue reading
The mystery of the covered-up book cover …
Wandering into my local bookshop the other day, I was shocked to see this: W – as some people say in cyberspace – TF? What’s going on here? How can you buy a book if you can’t read what it … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Media analysis, Publishing, Typography
Tagged Amazon, Books, Commercial, Cover design, Creativity, David Pearson, George Orwell, Marketing, Meaning, Nineteen Eighty-Four, Penguin Books, Publishing
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Have you tried the new reduced whiches and thats diet?
You don’t have to be a professional writer to benefit from making your writing sound more natural. The words which or that are often stodgy and unnecessary. Following Strunk and White’s helpful suggestion – under their banner ‘Omit needless words’ – … Continue reading
Posted in Publishing, Words, Writing
Tagged Communication, George Harrison, Meaning, New York Times, Reading, Strunk and White, Which hunts, Writing
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Leonardo da Vinci: Anatomist (exhibition review) #2
This excellent exhibition (in the Queen’s Gallery, London) has some fascinatingly different stories to tell of Leonardo’s extraordinary anatomical sketches. We can have our interpretations on the surface or we can dig for them, depending on whether we like our versions … Continue reading
Posted in Art criticism, Business, Media analysis, Medicine, Publishing
Tagged Anatomy, Apps, Information design, iPad, Leonardo da Vinci, Publishing, Queen's Gallery, Royal Collection, Theory of medicine
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Leonardo da Vinci: Anatomist (exhibition review) #1
This is an unusual start to any review, but the gallery’s beautifully panelled and French-polished rosewood doors and postmodern urinal dividers in the spotless toilets were so unusual in their generosity to the possibility of civilized public behaviour that I … Continue reading
What is synaesthesia? Why is it important?
Crikey – the online Random House dictionary says synaesthesia (synesthesia in more search-friendly US English) ‘is a sensation produced in one modality when a stimulus is applied to another modality, as when the hearing of a certain sound induces the visualization … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Media analysis, Publishing, Writing
Tagged Communication, Daniel Tammet, Freud, Memory, Multimodality, Ramachandran, Synaesthesia, Synesthesia
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What is the Apple success formula? Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson (book review)
As Steve Jobs was dying of cancer of the pancreas in 2011, it was ironic, Isaacson notes, that all the top-notch medical specialists gathered around him should have the same fenced-off departmental or ‘silo’ pathology Jobs fought all his life: … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Medicine, Publishing
Tagged Apple, apple design, Apple television, Business studies, Commercial, iPhone, iPod, Media studies, Pixar, Sony, Steve Jobs, Walter Isaacson
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16 things about white space
1. White space is the name typesetters, typographers and type designers – artists of the black – give to a presence where we might expect an absence. We can, if we choose, see a shape where the mark has not been … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Publishing, Words
Tagged Bridget Riley, Codex, Communication, Em space, En space, Kindle, Media studies, Pilcrow, Punctuation, Shannon, Typesetting, Typography, Whiteread
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A post about books about books
27 February was the first meeting of our Cambridge books-about-books book group. It has been a pet project I have been looking to get off the ground for a couple of years. It is in the semi-public domain under the aegis … Continue reading
