Arranging and rearranging a magazine’s layout before it goes to press is all done on computers now. But in the years before desktop publishing software, the work of cutting and pasting required a sharp scalpel, a parallel-motion board and plenty
Lynda Barry’s new book: Making Comics
Lynda Barry has a new book just out, and she’s been doing interviews: Studio 360 interview Design Matters interview
By the People: LOC crowd-sources transcription
“By the People,” a LOC crowd-sourcing project launched in 2018, recruits people to transcribe digitized documents.
Electronic literature (book)
This came in via a list-serv today: Electronic Literature considers new forms and genres of writing that exploit the capabilities of computers and networks – literature that would not be possible without the contemporary digital context. In this book, Rettberg places
What’s your pronoun?
A new book from Dennis Baron. What’s Your Pronoun? chronicles the story of the role pronouns have played—and continue to play—in establishing both our rights and our identities.
The Mundaneum
A familiar historical touchpoint for US scholars of the Web is Vannevar Bush’s Memex. Perhaps less well-known is the Mundaneum, in Belgium—a “paper Google.” Otlet and La Fontaine published their scheme in 1904 as the Universal Decimal Classification (UDC). It divides all
Christoph Niemann: a history of computing
From Christoph Niemann, a history of computing in 4 panels.
Stick figures in peril
Flickr photo pool: Stick Figures in Peril
Sara Hendren, Abler
Hear the DB|BD interview with Sara Hendren. Hendren teaches a course called “Investigating Normal.”
Climate change infographic
A mural on climate change, by illustrator Brian Rea. Debbie Millman interviews Rea on Design Matters.