Essays & Articles

Bookmarking

Designed by the author Joost Grootens, I swear I use no art at all is a secret, work-in-progress love letter to book design. Borderline autobiographical in nature, the author revisits his notes and diagrams of the dozens of printed materials and thousands of pages he published over the years, each meticulously and elaborately detailed.

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Call Me Interactivity

What do we want from storytelling machines? And when publishers use terms such as ‘interactivity’ or ‘immersion’, what do they really mean? These terms either describe a genuine glimpse of the future, or a new form of commercial and technological chutzpah. But what is it that we’re really hunting here? What’s our digital Moby Dick?

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Book design and emotional information

Removing the book from its dusty place, I instantly recalled why I had forgotten it. My fingers remembered the rough paper and cheap binding, its unnecessary thickness and weight. My eyes glanced over its feeble, advertising stricken body and summoned the memory of its boring and conventional typesetting.

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