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Editorial Design
  • Evolving the Book: challenges in ebook design for literary classics The way we read has changed. For most twenty-first century readers, reading is a multimedia and multi-platform activity; a cognitive and material interweaving of texts, images, texts as images, and images as texts. The problem in this change, as I see it, is not that contemporary users of textual artifacts do not “read” in the […] Adam Cristobal No responses May 1, 2014
  • Book Design for Open Humanities Press: a case study in print-on-demand and electronic publishing In June of 2009, I received an email from Tammy Lu, a Canadian visual artist then based in Bournemouth, UK, inviting me to participate in the design of a new series of books for the open-access academic publisher Open Humanities Press (ohp), to be entitled New Metaphysics. Now four and a half years later, this […] Katherine Gillieson No responses May 1, 2014
  • Designing the Vignellis: Processes in ebook Production This paper focuses on the process of making the vignellis, a digital publication for the iPad and the technical challenges that came along with it. The end result was a functional ePublication that could be read on the iPad in iBooks. The publication explored the life and work of two famous designers, Lella and Massimo […] Vivian Ziereisen and Kendra Stalder No responses June 12, 2012