Tonight’s reading. New York Design Hunting (blue cover!) and Gratuitous Type No. 2.
Posts tagged print.
Things are happening in Montreal. Check out the work on this amazing Tumblr.
(via fuckyeahprints)
More skulls…bedtime soooon!
I’ve fallen in love with so many of Sarah’s prints and illustrations.
Lust | The Platen Press Musuem, Zion IL
The monetization model of online publishing — a legacy model that hasn’t changed since the golden age of newspapers — is breeding even more mediocre and questionable content. Because this model puts the advertiser, not the reader, first, we suffer the same atrocities a newspaper editor lamented in 1923 when he bemoaned the way in which the circulation manager had taken over the newspaper and eclipsed the editor. As long as the ad-supported pageview remains the main currency of funding writing online, we’ll continue getting slideshows about kittens, HuffPost-ified sensationalist headlines, one-page articles artificially split into five pages, and other such assaults on the reader. To have intelligent readers, we need intelligent writers, certainly, but also intelligent publishing. I hope to see this ecosystem evolve towards a meritocracy, where content gets published because it is good, and because readers find value in it and are willing to put a price on this value. Reading is voting for writing, and I hope to see our votes count for more than they currently do.
Maria Popova (via nedhepburn)(via nedhepburn)
It’s Contest Time!
There ain’t nothing like a free lunch.
Alrighty folks, here’s CBC’s gratuitous sales plug for their upcoming release: Banksy. You Are An Acceptable Level of Threat.
We’re giving one person the chance to get their hands on the first advance copy anywhere in the world, direct from the press. You’ll receive it before any reviewer, bookshop, sales rep, wholesaler or even distributor gets hold of a copy.
Plus we’ll throw in a boat load of free stuff too.
We need your help in getting the word out, so reblog the following post and we’ll randomly choose a winner plus some runner-ups.
First prize gets the very first copy of Banksy. You Are an Acceptable Level of Threat in existence. This will be at least a month before release date and 3 months before it hits the street anywhere outside of the UK.
There’ll also be a goody bag thrown in including DVD, CD, T-Shirt etc plus four lucky winners who will receive a free CBC book plus extra stuff!
To be in with a chance of winning your just follow
Carpetbombingculture.tumblr.com and reblog this post:
http://carpetbombingculture.tumblr.com/post/21640972774/
All winners will be chosen randomly and we’ll post the results here at the end of May.
Doper than dope.
Awesome.
Sincerely, Kim Bui
Kim bu·oy [boo-ee, boi]. I am a freelance writer and designer living in New York City.
This is where I post about things I like. These things usually include: design, magazines, typography, nail art, asian snack foods, french macarons, a few fashion things or anything creative that catches my eye.
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