Mar 23, 2023
I've long been interested in rhetoric,
the techniques of persuasive argument, propaganda; the use of
passionate language. It's why I collect publishers' sales and
bookseller catalogues, I'm sure!
Ever since first laying hands on the
bookseller catalogues that Jerry Kelly has, over the years,
designed for the likes of...
Mar 7, 2023
About a month ago I watched a
documentary entitled Capital in the 21st Century. It
was pretty riveting, describing much of what, and how, I've been
thinking over the past few years about the American take-over
of Canada, and the belief that the country "developed" largely
because the very rich were too lazy,...
Feb 28, 2023
Scott R Ferris, is
a researcher, writer and specialist in the art of Rockwell
Kent (1882-1971). He has conducted many lectures on Kent and has
served as curator for a lot of Kent exhibitions.
Here's a thumbnail of Kent culled from
what Zoë Samels has written on the U.S. National Gallery
website:
He attended the...
Feb 19, 2023
Is failure an inherent part of the
writing "enterprise"? Yes, I'd say, this is undoubtedly true. If
seen, however, solely as an "exercise" in itself, does this still
hold true? I'm not quite so sure.
These are the axes along which I tread
during my conversation with Stephen Marche about
his valuable new book On...
Feb 14, 2023
Sasha Tochilovsky is a graphic designer, typographer, curator, teacher and head of the Herb Lubalin Study Center of Design and Typography at the Cooper Union in New York City. We talk here about one of the greatest creative teams in magazine history: author, editor, publisher and photo-journalist Ralph Ginzburg and...