Comments on: A brief note on blogging

By: Midweek Miscellany, June 17th, 2009 | The Casual Optimist

Midweek Miscellany, June 17th, 2009 | The Casual Optimist — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 17:31:28 +0000

[...] lastly… I can’t thank the chaps at the BCA enough for the link love . You are gentlemen and [...]

By: Christopher Tobias

Christopher Tobias — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 12:23:13 +0000

Thanks for listing my blog. It isn’t “defunct” per se, just in hiatus. There is a glut of good book design blogs. At this point if I do blog I want it to fill a need and be more than self-serving. A few ideas in the hopper, but designing precludes me from execution at this point. Keep up the great work.

Chris

By: guinevere

guinevere — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 21:19:18 +0000

Julia Rothman’s Book By Its Cover http://www.book-by-its-cover.com/ should definitely be on this list.

By: Dan

Dan — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 20:37:36 +0000

I should also have mentioned Canadian book designer Ingrid Paulson’s blog Coverings:

http://ingridpaulson.blogspot.com/

By: MATTHEW ROSE

MATTHEW ROSE — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 11:00:52 +0000

Hello Ben Pieratt and Eric Jacobsen,

Tried to find your e mail for contact, but didn’t quickly enough, so I’ll post here if that’s okay.

I’m organizing a global project/exhibition entitled A BOOK ABOUT DEATH for The Emily Harvey Foundation Gallery in NYC, NY. Opening is September 10, 2009.

Essentially, we’ve asked artists, designers, photographers and creatives all over the world to submit 500 post cards (or CDs or DVDs) as “pages” in this book. We will put up one copy of each, and place the remaining 499 cards on tables for people to take and assemble their own books. The blog http://abookaboutdeath.blogspot.com/ records the image and the artist URL, allows comments and serves as the information well for the exhibition/event with the artist call in English, Spanish, Italian, and Google Japanese (so far). The abookaboutdeath.net/ website is a permanent “wall” of the exhibition with images and links to the artist sites.

I’m writing you because I think your work (and clearly the work on your blog archives) is sympatico with the project (book covers!) and in searching you out, I have discovered this gorgeous and large design group of similarly interesting designers. So, we would love to have you contribute to the exhibition and to alert the graphic design/illustration community world wide…

The exhibition is non-profit, the works are taken (post cards) and the idea is to delve into the subject of death from many many angles.

As you can imagine, writing these invitations takes time… but I hope it’s worth it in bringing great art to the project.

Many thanks,

Matthew Rose / Paris, France

HTTP://ABOOKABOUTDEATH.BLOGSPOT.COM/
HTTP://HOMEPAGE.MAC.COM/MISTAHCOUGHDROP/

By: Gerry

Gerry — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 15:00:10 +0000

You’re doing a fantastic job with your blog, I check it every day. We publish as Chester River Press, and also run an antiquarian bookshop, Chestertown Old Book Co. My Blog is BookmansJournal@blogspot.
Thank you for the fine work and ideas.

Gerry

By: Dan

Dan — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 16:35:49 +0000

Oh and thanks – as always – for linkage. Lol.

By: Dan

Dan — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 16:34:55 +0000

Hey man. I would add in the Caustic Cover Critic:

http://causticcovercritic.blogspot.com/

And Beyond the Covers:

http://thebookdesigners.blogspot.com/

Out.