Mon.Aug 26, 2019

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A Conversation with Peter Mendelsund on Writing

Spine Magazine

In recent years, Peter Mendelsund has been shifting his career from designing books to writing them. The former Associate Art Director of Alfred A. Knopf already has a couple of non-fiction titles to his name – What We See When We Read and Cover, with another, The Look of the Book, on the way – and has now stepped into fiction with Same Same , a twisting metafictional meditation on creativity.

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A Week Seen Through My Lens

SEGD Blog

Read Time: 1.5 minutes. Each week is not planned nor defined. I observe and then design…. A visual blog by Lucy Holmes. A current preoccupation is colour (or color in US English). I don’t know the percentage, but I have worked with many graphic designers who are colour blind. It has made for some lively discussions and decision making over the years.

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Jeanne McWilliams Blasberg Discusses Her Novel, The Nine

Spine Magazine

Photo: Hunter Lev­i­tan. Inspired by the biblical story of Hannah, who finally has a son, Samuel, after years spent longing for a child, author Jeanne McWilliams Blasberg set out to write a story about the relationship between a mother and son. Set within the walls of fictional elite boarding school Dunning Academy, Blasberg’s The Nine (She Writes Press) reflects on the relationship of Hannah Webber and her only child, a son named Sam.