#44 — Serling
A flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles. And other hyperlinks.
- Rod Serling's thoughts about science fiction and children's imagination make for a lovely animation. I adore that man's voice.
- Every one unique – how Penguin blended coding and design to revisit Richard Dawkins’ classic texts. More of this sort of thing please.
- Gather is a new social network for designers, developers, writers and other creatives who live and work near each other.
- "I’ve always been taken aback by the assumption that my vision is fundamentally dystopian. I suspect that the people who say I’m dystopian must be living completely sheltered and fortunate lives." – fantastic Paris Review interview with William Gibson.
- Sometimes I don't read the whole book – wonderful cover designer Oliver Munday on capturing fragments of a story, and the pleasures of the backlist.
- An obsessively detailed map of American literature's greatest road trips.
- How to be a bad writer.
- "It’s a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles." – Carl Sagan on books.
- "The jackets become part of the story … it’s like a Möbius Strip." – Rhapsody interview cover design/pianist Peter Mendelsund.
- Ten things I have learned, by Milton Glaser. Contains a good joke about a rabbit.
