reading notes

by Jason Fulford
ISBN: 0970165676
Fulford, co-founder of J&L Books (publishers of Mike Slack’s OK OK OK) has created images you’ve probably seen, you just don’t know it: many of his photographs have appeared on book covers. He’s appeared in several exhibitions in the last seven years. He’s one talented guy, and I’d never heard of him [...]

by Mike Slack
ISBN: 0977648125
OK OK OK is smaller than those coffee table-sized art books, but still larger than a trade paperback. The fabric covers have polaroid shots (one front, one back) centered on them. So it starts off seeming a little odd, which I found appealing. It’s not slick. It has virtually no words, save [...]

by Sara Varon
ISBN: 9781596431089
Varon does cute very well, without being cloying or self-conscious about it. I really enjoyed her previous book, Sweaterweather, in part for that reason. I feel the same about this one. Except this one has robots! And a dog!
There are also bunnies, a snowman, an ice cream-eating penguin, and a recycling [...]

by David Weinberger
ISBN:9780805080438
Weinberger is known for his ability to write about what’s happening on the web for an intelligent but not necessarily technical audience — first with others in The Cluetrain Manifesto, and then on his own with Small Pieces Loosely Joined. He’s got a knack for figuring out what’s important about how things on [...]