“I feel that a book influences, and has as much of a contributing effect, on the story as the drawings, ink, colors and paper,” Chris Ware observes. “To me, a book is a fairly obvious metaphor for a human body: aside from the fact that it has a spine, it’s also bigger on the inside than…
Ben Chestnut is the CEO and co-founder of MailChimp.com, one of the most successful e-mail marketing companies around, with over 1.2 million users. They were recently featured in “Fast Company” for their non-traditional corporate culture and creative environment. In this Creative Mornings presentation, Ben talks about the history of the company and what he does as…
For those of you that missed the “Life, the Universe and Everything” symposium on art and literature, you might want to check out some of these recordings and handouts I put together: -Listen to the “Keynote Address” from James A Owen, as well as full panel discussions from LTUE on “Artist’s Tools“, “Comic Book Publishers,”…
I thought I had posted this months ago, but I can’t seem to find it anywhere on this blog: If you can’t see the picture, here is the full quote: “Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. All of us who do creative work, we get into it because…
From Doodler’s Anonymous: Oh wow. It’s hard to believe it’s been over two years since we printed our first coloring book. I still remember the day we set the pages loose and the kids went wild coloring them in (view the colorific photos). The look on the kids’ faces were priceless, as they added so much…
I thought that, after yesterday’s post regarding the digital future, we should have something a little lighter about books:
Very interesting thoughts and research on the future of printed books, e-books, the digital future. Anyone writing, illustrating, printing, publishing, marketing, distributing, and reading books of any kind should take note. “As digital shifts continue to reduce bookstore shelf space and the readers of novels and biographies spend less time in bookstores where they might…