By Salina Christmas Using social media such as video virals, Google +, Skype, blogs and also Twitter, educators, authors and publishers around the world have come together to celebrate the World Read Aloud Day (WRAD) on 7 March 2012 in an effort to raise awareness of children literacy. This year, LitWorld, the non-profit organisation which … Continue reading »
By Salina Christmas Ebook generates 15% of the revenues for some publishers, with the romance genre having a huge slice in the market share, says Angus Phillips, Director, Oxford International Centre for Publishing Studies at Oxford Brookes University, UK. Although digitality has turned the publishing world upside down, Phillips stressed that it is “an exciting … Continue reading »
By Salina Christmas Jie Qi, designer and a mechanical engineering major at Massachussets Institute of Technology (MIT), US, researches on mechatronics, new media, physical computing and human-computer interaction. While researching with the High-Low Tech Group, she created the Electronic Popables, a pop-up book with electronic interactive elements. Q. What do you think will become of … Continue reading »
By Zarina Holmes REPORT: “Whatever is to become of books?” at London Design Festival 2011. “We are not seeing the world as flat anymore. We are seeing it virtually. The hypertext makes a big difference.” Dr Aquiles Alencar Brayner, Digital Curator of The British Library presents fresh findings on our fast-evolving book reading habit at … Continue reading »
By Salina Christmas REPORT: “Whatever is to become of books?” at London Design Festival 2011. The video presentation by Dr Ernesto Priego of the Comics Grid at our event, “Whatever is to become of books?”, last week was certainly unconventional. It took a while for us to realise that many of the effects used in … Continue reading »
Sojournposse Photofilm at London Design Festival: Every year, we celebrate the festival with a photofilm, to honour the two disciplines we look to for inspiration: poetry and documentary photography. Poet Hamish Low has composed poems for two of our events. This year, he ponders on the moments that fleet by, those captured in pages or … Continue reading »
By Zarina Holmes REPORT: “Whatever is to become of books?” at London Design Festival 2011. At the Inspiration Room event held at University College London on 17 September 2011, Creative Director of Bonnier Technology Group, Sam Syed, presented a storytelling platform for tablets that challenges the traditional notion of a page as the placeholder for … Continue reading »
By Salina Christmas At the London Design Festival event, “Whatever is to become of books”, digital anthropologists Juliano Spyer and Cosimo Lupo showcased “Homer”, a book scanner constructed of everyday objects – a digital camera, a recycled box and a piece of glass from Poundland shop – powered by an open source software used by … Continue reading »
