Wednesday, September 9, 2009

Book Boner











A Shimmer of Possibility
Inspired by the short stories of Anton Chekhov


Chekhov's six principles that make a good story:

1.  absence of lengthy verbiage of a political-social-economic nature
2.  total objectivity
3.  truthful descriptions of persons and objects
4.  extreme brevity
5.  audacity and originality: flee the stereotype
6.  compassion









A Dictionary Story

"When it comes to typography language always comes first. This might seem like a fairly obvious statement to make but to find this harmony between content and form is incredible hard."


If I could only feel the weight, smell the ink and glue, listen to the subtle crackle open. Guess I will have to make my own. ; ) 
 
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3 comments:

  1. I agree wholeheartedly with Chekov. Though, like Sam Winston's thoughts on typography, really hard to accomplish these things in the right formula.

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  2. Agreed.
    On both accounts.

    Beautiful recipe for a tale.

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  3. I have no opinions, but I like the look of these books.

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