Tonight, 6pm at Urban Standard (2320 2nd Ave North) you will find a flock of Birmingham’s most clever and creative folks gathering to celebrate the Birmingham Arts Journalturning 5-years-old. BAJ Art Editor Liz Reed says both the party and 52-page quarterly publication are helping to put our city in the global arts spotlight…

I just saw the theorist has already weighed in on DailyLit, as she has been a subscriber since 2006.

DaliyLit.com is now serving up dollop size doses of books. The new service sends you the book you are reading in installments, either via email or rss, so that you don’t have to ‘burden’ yourself with finding a place to sit and actually hold a book.
I guess there is a market for this? I can’t [...]

Tomorrow kicks off the 12th year of Small Press Month, highlighting and featuring the smaller fish in the huge ocean of publishing. So let’s hear it for the folks still doing it for the love of it and loving what they sell. Don’t get me wrong, it is still about money and making a living, [...]

If you don’t enjoy typography or type geekery discussion, please move along, there’s nothing to see here.
Since the Quills are no more, I am going to spend my “award show tracking energy” to keeping up with the Type Directors Club annual competition. I have to say that I am in 100% agreement with the Superfamily [...]

Public Domain Reprints is a brand-spanking new non-profit has streamlined the next evolutionary step in book publishing. Basically you surf the net for any public domain title. The site says they have some 2 million books ready to print.
Once you have found your book, you submit it to Public Domain Reprints and they handle the [...]

While writing a previous post about a local book release party for Susannah Felts’ debut novel, I got sucked into her publisher’s site and found this rather cool, yet simple marketing tool.

Basically, they take a few excerpts and type set them onto letter size pages, for you to freely print out, from their site. Then, [...]

This is pretty cool. Worked up in the 80’s by John Knoll, this 32×32 pixel icon is what Adobe kick started their PhotoShop application with. Pretty cool find. And the icon is a pretty good likeness to an actual “photo shop”.

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Tomorrow night at 7 pm, you can find Susannah Felts at The Bottletree reading and signing her new book This Will Go Down on Your Permanent Record. The book is all about developing an identity as an artist among the culture of the New South. In anticipation of the book’s release I traded a few [...]

I have seen some of these before, but there are enough new ones to post about it. The typogrphically inspired on remains one of my all time favorites.

But I have to say that this one…