Interesting theme... It has the opportunity to be quite political. It's sounds better than the one in 2004, anyway. What was it? Something metaphysical and Descartian. Inner...outer...blahblah.
Heh. He does get around, doesn't he? :) I miss my art theory now that it seems I only have time for "critical essays on typography" (which aren't as interesting as they first sound).
Working on, as in, editor of? I always wondered how a book got to have more than one editor...
It takes a village to produce a book, and we have a few different kinds of "editors." For example, we typically have:
•One to two scholar editors who are responsible for intellectual content and who are in charge of getting other contributors to hand in their work on time;
•a manuscript editor who copyedits the text and the footnotes--editing both for accuracy of content and style;
and
•me, who handles the art, supervises the research minions (because we trust no author to cite anything correctly), deals with the various rounds of proofs, and strives daily not to kill any of our freelance copyeditors.
"critical essays on typography"
*winces* So what do critical essay on typography discuss? What are the big issues?
Woah. After all that I'm wouldn't be that surprised if you didn't have blood on your hands. :)
The big issues? In the essay I'm currently reading its all about artistic authorship of typefaces, and copyright. So thrilling!
Typeface designs are excluded from copyright protection but... what about pictorial typefaces? Are these subject to different laws? Does a dog truly become a utilitarian object when you use it to make the shape of a letter and take a photograph and put it into the public domain??? :O
Actually, that is more amusing than most. The rest are just different design schools sniping at each other.
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Interesting theme... It has the opportunity to be quite political. It's sounds better than the one in 2004, anyway. What was it? Something metaphysical and Descartian. Inner...outer...blahblah.
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You do have a 'something' on campus to visit, I guess. :)
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Working on, as in, editor of? I always wondered how a book got to have more than one editor...
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•One to two scholar editors who are responsible for intellectual content and who are in charge of getting other contributors to hand in their work on time;
•a manuscript editor who copyedits the text and the footnotes--editing both for accuracy of content and style;
and
•me, who handles the art, supervises the research minions (because we trust no author to cite anything correctly), deals with the various rounds of proofs, and strives daily not to kill any of our freelance copyeditors.
"critical essays on typography"
*winces* So what do critical essay on typography discuss? What are the big issues?
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The big issues? In the essay I'm currently reading its all about artistic authorship of typefaces, and copyright. So thrilling!
Typeface designs are excluded from copyright protection but... what about pictorial typefaces? Are these subject to different laws? Does a dog truly become a utilitarian object when you use it to make the shape of a letter and take a photograph and put it into the public domain??? :O
Actually, that is more amusing than most. The rest are just different design schools sniping at each other.
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