“The breakthrough Understanding Comics was a brilliant book-length guide (in comics form, of course) to the formal tools and practices of comics. Showing how comics turned sequential pictures into space and time, Understanding explained why comics were one of the basic kinds of artistic creation — like novels or movies, or symphonies and songs.”
Zeldman: “Many young Web designers — and let’s face it, most Web designers are under 30 — view their craft the way I used to view pop culture. It’s cool or it’s crap. They mistake Style for Design, when the two things are not the same at all. Design communicates on every level. It tells you where you are, cues you to what you can do, and facilitates the doing. Style is tautological; it communicates stylishness. In visual terms, style is an aspect of design; in commercial terms, style can communicate brand attributes.”
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“Books, books, books! Categorized by Introduction to Core Concepts, Serious Reading, General Thinking, Related fields and Unrelated.”
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“The history of the book presents us with a complete, observable communications revolution. The historical record is such that we can watch the whole of a vast socio-cultural, political, and economic change happen over a period of some three to five hundred years (depending on whose perspective you prefer). By following the developments in manuscript and print book production, tied to the changes in the technologies used to produce those texts, we can also chart the various changes in social organization, politics and economics from the feudalism of the 7th century, through to the advent and advance of early capitalism in the 15th century.”
Zeldman: Excellent. “Many young Web designers — and let’s face it, most Web designers are under 30 — view their craft the way I used to view pop culture. It’s cool or it’s crap. They mistake Style for Design, when the two things are not the same at all. Design communicates on every level. It tells you where you are, cues you to what you can do, and facilitates the doing. Style is tautological; it communicates stylishness. In visual terms, style is an aspect of design; in commercial terms, style can communicate brand attributes.”
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