“A book is made from a tree. It is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts (still called “leaves”) imprinted with dark pigmented squiggles. One glance at it and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, the author is speaking, clearly and silently, inside your head, …
From Chapter 1 of “A Whack on the Side of the Head: How You Can Be More Creative” by Roger von Oech: “Children enter school as question marks and come out as periods.”–Neil Postman, Educator Much of our education system is geared toward teaching people to find “the right answer.” By the time the average …
“Typography is to literature as musical performance is to composition: An essential act of interpretation, full of endless opportunities for insight or obtuseness.”―Robert Bringhurst, The Elements of Typographic Style
