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IMAGES: What Happens If You Flip The Gender Of Book Covers?

Yesterday, author Maureen Johnson had a great idea. She tweeted “I do wish I had a dime for every email I get that says, “Please put a non-girly cover on your book so I can read it.

Talk about illuminating.

05/7/13

A manifesto on writing for design

3— See your words

If a woman in a boilersuit and a man in a tutu utter exactly the same words, the effect is completely different. So before you start writing, it’s important to visualise what your words will look like when the reader sees them. How will the text and images relate to each other? What typeface will they be set in? What’s the format and medium? Too often, words and visuals inhabit the same world but look in totally different directions. Whereas they should be embracing like childhood friends.

03/6/12

Fotoshop by Adobé

This commercial isn’t real, neither are society’s standards of beauty.

Full post here with behind the scenes: http://jesserosten.com/2012/fotoshop-by-adobe

01/11/12

RESOLVE: verb, to come to a definite or earnest decision about; determine (to do something)

by Joe Bacigalupo as part of the To Resolve Project.

01/6/12

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I think your life is paint and you create on your given canvas. I think people that try to create without accessing their own experiences are like carpenters trying to build a house without a hammer. It’s impressive to build a house without a hammer, but it doesn’t make a better house, and it doesn’t mean much to the reader, who has to live inside the house, and is primarily concerned about whether the roof leaks.

Stephen Elliott on creation, The Rumpus

01/5/12

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3— See your words

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