Inspiration ☼ Resources

We should totally have inspiration/resources posts . . . —Shelby

☞Inspiration
Writing for Blogs

• Shawn Blanc’s Content, Please and Why We Began Blogging
• 43folders on What Makes for a Good Blog and Kurt Vonnegut’s tips for writers (Orwell’s tips are also posted in the comments)

Typography

• Jon Tan on Paragraphs in Web Typography and Design (highly recommended)

Book Design: Interiors
Galleries of Book Interiors

• Felix’s Modernist Book Design in Germany and Switzerland, 1925–1965 (and beyond)
• 41 Stunning Books from the University of Otago Library (Modern private press)

Frontmatter

• Flickr pool: Table of Contents
• Thirty Tables of Contents from Design Observer

☞ Resources

• Golden Ratio Calculator
• Grid Calculator

SP: How’s this for a start? What else are you looking for?

♫ Kings of Leon | Be Somebody ♫

☞ TK, ETA: 11/08. ♥ MEI

SP: Is this theme too flashy? I fear there may be excess zazz, too much pop. Would Tschichold approve? No matter, this design is visual lorem ipsum.

I’m still renewing my acquaintance with WordPress; hopefully I’ll have added you as an admin by the end of Monday, 9/8. ETA: Done. Now off to tinker with Coroflot and image posting.

We should attempt a dry run of a design post, perhaps just some frontmatter. After that, maybe a rough outline of what BookDeMo could entail — I anticipate it having to be a little more structured than DrawMo. But still all about the fun and the learning.

I’m still brokenhearted over being unable to post an accompanying Muxtape. So, with apologies to Livejournal, Current Music: Stars, “Look Up”