This is an old edition of Meanwhile from an inferior, more simian newsletter platform that has unhelpfully severed all the hyperlinks. It’s included here in the archive simply for sake of completion.
Graphic Means
I'm really looking forward to this forthcoming documentary, which will explore graphic design production of the 1950s through the 1990s. It's incredible just how alien these old practices are, compared to the Mac-and-Adobe norm of today – hopefully this film will shed some light on what we've lost in the name of progress.
Leeds Print Festival
My Creative Review … review of the last day of LPF, which featured talks from The Designers Republic founder Ian Anderson, film journalist Danny Leigh and letterpress legend Alan Kitching. A jolly nice day out – I'm really looking forward to next year's festival. (Also, a bunch of my CR columns have appeared on the site – worth taking a look if only for the splendid illustrations).
Moby-Dick in 136 voices
Each chapter read by the likes of Tilda Swinton, Neil Tennant and Benedict Cumberbatch. Essentially a grown-up Jackanory relay race. Unfortunately, they got David Cameron to read chapter thirty, but you can probably skip that.
How publishing trends grow
Happiness to mindfulness, via wellbeing – what's going to be the next big thing once we've coloured everything in? Dot to dot? Choose your own adventure? Ration books? Books that look like books but are in fact VHS cases disguised to look like books? Or, like, a book that … there's this flat screen inside with pictures on it and you read it … and when you get down to the bottom you have to make a choice of what the character's going to do … like if he's going to go in and fight the dragon then you have to push one of the buttons … you could sell different adventures … just pop in a new disk and you get a whole new set of options? Something like that?
The Recorder
The third issue of Monotype's magazine on typography and graphic design is available to preorder now. If the first two issues are anything to go by, it'll look, feel and smell incredible. An irresistible printly nosegay if ever there was one.
That is all.