Greetings, Come In. The Electric Information Age Book is
refreshing when it comes to the design of paperback. The authors truly allowed
design to have a role in the editing and production of the book. They took the
conventional idea of a book and gave it life through typography, color,
highlights, font and pictures. Each page of this book is no longer the stagnant
repetitive format each page is different and unique allowing the reader to want
to be engaged in the physical text. This way of formatting is totally appropriate
for the subject of “The Electric Information Age”.
The decade between the mid 1960’s and mid 1970’s was an emerging boundary shift in the way we receive information. Books, Magazines, Newspaper, Television, Music and Film were going through a transitional phase of digital taking over paper. Now that we are reliving that cycle again for the fight between the digital/electric and paper more and more books have to find a way to reinvent themselves. Although any book can just give into the digital world, the fight to remain a physical book is an honorable task.
More and more bookstores are going out of business allowing for this boom in digital reading to trump the physical book industry. Nook’s, Kindel’s, and IPads are slowly deteriorating the written translation of information through its digital platform. The Electric Information Age Book and the other books from Project Projects are reinventing the way that we connect with tangible books through its openness of allowing design to play a role in its production.
The decade between the mid 1960’s and mid 1970’s was an emerging boundary shift in the way we receive information. Books, Magazines, Newspaper, Television, Music and Film were going through a transitional phase of digital taking over paper. Now that we are reliving that cycle again for the fight between the digital/electric and paper more and more books have to find a way to reinvent themselves. Although any book can just give into the digital world, the fight to remain a physical book is an honorable task.
More and more bookstores are going out of business allowing for this boom in digital reading to trump the physical book industry. Nook’s, Kindel’s, and IPads are slowly deteriorating the written translation of information through its digital platform. The Electric Information Age Book and the other books from Project Projects are reinventing the way that we connect with tangible books through its openness of allowing design to play a role in its production.
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