Hyperlinks in Print IV
[cityofsound] Porter notes that they're dealing with "readers who get most of their news from television and the internet now" and without the hours to spend reading the paper that people used to have. He can't assume that people are going to read the whole thing - so there are navigational cues, layout guides, and other devices to alert the reader to other articles of interest within the paper (and presumably online) - almost, "if you like this article, you'll also like this one on page 14".
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Hyperlinks in Print III
This third chapter of our investigation into the use of hyperlinking metaphores in print design takes us to a page of the April 2005 issue of The Atlantic Monthly magazine: David Foster Wallace's cover story about talk radio. The layout of the article has been altered to facilitate interaction between the main text and the footnotes (not unlike the work done in I.D. magazine in early 2004).
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Let's start this series with one of the best attemps I've seen to use hyperlinks in books. For 2 years (2001 and 2002), the designers of the Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design Directory book overlayed each page of the book with a subtle and exciting second layer of information.
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On August 13th finished the 15th Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia held in the University of California, Santa Cruz. Several awards were presented during the conference: the Douglas Engelbart Best Paper Award went to David Kolb for his Twin Media : Hypertext Structure Under Pressure.
This essay explores issues that arise in composing a long argumentative hypertext that is connected with a book on the same subject.
It concerns not the old navigation problem for the lost reader, but the construction problem for the uncertain author who worries about readers.
It reports on a practical experiment, and deals with issues in hypertext rhetoric and link structure that arise in the construction of a hypertext under pressure from a book version.
Although the situation of the hypertext being discussed is somewhat unique, in fact hypertext structure is always under pressure from print habits of reading and writing, especially in scholarly writing, so the issues discussed here are widely relevant.
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Web fonts used in print
[Small Initiatives] I am always amazed, though, to see grossly overused "Web fonts" show up as display type on a printed page. Yet I did on several entries this year. If I were to return exclusively to print design, one thing's certain: I'd never again use Verdana, Georgia or Trebuchet!
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Books24x7 announces book nominations
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