A leap into the future of (digital) reading

By haroldkonickx, January 27, 2015

On the past event Showcases Digital Publishing Toolkit I read the following text: The Canadian mediatheorist Marshall McLuhan said in his famous Playboy interview in 1969: ‘Most people, as I indicated, still cling to what I call the rearview-mirror view of their world. By this I mean to say that because of the invisibility of any environment during the period [...]

Out Now: From Print to Ebooks: a Hybrid Publishing Toolkit for the Arts

By margreet riphagen, December 23, 2014

The last year within the Digital Publishing Toolkit research project, Hogeschool van Amsterdam and Hogeschool Rotterdam together with various designers and developers, collaboratively worked on the EPUB From Print to Ebooks: a Hybrid Publishing Toolkit for the Arts. This Toolkit is meant for everyone working in art and design publishing. No specific expertise of digital [...]

Marije ten Brink: ‘Blendle is a promising idea’

By haroldkonickx, December 18, 2014

HvA-teacher and designer Marije ten Brink wonders why Dutch entrepeneur Alexander Klöpping has come up with the invention of Blendle; a platform that combines ‘the best of newspapers and magazines’ as it claims. The video is in Dutch.

Presentation of the Toolkit in Brasil

By Miriam Rasch, December 11, 2014

The Digital Publishing Toolkit was presented via Skype at the Simposio Literatura e Informatica, with a focus on the INC project. You can find the program, blog and videos of the symposium here.

Rose Leighton: ‘The craft of publishing is future-proof’

By haroldkonickx, December 9, 2014

Rose Leighton is a lecturer at the Hogeschool van Amsterdam and projectmanager publishing for the Centre of Expertise ‘Amsterdam Creative Industries’. She thinks that as the craft of publishing is getting more and more digitized publishers should reconsider their role to keep pace with the changing times. The first step in this process could be [...]

A wrap up of the Digital Publishing Toolkit – Florian Cramer and Geert Lovink

By Katía Truijen, December 7, 2014

Geert Lovink and Florian Cramer conclude the afternoon by looking back on two years of researching digital publishing; a succesful collaboration between designers, schools, researchers and publishers. Which lessons can we take from the research? 1. Digital publishing is still in a phase of transition When one compares reading and publishing to other media that [...]

Silvio Lorusso ‘The Post-Digital Publishing Archive: An Inventory of Speculative Strategies’

By Katía Truijen, December 6, 2014

Silvio Lorusso is an artist and desiger and PhD Candidate in Design Sciences at Iuav University of Venice. He investigates experimental publishing informed by digital technology and has created the Post-Digital Publishing Archive. During the Digital Publishing Showcase, Lorusso presented an overview of speculative strategies and best practices of experimental digital publishing. The Post-Digital Publishing Archive [...]

Harold Konickx | It’s not a page; new familiar ways of book design

By roserowson, November 30, 2014

During his brief talk nearing the end of the afternoon’s presentations, Harold Konickx spent fifteen minutes discussing the changing face of the page in the wake of digital publishing. He began by quoting Marshall McLuhan, noting that “an environment becomes fully visible only when it has been superseded by a new environment; thus we are [...]

Showcase nai010 uitgevers | My Collection

By roserowson, November 30, 2014

During the showcase for nai010 uitgevers, we were shown a new mobile application developed by PUNTPIXEL and Medamo. My Highlights lets users create their own, personal ePub from the collection of the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam. The application allows users to search by genre, period, artist and so on to assemble their own personal impressions [...]

Showcase BIS Publishers | Phone gap & multi-channel publishing

By roserowson, November 30, 2014

Presenting on behalf of the design agency Essense, Arjen de Jong began by positing the essential question for working with BIS Publishers to create an ebook: (How) can we make rich media, highly interactive publications, accessible on multiple devices at a reasonable cost? As a publishing house, BIS is renowned for its innovative approach to [...]