Posts Tagged: Marshall McLuhan

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 [...]

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 He began by quoting Marshall McLuhan, noting that “an environment becomes fully visible only when it has been superseded by a new environment; thus we are [...]

Free Hit Counter