Posts Tagged: amsterdam

Interview with Astrid Vorstermans and Pia Pol, publishers of Valiz

By Silvio Lorusso, February 8, 2012

INC: How do you select what you publish? Astrid: The program concentrates on contemporary art, linked to social or cultural topics. 80 percent of what we publish is provided by people coming to us. New content often develops from a network of people who link up to what we’re doing. 20 percent or more is [...]

Interview with Jan de Jong, founder of Uitgeverij De Buitenkant

By Silvio Lorusso, September 18, 2011

Based in Amsterdam, Uitgeverij De Buitenkant has a long tradition in books about graphic design and typography. Jan de Jong, the founder of this half publishing house, half typesetting and printing laboratory, described his vision of the publishing industry’s future and gave us some clues on what is a book.

Interview with Rudolf van Wezel of BIS Publishers

By morgancurrie, July 21, 2011

BIS Publishers is a small, independent outfit of about five staff that produces glossy, top-of-the-line books – the kind that you want to run your fingers over and keep around for dinner party show-and-tells. Their titles cover graphic design, fashion, architecture, product design and advertising, and they’ve become prized for their Dutch Design book series, [...]

The Espresso Book Machine

By Silvio Lorusso, July 14, 2011

The Espresso Book Machine allows to print a book in minutes. It’s perfect for self-publishing because one can print as many copy as he or she needs. When a book is printed it may be stored in the database so customers from all around the world can buy prints of it. One can also print [...]

Frank van Amerongen on Reinventing Educational publishing

By Silvio Lorusso, May 22, 2011

Frank van Amerongen (1950) is managing director and publisher at ThiemeMeulenhoff, one of the mayor educational publishing houses in the Netherlands. In his early professional years he was a teacher in primary education and also an author for textbooks and translator of non-fiction reference books for young children. In the early eighties he started his [...]

Roosje Klap on Ebook and empathic design

By Silvio Lorusso, May 22, 2011

Roosje Klap works and lives in Amsterdam where she was trained at the Rietveld Academy. She works as a designer in her studio and as a teacher graphic design, currently at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague, the Netherlands. She is also a member selection committee Fonds BKVB (Dutch Fund for Visual Arts, [...]

John Haltiwanger: Generative Typesetting

By Silvio Lorusso, May 22, 2011

John Haltiwanger is a New Media MA graduate and an autodidactic programmer with a strong interest in typesetting and open source software. Haltiwanger collaborates with the Open Source Publishing platform and Universiteit van Amsterdam. The main focus of his presentation is generative typesetting, with his MA thesis used as an illustration. Haltiwanger argues for liberating [...]

James Bridle: Social Reading

By Silvio Lorusso, May 21, 2011

James Bridle is an editor, publisher, writer, consultant, producer, programmer, designer. He has been working in all area’s of publishing: in marketing, publicity, editoring and production. James Bridle @ the unbound book conference – photo cc by-sa Sebastiaan ter Burg Bridle starts his speech by saying that added value is a hard one to grasp when [...]

Amsterdam Art/Book Fair 2011

By Silvio Lorusso, May 3, 2011

Just a few days before the Unbound Book Conference will take place, the Amsterdam Art / Book fair will be held as well. The Amsterdam Art/Book Fair gives special attention to art and design academies involved in publishing. This first conference will take place on the 14 & 15 of May 2011, presenting a high [...]