Small Is Beautiful
E. F. Schumacher
Schumacher brilliantly interrogates modern economics and proposes an alternative: a Buddhist economics that takes as its imperative the quality of human life, not the quantity of profit.
The value of work
On Small Is Beautiful & How to Tell When You’re Tired
Readability
On Book Typography
Book Typography
Michael Mitchell & Susan Wightman
A thorough and beautiful guide to typography and typesetting, worthy of any designer’s desk.
Electronic books
On Why There Are Pages and Why They Must Turn
Why There Are Pages and Why They Must Turn
Robert Bringhurst
A short essay about the future of the book from the inimitable Robert Bringhurst.
A Humument
Tom Phillips
The fourth in Tom Philips ongoing project to recompose an old, unknown Victorian novel. Weird and fascinating and beautiful.
Content Strategy for the Web
Kristina Halvorson
The book on the new(ish) field of content strategy, or, how we’re going to save the web.
Go to hell
On How to Tell When You’re Tired
How to Tell When You’re Tired
Reg Theriault
A fabulous little book, written by a lifelong worker.
Three definitions of “reader”
How the name of a thing can guide you towards its use.
Handcrafted CSS
Dan Cederholm & Ethan Marcotte
An excellent, practical overview that demonstrates how to use CSS3 properties today, as well as other methods of “handcrafted” design.
Renaissance man
On The Printing Press as an Agent of Change
Card catalogs
On The Printing Press as an Agent of Change
On brands
On Life Inc.
Life Inc.
Douglass Rushkoff
A passionate, well-written text that argues that our centralized currency system is the key to the corporatism that has infected not only our government but our daily lives.
Typographical fixity
On The Printing Press as an Agent of Change
The anxiety of creating
On The Courage to Create
The Vintage Book of Amnesia
Jonathan Lethem
An eccentric collection of short pieces that touch on the subject of memory loss, from writers as varied as Martin Amis, Jorge Luis Borges, and Oliver Sacks.
Some thoughts on the anthology
A suggestion that reading distractedly sometimes has its merits.