Q. Aesthetically, what can digital technology do for bookmaking that couldn't be done before?
A. Well, I'll tell you what it can't do: What none of these things can do is substitute for a knowledge of type settings or styles, a knowledge of how these have been used in the past, an appreciation of the history of this, and how these can be used on the page. In the book, I tried to remind people that this might be a new way of doing things and one that offers many advantages, but there is nothing intrinsic in the medium that gives you the knowledge about how to apply these things in such a way as to make them look aesthetically pleasant or consistent with hundreds of years of typographical progress and practice. Same with the images: It can't make the pictures for you.Full Article
Gary Frost comments on formal issues as they might apply to scrapbooking in "The Future of the Book".
Posted by Amanda McCoy Bast at February 16, 2004 11:05 PM