Dr Emm Johnstone*, one of the distinguished authors of the exceedingly well-reviewed Art of Medicine, will be appearing this Saturday at the Brighton Science Festival, talking about art and medicine. She’s part of a fascinating looking line up that includes a day of full [...]
Over the last ten years the gloriously-named Rondo Hatton awards have established themselves as the most prestigious in the world of Horror. So we’re delighted that Jovanka Vuckovic’s splendid ZOMBIES! An Illustrated History of the Undead has been nominated for Book of the Year! [...]
We had a feeling that the Art of Medicine, chock full as it is of fascinating images and amazing historical insight, would go down well – and it’s nice to have this hunch confirmed. There have been some excellent reviews, and interesting interview features [...]
Can you keep Alan Moore (or as we know him round this parts, Alan Moore-Storyteller) out of the news? Quite hard to, these days, but, Ozymandias-style, we’ve been watching multiple screens so you don’t have to. To the Guardian, Moore here opines on [...]
Quick follow-up to Roly’s Alan Moore: Storyteller reviews round-up: I’ve just spotted a post by Mark Millar – comics writer, creative powerhouse and the man behind Kick-Ass, Wanted and Marvel’s Civil War – on his Millarworld message board, in which Mark hails Gary Spencer [...]
A few months have passed since the initial flurry of rave reviews that greeted the publication of Gary Spencer Millidge’s Alan Moore: Storyteller. And in that time there have been a few more: time to share… Glass Magazine (if you’re not familiar with it [...]
Want to design books for an award-winning publisher? Ilex is looking for designers to work on covers and interiors. We are looking for designers with strong type and layout skills, creative flair and the ability to turn an authors words and pictures into a beautifully [...]
From the maker of Microbot, 2008, comes Microbot’s new arm, 2011. Josh Buczynski, co-author of Build Your Own Paper Robots, has been busy developing new paper technology which he’s used to give Microbot an upgrade in the form of new, improved arm joints. You [...]
Ahhh, the glamour of the silver screen… irresistible. Which is why these oversize mood boards have been creating quite a stir in the office. Rough and ready they may be, but they are a little bit of Hollywood magic – for they are where [...]
Everyone, in every publisher, all over the world, knows that the cover design question is the knottiest in the business. Should you go typographic? Literal? Photographic? Graphic? Lots of words? Few words? Author name in 176pt gold embossed type? Matt finish or gloss? These [...]
Bye, bye Indian summer; hello flu-season. My, don’t you look nice! New hair? Looking at Luke Jerram’s stunning glass sculpture of the H1N1 Swine Flu Virus, you might be forgiven by colleagues this season for passing on a common cold. Jerram’s sculpture is an [...]
I was on a New Year sales trip to the US when one of our regular partners (a really canny publisher) remarked to me that on vacation she had been buttonholed by no fewer than three people who had ‘an idea for a book’. [...]
