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It occurs to me beautiful picture books on paper will be much more scarce in the future. No doubt it’s why I have a yearning to design a book of late. Looking at a French travel picture book I used for a class reference reminded me of how remarkably well books can draw you in while in the digital world it’s a rarer thing. I like to think it’s in part because today’s information vehicle chooses democratization in the form of a sea of templates. The irony being that the last time design media was so heavily gridded we were living through the final instantiate of Swiss formalism. This makes it even more nakedly obvious that it’s the content or the story told that makes for the best stuff. And in the case of books the best get that storytelling trumps all and give us a good stories and rich context to lure us in.

Doing a quick search I found Chip Kid lamenting their end as well.

Hardly thought my first posting in some time would be about book design. But it does seem to support the creeping feeling that we are undergoing another revolution in media but yet to see see what’s the event on the horizon to do so. If you really think about the death of the book will in no way mean storytelling and communication are dead. And if you look at the fact a book is something that will not be found by archeologists a thousand years from now wouldn’t it be better to find a way to archive our stories past the life span of a slip of paper.Some Pretties