Everything is transitory: every side is a front when the codex book is opened, and only while it is opened to that position. When the page is turned that front becomes a back. The page, and its imagery, exists- and then it does not exist. It is ever changing, moving through space in time. The book is ephemeral. This is ironic, because it is also such a physical object requiring touch to experience it. The codex is so ephemeral that it exists only as fragments in now-time: the opened folio. It is only seen in full after the act of viewing.

Structure of the Visual Book, Keith A. Smith

My summer reading on typography and book design:

Methods of Book Design, Hugh Williamson
Structure of the Visual Book, Keith A. Smith
Books and Printing: A Treasury for Typophiles, Paul A. Bennett [editor]

I’m setting a goal of updating this journal once a week. Journalling here helps me stay in the mindset of the typographic and the physical. The majority of my Work this summer has been my writing, but I miss printing dearly. Feed the longing. Meditate on the act. Manifest.