Another Kirschenbaum, More Colorful Than I

Valerie Kirschenbaum (no relation), author of Goodbye Gutenberg, is a writer and graphic artist interested in the history of print, media, and visual design. Here’s a taste:

Many have written of the “end of writing” and the “death of the book,” but they wrote almost exclusively of the end of black and white writing and of the death of Gutenberg style books. The doom sayers seem not to have considered the possibility that the written word could become the visual word, the colored word, the designer word. Soon we will see essays like, “The Birth of the Designer Writer” and “The Beginning of the Book.”

© 2004 The Global Renaissance Society, LLC

The book’s Web site has numerous preview images. All of them look amazing. There’s even a chapter on Blake . . . Valerie turned me up on Google, and has generously offered to send me a copy of her book. I’m certainly looking forward to it.