Three Tschichold-inspired S&O Pages

I see that commenters are starting to inquire, politely, whether we are still alive. Probably a sign it's time to feed the blog, eh? News, news? Belle has been busy. I have been busy. We have all had colds, been traveling, returning, been grading papers. That sort of thing. I just reviewed a book about the typographer Tschichold for my colleague Axel's new literary thingummy. In honor of all that, three new pages of S&O:

And:

And

I'm in the process of planning to make S&O into a book, finally. It's a bit hard to know how to do so best. (Thanks to those of you who have been politely inquiring after the product.) The problem, really, is that the only way to print it in a cost-effective way is in large volumes ...

But I've got tenure. Some people have got REAL problems, or so I read in the newspaper every day.

Comments

[david herwaldt]

mr holbo, it's not true that printing in large volume is the only cost-effective way to produce a book of the sort you are imagining. you can do quite a nice job at very affordable prices using digital printing through such firms as Lulu (and there are others). although the choices of paper and format are somewhat limited, and the binding is not-as-well-crafted as might be hoped for, the reproduction is excellent, in my experience. in short order, you can have a credible book in your hand, or one in your hand and a carton of them in your office, or one in your hand and stacks of cartons in your basement--or as many or few as you think you may need. or it can remain a virtual book until someone orders one and pays for it on the, for example, Lulu site (should you choose to make it available there).

[jholbo]

thanks, Dave, I actually know about this stuff. Lulu can do a good job. Problem is: too expensive to do it that way. Lulu can do it for about $50 a copy. If I were to do an offset print run, it would cost about 5$ a copy. But I'd have to buy, say 1,500 copies.