Alpaca Authors, a newly launched imprint of Parker Publishers, is now offering full-service publishing support to independent ...

When we democratized publishing, we gave people the freedom to have opinions unfiltered by editors and other gatekeepers of the closed world of the Fourth Estate. We also gave people the freedom to ...

The web made it easier for anyone to put their writing out in the world. But what happens after the crowd gets used to becoming publishers? They want it to look good, naturally. “There’s a stronger ...

It's definitely a case of word-processor-plus rather than design-app-minus, however. Rather than thinking of the page as a canvas upon which you place your text and images, you have to think of it as ...

The past few years have seen an explosion of zines and small publishing among artists, designers and photographers. Even the most digitally based creative professionals are embracing the zine as a ...

On April 26 and 27, the Other Islands Book Fair returns to Pratt’s Brooklyn campus, bringing together over 40 independent publishers in a two-day event to engage in dialogue centered on making, ...

The Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum today announced the launch of DesignFile, a new line of e-books on design writing and research published in consortium with academic and ...

With eyes on her computer screen and hands on her keyboard, Alyssa Varner scrolled through a somewhat endless stream of files on design projects and illustrations. Considering the creativity behind ...

Every bookshop shelf tells the same visual story now. Romance, fantasy, literary fiction: the covers blur into one another, ...

As fate would have it, the inaugural issue of MACHINE DESIGN coincided almost exactly with the stock-market crash and the beginning of the Great Depression. Although the nation was in the economic ...