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Hand Written 2.0

We wrote about Craig Oldham’s Hand Written Letter Project when it was first published in July, 2011 ¹ and again when we received our beautifully crafted books in August, 2011 ². If you didn’t get in early enough to pick up one of the original limited edition, good news, Mr Oldham’s published a second edition. As he puts it:

This new edition features an expanded collection of new correspondence … including more additions from the design world’s leading figures alongside heartfelt correspondence from people who just had something they wished to say.

Meticulously produced, this edition documents the correspondence chronologically presenting each letter uninterupted on it’s individual page. Section sewn into signatures and bound with an 8-page double gatefold cover, this new books presents letter after letter, message after message, presenting the most complete and uninterrupted résumé of the [project] to date.

We’d urge you to pick up a copy second time around, you won’t regret it.

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The Periodical

The most recent entries in the Periodical and Reviews sections:

• Tina Roth Eisenberg, perhaps better known by her swissmiss moniker, is a 'Swiss Designer Gone NYC', with an eye for beautifully designed products that she writes about at swissmiss. She lives and works in NYC. We asked Ms Roth Eisenberg a dozen questions…
• AIGA have long fought the good fight against crowdsourcing, clearly articulating the very real issues that plague the 'winner takes all' approach to sourcing design by subcontracting it to the masses…
• In 2009, Andy Baio - a writer and entrepreneur who helped build Kickstarter - ate his own dog food and launched a Kickstarter project called 'Kind of Bloop'. The idea was elegant, and one we immediately fell in love with…

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In addition to their role as lecturers in interactive design at the University of Ulster at Belfast, where they have been active in promoting a web standards-based curriculum, Christopher Murphy and Nicklas Persson are practicing designers and digital artists. Their work has featured in a variety of design books and magazines alongside numerous internationally respected designers and they are regular speakers at design conferences and workshops worldwide.

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