Squid and Owl - the Bookl!
Hey! You can buy the book! Buy Squid and Owl for the person on your list who would like a copy of Squid and Owl!
UPDATE: I'm taking down the link. I think the spine of the book may be bleeding onto the cover, to judge from previews. So I'll look into that.
UPDATE 2: Let's try that again!
OK, seriously. I think the book should be fine. The cover and all the pages now look good in WYSIWYG preview. That is, they all look right, apart from the low-res. And I followed the Blurb instructions scrupulously, making the thing. So there shouldn't be any garish colors besides the garish colors I intend to be there. But: I haven't actually laid hands on a physical copy myself. But: it's X-Mas, with a few days left in which to place an order that will arrive in time; so if anyone wants to order a copy - with the caveat that the author-publisher himself hasn't seen it himself, to verify quality ... well, you are most welcome! I will announce this glorious publication with more zeal and confidence when I actually get hold of the thing.
Squeampunk!
A couple years back I sort of went through a Haeckel phase, the upshot of which was a set of X-Mas card designs. You can see them in this Flickr set. If you wanted to buy them, I've got a section of my CafePress store, Rhinobird, devoted to that arcane purpose. At the moment all my Haeckeldesigns are all X-Masy ("so it was the littlest shoggoth who guided Santa's sleigh that night") in orientation, but I'm planning to branch out beyond all that: Squeampunk!
Reason and Persuasion: Three Diaogues By Plato
I just published Reason & Persuasion: Three Dialogues by Plato
In a few days - maybe a week (but I'll try to get around to it) - I'll make a Flickr set containing all the book illustrations. There are a couple hundred.
It's kinda funny. I may be the only person in the history of the world who learned to draw because of PowerPoint. That's right. I teach the large intro philosophy lecture and I had to have some color in my lecture slides. And clipart just doesn't cut it. So one thing led to another ...
Squid and Owl
My most ambitious graphic design project to date, Squid and Owl is being serialized weekdays as a Flickr set. I'm planning to have the book out by X-Mas. Check back for a buy link by November. I'm still sorta hoping some conventional publisher will swoop in and make a reasonable offer. Could that be you, dear reader? Otherwise: vanity, vanity, all is vanity. Ergo, there's nothing really wrong with self-publishing.
In the meantime, I've set up a nice Squid and Owl section in my CafePress store, Rhinobird. You can buy a Change mug. Or t-shirt.
John Holbo
John Holbo is an assistant professor of philosophy at the National University of Singapore. His academic homepage is here. This page, on the other hand, is more for his non-academic/semi-academic/graphic design projects. He has several in progress or in various stages of fallowness/marination.
John Holbo has too many blogs. His personal blog is here. He also blogs at Crooked Timber and The Valve.
Go ahead and email him: jholbo-at-mac-dot-com.
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John Holbo, Belle Waring: Reason & Persuasion: Three Dialogues by Plato
A nice intro to Plato, if I do say so myself, done up with visual flair by yrs. truly. (I made this!) This is the textbook for my intro module. Read the whole thing online in a nifty flash-based interface here.John Holbo, ed.: Framing Theory's Empire
I guess I can include this as design work because I designed the book and the cover (although my lovely wife did most of the Cornell Box-y work). It's an anthology of responses to the Patai, Corall edited Theory's Empire volume, which is about literary studies and Theory (or 'theory' or theory, if you prefer.) You can download the whole thing as a PDF from Parlor Press.John Holbo, ed.: Looking For a Fight: Is there a Republican War on Science?
Again, an academic book - but about a popular science book: Chris Mooney's The Republican War on Science- edited by me. And mostly designed by me, although the cover was designed by David Blakesley of Parlor Press.) Speaking of which: you can download the whole thing as a free PDF from Parlor Press.
Rhinobird
- Rhinobird is my store on CafePress. It's also - perhaps confusingly - my Lulu store. Basically, I make stuff and put it up for sale and call it Rhinobird. (The logo was designed by Zoë Holbo, when she was 4 years old. I have her permission to use it. On CafePress you will find my Haeckel stuff and Squid&Owl stuff (for the time being.) On Lulu, I've put up a few fun old titles that I polished up, made all typographically nice, and made nice covers for. You can download all the PDF's for free, so go ahead and check it out. (I'm planning to clean up those editions a bit in the near future, and add some more.)
