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John Morgan founder of John Morgan Studio on the first electronic book entry and the geographical spread and diversity of what is on show.
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John Morgan founder of John Morgan Studio on the first electronic book entry and the geographical spread and diversity of what is on show.
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On April 21st, 2010 Peter Collingridge said:
Thanks for this John – as digital publisher of the Nick Cave (not Drake!) ebook we knew it was a bit cheeky entering it for whole book category, but we’re proud to have been the first ebook entry and to have got your attention.
We still think this is the category the entry deserved to be in, as the apps category is restricted to “brand-building” apps – which we’re not.
For anyone interested in what the future of book design is going to look like, there is a short promo video here:
http://www.enhanced-editions.com/
On April 21st, 2010 John Morgan said:
Thanks Peter, yes Cave! And yes most definitely the appropriate category. In fact I think the reason this book didn’t progress through the judging stages as far as I would have liked (for symbolic reasons perhaps it should have gone all the way) is because it did sit so comfortably alongside its older relatives and too often they had the advantage (with the reader in mind). As Lissitzky put it in 1923 ‘the new book demands the new writer’. This is something to look forward to.
On May 25th, 2010 Peter Collingridge to speak at DA&D’s inaugural Sharp’ner event | Enhanced Editions said:
[...] app was the first ever ebook submission for the DA&D design awards earlier this year, and it almost made it to the judging stage, but it wasn’t to be. To show there are no hard feelings, on [...]