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jen_the_scribe
Design Is Storytelling | Ellen Lupton
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I finally finished this one but I‘ll definitely be coming back to it again and again. It‘s probably my favorite design book so far as it connects two of my passions: (obviously) design and stories. There were so many books and articles referenced that my TBR list just got bigger, and there were countless practice exercises and prompts to get the creative juices flowing. I‘m excited to give them a try! Continued in comments ⬇️

jen_the_scribe The way Lupton connected storytelling techniques and methodology to design was thought-provoking and inspiring. It all makes sense as you read it and the examples drive the points home in an intriguing way. There‘s so much for a designer to unpack with this one, but personally, I find it more exciting than overwhelming. I‘m inspired and even more ready to solve design problems as the storyteller I am at heart. 3mo
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jen_the_scribe
Design Is Storytelling | Ellen Lupton

“…our gaze is drawn to points of intrigue, from a dark hole in the middle of the road to a black cat lurking in the shadows. Humans instinctively look for novelty and surprise, because any shift in what we see could be a source of danger or delight.”

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jen_the_scribe
Design Is Storytelling | Ellen Lupton

“Narrative helps us shuttle between representation and experience, between cultural convention and embodied, felt response.”

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DebinHawaii
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#DecemberDreams

I made a #BookTree once & decided I am way too lazy for it. It‘s putting the books away that sucks! Anyway, last year my holiday cards & postcards from Zazzle featured book stacks & book trees. 🤷🏻‍♀️📚🎄

I picked the tagged book for its title but it looks so interesting I may need to add it to my TBR! 🌳

Eggs This is lovely🌲📚🎄 4mo
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks I thought the same thing!! 4mo
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julesG
XX | Rian Hughes
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#BookMail 2 - because why send it all with the same carrier when you can send two ??

Stroke of the Pen - new release of "lost" short stories by #SirTerryPratchett for #OokBOokClub (obvs) ?

XX - definitely @Robotswithpersonality's fault. Might read it before ? and give it to my son. It might be his sort of book

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LaraS
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A series of essays regarding the evolution on the cover designs on Nabokov‘s Lolita, including an entire section of concept covers from various graphic designers. The essays were ok, I have to admit they got a little bit repetitive, but it was worth it to see the concept art. The ones pictured are my faves.

A leftover from Sept but still a few points for the #scarathalon #batbrigade @Catsandbooks

Catsandbooks 👍🏼🦇💜 6mo
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jen_the_scribe
Design Is Storytelling | Ellen Lupton

“Stories ask questions and delay the answers.”

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jen_the_scribe
Design Is Storytelling | Ellen Lupton
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I‘ve been so hyper-focused on my health & fitness goals that my creative/professional goals have kinda fallen by the wayside. So, to get motivated, I decided my next nonfiction read should be design related. Inspiration awaits (I hope)…

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Robotswithpersonality
XX | Rian Hughes
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Mehso-so

I can look at this book more favourably If I view it as an experiment. If you ripped a few pages out of Contact, a good chunk out of a couple astronomy text books, some coffee table graphic/history of fonts books, some history of language/communication books and a philosophy text book to top it off and buzzed them in a blender, you'd get the general vibe. A discussion about the virality of ideas is paramount in this SCIENCE fiction work. 1/?

Robotswithpersonality 2/? It gives decent coverage to how powerful, ideas, good or bad, can be, how people can have powerful and opposite reactions to new concepts. Also attempts to address the complicated history surrounding xenophobia, how people might view potential 'aliens': those who want not to see negative othering/immigrant experience perpetuated in humanity 's history repeated in the cosmos vs. those who will automatically be bellicose/defensive at the potential for extra terrestrial visitors. 6mo
Robotswithpersonality 3/? I loved the premise of multitudinous multimedia included , as well as the manipulation of font (size, type, formatting, orientation on the page) as an aid to telling the story, and I think for the most part it didn't feel extraneous, rather the book was a little repetitive in plot beats, and therefore, not just the special aspects, but the plain narrative began to drag. Still, grateful it wasn't divided into a duology, because waiting for that ending would have been worse. 6mo
Robotswithpersonality 4/? The two teams, Jodrell Bank and Intelligencia, working the problem in the earlier part of that book, along with the digital personification of past centuries as a sampling of the Internet's defence against alien ideas were the winning moments for me. 6mo
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Robotswithpersonality 5/? I fear this book wanted to make a heavy handed point about ideology, (propaganda, how ideas spread, science vs religion, science vs social justice) but then distracted itself, not only with an idea about how to make humanity's/other intelligences' memories/contributions immortal, but also what appear to be well-researched/thought out explorations into how science might grapple with certain eventualities - really putting the science in science fiction in a way I wasn't fully equipped to assess as plausible, or fully interested in seeing the nuts and bolts laid out in the page. 6mo
Robotswithpersonality 6/? I would like to think that the vast majority of the time, those speaking for social justice, and those speaking for scientific truth - as much as it can be verified today - (without biases associated with certain finding sources) were on the same page, so it really rubbed me the wrong way, took me out of the story, to see the opposite presented as what seems like the dominant thread between the two groups in this novel. This was technically background to other discussions going on in the book, but very distracting for me. 6mo
Robotswithpersonality 7/? Heads up if you're going to read the 'novelette' included within this book, in an impressive imitation of early modern sci fi serials, it's got a lot of questionable content, and also some pretty gross descriptions. It echoes some plot points/themes discussed in the main text, so I honestly think you can skip it, no problem, and save yourself a few disturbing mental images. 🤢 How it is a work of fiction which manages to reflect the actions in the world of the story, and why it's author, who is also a professor, is repeatedly referred to as a cult leader, if its not really explored just makes me a little annoyed, having read it and not getting the full pay off. 🤷🏼‍♂️ 6mo
Robotswithpersonality 8/? Fair warning from an accessibility stand point, the font choices can make the text hard to read, and for whatever reason, (paper choice?), this is an exceptionally, unusually heavy hard back. Take care of your wrists! 6mo
Robotswithpersonality 9/? I did appreciate some of the side tangents into symbolism, meaning, communication, exactly how staggeringly difficult it would be to attempt to initiate conversation with a being that has absolutely nothing in common with any humans, no cultural or linguistic basis. 😵‍💫 6mo
Robotswithpersonality 10/? Will need to look up own voices' reviews to see how that autistic rep is recieved 6mo
Robotswithpersonality 11/11 ⚠️ r slur (delayed development/disability slur), racial slur, SA Novelette within novel specific: mention of enslavement, forced sex work/SA, bestiality (?!), cannibalism, body horror
6mo
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Robotswithpersonality
XX | Rian Hughes
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☝🏻☝🏻☝🏻📊