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A Journey into the Future...

Chapter 5
Writers on Designer Writing

In this monumental chapter — hailed by a number of early readers as the "blueprint for a Renaissance in literature and the arts" — you will discover:

How new technologies have transformed the visual arts, and likewise, how new technologies will transform works of fiction, history, biography, romance, poetry, etc.
The technical secrets of painters such as Renoir, Monet, Pissaro, Pollock, Lichtenstein, and Rothko, and what writers can learn from them
How painters such as Delacroix saw colors as a keyboard, in the musical sense, and how writers will see colors as a keyboard, in the literary sense
The new writing instruments and software programs that will transform the written word - forever
Techniques writers will use to “make their pages smile more.”
A sneak preview of what books will look like in the future

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page designs.

"The designer book" has the potential to become a new art form, one which stimulates both sides of the viewer's brain, weaving together text and image to create a multi-media aesthetic experience for all of us.”
Ruth Henriquez Lyon

“Many have written of the “end of writing” and the “death of the book,” but they wrote almost exclusively of the end of black and white writing and of the death of Gutenberg style books. The doom sayers seem not to have considered the possibility that the written word could become the visual word, the colored word, the designer word. Soon we will see essays like, “The Birth of the Designer Writer” and “The Beginning of the Book.”
From Goodbye Gutenberg, Writers on Designer Writing, page 67

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The price is attractive even if it were not a first edition. Books with this much high quality artwork typically sell for $75 - $125 — or even more. One of the books in my library, which I discuss in Goodbye Gutenberg, is entitled, Mira Calligraphae Monumentae. It is published by the renowned J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles and sells for $150. Now consider the price: $150. First, there is nothing rare or unusual about this Getty Museum book. Second, the book is literally half the size of Goodbye Gutenberg and has only one third the number of images. Yet it sells for more than three times than Goodbye Gutenberg.

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Anne Rice, Interview with the Vampire: $1,000
Thomas Pynchon, V: $3,000
Alice Walker, Once: $1,500
Toni Morrison,The Bluest Eye: $5,000
Harper Lee, To Kill A Mockingbird: $20,000
Sue Grafton: A is for Alibi: $1,500
Tom Clancy, The Hunt for Red October: $1,250

Source: Firsts Magazine, December 2001

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A Journey into the Future...

Chapter 5 Writers on Designer Writing

In this monumental chapter — hailed by a number of early readers as the "blueprint for a Renaissance in literature and the arts" — you will discover:

Chapter 5
Writers on Designer Writing