Audio Interview with C.S. Scott Richardson, Book Designer/Novelist
C.S. 'Scott' Richardson is an accomplished book designer who has worked in publishing for over twenty years. He is a multiple recipient of the Alcuin Award (Canada’s highest honour for excellence in book design) and a frequent lecturer on publishing, design and communications. A rare bird indeed, he recently published his first novel The End of the Alphabet, and is currently at work on his second.
We talk here about C.S. Lewis, the role of the book designer, the award winning Bedside Book of Birds, ‘thumbage,’ how the best book design is invisible, the best designers currently at work in Canada, the U.S. and Britain, and Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress, published by Chatto and Windus in England, and Knopf in the U.S. as one of the best designed books in recent memory.
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February 11th, 2008 at 1:25 AM
Thanks for visiting my blog, Nigel! I enjoyed this interview and appreciate the introduction to "The Bedside Book of Birds". (I think I’ll buy it. ) I hope that wasn’t an important phonecall you missed…( about nineteen minutes in
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February 11th, 2008 at 10:08 AM
My pleasure Susan. I notice that you are a fan of Anne Degrace. You might be interested in this interview, conducted shortly after the release of Treading Water.