I’ve decided I’m really interested in paginated media: Books.

They have an incredible interactivity that computer just don’t have. You can study them. You can look of them up close, a page at a time. They organize their content into finite chunks, creating a wonderful creative faculty for a designer. Unlike a webpage, a reader can only take into two pages at a time, at most. A clever designer knows this, and can harness it to better his or her work.

When you pick up a book, you know it has work put into it. The author, editor, designer, printer, publisher, and book seller or library have all put energy in presenting a product to you. Each one of those people have exact skills and apply them to the whole process. It’s also a barrier to entry. Not everyone can make a book.

That’s maybe my attraction to it. I want to prove that I can create something worthy of physical presence, not just thrown up on webserver somewhere and then stuck onto your screen.