X-Post: The New York Times on Obama & Typography

Campaign Stops: To the Letter Born
By Steven Heller
Published: April 2, 2008
Obama’s consistent use of the Gotham typeface in his graphics reflects his personality and his campaign message.

“Barack Obama is running the first real transmedia campaign of the 21st century. His people not only understand how media has splintered, but how audiences have splintered, too. Cell phones, mobile devices, Web sites, e-mail, social networks, iPods, laptops, billboards, print ads and campaign events are now just as important as television. The senator’s design strategy has given these diverse platforms (and their different audiences) a coherence that makes them all work together. I’ve worked with giant, global corporations who don’t do it this well.”

More here.

X-Post: Amazon changes rules for print-on-demand publishers

Online retailer requires POD publishers to use its BookSurge printing service
By Linda Rosencrance

March 28, 2008 (Computerworld) Amazon.com Inc. has told publishers who print books on demand that their titles will no longer be sold directly through Amazon if they don’t use the company’s printing company, BookSurge.

Full article here.

The Newness: LATINO POETRY REVIEW

A great first issue of what is sure to be an important center for critical discussion of not only Latina/Latino poetry but American Poetics as well.

Congrats to all the editors and contributors!

Latino Poetry Review publishes book reviews, essays, and interviews with an eye towards spurring inquiry and dialogue. LPR recognizes that Latino and Latina poets in the 21st century embrace, and work out of, a multitude of aesthetics. With this in mind, its critical focus is the poem and its poetics.