{"id":390,"date":"2010-05-06T13:41:22","date_gmt":"2010-05-06T13:41:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/revblogs\/geekcurmudgeon\/2010\/05\/06\/john-coulthart-into-the-media-web\/"},"modified":"2012-08-17T05:18:42","modified_gmt":"2012-08-17T05:18:42","slug":"john-coulthart-into-the-media-web","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/revblogs\/geekcurmudgeon\/2010\/05\/06\/john-coulthart-into-the-media-web\/","title":{"rendered":"John Coulthart & Into the Media Web"},"content":{"rendered":"

John Coulthart blogged about his designs<\/a> for the forthcoming Savoy<\/a> publication Into the Media Web<\/span>, a collection of Michael Moorcock’s nonfiction work.<\/p>\n

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Here at last is the book I spent a good part of last year designing. Into the Media Web<\/span> is a huge volume as befits a huge talent, 720 pages of Michael Moorcock\u2019s non-fiction spanning fifty years of his career from his days writing for sf and fantasy fanzines, through to journalism, reviews and articles for major newspapers and magazines.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

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This being about design, Coulthart shares some of his inspired work.<\/p>\n

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It was the cover design which dictated the look of the interior. The book\u2019s title comes from a prescient article of Moorcock\u2019s from the late 1960s concerning the increasingly interrelated nature of modern media. Accompanying this was a small diagram (below) which showed some of the connections Moorcock was discussing.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

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Inside the book a grey Tube line begins on the half-title page and snakes its way through the entire volume, marked with the names of writers or locations encountered along the way. For the title spread I created an illustration of the author intended to resemble the tile mosaics one finds on the walls of the Underground stations in the city centre. The starting point was a photo from the mid-Seventies which appeared inside the very first Savoy Moorcock book, Sojan<\/span><\/a> in 1977.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

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In the piece<\/a>, he delves even further into the design.<\/p>\n

Coulthart does supply this bit of sobering news.<\/p>\n

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Savoy Books haven\u2019t announced a price yet but it\u2019s going to be about \u00a345 (about $70 American –RK) since it\u2019s another limited edition and weighs a ton.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

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John Coulthart blogged about his designs for the forthcoming Savoy publication Into the Media Web, a collection of Michael Moorcock’s nonfiction work. Quote: Here at last is the book I spent a good part of last year designing. Into the … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n