Posts Tagged ‘Greer Allen’

“The Design and Printing of Library Exhibition Catalogues” by Greer Allen—Part 4: Project Standards

Purpose, readers’ expectations, project feasibility and standards are the four concerns central to the planning of library exhibition catalogues. If these four are addressed successfully, other issues remain incidental. If there is shortfall in any one of these critical zones, no amount of manipulation of the peripherals can disguise the publication’s weakness.
PROJECT STANDARDS
Standards means producing [...]

“The Design and Printing of Library Exhibition Catalogues” by Greer Allen—Part 3: Project Feasibility

Purpose, readers’ expectations, project feasibility and standards are the four concerns central to the planning of library exhibition catalogues. If these four are addressed successfully, other issues remain incidental. If there is shortfall in any one of these critical zones, no amount of manipulation of the peripherals can disguise the publication’s weakness.
PROJECT FEASIBILITY
In addition to [...]

“The Design and Printing of Library Exhibition Catalogues” by Greer Allen—Part 2: Readers’ Expectations

Purpose, readers’ expectations, project feasibility and standards are the four concerns central to the planning of library exhibition catalogues. If these four are addressed successfully, other issues remain incidental. If there is shortfall in any one of these critical zones, no amount of manipulation of the peripherals can disguise the publication’s weakness.
READERS’ EXPECTATIONS
To issue any [...]

“The Design and Printing of Library Exhibition Catalogues” by Greer Allen—Part 1: Purpose

Purpose, readers’ expectations, project feasibility and standards are the four concerns central to the planning of library exhibition catalogues. If these four are addressed successfully, other issues remain incidental. If there is shortfall in any one of these critical zones, no amount of manipulation of the peripherals can disguise the publication’s weakness.
PURPOSE
“What is this all [...]

“The Economy of Scarcity” by Carl Purington Rollins

I used to spend occasional evenings at the Boston Public Library, reading, partly for the pleasure of the contents, patly for the exhilaration of the printing, the books which William Morris had printed at the Kelmscott Press. This was only five or six years after the close of that establishment, and those who have [...]