Laura Brunow Miner (Space Miner) has a short and well-written suggestion for people posting on Tumblr to get it together and credit your sources for photos and quotes.
I can’t tell you the number of times I’ve found something very interesting on Tumblr only to have to jump through hoops just to find out who created the original artwork (photograph, image, or quote). It’s very annoying not just from a reader’s point of view but from an artist’s point of view as well because people’s work are often just taken out of context and posted without any recognition of the original artist.
I consider it common courtesy to link back to either the artist’s website or the page from where the artist originally posted their work and at the moment, Tumblr seems to be the largest single site that is guilty of doing neither. It’s always a long line of reblogs and reblogs and reblogs, with no one in the middle even bothering to stop and think about where that image or peice of artwork came from.
Penguin Books just announced what is probably the most exciting thing to come to book design in a very long time. They are unleashing 13 limited edition artist-designed book sets for the Christmas season. Each set is unified by a design motif that stretches across all of the covers in that set. The book covers are truly beautiful and inspirational and they bring back great artwork to great classics in literature.
Every set has its own unique price, but only 5 of the 13 sets come with an extremely limited edition poster. The quantities are limited and sales are based on a first come first serve basis, so if you’re really into these, I wouldn’t hesistate a moment longer before putting the purchase through. Seriously, these are so awesome.
