publishing culture
The Production and History of Daisy Turner’s Moose Factory Cree
In 1974 Daisy Turner released the first edition of her book Moose Factory Cree, an ililîmowin (Moose Cree) syllabic primer illustrated by children from Moose Factory Elementary school. Almost fifty years later, Moose Factory Cree remains in print. This essay details the significance of Turner’s contribution to children’s literature considering her contributions to Cree language, Indigenous print cultures, and Moose Factory history through her work translating and recording her community’s histories.
THE BOOK, UNFOLDED (PART 1)
The form of the book in the 21st century, originally published in
Amphora Magazine, No. 178
I don’t think it’s cool to spend the present anticipating the future.— Kenya Hara, ‘Books as Information Sculpture’, Designing Design
I recorded an audio version of this essay
THE BOOK, UNFOLDED (PART 2)
The form of the book in the 21st century, originally published in
Amphora Magazine, No. 178
That print increasingly hypnotized the Western world is nowadays the theme of all historians of art and science alike, because we no longer live under the spell of the isolated visual sense. We have not yet begun to ask under what new spell we exist.
— Marshall McLuhan, The Gutenberg Galaxy
art & design
Vancouver Soundscape Project
The soundscape is any acoustic field of study. We may speak of a musical composition as a soundscape, or a radio program as a soundscape. We can isolate and study the acoustic environment as a field of study just as we can study the characteristics of a given landscape.
— R. Murray Schafer, “The Tuning of the World”