Comments on: Carina’s (Kind Of) Scary Life Plan: Part I.

By: Camille Z

Camille Z — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 21:44:20 +0000

Yes, but my luggage were already 11kg overweight :( Kinokuniya was just book heaven. Sigh. Ah, well. Haha.

By: Carina

Carina — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 12:14:08 +0000

Paulina, yis! Too bad I have to ask people to buy them for me, though. :( I wish they sold them here. Kahit back issues lang. Camille S, good to know! I really love this issue, though, I don't really have very many. OK! It's got decent reviews on Amazon, if that helps. :) No, but really, I do not exaggerate how ill-equipped most of us are... We really had to sort of learn a lot of stuff by ourselves. I really feel sort of cheated, major-wise, by my education. Camille Z, haha I could never! I really love them. Good thing I like writing. :) Sayang, I bought it in Singapore. Didn't you study there for a while? Kinokuniya had a lot of great design books.

By: Camille

Camille — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 08:58:27 +0000

I LOVE notebooks. :D I used to have so many (and I still kinda do, like some stocked-up fake moleskins, haha) until I started giving some as gifts whenever friends had birthdays.

I’ve tried printing some “books” of my own, mostly collections of poetry by other people. I never really bought a book on in it, so that Indie Publishing book interests me a lot. 8D

By: Camille

Camille — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 08:06:08 +0000

Haha don’t worry Carina, a very entertaining blog post. I see a copy of Frankie! HUZZAH! You will feel your creative itches being revived after frequent doses of Frankie.

That Making and Breaking the Grid book looks really useful, let us know how it goes so that if it’s decent I’ll buy it.

Couldn’t agree more with that formal education thing — a majority of stuff at uni we’re expected to figure out on our own, and most of it has been just a lot of guesswork, peer feedback, trial and error and vague understandings for most of us. We’re left with very little technical knowledge at the end of the day.

By: ArinaAntos

ArinaAntos — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 02:48:50 +0000

I spy Frankie magazine! I like them a lot :)

By: Carina

Carina — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 18:09:46 +0000

Kamyl, post one anyway! :) Those are always interesting to look at. Where were you going to post it? Yeah, it’s pretty awesome.

Cory, good to hear that! I’m really looking forward to reading through it. :) Lupton’s is nice! I’m sure it’s not the most thorough book on publishing, but it covers a lot of the basics and discusses what self-publishing might be good for, and outlines a lot of options. Thank you! :) I’m trying to figure out the best way to go about this “self-improvement.”

By: Cory

Cory — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 17:57:09 +0000

I also have the Making and Breaking the Grid. It’s a really helpful book for organizing your layouts and other design projects when you’re really just stuck. I haven’t been aware of the Indie Publishing book by Lupton. I need to buy that ASAP! Also, I really love how you’re organizing yourself and setting goals/lists. I really need to start doing that (right now I’m an unorganized mess!) I wish you luck on all your future projects! :D

By: Kamyl

Kamyl — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 17:54:22 +0000

You beat me to it! I’ve been planning on posting a post (eh?) about my notebooks. Haha.

Indie Publishing looks interesting.