Subtraction.com: Personal References : Khoi Vinh interviews Armin Vit about his new book, “Graphic Design, Referenced,” which looks fantastic.
My favorite bit of the interview is actually less about the book and more about the problem of authority:
Had this been a Web site, I am certain we would have not made the same effort as we did with a printed book that bears our names on the cover. There is something much more official and authoritative (emphasis mine) in a book that a publisher put in thousands of dollars to produce, market and distribute than in a Web site that, even if took the same amount of dollars (it wouldn’t), would be too “flimsy.”
When everything you see is on a screen, nothing is believable. What is digital can lie easier than anything ever before. There are tremendous social, moral, ethical, and philosophical implications.
