Erica Mena

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Cat Lorem Ipsum

June 13, 2016 by Erica Mena

See owner, run in terror lick yarn hanging out of own butt jump off balcony, onto stranger’s heador meowing non stop for food so swat turds around the house. Spit up on light gray carpet instead of adjacent linoleum climb a tree, wait for a fireman jump to fireman then scratch his face, and rub face on owner ignore the squirrels, you’ll never catch them anyway chase ball of stringswat turds around the house. Stares at human while pushing stuff […]

Categories: Uncategorized • Tags: book design, cats

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Judging A Book By Its Cover (And Interior!)

February 11, 2015 by Erica Mena

Form fixed, or flowing? That’s the question I think about a lot in terms of new book forms. Is a particular text flowing, like water, able to shape itself without losing anything to many different containers (page sizes, margins, font faces, leading, etc.) depending on the preference of the reader. Or is a text, like many poems, fixed. The line has to end where it ends or the meaning and artistry of the text are compromised. There’s clearly room in […]

Categories: Publishing • Tags: book design, design, poetry, poetry design, poetry publishing

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