What do we see when we read? Designer Peter Mendelsund, who's behind a few iconic covers you might've seen on bookshelves, poses the question in his new book, and, fittingly, answers it in an aesthetically pleasing way, alternating text-only pages with visualizations of his argument. Although we imagine the experience of reading as similar to watching a film, the goings-on in our brains are entirely more nebulous when we sit down with a book than when we sit back to watch a movie. He begins by d...
What do we see when we read? Designer Peter Mendelsund, who's behind a few iconic covers you might've seen on bookshelves, poses the question in his new book, and, fittingly, answers it in an aesthetically pleasing way, alternating text-only pages with visualizations of his argument. Although we imagine the experience of reading as similar to watching a film, the goings-on in our brains are entirely more nebulous when we sit down with a book than when we sit back to watch a movie. He begins by d...
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