Reinventing The Paperback Book In The Digital Age

Adam Michaels, cofounder of Project Projects and editor/designer of the Inventory Books series, and Jeffrey Schnapp, Professor and founder of Harvard's MetaLAB, have coauthored the innovative paperback book The Electric Information Age Book: McLuhan/Agel/Fiore and the Experimental Paperback (TEIAB). Design and Culture's editor in chief Elizabeth Guffey speaks with them about their book and the nature of the design publishing industry today. They reflect on its implications in digital and material media, and its broader cultural critique.