Klara and the Sun
46.00 ₾Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro (Faber) — Klara is an Artificial Friend who observes the world with absolute clarity and absolute limitation simultaneously, chosen by a teenager whose health is declining and who needs her in ways she must learn to understand. Ishiguro’s Nobel Prize lecture novel — narrated by a consciousness both less and more than human — a novel of quiet devastation from one of the greatest living writers. Published by Faber & Faber.
Come Rain or Come Shine
28.00 ₾Come Rain or Come Shine by Kazuo Ishiguro (Faber) — in the space of a single evening, a journey, a meal, a game of cards, everything is decided or not decided between a man and a woman who have known each other for fifteen years. Ishiguro’s short story as compressed and precisely balanced as a Japanese object — few pages that repay repeated reading. Part of the Faber Stories series. Published by Faber & Faber.
The Buried Giant
46.00 ₾The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro (Faber) — in a post-Arthurian Britain veiled in mist and forgetting, an elderly couple journey to find their son, gradually discovering the nature and purpose of a collective amnesia that has settled over the entire country. What do we owe to a painful past we might prefer to forget? Ishiguro’s most mythological novel — profound, strange, and unforgettable from a Nobel laureate at the height of his powers. Published by Faber & Faber.
The Unconsoled
50.00 ₾The Unconsoled by Kazuo Ishiguro (Faber) — a celebrated pianist arrives in a Central European city to give a concert of enormous civic importance, and finds himself drawn into an endless succession of encounters and detours whose aggregate logic is the logic of a dream. Deliberately structured as an extended dream, demanding complete surrender — a novel about the impossibility of presence and the gap between our obligations and our capacity to fulfil them. Extraordinary. Published by Faber & Faber.
When We Were Orphans
46.00 ₾When We Were Orphans by Kazuo Ishiguro (Faber) — the most celebrated detective in 1930s London has never stopped believing his parents, who disappeared in Shanghai when he was a child, can be found. When he returns to Shanghai as the world darkens toward war, he discovers not truth but the lengths to which a person can go to maintain a necessary illusion. A thriller without the certainties of the thriller genre — growing stranger and more moving with every page. Published by Faber & Faber.
The Remains of the Day
46.00 ₾The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro (Faber) — Stevens, a perfect butler, takes a rare motoring holiday and is finally alone with the question he has spent his life not asking: whether the life he gave to perfect service was a life worth giving. Booker Prize winner 1989 — a masterpiece of first-person narration in which every sentence means more than it says, and Stevens’s careful prose becomes the vehicle for a tragedy of unacknowledged feeling and unrecoverable time. Published by Faber & Faber.
Nocturnes
46.00 ₾Nocturnes by Kazuo Ishiguro (Faber) — five stories linked by music: a Venice gondolier, a London jazz guitarist, a cellist in Rome, a failed musician in an English pub, and a saxophonist in a luxury hotel. Each story requires its compression and nothing more; together they constitute something as sustained and as resonant as a novel — about the gap between what we imagined our lives would be and what they have actually become. Essential Ishiguro. Published by Faber & Faber.
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Chances are there wasn't collaboration, communication, and checkpoints, there wasn't a process agreed upon or specified with the granularity required. It's content strategy gone awry right from the start. Forswearing the use of Lorem Ipsum wouldn't have helped, won't help now. It's like saying you're a bad designer, use less bold text, don't use italics in every other paragraph. True enough, but that's not all that it takes to get things back on track.
The villagers are out there with a vengeance to get that Frankenstein
You made all the required mock ups for commissioned layout, got all the approvals, built a tested code base or had them built, you decided on a content management system, got a license for it or adapted:
- The toppings you may chose for that TV dinner pizza slice when you forgot to shop for foods, the paint you may slap on your face to impress the new boss is your business.
- But what about your daily bread? Design comps, layouts, wireframes—will your clients accept that you go about things the facile way?
- Authorities in our business will tell in no uncertain terms that Lorem Ipsum is that huge, huge no no to forswear forever.
- Not so fast, I'd say, there are some redeeming factors in favor of greeking text, as its use is merely the symptom of a worse problem to take into consideration.
- Websites in professional use templating systems.
- Commercial publishing platforms and content management systems ensure that you can show different text, different data using the same template.
- When it's about controlling hundreds of articles, product pages for web shops, or user profiles in social networks, all of them potentially with different sizes, formats, rules for differing elements things can break, designs agreed upon can have unintended consequences and look much different than expected.
This is quite a problem to solve, but just doing without greeking text won't fix it. Using test items of real content and data in designs will help, but there's no guarantee that every oddity will be found and corrected. Do you want to be sure? Then a prototype or beta site with real content published from the real CMS is needed—but you’re not going that far until you go through an initial design cycle.
