Rosslyn and the Grail
60.00 ₾The authoritative guide to Rosslyn Chapel — separating historical fact from popular legend about one of Scotland’s most extraordinary fifteenth-century buildings. Oxbrow and Robertson examine the intricate carvings and their real meanings with scholarly rigour and genuine engagement with the myths.
Shame
46.00 ₾Annie Ernaux’s account of a childhood witnessing and the shame that shaped her entire sense of self — moving between personal memory and sociological analysis of class, aspiration, and Catholic guilt. Formally sophisticated and emotionally unsparing from the 2022 Nobel laureate.
Bodily Harm
50.00 ₾Margaret Atwood’s taut, psychologically complex novel — a Canadian journalist’s Caribbean escape becomes entanglement in a coup and genuine danger. A thriller that explores voyeurism, bodily autonomy, and political complacency, and one of Atwood’s most formally accomplished early works.
Welcome to the Monkey House
46.00 ₾Kurt Vonnegut’s essential story collection — science fiction, satire, and something stranger, spanning two decades and including Harrison Bergeron and other classics. Short, fast, and deceptively simple: stories that arrive quickly and leave behind ideas that expand in the mind for days.
Player Piano
46.00 ₾Vonnegut’s prescient 1952 debut dystopia — a near-future America where machines have replaced human labour and the engineers who manage them form a ruling class. His satirical intelligence is already fully formed: dark comedy, humanism, and anger at dehumanising systems that feel more relevant than ever.
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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.
