The work on the long-promised artist galleries has stalled to the point of utter inactivity. What had been intended as a nice way of highlighting different aspects of their work, apart from the Robert E. Howard Library of Classics, has simply not come together in any sort of timely manner. To think that they will appear at this late date is rather pointless. A simple Google search of any of the names featured in the Publishing Portfolio will turn up a representative sample of their output. Specific questions may be directed our way via the Contact page.

Several short term projects are in the works: an annotated transcription of master typographer Jan Tschichold’s classic Penguin Composition Rules – the annotating will have to wait, but the document is here – and William Strunk’s invaluable original incarnation of The Elements of Style. The former is of principle use to those engaged in the arcane, but not wholly lost, art of typesetting, though the intention is to expand that into a more general discussion of punctuation and formatting rules. The zen of Tschichold’s layout directives can be seen as a direct companion document to Professor Strunk’s instruction on the simplification and clarification of prose. They are intertwined, both in their graceful elegance and in the fact that without one, there is very little point in the existence of the other.

And that’s that.