Chris Riddell Quotes

I had been reading magazines a lot, and I love magazines, and so I was always asking myself why is it that these gorgeous articles just don't translate well to the web? Presentation was one aspect of it.

I'm pretty adept with computers and Photoshop for my blog, and I found my style with a conversational voice and an image-ready column.

I thought if I put my book up on the Internet as a file that you could download, and I told people about it, maybe some people would download it and read it, and maybe I could get some response.

The future of television is not on television but online. A majority of us are turning to our computers and mobile devices for news and entertainment, Millennials especially.

There are screens at the gas station, there are screens at the shopping mall. And they all need content.

Apart from photography and music videos, I also do graphic design.

I think one of the most exciting things about the whole digital side of publishing is that it eventually allows you to operate at any length. That also means shorter stuff, too.

I just like pictures and visuals and stuff.

For a long time, I was very resistant to the idea of online publication or even e-books or something like that.

Content is supposed to be king. But in the world of electronic devices, Apple seems to be placing the crown on its own head, apparently believing that its iPad and iPhone are more important to customers than the books, movies, and music they store on them.

I hope that books don't go the way of albums and CD, large format albums, and physical product.

To compare books to computers, I mean, computers are the way to get books. That is the medium for distributing text because it doesn't require paper.

In our day, computer technology and the proliferation of books on CD-ROM have not affected - as far as statistics show - the production and sale of books in their old-fashioned codex form.

Information design has been around since the 1970s. Pioneers like Yale University design guru Edward Tufte and design agency Pentagram have long known and used its power. But now with the rise of the Internet, it's having something of a second birth.

If you have a smartphone, you can give content to the world. The days of putting a movie in movie theaters because people don't have a choice is over.

Those involved in the program are interested in how to use photography, videos, the Internet, film, and anything related to communications and transmission of information in the most up-to-date modern ways.

I am not one of the new media experts working all the time with my computers and the PowerPoints and things of that sort.

To rush to throw away your magazine business and move it on the iPad is just sheer insanity and insecurity and fear.

E-books, which made their debut in the 1990s, cut costs even more for both consumer and producer, though as the Internet expanded, those roles became confused.

For all the power of video and film, I am not giving up my pen. I am just much more likely to try to link essays to webcasts or videos. The best way for these two media to move forward, to inform and make change, is in tandem; together they are more than the sum of their parts.

I'm in favor of any technology that makes my work available to the reading public at a reasonable price.

Digital files cannot be made uncopyable, any more than water can be made not wet.

Imagine the power of surfacing what's happening in the world through images, and potentially other types of media in the future, to each and every person who holds a mobile phone.

I love digital books. And I actually started digital-first publishing back in 2005.

My background was in graphic design, but when I was doing it, it was all hand-drawn stuff, not computers.