Reviewing Bibles for Fun and ... well, Just Fun

Posted by J. Mark Bertrand
on Thursday, October 16, 2008
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BibleDesignBlog.com is a side project of mine that's taken on a life of its own. Traffic over there has shot through the roof recently, so I should probably be mentioning this site there instead of the other way around. The idea of the site is simple. As a former graphic designer obsessed with good typography and a Christian to boot, I've always been fascinated by the Bible as, among other things, a design problem. How do you arrange all that information to promote readability? And in an age of declining publishing standards, how do you manufacture a book meant to be read not once but for a lifetime?

"The physical form of the Good Book," in other words. Thanks to the forbearance of my wife and the kindness of a lot of people in the publishing industry, I've been able to write about the topic at length. Whether my efforts really contribute to any substantive improvements, I can't say, but it's a terribly fascinating way to spend one's time.

Today, for example, I posted a lengthy piece about a new edition from Cambridge University Press, the classic Pitt Minion featuring a relatively new translation called the English Standard Version. If you haven't clicked over and taken a look at the site before, this would be a good feature to see -- lots of photos, some of them even in focus!