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Guest posts
By Maria Popova November 10, 2011

Guest blogger: Maria Popova (Brain Pickings, New York)
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We welcome guest blogger Maria Popova—creator of Brain Pickings, who shares her selection of notable design titles published during 2011. More...

Guest posts
By Katarina V. Posch November 20, 2012

Design scholar Katarina V. Posch (New York)
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Product/industrial designer Eva Zeisel (New York)
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For this guest post, the daughter of the late Eva Zeisel, Jean Richards, asked design scholar and family friend Katarina V. Posch to write an appreciation of Zeisel, on the occasion of the release of the e-book Eva Zeisel: A Soviet Prison Memoir (2012). Compiled by Richards and Brent C. Brolin, the book presents details of the life of the remarkable designer, from whom Designers & Books had the pleasure of receiving a book list (a single book) in 2011. — SK More...

The Proust Questionnaire — Book Edition
By Rick Poynor November 6, 2013

Rick Poynor names the book titles he likes because of the the way they sound, and the last book he'll read (if he has a chance to plan it), and gives more answers to Designers & Books’ questionnaire. More...

By Rick Poynor November 6, 2013

Jonathan Barnbrook is well known for visually complex designs that express deeply held and sometimes controversial political views, and his “bible” takes this kind of self-authorship to spectacular extremes.

Guest posts
By Rick Poynor July 10, 2012

Guest blogger: Visual culture critic Rick Poynor (Design Observer, London)
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Guest blogger Rick Poynor—also a Designers & Books commentator—brings us five books published this year worth exploring this summer. — SK More...

Guest posts
By Rick Poynor January 13, 2012

Guest blogger: Visual culture critic Rick Poynor (Design Observer, London)
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Guest blogger Rick Poynor—also a Designers & Books commentator—discusses Christian Patterson’s Redheaded Peckerwood (MACK, 2011). — SK More...

Graphic design
By Rick Poynor November 3, 2011

Guest blogger: Visual culture critic Rick Poynor (Design Observer, London)
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We welcome guest blogger Rick Poynor—also a Designers & Books commentator—who shares his selection of notable design titles published during 2011. More...

By Glenn Pushelberg December 3, 2013

A good guide for any creative mind to read and digest—and can help hone one’s creative process by focusing attention on the approach itself. We have several copies in the studio and I encourage everyone in our office to read this book.

Daily Features
By Anne Quito, Superscript January 30, 2014

Since its founding in 1953, cover design has helped define the cultural significance of The Paris Review. More...

Daily Features
By Anne Quito, Superscript December 13, 2013

Swiss branding designers discuss the challenges of defining an entire country through graphic design. More...