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The Proust Questionnaire — Book Edition
By Seymour Chwast December 2, 2013

Graphic designer and Push Pin Studios co-founder Seymour Chwast says his favorite book character is Joseph Heller’s John Yossarian and that he wants the last book he reads to be Margaret Wise Brown’s Goodnight Moon. These and more answers from Seymour to The Proust Questionnaire—Book Edition. More...

Daily Features
By Steve Kroeter May 20, 2016

On Tuesday May 24, New York’s esteemed Cooper Union marks the 65th graduation anniversary of one of its most famous alumni, Seymour Chwast, who will spend an evening talking about his life as a graphic designer and illustrator, activist, and author. Joining him will be design writer Steven Heller. More...

Daily Features
By Steve Kroeter April 28, 2016

For almost six decades, Seymour Chwast has used his signature blend of design, illustration, and social commentary to wage a campaign against war. Now, at age 84, he turns his pen and sketchpad toward creating a new book of powerful antiwar images, Seymour Chwast at War with War: An Illustrated Timeline of 5000 Years of Conquests, Invasions, and Terrorist Attacks. Designers & Books has just launched a Kickstarter to support the publication of this limited-edition book. Join us! More...

Book List of the Week
By Steve Kroeter December 23, 2013

On the walls in one of her rooms at home, Sheila Bridges has painted the words of the authors and books she loves, she tells Design Matters’s Debbie Millman in a recent interview. More...

Sighted on the Web & Elsewhere
By Tiffany Lambert, Designers & Books September 6, 2013

Google Glass is “in vogue,” privacy by design, paper passion, and comic books to display product design. More...

Sighted on the Web & Elsewhere
By Tiffany Lambert, Designers & Books August 16, 2013

MoMA’s Young Frank, library-inspired wallpaper, last-minute summer reads. More...

Sighted on the Web & Elsewhere
By Tiffany Lambert, Designers & Books August 23, 2013

Stories become structures, McSweeney’s interview with a lampshade maker, Zaha Hadid’s sketchbook, anti-surveillance fashion. More...

Sighted on the Web & Elsewhere
By Tiffany Lambert, Designers & Books August 30, 2013

Constructing Mark Twain, illustrations of translations, interactive Martin Luther King Jr., Lego architecture studio.

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Sighted on the Web & Elsewhere
By Tiffany Lambert, Designers & Books August 9, 2013

Why Tom Hanks loves typewriters, Konstantin Grcic remakes Le Corbusier, Soviet design, and a dream synthesizer. More...

Sighted on the Web & Elsewhere
By Tiffany Lambert, Designers & Books August 2, 2013

Zoë Ryan in Istanbul, a month of Citi Bike, charting The Great Gatsby, Gmail’s undo More...