Guest blogger: Alissa Walker (Los Angeles)
Profile Notable Books of 2012
Guest blogger Alissa Walker—design and urbanism journalist, critic, and author—sent three notable design titles published this fall. These titles will be included later this month among the Notable Design Books of 2012 recommended by the newly launched Designers & Books Book Board. — SK
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Guest blogger: Alissa Walker (Los Angeles)
Profile Notable Books of 2011
Guest blogger Alissa Walker—design and urbanism journalist, critic, and author—talks about why the era of coffee table books bigger than coffee tables is over.
Guest blogger: Erik Spiekermann (Edenspiekermann AG: Berlin)
Profile Notable Books of 2011
Guest blogger and graphic designer Erik Spiekermann examines a book on the history of modern German thought from all angles, including its ingenious cover design.
Guest blogger Randall Ross: Modernism 101 (Shreveport, LA)
Profile 9 Books from the Good Design Movement
Guest blogger Randall Ross, of Modernism 101, specializing in mid-century modern design antiquarian books, presents highlights from his 2012 catalogue, which focuses on books that helped to set the stage for and define America's "Good Design" movement of the postwar period. — SK
Guest blogger: Visual culture critic Rick Poynor (Design Observer, London)
Profile Notable Books of 2011
Guest blogger Rick Poynor—also a Designers & Books commentator—discusses Christian Patterson’s Redheaded Peckerwood (MACK, 2011). — SK
Design scholar Katarina V. Posch (New York)
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Product/industrial designer Eva Zeisel (New York)
Profile Book List
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
