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
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Guest blogger: Erik Spiekermann (Edenspiekermann AG: Berlin)
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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: Maria Popova (Brain Pickings, New York)
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Guest blogger Maria Popova—creator of Brain Pickings—looks at George L. Legendre’s recent book, which looks at pasta shapes as design statement.
To help celebrate the year in design book publishing, Designers & Books is posting its second annual list of Notable Design Books. We invited a group of esteemed design community members—our Book Board—to select titles published in 2012 that they think are particularly worth noting.
. . . Read moreGuest blogger: Phil Patton (New York Times, New York)
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Guest blogger Phil Patton highlights some books he is currently reading, and rereading, on a wide range of design subjects. —SK
To end the year in design book publishing, Designers & Books is posting its updated second annual list of Notable Design Books—now with additional titles. We invited a group of esteemed design community members—our Book Board—to select titles published in 2012 that they think are particularly worth noting.
. . . Read moreTo help celebrate the year in design book publishing, Designers & Books invited a group of esteemed design community members to select titles published in 2011 that they think are particularly worth noting. Among those who have participated so far in selecting titles were Justin Davidson, Wendy Goodman, Julie Lasky, Paul Makovsky, Daijiro Mizuno, Phil Patton, Maria Popova, Rick Poynor, and Alissa Walker. Below you will find the results of their deliberations: our list (to date and growing) of Notable Design Books of 2011.
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