Product/industrial designer Jonathan Olivares: Jonathan Olivares Design Research (New York)
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Jonathan Olivares generated quite a bit of notice last year with the publication of A Taxonomy of Office Chairs (Phaidon Press), one of the more unusual design books of 2011.
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Dec 18, 2012
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Dec 13, 2012
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Product/industrial designer Stefano Giovanni: Giovannoni Design (Milan)
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On industrial designer Stefano Giovannoni’s book list for Designers & Books are five titles by the French philosopher and sociologist Jean Baudrillard. Why? Giovannoni thinks it’s very important for a designer “to open one’s vision to the philosophical and sociological aspects related to the evolution of our society.” “I’ve never found a design book deep enough for a broad vision of our profession,” he says in the introduction to his book list.
Dec 6, 2012
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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.
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Nov 29, 2012
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Graphic designer Abbott Miller: Pentagram (New York)
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Pentagram’s Abbott Miller sent along to Designers & Books a list of 15 books “that were influential on me as a student” because “as I get older I realize that they continue to influence the way I think about art, architecture, and design.”
Nov 20, 2012
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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
Nov 14, 2012
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Designers & Books has partnered with AIGA and Design Observer to continue the “50 Books/50 Covers” competition honoring excellence in book design.
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Nov 13, 2012
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Thank you to our visitors, exhibitors, and speakers for making the first Designers & Books Fair, held Friday, October 26–Sunday, October 28, a success! As Dwell magazine aptly put it, “The weekend was a successful merger of many fields and professions—a spotlight on images, craft, and the written word.”
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Nov 6, 2012
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Guest blogger: Alissa Walker (Los Angeles)
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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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Oct 31, 2012
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Architect Nathalie de Vries: MVRDV (Rotterdam)
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Co-founder of the Dutch architecture and urban design practice MVRDV, Nathalie de Vries is the third designer in the collaboration between the Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD) that features book lists from the GSD and guest lecturers. De Vries will give a lecture at the GSD this Friday, November 2, and a display of books from her Designers & Books list as well as publications by and about MVRDV from the GSD’s Frances Loeb Library collections will be on view in the library through mid-November.
Oct 23, 2012
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Architect Farshid Moussavi: Farshid Moussavi Architecture (London)
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Architect Farshid Moussavi—who will be the speaker this Thursday, October 25, in the Fall 2012 lecture series of the Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD)—is the second designer in the collaboration between the GSD and Designers & Books that features book lists from a variety of GSD guest lecturers. Concurrent with this collaboration, a display of selections from Moussavi’s Designers & Books list as well as publications from the library’s collections by and about the architect and her work are on view at the GSD’s Frances Loeb Library through October 26.
