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
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Jul 5, 2012
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Architectural historian Victoria Newhouse (New York)
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Architectural historian Victoria Newhouse talks about some of the remarkable music performance spaces that appear in the pages of her newest book, Site and Sound: The Architecture and Acoustics of New Opera Houses and Concert Halls (The Monacelli Press, April 2012).
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Jun 28, 2012
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Jun 26, 2012
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Interior, product, graphic, and fashion designer Todd Oldham: Todd Oldham Studio, Inc. (New York)
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Design editor and writer Wendy Goodman: New York magazine (New York)
Indefatigable designer, writer, and reader Todd Oldham talks to design editor Wendy Goodman of New York magazine in an interview for Designers & Books—about what (and how) he reads and writes. Authors Dorothy Parker and Amy and David Sedaris, artists Cindy Sherman and Tim Hawkinson, film director Sidney Lumet, and designers Roberto Burle Marx, Tony Duquette, Charley Harper, and Alexander Girard are all part of the mix.
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Jun 21, 2012
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Architect John van de Water: NEXT Architects (Amsterdam and Beijing)
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John van de Water, a partner in the Dutch firm NEXT Architects, discusses what went into creating his book You Can’t Change China, China Changes You, an account of five years spent working as a Western architect in China (010 Publishers, February 2012).
Jun 19, 2012
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Architect Neil Denari: Neil M. Denari Architects (Los Angeles)
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Architect Neil Denari is “primarily a reader of nonfiction.” He tells Designers & Books, “Reports, almanacs, and encyclopedias have always interested me as they dryly lay out apparently unbiased information. I am also interested in the opposite: spurious conjectures, crackpot theories, conspiracies, and theoretical arguments.”
Jun 14, 2012
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Guest blogger Erinn Batykefer: Library as Incubator Project (Madison, WI) Profile
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Guest blogger Christina Endres: Library as Incubator Project (Madison, WI) Profile
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We welcome as guest bloggers the creators of Library as Incubator Project, an advocacy organization founded by Erinn Batykefer, Laura Damon-Moore, and Christina Endres—all recent graduates of the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Library and Information Studies. The mission of their organization is to encourage artists and designers of all types to work with libraries to work in ways that inspire increased creativity. In this post Library as Incubator Project explores graphic designer Paul Rand’s (1914–96) personal library, now held by Yale University, where Rand taught design for 35 years. — SK
Jun 12, 2012
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Graphic designer Rudy VanderLans: Emigre (Berkeley, California)
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“I love it when a new technology is used to celebrate an old one,” writes graphic designer Rudy VanderLans in the introduction to the book list he recently sent along to us.
In this case he was talking about the fact that the digitally delivered Designers & Books website is very much about celebrating the medium of print. But the idea could easily be extended to VanderLans’s work as co-founder, with his wife, Zuzana Licko, of Emigre (1984–2005)—one of the most influential and controversial graphic design magazines ever, known for its experimental use of digital typeface design and layouts.
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Jun 5, 2012
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Architect Peter Bohlin: Bohlin Cywinski Jackson (Wilkes-Barre, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, Seattle, San Francisco)
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Architect Peter Bohlin has given us the elegant glass cubes and steel spirals that have defined Apple stores from New York City to Shanghai. At the same time, he and his firm, Bohlin Cywinski Jackson, are known for public commissions such as the visitor center in Grand Teton, Wyoming; civic and academic projects including Seattle City Hall and buildings for Williams College and Carnegie Mellon’s Engineering Institute; and many private residences in wood and stone across the United States that are sensitively integrated into the landscape they occupy.
May 31, 2012
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Guest blogger Randall Ross: Modernism 101 (Shreveport, LA)
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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
