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Understanding Understanding: New from Richard Saul Wurman
Understanding Understanding
by Richard Saul Wurman
Publisher: Richard Saul Wurman and Jack Dangermond
Published July 30, 2017
From the author of Information Architecture, who says about his newest book: “This is a book for people to dip into, as they would walk in and out of the room of a dinner party and embrace their interests. . . Before the rules on how to organize information, before you learn grammar, before you work hard at expanding your vocabulary and go through the exercises of parallel meanings of things as using a Thesaurus and as one writes papers in class, before any learning one must understand.”
The Hard Life by Jasper Morrison
The Hard Life
by Jasper Morrison
Publisher: Lars Müller Publishers
Published in US: May 22, 2017
Photographs taken by designer Jasper Morrison of objects in the collection of the National Museum of Ethnology in Lisbon, Portugal. “The objects photographed and described may be appreciated both for their beauty and for the example they set of design at its purest. The Hard Life is a continuation of Morrison’s celebration of the ordinary and offers a new perspective on his design philosophy.”
Paula Scher: Works - Order from Unit Editions
Paula Scher: Works
Editors: Tony Brook & Adrian Shaughnessy
Design: Spin
Publisher: Unit Editions
Published April 2017
New book covering the career of of master designer Paula Scher, called “the most influential woman graphic designer on the planet.” (Ellen Lupton), This definitive, chronological visual record spans Paula’s early days in the music industry as an art director with CBS and Atlantic records; the launch of her first studio, Koppel & Scher; and her 25-year engagement with Pentagram.
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Type Tells Tales: New from Steven Heller and Gail Anderson
Type Tells Tales
by Steven Heller and Gail Anderson
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published May 30, 2017
Reveals how type can become both content and illustration, as letters take the form of people, animals, cars, or planes. With numerous illustrations by F. T. Marinetti, Bruno Munari, and Francis Picabia, among others, as well as by contemporary designers such as Richard Eckersley, John Hendrix, Maira Kalman, and Corita Kent.
The Moderns: Midcentury American Graphic Design: New from Steven Heller and Greg D’Onofrio
The Moderns
by Steven Heller and Greg D’Onofrio
Publisher: Abrams
Published September 19, 2017
Featuring more than 60 designers whose magazine, book, and record covers; advertisements and package designs; posters; and other projects created the visual aesthetics of postwar modernity in America. Some were émigrés from Europe; others were homegrown; all were intoxicated by elemental typography, primary colors, photography, and geometric or biomorphic forms. Some are well-known, others are honored in this volume for the first time, and together they comprised a movement that changed our design world.
Recent Articles
Aric Chen
Aric Chen is the recently appointed Cur
ator of Design and Architecture at M+, the new museum for visual culture that will be a centerpiece of Hong Kong’s West Kowloon Cultural District. In this capacity, he is charged with developing a design and architecture permanent collection, and related programming, for a 62,000 square-meter, multidisciplinary museum that will also encompass 20th- and 21st-century art and the moving image.
Originally from the U.S., Chen most recently served as Creative Director of Beijing Design Week, a government-supported event that he helped lead in 2011 and 2012. Prior to that, he was an independent curator and writer in New York, organizing exhibitions internationally and contributing to dozens of publications including the New York Times, Wallpaper*, Metropolis, Fast Company, Architectural Record, PIN-UP, and others.
陈伯康简介
策展人／建筑；平面设计；产品设计／中国／M＋，西九龙文化区
陈伯康是香港西九龙文化区M＋博物馆新近任命的设计与建筑策展人，这座博物馆将成为西九的视觉文化中心。他的责任包括为这座62,000平米的多领域博物馆建立一系列设计与建筑的永久收藏，策划相关活动等。同时博物馆也将覆盖20世纪和21世纪的艺术与影像文化。
陈伯康来自美国，是北京国际设计周的前任创意总监。他协助并带领了2011和2012年设计周的顺利举行。在此之前，他是一位纽约独立策展人和撰稿人，在世界各地策划展览，并为各大出版物撰稿，包括纽约时报，Wallpaper*，Metropolis，Fast Company，Architectural Record，PIN-UP等等。
Chinese translation by Lynn Zhang.