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What is Universal Everything? edited by Adrian Shaughnessy and Tony Brook
What is Universal Everything?
Edited by Adrian Shaughnessy and Tony Brook; designed by Spin
Publisher: Unit Editions
Published: June 2019
Matt Pyke, founder and creative director of Universal Everything, calls his studio a “digital art and design collective.” Now, after 15 years of revolutionary work in the digital realm, the studio has its first book. For anyone interested in the future of digital design, the book features a unique cover for each copy of the book (limited to 2,000)—every buyer owns a one-off.
The Future of Design: Global Product Innovation for a Complex World by Lorraine Justice
The Future of Design: Global Product Innovation for a Complex World
by Lorraine Justice
Publisher: Nicholas Brealey
Published: June 4, 2019
Internationally recognized product design expert, TED speaker, and consultant to companies like Microsoft and Levi’s, shares the ten global factors that directly impact product design success and failure.
Ballpark: Baseball in the American City by Paul Goldberger
Ballpark: Baseball in the American City
By Paul Goldberger
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Published: May 2019
An illustrated, entirely new look at the history of baseball: told through the stories of the vibrant and ever-changing ballparks where the game was and is staged, by the Pulitzer Prize-winning architectural critic.
Charleston Fancy by Witold Rybczynski
Charleston Fancy: Little Houses and Big Dreams in the Holy City
By Witold Rybczynski
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: May 2019
Charleston, South Carolina, which boasts America’s first historic district, is known for its palmetto-lined streets and picturesque houses. The Holy City, named for its profusion of churches, exudes an irresistible charm. Award-winning author and cultural critic Witold Rybczynski unfolds a series of stories about a group of youthful architects, builders, and developers based in Charleston: a self-taught home builder, an Air Force pilot, a fledgling architect, and a bluegrass mandolin player.
Teaching Graphic Design History by Steven Heller
Teaching Graphic Design History
By Steven Heller
Publisher: Allworth Press
Published: June 2019
An examination of the concerted efforts, happy accidents, and key influences of the practice throughout the years, Teaching Graphic Design History is an illuminating resource for students, practitioners, and future teachers of the subject.
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Donald Norman
Donald Norman is a graduate of MIT and the University of Pennsylvania, with degrees in electrical engineering and psychology. He has served as a faculty member at Harvard University; University of California, San Diego; Northwestern University; and KAIST (South Korea). Other previous work includes a position as a vice president at Apple and an executive position at HP.
Currently, Norman’s focus is design strategy: how designers and design thinking can drive both incremental and radical innovation within a company. Through this work, he seeks to aid technology companies in structuring their product lines and business.
Norman is the co-founder and principal of the User Experience/Usability consulting firm, the Nielsen Norman group. He is also an IDEO fellow and a member of the Board of Trustees of IIT’s Institute of Design in Chicago.
He is member of the National Academy of Engineering and the recipient of the CHI Lifetime Achievement Award from from SIGCHI, the professional organization for computer-human Interaction. He holds honorary degrees from the University of Technology, Delft (TU Delft), in the Netherlands, and the University of Padua in Italy.
An author of a wide array of books and essays, Norman has most recently published Living with Complexity (2010), an exploration into the merits and management of complex technology, and a newly revised and expanded edition of The Design of Everyday Things (2013), first published in 1988 under the title The Psychology of Everyday Things.