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Total Armageddon: A Slanted Reader on Design edited by Ian Lynam
Total Armageddon: A Slanted Reader on Design
Edited by Ian Lynam
Publisher: Slanted Publishers
Published: March 2019
Total Armageddon is about design. And culture. And complexity, notably how we, as a global civilization, deal with science fiction, taste, social media, the cities we live in, aesthetics, PowerPoint, burkas, Big Tech, full-contact sports, and other thorny topics. The book celebrates 15 years of independent publishing and brings together a who’s who of authors and essays from 32 issues of Slanted Magazine.
A Field Guide to Color by Lisa Solomon
A Field Guide to Color: A Watercolor Workbook
By Lisa Solomon
Publisher: Roost Books
Published: August 2019
In this creative workbook you’ll discover fresh ways to connect with color in your art and life. Using watercolors, gouache, or any other water-based medium, explore color theory while playing with paint through a balanced blend of color experiments and loose color meditations. This inspiring workbook will change the way you relate to color
Five Oceans in a Teaspoon by Dennis Bernstein and Warren Lehrer
Five Oceans in a Teaspoon
Poems by Dennis Bernstein
Visualizations by Warren Lehrer
Introduction by Steven Heller
Publisher: Paper Crown Press
Published: September 19, 2019
“From a kidnap note for a world held hostage by an A-bomb, to a Holocaust survivor’s tattooed arms where the numbers just don’t add up, Five Oceans in a Teaspoon re-envisions a poetry memoir via a textual kaleidoscope... Bernstein and Lehrer are the Rodgers and Hart of Visual Poetry.” — Bob Holman, poet, poetry activist and chronicler, and founder of the Bowery Poetry Club
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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Stanley Abercrombie
Stanley Abercrombie received a B.S. in Architecture from Georgia Tech, a B.Arch. from MIT, and an M.Arch from Columbia University. He was a Loeb Fellow at Harvard University where he also taught a seminar on “Theories of Architectural Evaluation.”
Abercrombie worked as a draftsman in the New York office of Marcel Breuer & Associates for three and a half years and as a designer in the New York office of John Carl Warnecke for five years. While practicing architecture he began writing (first for the Wall Street Journal) reviews of architecture-related books and exhibitions. In 1953 he became a Senior Editor at a new magazine, Architecture Plus. When that ceased publication a year later he became Senior Editor, Architecture, at the AIA Journal, later renamed Architecture. He became Editor-in-Chief of three design magazines, first of Interiors, then of Abitare in America (a short-lived American supplement to the Italian Abitare), and then, for 14 years, Interior Design. In all, he has written a dozen books and published more than 1,500 articles in 46 different magazines and newspapers.
He has served as a Director of the Society of Architectural Historians, as a lecturer at the Smithsonian Institution, as curator of the exhibition "Industrial Elegance" at the Guggenheim Museum SoHo (1993), and as a visiting critic at many architecture and design schools. He was awarded an Honorary Doctorate by the New York School of Interior Design. Abercrombie is a Fellow of the American Academy in Rome, a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects, and an Honorary Fellow of the American Society of Interior Designers.
Largely retired, he now lives in Sonoma, CA, where he is active with the Sonoma Valley Museum of Art as both a curator and exhibition designer.
Contributed Articles
Architecture and interior design editor and author Stanley Abercrombie has been been “dipping into Finnegans Wake for half a century,” favors poetry, and admires Rizzoli’s series of Richard Meier monographs and their design by Massimo Vignelli. Stanley gives these and 10 more answers to The Proust Questionnaire—Book Edition.
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