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Design Books to Win, December 18, 2014: Winners of Five Books by Pentagram Designers Announced
The winners of five books designed by Pentagram have been announced. The three winners are Joy Weeeng, Tyler Wilson, and Tim Zissou — congratulations!
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Our new giveaways begin again in 2015. Happy Holidays!
New Book Release, December 31, 2014: What If...?: The Architecture and Design of David Rockwell
Widely admired for his sophistication, creativity and exuberance, David Rockwell is one of the leading architects, interiors architects, and set designers working today. For over 30 years, he has explored his desire to imagine new worlds, to tell stories and to engage with others. This interest is rooted in his sense of play and possibility—an endless curiosity that continually drives him to ask, “What if?”
Edited by Chee Pearlman; texts by David Rockwell, et al.
Published by Metropolis Books
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New Book Release, August 5, 2014: Cover
Designer Peter Mendelsund’s completed book jackets along with ephemera from his previously unseen creative method, including jacket sketches, interior art and editorial illustrations, and scores of rejected drafts. These images are punctuated by Mendelsund’s reflections on his work and his process, as well as by texts from writers with whom he has worked and designed.
By Peter Mendelsund
Published by powerHouse Books
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New Book Release, August 25, 2014: Hello, I am Erik
A visual biography of graphic designer Erik Spiekermann that explores Spiekermann’s over 30-year career and body of work.
Johannes Erler, editor
Published by Gestalten
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New Book Release, September 16, 2014: Designing Here/Now
An ambitious global compendium of the most thoughtful and innovative design objects (over 500) invented or produced in the past five years, compiled by experts at the online industrial design magazine Core 77.
Edited by Allan Chochinov and Eric Ludlum
Published by Thames & Hudson
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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.
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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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