Newsletter #13

• 1,210 chosen books
• 92 designers
• 484 books by contributors
• 41 booksellers
• 13 featured publishers
• 16 commentators
• 15 essays, etc.

Forthcoming

Book lists from:

• Architect David Adjaye
• Interior designer Jeffrey Bilhuber
• Architect Craig Hodgetts
• Architecture school dean Mohsen Mostafavi (interviewed by Nicolai Ouroussoff)
• Architect Cesar Pelli
• Architect Galia Solomonoff

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Highlights from January

In case you missed them, the designers and blog posts we added in January are:

• January 10: Architect Stanley Tigerman:
  “The Tip of an Iceberg”
• January 17: Interior designer Ernest de la Torre:
  “Daydreams and Memories”
• January 24: Interior designer Alexa Hampton:
  “A New Way of Looking”
• January 31: Architect, interior designer, and product designer Shashi Caan:
  “The Confluence of Conflicting Views and Constructs”

Plus guest blog posts by:

• Rick Poynor (January 13):
  “The Photobook as Crime Dossier”
• Julie Lasky (January 26):
  “Finally Fit for Kids’ Lit”

New additions to our Featured Publishers:

• Birkhäuser
• The Monacelli Press
• W. W. Norton

Notices

Day 366: Designers & Books is 1 year old today!

Read our very first blog post: Designers & Books: Day 1 (February 1, 2011) and our founding essay, “You Are What You Read” by Maryanne Wolf

Facts & Figures

Chosen design books by genre:

• Architecture: 180
• Fashion design: 66
• Graphic and information design: 131
• Interior design: 56
• Landscape design: 6
• Product and industrial design: 45
• Urban design: 46

Top 5 architecture books:

• Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture by Robert Venturi
• Le Corbusier: Oeuvre Complète (Complete Works), edited by Willy Boesiger
• A Pattern Language by Christopher Alexander
• Theory and Design in the First Machine Age by Reyner Banham
• Delirious New York by Rem Koolhaas

Top 5 graphic design books:

• Envisioning Information by Edward Tufte
• Letter and Image by Robert Massin
• Milton Glaser: Graphic Design by Milton Glaser
• Pioneers of Modern Typography by Herbert Spencer
• Thoughts on Design by Paul Rand

Top 5 design book authors:

• Vincent Scully (6 books chosen)
• John Brinckerhoff (J.B.) Jackson (5 books chosen)
• Le Corbusier (5 books chosen)
• Lewis Mumford (5 books chosen)
• Bernard Rudofsky (5 books chosen)