One Book and Why: Graphic Designer Louise Fili Recommends . . . One Book and Why

Graphic designer Louise Fili recommends a political/historical novel in translation by contemporary Italian author Andrea Camilleri.

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Imagining Information: Symbols, Isotype, and Book Design Rare & Beautiful

Rare book expert Peter Kraus explores some milestone moments in the history of infographics and book design.

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Baseball, Architecture, Time, and Creativity Daily Features

Baseball’s World Series, set to begin later this month, prompts some recollections from Richard Saul Wurman about the game and how it connects to his close relationship with the architect Louis Kahn — and to the nature of architecture and creativity.

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25-Plus Books on Women in Design Themed Book Lists

March is Women’s History Month. Twenty-five+ selected books that touch on different aspects of women in the design fields, from our contributing designers, commentators, publishers, and booksellers.

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Graphic designer Louise Fili recommends a political/historical novel in translation by contemporary Italian author Andrea Camilleri.

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Daily Features

Baseball, Architecture, Time, and Creativity

Baseball’s World Series, set to begin later this month, prompts some recollections from Richard Saul Wurman about the game and how it connects to his close relationship with the architect Louis Kahn — and to the nature of architecture and creativity.

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Interviews

Author Q&A with George Lois: Damn Good Advice

Graphic designer George Lois: Good Karma Creative (New York)
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Award-winning advertising designer and “master communicator” George Lois talks about his latest book,Damn Good Advice (Phaidon Press, March 2012).

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Themed Book Lists

25-Plus Books on Women in Design
An Architecture of Education: African American Women Design the New South Angel David Nieves
The Art Deco Murals of Hildreth Meière Catherine Coleman Brawer
As Long as It’s Pink Penny Sparke

Daily Features

Eugene Feldman, Co-Editor, and Co-Designer of The Notebooks and Drawings of Louis I. Kahn

David Feldman, son of the esteemed experimental printer, artist, and co-editor and co-designer of The Notebooks and Drawings of Louis I. Kahn, offers a poignant recollection of his father and the architect Louis Kahn. The essay is part of our continuing celebration of Kahn’s 120th birthday this year, which includes the re-issue of this 1962 book of the architect’s work.

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Most Frequently Chosen Books

10 Most Frequently Chosen Design Books
Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture Robert Venturi
Towards a New Architecture (Vers une Architecture) Le Corbusier
Delirious New York Rem Koolhaas

Most Frequently Chosen Books

10 Most Frequently Chosen Non-Design Books
Ulysses James Joyce
Invisible Cities Italo Calvino
In Praise of Shadows Jun’ichiro Tanizaki

Interviews

Still Learning from Denise Scott Brown

Designers and Books spent an afternoon with architect and urban planner Denise Scott Brown at the suburban Philadelphia home she shares with her husband, architect Robert Venturi, talking with her about what went into making the book Learning from Las Vegas—and the studio class that prompted ither thoughts about the book’s significance today, new writing, and what she’s working on next.

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Design Matters: On Books

Design Matters Podcast on Books: Debbie Millman & Michael Rock

Design Matters, hosted by Design Observer’s Debbie Millman, is releasing a special five-episode series on the theme of “designers and books,” beginning with graphic designer Michael Rock, author of Multiple Signatures.

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