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By Jeffrey Bernett November 12, 2013

Ralph is a bit like Thomas Friedman, and his book By Design—covering architecture, industrial design, fashion design, graphic design, and the design of business and social situations—shows how design affects many of our most significant human activities.

By Anna Sui November 11, 2013

John William Waterhouse is my favorite Pre-Raphaelite painter. The author of this book, Peter Trippi, has a lively spirit, and is a most extraordinary scholar. I based my Spring 2014 fashion show on this theme.

By Gail Anderson November 8, 2013

Design doesn’t get any more smarty-pants than Paula Scher.

By Ellen Lupton November 7, 2013

This oversized compendium of Bauhaus source material was designed with ruthless rationality for MIT Press by the great Muriel Cooper. It is the Old Testament of design theory.

 

By Rick Poynor November 6, 2013

Jonathan Barnbrook is well known for visually complex designs that express deeply held and sometimes controversial political views, and his “bible” takes this kind of self-authorship to spectacular extremes.

By Julie Lasky November 5, 2013

Read it for the fresh perspective it offers on the timeless debate over photography’s value as a tool of revelation versus distortion, of consciousness-raising versus manipulation.

By Warren Lehrer November 4, 2013

Text and image are nearly inseparable. A reader needs to engage the narrative whose lines can cascade, flow, collide, and disperse. It is a completely legible read—you just need to be game to traverse time and story on Laxson’s terms—a suspension I think most readers yearn for in a good book.

By Deborah Sussman November 1, 2013

Read as much of Proust as you can, starting with Swann’s Way, for a profound description of individuals and a socio-political climate. Like a pebble thrown into a lake, the famous story of eating a “madeleine” begins an epic masterpiece. In Proust’s invention the lake becomes an ocean. This work is worth the effort, and will exercise your brain.

By Michael Sorkin October 31, 2013

Has the dilemma of modernity been better expressed?

By David Piscuskas October 30, 2013

Scarpa’s work highly respects the inherent qualities of materials and explores unanticipated uses and forms.