Weekly Wrap-Up & Preview

Weekly Wrap-Up & Preview: August 9

August 9, 2013

A novel full of insider design gossip whose film rights have just been acquired, graphic designer Michael Rock in his own words, and a look at the Passive House movement in sustainable building are a few of the highlights of this past week on Designers & Books. With our redesigned site having completed its first week, we are looking forward to a new feature: "Design Books to Win," our design book giveaway, which debuts this coming Thursday, August 15, in tandem with an interview with the founders of Unit Editions.

Weekly Wrap-Up

Daily Features Something Old-Fashioned from Michael Rock

The author of Multiple Signatures on love and beauty and design.

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Daily Features Kevin Kwan's Crazy Rich Asians

Armed with insider knowledge of design and branding, a photo editor turned novelist casts a gimlet eye on East Asia’s jet set.

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Daily Features Passive is the New Active in Building Green

The new approach to home energy conservation has its moment in the sun.

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Book List of the Week Michael Rock’s Book List: The Visual Presentation of Language

Michael Rock, founding partner of the graphic design studio 2x4, talks to Designers & Books about how graphic design is like literature (and vice versa),

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Next Week's Preview

Book List of the Week 10 Great Books on Product Design: Alice Rawsthorn’s Book List

“Product design may not have as erudite or provocative a critical culture as graphics or architecture, but it is so rich and complex a subject that it has inspired some wonderful books,” the International Herald Tribune’s design critic, Alice Rawsthorn, declares in the introduction to her book list.

 

Talking Eds Talking Eds: A Conversation with Tony Brook and Adrian Shaughnessy of Unit Editions

Our first installment of “Talking Eds,” a series focusing on personalities in the design-book publishing world. Here, Designers & Books talks with Tony Brook and Adrian Shaughnessy, the two graphic designers who founded the London-based Unit Editions.

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