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The Thrill of the Chase: The Wagstaff Collection of Photographs at the J. Paul Getty Museum
TITLE: The Thrill of the Chase: The Wagstaff Collection of Photographs at the J. Paul Getty Museum
AUTHOR: Project Editor - Dinah Berland
PUBLISHER: Getty Publications

DESIGNER: Jim Drobka



Theatre under Construction. Travelogue
TITLE: Theatre under Construction. Travelogue
AUTHOR: Boles_aw Stelmach
PUBLISHER: _Grodzka Gate _ NN Theatre_ Centre

DESIGNER: Idalia Smyczy_ska; Robert Zaj_c; Pawe_ Szarzy_ski
CREATIVE DIRECTOR: Idalia Smyczy_ska; Robert Zaj_c
ART DIRECTOR: Idalia Smyczy_ska; Robert Zaj_c
DESIGN FIRM: kilku.com



They All Saw a Cat
TITLE: They All Saw a Cat
AUTHOR: Brendan Wenzel / Ginee Seo
PUBLISHER: Chronicle Books

DESIGNER: Jennifer Tolo Pierce



Thin Slices of Anxiety
TITLE: Thin Slices of Anxiety
AUTHOR: Catherine Lepage
PUBLISHER: Chronicle Books

DESIGNER: Catherine Lepage



Todd Hido: Intimate Distance: Twenty-Five Years of Photographs, A Chronological Album
TITLE: Todd Hido: Intimate Distance: Twenty-Five Years of Photographs, A Chronological Album
AUTHOR: Todd Hido / Denise Wolff
PUBLISHER: Aperture

DESIGNER: Bob Aufuldish
DESIGN FIRM: Aufuldish & Warinner



Too Far Gone
TITLE: Too Far Gone
AUTHOR: Todd Blubaugh
PUBLISHER: Gingko Press

DESIGNER: Eric Harvey
CREATIVE DIRECTOR: Gabe Kean
DESIGN FIRM: Belle & Wissell, Co.



Twenty Over Eighty: Conversations with Legends of Architecture and Design
TITLE: Twenty Over Eighty: Conversations with Legends of Architecture and Design
AUTHOR: Aileen Kwun, Bryn Smith
PUBLISHER: Princeton Architectural Press

DESIGNER: Paul Wagner



Typography 37: The Annual of the Type Directors Club
TITLE: Typography 37: The Annual of the Type Directors Club
AUTHOR: Type Directors Club
PUBLISHER: Verlag Hermann Schmidt

DESIGNER: Michael McCaughley, Matt Kay
CREATIVE DIRECTOR: Bobby C. Martin Jr.
DESIGN FIRM: OCD | The Original Champions of Design



Uptake
TITLE: Uptake
AUTHOR: Uptake
PUBLISHER: Uptake

DESIGNER: Eddie Opara, Brankica Harvey, Pedro Mendes
ART DIRECTOR: Eddie Opara
DESIGN FIRM: Pentagram



Your Inner Critic is a Big Jerk
TITLE: Your Inner Critic is a Big Jerk
AUTHOR: Danielle Krysa / Kate Woodrow
PUBLISHER: Chronicle Books

DESIGNER: Danielle Krysa



_Buenos Nachos!
TITLE: _Buenos Nachos!
AUTHOR: Gina Hamadey
PUBLISHER: Dovetail Press




A cabra Vadia
TITLE: A cabra Vadia
AUTHOR: Nelson Rodrigues
PUBLISHER: Editora Nova Fronteira

DESIGNER: Rafael Nobre
CREATIVE DIRECTOR: Rafael Nobre
ART DIRECTOR: Rafael Nobre
DESIGN FIRM: Babilonia Cultura Editorial



A Filha Perdida
TITLE: A Filha Perdida
AUTHOR: Elena Ferrante
PUBLISHER: Intr_nseca

DESIGNER: Angelo Allevato Bottino



A Life Apart
TITLE: A Life Apart
AUTHOR: Neel Mukherjee
PUBLISHER: W.W. Norton

DESIGNER: Helen Yentus
ART DIRECTOR: Steve Attardo



A Love of UIQ
TITLE: A Love of UIQ
AUTHOR: F_lix Guattari
PUBLISHER: Univocal Publishing

DESIGNER: Jason Wagner
CREATIVE DIRECTOR: NA
ART DIRECTOR: NA
DESIGN FIRM: NA



A Man With One of Those Faces
TITLE: A Man With One of Those Faces
AUTHOR: Caimh McDonnell
PUBLISHER: McFori Ink

DESIGNER: Emir Paja
CREATIVE DIRECTOR: N/A
ART DIRECTOR: N/A
DESIGN FIRM: 99designs



A Totally Awkward Love Story
TITLE: A Totally Awkward Love Story
AUTHOR: Lucy Ivison and Tom Ellen / Kate Sullivan
PUBLISHER: Random House Children's Books | Delacorte

DESIGNER: Ray Shappell
ART DIRECTOR: Alison Impey



Accidence Will Happen
TITLE: Accidence Will Happen
AUTHOR: Oliver Kamm
PUBLISHER: Pegasus Books

DESIGNER: Derek Thornton
DESIGN FIRM: Faceout Studio



Action Time Vision: Punk & Post-Punk 7
TITLE: Action Time Vision: Punk & Post-Punk 7" Record Sleeves
AUTHOR: Editors: Tony Brook & Adrian Shaughnessy, Consultant Editor: Russ Bestley
PUBLISHER: Unit Editions

DESIGNER: Callin Mackintosh
CREATIVE DIRECTOR: Tony Brook
DESIGN FIRM: Spin



Addlands
TITLE: Addlands
AUTHOR: Tom Bullough
PUBLISHER: Granta

DESIGNER: Jenny Grigg
CREATIVE DIRECTOR: Jenny Grigg
ART DIRECTOR: Jenny Grigg
DESIGN FIRM: Jenny Grigg Design



Adios, Cowboy
TITLE: Adios, Cowboy
AUTHOR: Olja Savicevic
PUBLISHER: McSweeney's Publishing

DESIGNER: Sunra Thompson
ART DIRECTOR: Dan McKinley
DESIGN FIRM: McSweeney's Publishing



Alchemy of the Soul
TITLE: Alchemy of the Soul
AUTHOR: Joshua Basseches
PUBLISHER: Peabody Essex Museum

DESIGNER: Jean Wilcox
CREATIVE DIRECTOR: Jean Wilcox
ART DIRECTOR: Jean Wilcox
DESIGN FIRM: Wilcox Design



Alice in Space
TITLE: Alice in Space
AUTHOR: Gillian Beer
PUBLISHER: University of Chicago Press

DESIGNER: Lauren Michelle Smith
CREATIVE DIRECTOR: Jill Shimabukuro
ART DIRECTOR: Jill Shimabukuro



All the Birds in the Sky
TITLE: All the Birds in the Sky
AUTHOR: Charlie Jane Anders
PUBLISHER: Tor

DESIGNER: Will Staehle
ART DIRECTOR: Irene Gallo



All We Shall Know
TITLE: All We Shall Know
AUTHOR: Donal Ryan
PUBLISHER: Transworld

DESIGNER: James Jones
ART DIRECTOR: Richard Ogle



An Abbreviated Life
TITLE: An Abbreviated Life
AUTHOR: Author: Ariel Leve / Editor: Emily Griffin
PUBLISHER: Harper

DESIGNER: Milan Bozic



Andes
TITLE: Andes
AUTHOR: Tomaz Salamun
PUBLISHER: Black Ocean

DESIGNER: Abby Haddican
DESIGN FIRM: Abby Haddican



Angelus Trilogy (The Watchers | Angel City | The Way of Sorrows)
TITLE: Angelus Trilogy (The Watchers | Angel City | The Way of Sorrows)
AUTHOR: Jon Steele
PUBLISHER: Blue Rider Press

DESIGNER: Jason Booher



Anna and the Swallow Man
TITLE: Anna and the Swallow Man
AUTHOR: Gavriel Savit / Erin Clarke
PUBLISHER: Random House Children's Books | Knopf

ART DIRECTOR: Alison Impey



Anthem
TITLE: Anthem
AUTHOR: Ayn Rand
PUBLISHER: Penguin Random House

DESIGNER: Leo NIckolls
ART DIRECTOR: Emily Osborne/Anthony Ramondo



Arranha-C_us
TITLE: Arranha-C_us
AUTHOR: J. G. Ballard
PUBLISHER: Elsinore

DESIGNER: Ricardo Nunes / Ideias com Peso
CREATIVE DIRECTOR: Lu_s Alegre
ART DIRECTOR: Lu_s Alegre
DESIGN FIRM: Ideias com Peso



As Close to Us as Breathing
TITLE: As Close to Us as Breathing
AUTHOR: Elizabeth Poliner
PUBLISHER: Lee Boudreaux Books / Little, Brown

DESIGNER: Lauren Harms
CREATIVE DIRECTOR: Mario J. Pulice



Atlas Shrugged
TITLE: Atlas Shrugged
AUTHOR: Ayn Rand
PUBLISHER: Penguin Random House

DESIGNER: Leo Nickolls
ART DIRECTOR: Anthony Ramondo/Emily Osborne



Atonement and Salvation: The Extravagance of God's Love
TITLE: Atonement and Salvation: The Extravagance of God's Love
AUTHOR: Eric M. Vail
PUBLISHER: Beacon Hill Press of Kansas City

DESIGNER: Sherwin Schwartzrock
CREATIVE DIRECTOR: Sherwin Schwartzrock
DESIGN FIRM: smARTer



Baseball Clubbies
TITLE: Baseball Clubbies
AUTHOR: Matt Palka
PUBLISHER: Moniker Press

DESIGNER: Jonathan Schute
CREATIVE DIRECTOR: Jonathan Schute
DESIGN FIRM: Goahead Schute



Beatlebone
TITLE: Beatlebone
AUTHOR: Kevin Barry
PUBLISHER: Canongate Books

DESIGNER: Rafaela Romaya



Before The Fall
TITLE: Before The Fall
AUTHOR: Noah Hawley
PUBLISHER: Grand Central Publishing

ART DIRECTOR: Anne Twomey



Black Hole Blues
TITLE: Black Hole Blues
AUTHOR: Janna Levin/Dan Frank
PUBLISHER: Alfred A. Knopf

DESIGNER: Janet Hansen
CREATIVE DIRECTOR: Carol Devine Carson
ART DIRECTOR: Peter Mendelsund
DESIGN FIRM: Alfred A. Knopf



Black Wave
TITLE: Black Wave
AUTHOR: Michelle Tea
PUBLISHER: The Feminist Press at CUNY

ART DIRECTOR: Drew Stevens



Bob Stevenson
TITLE: Bob Stevenson
AUTHOR: Richard Wiley
PUBLISHER: Bellevue Literary Press

DESIGNER: Jennifer Heuer
ART DIRECTOR: Leslie Hodgkins



Boundless Books
TITLE: Boundless Books
AUTHOR: Postertext / Christina Amini
PUBLISHER: Chronicle Books

DESIGNER: Kristen Hewitt



Boy Erased
TITLE: Boy Erased
AUTHOR: Garrard Conley
PUBLISHER: Riverhead Books | Penguin Random House

DESIGNER: Rachel Willey
ART DIRECTOR: Helen Yentus
DESIGN FIRM: Penguin Art Group



Brave New Weed
TITLE: Brave New Weed
AUTHOR: Author: Joe Dolce / Editor: Karen Rinaldi
PUBLISHER: Harper

DESIGNER: Milan Bozic



Brevity
TITLE: Brevity
AUTHOR: David Galef
PUBLISHER: Columbia University Press

ART DIRECTOR: Julia Kushnirsky



Brilliance and Fire
TITLE: Brilliance and Fire
AUTHOR: Author: Rachelle Bergstein / Jennifer Barth
PUBLISHER: Harper

DESIGNER: Joanne O'Neill



Bush
TITLE: Bush
AUTHOR: Jean Edward Smith
PUBLISHER: Simon & Schuster

DESIGNER: Alison Forner
CREATIVE DIRECTOR: Jackie Seow



But What If We_re Wrong
TITLE: But What If We_re Wrong
AUTHOR: Chuck Klosterman
PUBLISHER: Blue Rider Press

DESIGNER: Office of Paul Sahre
ART DIRECTOR: Jason Booher



C.S. Lewis paperback series design
TITLE: C.S. Lewis paperback series design
AUTHOR: C.S. Lewis
PUBLISHER: HarperOne

DESIGNER: Kimberly Glyder
CREATIVE DIRECTOR: Adrian Morgan
ART DIRECTOR: Kimberly Glyder
DESIGN FIRM: Kimberly Glyder



Californium
TITLE: Californium
AUTHOR: R. Dean Johnson
PUBLISHER: Plume

DESIGNER: Rachel Willey
ART DIRECTOR: Jason Booher



Ceramics
TITLE: Ceramics
AUTHOR: Kate Singleton / Bridget Watson Payne
PUBLISHER: Chronicle Books

DESIGNER: Sara Schneider



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Observed


Coming soon to the Center for Contemporary Arts In Berlin, an exhibition featuring more than100 original posters by one of Japan’s most influential and internationally renowned graphic designers and poster artists, Shigeo Fukuda

The Design Newsroom is a new digital platform designed to streamline the interaction between award-winning designers, brands, and the global media landscape.

“The idea was to create a sanctuary in the center of the city where anyone is welcomed, no matter their faith, religion, what brings them there, or their backgrounds, “ observes Krista Nightengale, Executive Director of Better Block, a placemaking nonprofit based in Dallas. Read more about their newest initiative: a design competition to combat loneliness. Elswehere in Texas, Icon—an Austin-based startup—launched own competition, inviting professionals to design homes that could be built for $99,000 or less “without sacrificing beauty, dignity, comfort, sustainability, or resiliency”.

Two Australian First Nation artists, Naminapu Maymuru-White and Daniel Boyd, are uniting at Art Basel Hong Kong to present complex and contrasting views of Indigenous identity. 

March 21st was the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination. We may need more than one day for this.

Ryan O’Rourke, Alberto Ponte, and Dan Sheniak are responsible for some of the most iconic ad campaigns Nike ever produced. The Wieden+Kennedy veterans are heading out on their own with Someplace, a new LA-based, full-spectrum creative, brand, identity, and design shop. “We wanted to challenge ourselves in a new way,” says Sheniak. “What does our next chapter look like? How do we push ourselves and make ourselves uncomfortable to create something? From there, we just started getting excited about what we could dream up together.”

Along with Ann Demeulemeester, Dirk Van Saene, Walter Van Beirendonck, Dirk Bikkembergs, and Marina Yeeone (originally known as the Antwerp Six), renowned Dutch designer Dries Van Noten—whose clothes are known for their simplicity, elegance, and drape—makes a graceful exit.

Enzo Mari saw design as the production of knowledge (as opposed to consumption). The Italian theorist, ethicist, and spirited provocateur—who died in 2020—is the subject of a new show opening next week at London’s Design Museum, and running through September.

Are you lying awake at night pondering the future of the world—and in particular, of design? “And when it doesn’t seem to matter, suddenly it really does..” The extraordinary Forest Young weighs in.

Prospective students working at the nexus of virtual reality, video games, political campaigns, or even on the next Hollywood blockbuster, look no further. A new one-year Masters program at Sci-Arc in Los Angeles may be just what you're looking for.  

Designing an app for a … (wait for it) … parrot.

Fast Company's Most Innovative Design Companies for 2024 include Adobe—"for embracing generative AI the right way—and a shortlist of tech, product, and branding firms.

While human-centered design was once the pinnacle of progressive ambition, a tricky question now confronts us all: what about the rest of life? Working with John Thackara and Caterina Castiglioni, at the School of Design of the Politecnico di Milano twenty international design students were asked to design an urban ecology tool, place, equipment, or experience, that would enhance the interdependence of all of life in practical ways. Their conclusions are diverse, inspiring, and powerful. (Read the full report here.)

Reports of discrimination (and a lawsuit) at Harvard's Graduate School of Design.

Native American graphic design: a primer.

Cheryl Holmes's next book documents the history of the question she has been asking for decades—where are the Black designers?— along with related questions that are urgent to the design profession: where did they originate, where have they been, and why haven't they been represented in design histories and canons? With a foreword by Crystal Williams, President of Rhode Island School of Design, HERE: Where the Black Designers Are will be published next fall by Princeton Architectural Press.

Can ballot design be deemed unconstitutional? More on the phenomenon known as "Ballot Siberia," where un-bracketed candidates often find themselves disadvantaged by being relegated to the end of the ballot.

Designing the Modern World—Lucy Johnston's new monograph celebrating the extraordinary range of British industrial designer (and Pentagram co-founder) Sir Kenneth Grange—is just out from our friends at Thames&Hudson. More here.

Good news to start your week: design jobs are in demand!

An interview with DB | BD Minisode cohost and The State of Black Design founder Omari Souza about his conference,  and another about his new book. (And a delightful conversation between Souza and Revision Path host Maurice Cherry here.) 

What happens when you let everyone have a hand in the way things should look and feel and perform—including the kids? An inspiring story about one school’s inclusive design efforts

Graphic designer Fred Troller forged a Swiss modernist path through corporate America in a career that spanned five decades. The Dutch-born, Troller—whose clients included, among others, IBM, Faber Castell, Hoffmann LaRoche, Champion International, and the New York Zoological Society—was also an educator, artist, and sculptor. Want more? Help our friends at Volume raise the funds they both need and deserve by supporting the publication of a Troller monograph here.

The Independence Institute is less a think tank than an action tank—and part of that action means rethinking how the framing of the US Constitution might benefit from some closer observation. In order to ensure election integrity for the foreseeable future, they propose a constitutional amendment restoring and reinforcing the Constitution’s original protections.

Design! Fintech! Discuss amongst yourselves!

The art (and design) of “traffic calming” is like language: it’s best when it is extremely clear and concise, eliminating the need for extra thinking on the receiving end. How bollards, arrows, and other design interventions on the street promote public safety for everyone. (If you really want to go down the design-and-traffic rabbit hole with us here, read about how speculative scenario mapping benefits from something called “digital twins”.)

Opening this week and running through next fall at Poster House in New York, a career retrospective for Dawn Baillie, whose posters for Silence of the Lambs, Little Miss Sunshine, and Dirty Dancing, among countless others, have helped shape our experience of cinema. In a field long-dominated by men, Bailie's posters span some thirty-five years, an achievement in itself. (The New York Times reviews it here.)

Can't make it to Austin for SXSW this year? In one discussion, a selection of designers, policymakers, scientists, and engineers sought identify creative solutions to bigger challenges. (The “design track” ends today, but you can catch up with all the highlights here.)

Should there be an Oscar for main title design?

Design contributes hugely to how we spend (okay, waste) time online. But does that mean that screen addiction is a moral imperative for designers? Liz Gorny weighs in, and Brazillian designer Lara Mendonça (who, and we love this, also self-identifies as a philosopher) shares some of her own pithy observations.

Oscar nominees, one poster at a time.



Jobs | March 28