Just My Type: A Book About Fonts
Simon Garfield
Profile Books, 2010
f you already know everything there is to know about about type, this is the book for you. If you have a loved one who doesn't understand why anyone should give a damn about type, this is the book for them. To write a single volume capable of entertaining the initiated and initiating the unaware is an amazing achievement and Simon Garfield has pulled it off. Garfield, an accomplished journalist who managed a similar feat in 2002 with Mauve: How One Man Invented a Color that Changed the World, is well read and readable and may be the ambassador the graphic design profession has long awaited. [MB]
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Edited by Ilka and Andreas Ruby
Ruby Press/Holcim Foundation, 2010
An engrossing compendium that expands upon a recent conference in Mexico City sponsored by the Holcim Foundation for Sustainable Construction. An international roster of contributors explores how innovative technologies and complex systems thinking can reduce our carbon footprint. [NL]
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Neville, a journalist, traces the consumer's path by literally shadowing the people who make things — from casket makers to cartographers — and reveals the degree to which changing economies impact entire worlds. Her perspective is honest and surprisingly invigorating, proving that God may live in the details after all. Read the introduction, if nothing else. Life-changing. [JH]
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