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Sachiko: A Nagasaki Bomb Survivor's Story
TITLE: Sachiko: A Nagasaki Bomb Survivor's Story
AUTHOR: Caren Stelson
PUBLISHER: Carolrhoda Books / Lerner Publishing Group

DESIGNER: Danielle Carnito
ART DIRECTOR: Danielle Carnito



Safe Ni_os Design for Holistic Healing
TITLE: Safe Ni_os Design for Holistic Healing
AUTHOR: Managing Editor - Susannah Ramshaw
PUBLISHER: Designmatters at ArtCenter College of Design

DESIGNER: Leonardo Santamaria



Salvatore Scarpitta 1956-1964
TITLE: Salvatore Scarpitta 1956-1964
AUTHOR: Raffaele Bedarida, Davide Colombo
PUBLISHER: Luxembourg & Dayan

DESIGNER: Joshua Shaddock
DESIGN FIRM: Joshua Shaddock



San Francisco Museum of Modern Art 360_: Views on the Collection
TITLE: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art 360_: Views on the Collection
AUTHOR: Editors: Judy Bloch and Suzanne Stein
PUBLISHER: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

ART DIRECTOR: Jennifer Sonderby
DESIGN FIRM: SFMOMA Design Studio



Scraps: Fashion, Textiles, and Creative Reuse
TITLE: Scraps: Fashion, Textiles, and Creative Reuse
AUTHOR: Susan Brown, Matilda McQuaid
PUBLISHER: Cooper Hewitt Publications

DESIGNER: 978-1-942303-17-6
CREATIVE DIRECTOR: Ingrid Paulson
ART DIRECTOR: Ingrid Paulson
DESIGN FIRM: Ingrid Paulson



Season's Greetings
TITLE: Season's Greetings
AUTHOR: Vincent Cianni
PUBLISHER: Daylight Books

DESIGNER: Ursula Damm
CREATIVE DIRECTOR: Ursula Damm
DESIGN FIRM: Dammsaveg Inc



Seeds On Ice
TITLE: Seeds On Ice
AUTHOR: Cary Fowler
PUBLISHER: Prospecta Press

DESIGNER: Ben Tousley
CREATIVE DIRECTOR: Stephen Doyle
ART DIRECTOR: ---
DESIGN FIRM: Doyle Partners



Seeing Things: A Kid_s Guide to Looking at Photographs
TITLE: Seeing Things: A Kid_s Guide to Looking at Photographs
AUTHOR: Joel Meyerowitz
PUBLISHER: Aperture Foundation

DESIGNER: Atelier Dyakova, London



Serious Nonsense
TITLE: Serious Nonsense
AUTHOR: William W. Donner
PUBLISHER: Penn State University Press

DESIGNER: Regina Starace
CREATIVE DIRECTOR: Jennifer Norton
DESIGN FIRM: Penn State University Press



Service: Platon
TITLE: Service: Platon
AUTHOR: Photographs by Platon/ Introduction by Elisabeth Biondi
PUBLISHER: Prestel Publishing

DESIGNER: Victor Krummenacher and Platon, with Scott Dadich



Shinique Smith: Wonder and Rainbows
TITLE: Shinique Smith: Wonder and Rainbows
AUTHOR: Katie Delmez
PUBLISHER: Frist Center for the Visual Arts

DESIGNER: Kristina Colucci
CREATIVE DIRECTOR: Katie Delmez
ART DIRECTOR: Shinique Smith
DESIGN FIRM: Frist Center for the Visual Arts Design



Something To Food About
TITLE: Something To Food About
AUTHOR: Questlove
PUBLISHER: Clarkson Potter

DESIGNER: Jeanette Abbink
CREATIVE DIRECTOR: Marysarah Quinn
ART DIRECTOR: Alexis Rosenzweig



Sophie Calle: And So Forth
TITLE: Sophie Calle: And So Forth
AUTHOR: Sophie Calle
PUBLISHER: Prestel Publishing

DESIGNER: Xavier Barral, Coline Aguettaz



Southern Accent: Seeking the American South in Contemporary Art
TITLE: Southern Accent: Seeking the American South in Contemporary Art
AUTHOR: Miranda Lash (Editor), Trevor Schoonmaker (Editor)
PUBLISHER: Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University

DESIGNER: Renee Cagnina Haynes and Julie Klugman Braude



Spice and Wolf Anniversary Collector's Edition
TITLE: Spice and Wolf Anniversary Collector's Edition
AUTHOR: Isuna Hasekura/Kurt Hassler
PUBLISHER: Yen Press

DESIGNER: Wendy Chan
ART DIRECTOR: Wendy Chan
DESIGN FIRM: Yen Press In-house team



STAND FOR THE VULNERABLE
TITLE: STAND FOR THE VULNERABLE
AUTHOR: World Relief
PUBLISHER: World Relief

CREATIVE DIRECTOR: Shannon Lee
ART DIRECTOR: Marilyn Frank
DESIGN FIRM: StudioNorth



Stationery Fever: From Pencils to Paper Clips and Everything In Between
TITLE: Stationery Fever: From Pencils to Paper Clips and Everything In Between
AUTHOR: John Z. Komurki/ Edited by Angela Nicoletti and Luca Bendandi
PUBLISHER: Prestel Publishing

DESIGNER: Luca Bogoni



Stuart Davis: In Full Swing
TITLE: Stuart Davis: In Full Swing
AUTHOR: Harry Cooper and Barbara Haskell
PUBLISHER: National Gallery of Art, Washington

DESIGNER: Wendy Schleicher
DESIGN FIRM: National Gallery of Art, Washington



Sun and Moon
TITLE: Sun and Moon
AUTHOR: Gita Wolf
PUBLISHER: Tara Books

DESIGNER: Catriona Maciver



Sunday Sketching
TITLE: Sunday Sketching
AUTHOR: Christoph Niemann/John Gall
PUBLISHER: Abrams Books

DESIGNER: Ariane Spanier



Sunnylands: America_s Midcentury Masterpiece
TITLE: Sunnylands: America_s Midcentury Masterpiece
AUTHOR: Janice Lyle
PUBLISHER: The Vendome Press

DESIGNER: Celia Fuller



Symbols: A Handbook for Seeing
TITLE: Symbols: A Handbook for Seeing
AUTHOR: Mark Fox and Angie Wang, authors / Alan Rapp, editor
PUBLISHER: The Monacelli Press

DESIGNER: Angie Wang and Mark Fox
DESIGN FIRM: Design is Play



TEXTURES OF LIFE
TITLE: TEXTURES OF LIFE
AUTHOR: JOANA VASCONCELOS
PUBLISHER: ARoS Aarhus Art Museum

DESIGNER: Susana Cruz



The 2 AM Principle
TITLE: The 2 AM Principle
AUTHOR: Jon Levy
PUBLISHER: Regan Arts

DESIGNER: Paul Kepple
CREATIVE DIRECTOR: Richard Ljoenes
ART DIRECTOR: Paul Kepple
DESIGN FIRM: Headcase Design



The Art of Business Value
TITLE: The Art of Business Value
AUTHOR: Mark Schwartz
PUBLISHER: IT Revolution

DESIGNER: Joy Panos Stauber
CREATIVE DIRECTOR: Joy Panos Stauber
DESIGN FIRM: Stauber Brand Studio



The Art of Inequality: Architecture, Housing, and Real Estate (A Provisional Report)
TITLE: The Art of Inequality: Architecture, Housing, and Real Estate (A Provisional Report)
AUTHOR: Reinhold Martin, Jacob Moore, and Susanne Schindler, eds.
PUBLISHER: The Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture

DESIGNER: Michela Povoleri and Aliza Dzik
CREATIVE DIRECTOR: Glen Cummings
DESIGN FIRM: MTWTF



The Art of the Hollywood Backdrop
TITLE: The Art of the Hollywood Backdrop
AUTHOR: Richard M. Isackes and Karen L. Maness
PUBLISHER: Regan Arts

DESIGNER: Gabriele Wilson
CREATIVE DIRECTOR: Richard Ljoenes
ART DIRECTOR: Gabriele Wilson
DESIGN FIRM: Gabriele Wilson Design



The Bone Sparrow
TITLE: The Bone Sparrow
AUTHOR: Zana Fraillon/ Editor Emily Mehan & Assistant Editor Hannah Allaman
PUBLISHER: Disney Hyperion

DESIGNER: Maria Elias
ART DIRECTOR: Joann Hill



The Brothers Le Nain: Painters of Seventeenth-Century France
TITLE: The Brothers Le Nain: Painters of Seventeenth-Century France
AUTHOR: C. D. Dickerson III and Esther Bell, with Claire Barry, Emerson Bowyer, Elise Effmann Clifford, Fr_d_rique Lano_, Nicolas Milovanovic, and Alain Tallon
PUBLISHER: Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco and Yale University Press

DESIGN FIRM: Katy Homans



The Camera Does the Rest
TITLE: The Camera Does the Rest
AUTHOR: Peter Buse
PUBLISHER: The University of Chicago Press

DESIGNER: Matt Avery
CREATIVE DIRECTOR: Jill Shimabukuro
DESIGN FIRM: The University of Chicago Press



The Collection | Highlights from the Portland Museum of Art
TITLE: The Collection | Highlights from the Portland Museum of Art
AUTHOR: Karen A. Sherry, Editor
PUBLISHER: Portland Museum of Art

DESIGNER: Malcolm Grear Designers
DESIGN FIRM: Malcolm Grear Designers



The Cosmopolitans
TITLE: The Cosmopolitans
AUTHOR: Sarah Schulman
PUBLISHER: Feminist Press at CUNY

DESIGNER: Drew Stevens
ART DIRECTOR: Drew Stevens
DESIGN FIRM: studioDrew



The Daily Henry James
TITLE: The Daily Henry James
AUTHOR: Henry James
PUBLISHER: University of Chicago Press

DESIGNER: Jill Shimabukuro
CREATIVE DIRECTOR: Jill Shimabukuro
ART DIRECTOR: Jill Shimabukuro



The Day the Earth Shook: Washington National Cathedral Earthquake Restoration
TITLE: The Day the Earth Shook: Washington National Cathedral Earthquake Restoration
AUTHOR: James W. Shepherd, author/Kevin Eckstrom, editor
PUBLISHER: Washington National Cathedral

DESIGNER: Mimi McNamara
CREATIVE DIRECTOR: Mimi McNamara
DESIGN FIRM: in house



The Drum Thing
TITLE: The Drum Thing
AUTHOR: Deirdre O'Callaghan
PUBLISHER: Prestel Publishing

DESIGNER: Gerard Saint and Ali Esen
DESIGN FIRM: Big Active Design



The Extraordinary Beauty of Birds: Designs, Patterns and Details
TITLE: The Extraordinary Beauty of Birds: Designs, Patterns and Details
AUTHOR: Photographs by Deborah Samuel/Text by Mark Peck
PUBLISHER: Prestel Publishing

DESIGNER: Amy Preston and Ame_lie Bonhomme



The Finer Things
TITLE: The Finer Things
AUTHOR: Christiane Lemieux
PUBLISHER: Clarkson Potter

DESIGNER: Rita Sowins/ Sowins Design; Cover by Ian Dingman
CREATIVE DIRECTOR: Marysarah Quinn
ART DIRECTOR: Stephanie Huntwork



The Game Worlds of Jason Rohrer
TITLE: The Game Worlds of Jason Rohrer
AUTHOR: Michael Maizels and Patrick Jagoda
PUBLISHER: MIT Press

DESIGNER: Prin Limphongpand, Katherine Hughes
CREATIVE DIRECTOR: Clif Stoltze
ART DIRECTOR: Sara Williams
DESIGN FIRM: Stoltze Design



The Godfather Notebook, Limited Edition
TITLE: The Godfather Notebook, Limited Edition
AUTHOR: Francis Ford Coppola (author) / Lucas Wittman (editor)
PUBLISHER: Regan Arts

DESIGNER: Richard Ljoenes and Nancy Singer
CREATIVE DIRECTOR: Richard Ljoenes
ART DIRECTOR: Richard Ljoenes
DESIGN FIRM: Regan Arts



The Idealist
TITLE: The Idealist
AUTHOR: Hirthler, George
PUBLISHER: Ringworks Press LLC

DESIGNER: David Laufer
CREATIVE DIRECTOR: David Laufer
ART DIRECTOR: David Laufer
DESIGN FIRM: BrandBook LLC



The Incidents: Abstract from the Concrete
TITLE: The Incidents: Abstract from the Concrete
AUTHOR: Author: David Harvey, with interview conducted by Mariano Gomez Luque and Daniel Iba_ez ; Editors: Jennifer Sigler and Leah Whitman-Salkin
PUBLISHER: Co-published by Harvard University Graduate School of Design and Sternberg Press

DESIGNER: _b_ke
DESIGN FIRM: _b_ke



The Letters Page, Vol.1
TITLE: The Letters Page, Vol.1
AUTHOR: Jon McGregor
PUBLISHER: Book Ex Machina

DESIGNER: Ioanna Mavrou & Thodoris Tzalavras



The Lumen Seed
TITLE: The Lumen Seed
AUTHOR: Judith Crispin
PUBLISHER: Daylight Books

DESIGNER: Ursula Damm
CREATIVE DIRECTOR: Ursula Damm
DESIGN FIRM: Dammsavage Inc.



The Mechanical Horse: How the Bicycle Reshaped American Life
TITLE: The Mechanical Horse: How the Bicycle Reshaped American Life
AUTHOR: Margaret Guroff
PUBLISHER: University of Texas Press

DESIGNER: Lindsay Starr



The Medici's Painter: Carlo Dolci and 17th-Century Florence
TITLE: The Medici's Painter: Carlo Dolci and 17th-Century Florence
AUTHOR: Eve Straussman-Pflanzer
PUBLISHER: Davis Museum at Wellesley College

DESIGNER: Katherine Hughes
CREATIVE DIRECTOR: Clif Stoltze
DESIGN FIRM: Stoltze Design



The Natural Flow of Things
TITLE: The Natural Flow of Things
AUTHOR: Jos_ Duarte/La Casa Encendida
PUBLISHER: La Casa Encendida

DESIGNER: Jos_ Duarte
CREATIVE DIRECTOR: Jos_ Duarte
DESIGN FIRM: Jos_ Duarte



The Phish Companion: A Guide to the Band and their Music, 3rd Edition
TITLE: The Phish Companion: A Guide to the Band and their Music, 3rd Edition
AUTHOR: The Mockingbird Foundation (Author), Marco Walsh (Editor), Phillip Zerbo (Editor)
PUBLISHER: The Mockingbird Foundation

DESIGNER: Cara Cox
CREATIVE DIRECTOR: Brian Jacobson
ART DIRECTOR: Cara Cox
DESIGN FIRM: J2 Design



The Photographer's Cookbook
TITLE: The Photographer's Cookbook
AUTHOR: Originally conceived and edited by Deborah Barsel, Edited by Denise Wolff
PUBLISHER: Aperture Foundation and George Eastman Museum

DESIGNER: Atelier Dyakova



The Spice Companion
TITLE: The Spice Companion
AUTHOR: Lior Lev Sercarz
PUBLISHER: Clarkson Potter

DESIGNER: Christine Fischer
CREATIVE DIRECTOR: Marysarah Quinn
ART DIRECTOR: Marysarah Quinn



The Story of Emoji
TITLE: The Story of Emoji
AUTHOR: Gavin Lucas
PUBLISHER: Prestel Publishing

DESIGNER: FL@33
DESIGN FIRM: FL@33



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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.



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