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10 Things I Can See From Here
TITLE: 10 Things I Can See From Here
AUTHOR: Carrie Mac
PUBLISHER: Random House Children's Books | Knopf

JACKET DESIGNER: Angela Carlino
ART DIRECTOR: Alison Impey



1917: The Perfect Game
TITLE: 1917: The Perfect Game
AUTHOR: JC MacQueen
PUBLISHER: Allied Books Press

JACKET DESIGNER: 7 Facts
CREATIVE DIRECTOR: Nancy Fandel
DESIGN FIRM: 7 Facts



30 e poucos anos e uma máquina do tempo
TITLE: 30 e poucos anos e uma máquina do tempo
AUTHOR: Mo Daviau
PUBLISHER: Fábrica231

JACKET DESIGNER: Angelo Allevato Bottino



3-Ingredient Cocktails
TITLE: 3-Ingredient Cocktails
AUTHOR: Robert Simonson/Emily Timberlake
PUBLISHER: Ten Speed Press

BOOK DESIGNER: Elizabeth Stromberg
JACKET DESIGNER: George Carpenter
CREATIVE DIRECTOR: Emma Campion
ART DIRECTOR: Elizabeth Stromberg
DESIGN FIRM: Ten Speed Press



42 Faith
TITLE: 42 Faith
AUTHOR: Ed Henry
PUBLISHER: Thomas Nelson

JACKET DESIGNER: Charles Brock
DESIGN FIRM: Faceout Studio



4321
TITLE: 4321
AUTHOR: Paul Auster
PUBLISHER: Can Publishing

JACKET DESIGNER: Utku Lomlu
CREATIVE DIRECTOR: Utku Lomlu
ART DIRECTOR: Utku Lomlu
DESIGN FIRM: Lom Creative



A Change in Direction - life needs to include some adventure
TITLE: A Change in Direction - life needs to include some adventure
AUTHOR: Scott 'Explicit' Hollloway, Paul 'Eagle Eye' Holloway, Paul 'IROC" Morandi, Debbie 'Quickstep' Holloway, Robin 'Archangel' Holloway, Elizabeth 'LAX' Holloway,
PUBLISHER: Self published

BOOK DESIGNER: John Dardani and Jessica Gasc
JACKET DESIGNER: John Dardani and Jessica Gasc
CREATIVE DIRECTOR: John Dardani and Jessica Gasc
DESIGN FIRM: GDI Design



A experiência nacional
TITLE: A experiência nacional
AUTHOR: Martinho, Francisco Carlos Palomanes / Limoncic, Flávio
PUBLISHER: Civilização brasileira

BOOK DESIGNER: Anderson Junqueira
JACKET DESIGNER: Anderson Junqueira
CREATIVE DIRECTOR: Anderson Junqueira
ART DIRECTOR: Anderson Junqueira
DESIGN FIRM: Anderson Junqueira



A Girl is a Half-formed Thing
TITLE: A Girl is a Half-formed Thing
AUTHOR: Eimear McBride
PUBLISHER: Can Publishing

JACKET DESIGNER: Utku Lomlu
CREATIVE DIRECTOR: Utku Lomlu
ART DIRECTOR: Utku Lomlu
DESIGN FIRM: Lom Creative



A Pedra
TITLE: A Pedra
AUTHOR: Yuri Pires
PUBLISHER: LOTE 42

BOOK DESIGNER: Gustavo Piqueira, Samia Jacintho
JACKET DESIGNER: Gustavo Piqueira, Samia Jacintho
CREATIVE DIRECTOR: Gustavo Piqueira
ART DIRECTOR: Gustavo Piqueira
DESIGN FIRM: Casa Rex



A Revolução Russa [The Russian Revolution]
TITLE: A Revolução Russa [The Russian Revolution]
AUTHOR: Sheila Fitzpatrick
PUBLISHER: Todavia

JACKET DESIGNER: Gabriela Castro, Gustavo Marchetti, Paulo André Chagas
DESIGN FIRM: Bloco Gráfico



A Separation
TITLE: A Separation
AUTHOR: Katie Kitamura
PUBLISHER: Riverhead Books, Penguin Random House

JACKET DESIGNER: Jaya Miceli
ART DIRECTOR: Helen Yentus



A Short History of the Girl Next Door
TITLE: A Short History of the Girl Next Door
AUTHOR: Jared Reck
PUBLISHER: Random House Children's Books | Knopf

JACKET DESIGNER: Ray Shappell
ART DIRECTOR: Alison Impey



A sociedade contra o Estado (Society Against the State), Inconstância da alma selvagem (Inconstancy of the Indian Soul), Cultura com aspas (
TITLE: A sociedade contra o Estado (Society Against the State), Inconstância da alma selvagem (Inconstancy of the Indian Soul), Cultura com aspas ("Culture" and Culture), Sobre o sacrifício (About Sacrifice), O efeito etnográfico (Ethnographic Effect)
AUTHOR: Pierre Clastres, Eduardo Viveiros de Castro, Manuela Carneiro da Cunha, Marcel Mauss & Henri Hubert, Marilyn Strathern
PUBLISHER: Ubu Editora

BOOK DESIGNER: Elaine Ramos



A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again (Chinese Edition)
TITLE: A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again (Chinese Edition)
AUTHOR: David Foster Wallace
PUBLISHER: Hunan literature and Art Publishing House

JACKET DESIGNER: Jessica Hsinhua Lin
CREATIVE DIRECTOR: Po Chun Yen
DESIGN FIRM: Yen Design Studio



A Word for Love
TITLE: A Word for Love
AUTHOR: Emily Robbins
PUBLISHER: Riverhead Books, Penguin Random House

JACKET DESIGNER: Grace Han
ART DIRECTOR: Helen Yentus



Abandon Me
TITLE: Abandon Me
AUTHOR: Melissa Febos
PUBLISHER: Bloomsbury USA

BOOK DESIGNER: Patti Ratchford
JACKET DESIGNER: Patti Ratchford
CREATIVE DIRECTOR: Patti Ratchford
ART DIRECTOR: Patti Ratchford



Ad Usum To Be Used
TITLE: Ad Usum To Be Used
AUTHOR: Pedro Reyes/José Luis Falconi
PUBLISHER: Harvard University Press

BOOK DESIGNER: Blair Richardson
JACKET DESIGNER: Blair Richardson
DESIGN FIRM: MiniSuper Studio



Addicted to Americana
TITLE: Addicted to Americana
AUTHOR: Charles Phoenix
PUBLISHER: Prospect Park Books

BOOK DESIGNER: Kathy Kikkert
JACKET DESIGNER: Kathy Kikkert
CREATIVE DIRECTOR: Kathy Kikkert
ART DIRECTOR: Kathy Kikkert
DESIGN FIRM: Kikkert Design



Aesthetics; An Introduction to Dialectics; Ontology and Dialetics
TITLE: Aesthetics; An Introduction to Dialectics; Ontology and Dialetics
AUTHOR: Theodor W. Adorno
PUBLISHER: Polity books

JACKET DESIGNER: Ana Boavida
DESIGN FIRM: FBA.



Age of Anger
TITLE: Age of Anger
AUTHOR: Pankaj Mishra
PUBLISHER: FSG

JACKET DESIGNER: Jason Heuer
CREATIVE DIRECTOR: Rodrigo Corral
DESIGN FIRM: Jason Heuer



Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
TITLE: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
AUTHOR: Lewis Carroll
PUBLISHER: DERT

BOOK DESIGNER: Lise Bye Kjeldsen
CREATIVE DIRECTOR: Marcos Chavez
DESIGN FIRM: TODA



All is Beauty Now
TITLE: All is Beauty Now
AUTHOR: Sarah Faber
PUBLISHER: Little, Brown and Company

JACKET DESIGNER: Allison J. Warner
CREATIVE DIRECTOR: Mario J. Pulice



All The Dirty Parts
TITLE: All The Dirty Parts
AUTHOR: Daniel Handler
PUBLISHER: Bloomsbury USA

BOOK DESIGNER: Daniel Handler and Rodrigo Corral
JACKET DESIGNER: Patti Ratchford
CREATIVE DIRECTOR: Patti Ratchford
ART DIRECTOR: Patti Ratchford



American Craft Inquiry
TITLE: American Craft Inquiry
AUTHOR: Michael Radyk
PUBLISHER: American Craft Council

BOOK DESIGNER: Moon Jang
CREATIVE DIRECTOR: Moon Jang



Anchor Out
TITLE: Anchor Out
AUTHOR: Barbara Sapienza
PUBLISHER: She Write Press

JACKET DESIGNER: Rebecca Lown
ART DIRECTOR: Julie Metz



Angels, Barbarians and Nincompoops
TITLE: Angels, Barbarians and Nincompoops
AUTHOR: Anthony Esolen
PUBLISHER: TAN Books

BOOK DESIGNER: David Ferris
JACKET DESIGNER: David Ferris
ART DIRECTOR: Mara Persic
DESIGN FIRM: David Ferris Design



Antologia Fantástica da Literatura Antiga
TITLE: Antologia Fantástica da Literatura Antiga
AUTHOR: Marcelo Cid
PUBLISHER: Ateliê Editorial

BOOK DESIGNER: Gustavo Piqueira
CREATIVE DIRECTOR: Gustavo Piqueira
ART DIRECTOR: Gustavo Piqueira
DESIGN FIRM: Casa Rex



Artificial Intelligence
TITLE: Artificial Intelligence
AUTHOR: Stephanie Sammartino McPherson (author)
PUBLISHER: Twenty First Century Books / Lerner Publishing Group

BOOK DESIGNER: Emily Harris
JACKET DESIGNER: Emily Harris
ART DIRECTOR: Laura Otto Rinne
DESIGN FIRM: Lerner Publishing Group



Assim na terra como embaixo da terra (On earth as it is under the ground)
TITLE: Assim na terra como embaixo da terra (On earth as it is under the ground)
AUTHOR: Ana Paula Maia
PUBLISHER: Record

JACKET DESIGNER: Leonardo Iaccarino
CREATIVE DIRECTOR: Leonardo Iaccarino
ART DIRECTOR: Leonardo Iaccarino
DESIGN FIRM: Leonardo Iaccarino



Atticus Finch
TITLE: Atticus Finch
AUTHOR: Joseph Crespino
PUBLISHER: Basic Books

ART DIRECTOR: Rebecca Lown



Attract
TITLE: Attract
AUTHOR: Andris Pone
PUBLISHER: Self Published

BOOK DESIGNER: Laura Beauparlant
JACKET DESIGNER: Maria Saenz
CREATIVE DIRECTOR: Laura Beauparlant
ART DIRECTOR: Laura Beauparlant
DESIGN FIRM: Lab Creative



Autonomous
TITLE: Autonomous
AUTHOR: Annalee Newitz
PUBLISHER: Tor Books




AYAKO
TITLE: AYAKO
AUTHOR: Osamu Tezuka
PUBLISHER: Veneta

BOOK DESIGNER: Gustavo Piqueira
CREATIVE DIRECTOR: Gustavo Piqueira
ART DIRECTOR: Gustavo Piqueira
DESIGN FIRM: Casa Rex



Beasts Made of Night
TITLE: Beasts Made of Night
AUTHOR: Tochi Onyebuchi
PUBLISHER: Razorbill, Penguin

JACKET DESIGNER: Jeff Miller
DESIGN FIRM: Faceout Studio



Because of the Sun
TITLE: Because of the Sun
AUTHOR: Jenny Torres Sanchez
PUBLISHER: Penguin Random House

JACKET DESIGNER: Anne Jordan and Mitch Goldstein
ART DIRECTOR: Ray Shappell
DESIGN FIRM: Anne Jordan and Mitch Goldstein



Becoming Leonardo
TITLE: Becoming Leonardo
AUTHOR: Mike Lankford
PUBLISHER: Melville House

JACKET DESIGNER: Marina Drukman
ART DIRECTOR: Marina Drukman
DESIGN FIRM: Melville House



Behind the Lines
TITLE: Behind the Lines
AUTHOR: Adrian Russell
PUBLISHER: The 42

BOOK DESIGNER: Graham Thew
JACKET DESIGNER: Graham Thew
CREATIVE DIRECTOR: Graham Thew
ART DIRECTOR: Graham Thew
DESIGN FIRM: Graham Thew Design



Being Elvis
TITLE: Being Elvis
AUTHOR: Ray Connolly
PUBLISHER: Liveright

JACKET DESIGNER: Steve Attardo
ART DIRECTOR: Steve Attardo
DESIGN FIRM: W.W. Norton



Believing in Our Self
TITLE: Believing in Our Self
AUTHOR: Scott Friedman
PUBLISHER: sel-published

JACKET DESIGNER: Chris A Johnson
DESIGN FIRM: Chris A Johnson



Beneath the Spanish
TITLE: Beneath the Spanish
AUTHOR: VIctor Hernandez Cruz
PUBLISHER: Coffee House Press

BOOK DESIGNER: Patti Capaldi (Cover Designer)
JACKET DESIGNER: Patti Capaldi (Cover Designer)
CREATIVE DIRECTOR: Carla Valdez
ART DIRECTOR: Patti Capaldi
DESIGN FIRM: Patti Capaldi Design



Beyond Colorblind
TITLE: Beyond Colorblind
AUTHOR: Sarah Shin
PUBLISHER: Intervarsity Press

JACKET DESIGNER: Tim Green
DESIGN FIRM: Faceout Studio



Blitzed
TITLE: Blitzed
AUTHOR: Norman Ohler
PUBLISHER: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

JACKET DESIGNER: Albert Tang
ART DIRECTOR: Michaela Sullivan



Bolshoi confidencial (Bolshoi confidential)
TITLE: Bolshoi confidencial (Bolshoi confidential)
AUTHOR: Simon Morrison
PUBLISHER: Record

JACKET DESIGNER: Leonardo Iaccarino
CREATIVE DIRECTOR: Leonardo Iaccarino
ART DIRECTOR: Leonardo Iaccarino



Books Are Made Out of Books: A Guide to Cormac McCarthy's Literary Influences
TITLE: Books Are Made Out of Books: A Guide to Cormac McCarthy's Literary Influences
AUTHOR: Michael Crews
PUBLISHER: University of Texas Press

BOOK DESIGNER: Derek George
JACKET DESIGNER: Derek George
DESIGN FIRM: University of Texas Press



Brian Eno Light Music
TITLE: Brian Eno Light Music
AUTHOR: Brian Eno
PUBLISHER: Paul stolper Gallery

BOOK DESIGNER: Ryuhei Nakadai
JACKET DESIGNER: Ryuhei Nakadai
CREATIVE DIRECTOR: Anyhow Ltd
ART DIRECTOR: Ryuhei Nakadai
DESIGN FIRM: Anyhow Ltd



Building Equity: Policies and Practices to Empower All Learners
TITLE: Building Equity: Policies and Practices to Empower All Learners
AUTHOR: Dominique Smith, Nancy Frey, Ian Pumpian, Douglas Fisher
PUBLISHER: ASCD

BOOK DESIGNER: Donald Ely
JACKET DESIGNER: Donald Ely
CREATIVE DIRECTOR: Gary Bloom
ART DIRECTOR: Reece Quinones



Buzz
TITLE: Buzz
AUTHOR: Hallie Lieberman
PUBLISHER: Pegasus Books

JACKET DESIGNER: Jeff Miller
DESIGN FIRM: Faceout Studio



Canon/Archive
TITLE: Canon/Archive
AUTHOR: Stanford Literary Lab
PUBLISHER: n+1 books

BOOK DESIGNER: Rachel Ossip



Captured!
TITLE: Captured!
AUTHOR: Arlene Hess Elkins
PUBLISHER: One Mission Society

JACKET DESIGNER: Karen Kresge





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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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