Books Received: Winter 2008

New books have been piling up here at Design Observer. We thought we’d share some of the many recently published titles we have received over the past couple of months — with a few older titles just stumbled upon. We hope you will find a surprise or two, or simply a single book your library just must have.

	Michelangelo Antonioni & Marga Cottina-Jones The Architecture of Vision: Writings and Interviews on Cinema University of Chicago Press, 2007 [WD]
	Elizabeth Armstrong Birth of the Cool: California Art, Design, and Culture at Midcentury Prestel Publishing, 2007 [TV]
	Paola Antonelli, editor Design and the Elastic Mind MoMA, 2008 The catalog accompanying the new MoMA exhibition that, according to an excitable The New York Times review, enables us to “begin to dream again.” [AT]
	Kate Ascher The Works: Anatomy of a City Penguin, 2007 [MB]
	Jeremy Aynsley & Kate Forde Design and the Modern Magazine Manchester University Press, 2007 Volume of essays on a subject design history has tended to overlook by scholars associated with the V&A/RCA design history course. [RP]
	Stuart Baker, editor New York Noise: Art and Music from the New York Underground 1978-88 Soul Jazz Records, 2007 Nice for those of us who weren’t there. [DS]
	J.G. Ballard Miracles of Life: Shanghai to Shepperton Fourth Estate/Harper Collins, 2007 Keenly anticipated autobiography of a visionary fiction writer and social critic whose predictions about media, celebrity, technology and urbanism proved uncannily accurate. [RP+TV]
	Alan Bartram Typeforms: a history The British Library & Oak Knoll Press, 2007 [WD]
	Gerry Beegan The Mass Image: A Social History of Photomechanical Reproduction in Victorian London Palgrave Macmillan, 2008 A dense study of the photographically reproduced image in popular illustrated magazines of the 1890s which, unlike so many studies of graphic design, takes into account the experience of the viewers and readers. [AT]
	Andrew Blauvelt, editor Worlds Away: New Suburban Landscapes Walker Art Center, 2008 A new book by a Design Observer contributor. [WD]
	Giovanna Borasi & Mirko Zardini Sorry, Out of Gas Edizioni Corraini/CCA, 2008 [TV]
	Michael Bracewell Re-Make/Re-Model: Art, Pop, Fashion and the Making of Roxy Music, 1953-1972 Faber and Faber, 2007 (Or the American paperback edition: Re-Make/Re-Model: Becoming Roxy Music Da Capo Press, 2008) Roxy Music left an enduring impression on British pop culture and Bracewell tracks all the connections with engaging thoroughness. [RP]
	Christopher Burke Active Literature: Jan Tschichold and New Typography Hyphen Press/Princeton Architectural Press, 2008 [WD]
	Christopher Burke Paul Renner: Art of Typography Hyphen Press/Princeton Architectural Press, 2008 [WD]
	Tamara Chaplin Turning On the Mind: French Philosophers on Television University of Chicago Press, 2007 [WD]
	Jonathan Chapman Emotionally Durable Design: Objects, Experiences and Empathy Earthscan Publications, 2005 [WD]
	Jonathan Chapman & Nick Gant, editors Designers, Visionaries and Other Stories: A Collection of Sustainable Design Essays Earthscan Publications, 2007 [WD]
	Lincoln Cushing & Ann Tompkins Chinese Posters: Art from the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution Chronicle Books, 2007 Already a well covered subject, but this collection gathers many fascinating examples and ties them together with a smart design and thoughtful text. [RP]
	Michael Dorrian & Liz Farrelly One Hundred at 360 Degrees: Graphic Design’s New Global Generation Laurence King Publishers/Chronicle Books, 2007 [WD]
	Johanna Drucker & Emily McVarish Graphic Design History: A Critical Guide Prentice Hall, 2008 [LW]
	John Emerson Visualizing Information for Advocacy: An Introduction to Information Design Open Society Institute, 2008 [WD]
	Kate Fletcher Sustainable Fashion and Textiles: Design Journeys Earthscan Publications, 2008 [WD]
	Ben Fry Visualizing Data O’Reilly Media, 2008 [WD]
	Daniel Giralt-Miracle & Vicenc Altaio, editors Visualkultur.Cat Actar, 2007 [WD]
	Sarah Greenough & Diane Waggoner The Art of the American Snapshot, 1888-1978 Princeton University Press, 2007 After judging AAUP this year, this was my favorite book. [WD]
	Philip Gourevitch, editor The Paris Review Interviews: Volume II Picador, 2007 Of interest, I think, for delivering so many unobstructed views onto the creative process. [AT]
	Eugene Grasset Plants and Their Application to Ornament: A Nineteenth-Century Design Primer Chronicle Books, 2007 [WD]
	Mike Hansell Built by Animals: The Natural History of Animal Architecture Oxford University Press, 2008 [TV]
	Mark Harris Pictures at a Revolution: Five Movies and the Birth of the New Hollywood Penguin Press, 2008 The story behind each of the movies nominated for 1967’s Best Picture Oscar creates a cultural history of the sixties. [MB]
	Lynda Roscoe Hartigan Joseph Cornell: Navigating the Imagination Yale University Press, 2007 The most lavish and visually engrossing volume to date on the inexhaustibly influential poetic American box maker. [RP]
	Jianping He, editor Master of Design: Niklaus Troxler Page One Publishing Private, 2007 [DS]
	Steven Heller & David Womack Becoming a Digital Designer: A Guide to Careers in Web, Video, Broadcast, Game and Animation Design Wiley, 2007 A new book by a Design Observer contributor. [WD]
	Hesign, editor Master of Design: Pierre Bernard Page One Publishing Private, 2007 [DS]
	Jost Hochuli Detail In Typography Hyphen Press/Princeton Architectural Press, 2008 [WD]
	Richard Hollis Swiss Graphic Design: The Origins and Growth of an International Style, 1920-1965 Yale University Press, 2006 A vivid account of a golden era written with the author’s usual understated rigour. [AS]
	Stephen Johnstone, editor The Everyday Whitechapel Art Gallery, 2008 The latest title in the Documents of Contemporary Art Series turns its attention to historical texts and recent analyzes of contemporary art’s fascination with the quotidian. [AT]
	Daniel Kantor Graphic Design and Religion: A Call for Renewal GIa Publications, 2008 [WD]
	Chip Kidd The Learners: A Novel Scribner, 2008 [WD+MB]
	Robert Klanten, Sven Ehmann & Birgo Meyer, editors NEOGEO: A New Edge to Abstraction Dgv, 2007 I’m not a huge fan of graphic design catalogs but this one keeps wowing me with sincere experimentation and quality of work. [DS]
	Naomi Klein The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism Metropolitan Books, 2007 [SH]
	Liz Kotz Words to Be Looked At: Language in 1960s Art MIT Press, 2007 [WD]
	Michael Kroeger, editor Paul Rand: Conversations with Students Princeton Architectural Press, 2007 [JH]
	Sanford Kwinter Far from Equilibrium: Essays on Technology and Design Culture Actar, 2008 A collection of the architecture critic’s essays, many of which were originally published in ANY magazine in the 1990s. [AT]
	Ellen Lupton Area_2 Phaidon Press, 2008 [WD]
	Ellen Lupton & Jennifer Cole Phillips Graphic Design: The New Basics Princeton Architectural Press, 2008 [WD]
	Chris Marker La Jetée: ciné-roman Zone Books/MIT Press, 2008 Long out of print, and a stunning and important book. [WD]
	Chris Marker Staring Back MIT Press, 2007 [WD]
	Steve Martin Born Standing Up: A Comic’s Life Scribner, 2007 A memoir of the craft and hard work of comedy by one of its masters. [MB]
	Heike Munder, editor Peter Saville Estate 1-127 JRP Ringier, 2007 The British cult designer receives the full authoritative, art-world, catalogue treatment, including testimonials from artist admirers. [RP]
	Mark Ovenden and Mike Ashworth Transit Maps of the World Penguin, 2007 [TV]
	Gary Panter Gary Panter Monograph PictureBox, 2008 [WD]
	Laurent Pflughaupt Letter by Letter: An Alphabetical Miscellany Princeton Architectural Press, 2008 [WD]
	Rick Poynor Jan van Toorn: Critical Practice 010 Publishers, 2008 A new book by a Design Observer contributor, and the first monograph about one of the most significant and influential Dutch graphic designers to have emerged since the 1960s. [WD]
	Simon Reynolds Bring the Noise: 20 Years of Writing About Hip Rock & Hip Hop Faber & Faber, 2007 The best music writer at work today. [AS]
	R. Roger Remington & Robert S. P. Fripp Design and Science: The Life and Work of Will Burtin Ashgate, 2007 [WD]
	Fernando Romero/LAR Hyperborder: The Contemporary U.S.-Mexico Border and It’s Future Princeton Architectural Press, 2007 An architecture research project in the tradition of S,M,L,XL but much more specific. [DS]
	Stefan Sagmeister Things I have learned in my life so far Abrams, 2008 [WD]
	Tomoko Sakamoto & Ramon Prat SHD: Super Holland Design Actar, 2007 [WD]
	Andrew K. Sandoval-Strausz Hotel: An American History Yale University Press, 2007 [WD]
	William S. Saunders, editor The New Architectural Pragmatism: A Harvard Design Magazine Reader University of Minnesota Press, 2007 [WD]
	Jutta Schickore The Microscope and the Eye: A History of Reflections University of Chicago Press, 2007 [WD]
	Sarah Schleuning Moderne: Fashioning the French Interior Princeton Architectural Press, 2007 This collection of stunning pochoir prints from the Wolfsonian Museum collection reveals the elegant artistry of the Deco era in France. [SH]
	Adrian Shaughnessy Cover Art By: New Music Graphics Laurence King Publishers/Chronicle Books, 2008 A new book by a Design Observer contributor. [WD]
	Wilfrid Sheed The House That George Built: With a Little Help from Irving, Cole, and a Crew of About Fifty Random House, 2007 A discursive look at the sources of American popular song. [MB]
	Laurie Simmons Photographs 1978/79 Skarstedt Fine Art, 2003 [WD]
	James Stevenson Lost and Found New York: Oddballs, Heroes, Heartbreakers, Scoundrels, Thugs, Mayors, and Mysteries Collins, 2007 [MB]
	Judith Thurman Cleopatra’s Nose: 39 Varieties of Desire Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2007 [JH]
	Michael Veal Dub: Soundscapes and Shattered Songs in Jamaican Reggae Wesleyan University Press, 2007 Jamaica continues to exert an influence on global music out of all proportion to its size. [AS]
	Stuart Walker Sustainable by Design: Explorations in Theory and Practice Earthscan Publications, 2006 [WD]
	Lawrence Weiner As far As The Eye Can See Whitney Museum of American Art, 2007 [LW]
	Cornel Windlin & Rolf Fehlbaum, editors Project Vitra: Sites, Products, Authors, Museum, Collection, Signs Birkhäuser, 2007 Windlin is one of the finest graphic designers working anywhere and his compendium is as beautifully made as the furniture it documents. [RP]
	Douglas Wolk Reading Comics: How Graphic Novels Work and What They Mean De Capo Press, 2007 The graphic novel comes of age with a full-length, lit-crit study delivered with an assured, light touch. [RP]
	Jason Wood 100 Road Movies British Film Institute, 2007 [AS]
	Michael Worthington, editor Two Lines Align: Drawing and Graphic Design by Ed Fella and Geoff McFetridge Redcat Gallery Los Angeles, 2008 [Available from the gallery and online bookstore by mid-March.] [LW]
	Ivan Zaknic, editor Le Corbusier: Journey to the East MIT Press, 2007 [WD]