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Thomas de Monchaux|Books
Something Elemental About Something Artificial
Exploring the complex space between the formal and informal, the formed and formless with LOT-EK.
Chip Kidd|Books
Designing The Road
In an excerpt from his new book, Chip Kidd recounts designing Cormac McCarthy’s The Road.
Melissa Harris|Books
A Wild Life
PERMISSION EMPHATICALLY DENIED. The story of a National Geographic photographer’s journey documenting mountain gorillas in Rwanda. An excerpt from A Wild Life: A Visual Biography of Photographer Michael Nichols.
Linda Florio|Books
Finding Marguerita
With her designs, Marguerita Mergentime was stirring up conversation, provoking human interaction, and providing a visually compelling backdrop to socializing long before today’s concept of user experience had evolved.
House Industries|Books
Finding a Kindred Spirit
“I’m not sure if we needed a new logo and thought of House, or if we needed a new logo because of House.” —Jimmy Kimmel
Steven Heller|Books
Cosmos of Signs
The universe of signs and symbols devised throughout the ages of human history is head-spinningly immense and forever expanding.
Manuel Lima|Books
Visualizing Spheres of Knowledge
The circularity exhibited in nature turned out to be much more than a source of wonder. It soon became a chief guiding principle of human culture, emulated and reinvented in art, religion, language, technology, architecture, philosophy, …
Sean Adams|Books
Subjective + Emotional
Color is subjective and emotional.
Milton Glaser|Books
Call for Submissions: The Design of Dissent
Artists usually are the alarm system for society.
Jade Doskow|Books
Lost Utopias
Lost Utopias documents the remains of World’s Fair sites.
The AIGA Design Educators Community|Books
Required Reading
AIGA’s Design Educators Community list their must-have books for design inspiration for 2017
Julie Anixter|Books
Design Observer Holiday Reading List
Looking for something to read this holiday season? Look no further!
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