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Julie Anixter|Books

Holiday Book List: For the Design Standard-Bearer or the Trendsetter

Are you looking for design moments that shook the world or that are off the beaten path?

Doug Powell|Books

Holiday Book List: For the Design Practitioner and the Theorist

Books that provide a broad understanding of the world around you.

Michael Bierut|Audio

S3E11: Melissa Harris

Melissa Harris is editor at large of the Aperture Foundation and the author of A Wild Life: A Visual Biography of Photographer Michael Nichols.

Sean Adams|Books

Holiday Book List: For the Serenity-seeker and the Problem-solver

Are you looking to escape reality or face it? Either way, we’ve got the book for you.

The Editors|Competitions

50 Books | 50 Covers of 2017: Call for Entries

AIGA + Design Observer are pleased to announce the opening of the 50 Books | 50 Covers competition for books published in 2017.

Michael Bierut|Books

Holiday Book List 2017: Master Class

You don’t have to be a creative to appreciate these reads. A curious mind will do.

Sean Adams|Evidence

Fake News: Blow Up

We are conditioned to understand that a photograph is an honest record of an object, time, and place.

Michael Bierut|Essays

Everything I Know About Design I Learned from The Sopranos

After eight years, 86 episodes, and untold quantities of gobbagool, The Sopranos finished its run on HBO. And this is what we’ve learned, from a design point of view.

Maya P. Lim|Reviews

Never Use Futura

It could have been Never Use Comic Sans. Or Never Use Arial. Or—dare I write it?—Never Use Helvetica. Instead, Douglas Thomas chose Futura.

Michael Bierut|Essays

I Love the 80s

Miami Vice: the quintessential postmodern design artifact, in all its glory and all its disgrace.

Michael Bierut|Essays

Now You See It

There was a message hidden in the illustration on the cover of the New York Times Book Review. At least I think it was hidden. Did you see it? Why didn’t I?