Media

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.

Gregorio Amaro|Projects

“Digital Amoxtli ”: Interaction Design Can Be More than Just Fun and Games

Through designer Gregorio Amaro’s new project, which addresses death from a MesoAmerican perspective, we see how interaction design has the potential to create positive outcomes by addressing difficult subjects in new ways.

Chip Kidd|Books

Designing The Road

In an excerpt from his new book, Chip Kidd recounts designing Cormac McCarthy’s The Road.

Maya P. Lim|Essays

Walden, Or a Life with the Book

Can suboptimal book design discourage you from reading? Can the design of something ever stop you from doing something you love?

Brian LaRossa|Commentary

How We Read Matters

We are responsible for the consequences of the way we choose to read.

Sean Adams|Evidence

Admiration for the Bland Subject (and Beautiful Design)

When presented with dull content, Sean Adams recommends designers “reframe, augment, or interpret the content and redesign.”

Ken Gordon|Essays

Narration vs. Curation: Deyan Sudjic, the Design Museum, and B Is for Bauhaus

To read a book is to stage an exhibition in one’s own imagination.

John Foster|Accidental Mysteries

An Archive of Czech Film Posters

Real life #TBT: a publicly accessible database with over 6,000 original, vintage posters from all periods of cinema.

Lilly Smith|Competitions

How to Judge a Book by its Cover

Announcing the 2016 50 Books | 50 Covers selections.

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.

Adrian Shaughnessy|Essays

Literary Alchemy and Graphic Design

Should graphic designers take a lead from Joycean lyricism?