Weekly Wrap-Up: January 11, 2014

We started off our week back from the holidays with a look back at the ten galleries in 2013 from John Foster that most captured your imagination.

On this week’s episode of Design Matters with Debbie Millman, Debbie talked to legendary designer Bob Gill about coming up in the profession in the 1950s, working with the Beatles and the problem with many designers today.

Places rang in the New Year with a story by David Heymann about the incongruency of client desires and the “hope many architects secretly harbor, that architecture is a conduit to the real.”

John Thackara made us want to read naked, exposing eco-issues with the fashion industry with his essay “A Whole New Cloth: Politics and the Fashion System“.

Chris Pullman gave us an homage to a poster that represents an irreducible, can’t-get-more-basic-than-this example of Swiss Modernism.

In light of the New York Times site redesign, we invite you to peer back in our archive and read Michael Bierut’s comments on the publication’s 2003 redesign.

No. It is a word that every creative professional has confronted. It is a word that can easily seem like death to a dream. And yet it is also a word that can point in the right direction. It is a word that motivates us to do something differently, try someone else, get better, innovate, keep going. To inspire you to make 2014 a year of perseverance, we present this excerpt from Gideon Amichay’s book No, No, No, No, No, Yes. Insights From A Creative Journey.

We blogged about a 3D book cover Helen Yentus, the art director of Riverhead Books, designed for Chang-rae Lee’s new novel, On Such a Full Sea.

Next week Debbie Millman will interview Amy Webb & Amanda Michel, co-founders of Spark Camp; John Foster brings us a gallery of native american art; Alexandra Lange is writing about another postwar designer of fascinating objects for children; our advice column Dear Bonnie returns; we unveil a new series: “The Academy” highlighting writings from undergraduate college students on topics that seek to address more rigorous academic aspects of design scholarship; and John Thackara continues his series on the fashion industry with an essay on shoes.