Category: Books

Vicky Lowry|Books

Jens Risom: A Seat at the Table

An excerpt from Vicky Lowry’s new book "Jens Risom: A Seat at the Table", out this week from Phaidon.

Richard Kraft|Books

It Is What It Is

A year ago on January 6 2021, a mob attacked the US Capital. Four years prior artist Richard Kraft began issuing Donald Trump colored cards, just as a soccer referee penalizes players who transgress the rules and code of conduct.

The Editors|Books

Woman Made

A new story of women product designers is told in Woman Made.

John Dolan|Books

A Photographer at a Wedding

Midwife. Funeral director. Wedding photographer. You meet them once on a delicate day. They quickly slip into the inner circle of a family to perform their role during this rite of passage, and then they are gone.

Anezka Minarikova|Books

Clara Istlerová, Her Work and Life

Spaeth Hill|Books

äntrepō: Volume 1

äntrepō is a studio project by the DC-based design practice Spaeth Hill.

Robert Finkel|Books

The IBM Poster Program

IBM’s mid-century corporate creative direction usually brings to mind Paul Rand, but it’s staff graphic designers and photographers developed posters as a platform for elevating internal communications and initiatives within …

Susan Yelavich|Books

Beings: Unruly Things, Golems, Cyborgs

Stories of the supranatural would seem to be among those childish things it is long time we put away. But somehow we never do.

Thomas Rinaldi|Books

Origins of Design Patents

Although the story of design patents is closely intertwined with that of industrial design, in fact design patents predate the emergence of industrial design as an organized professional discipline by nearly a century.

Mike Meyers|Books

Sign Painting

In the last ten years or so we have truly witnessed a resurgence of the sign painter’s craft.

Ulises Carrión|Books

The New Art of Making Books

Founded in Philadelphia in 2016, Ulises is a collectively run art bookstore and exhibition space, who edited the recently published Publishing As Practice.

Jason Hill|Books

Artist as Reporter

In the 1940s the New York daily newspaper PM’s experimented with the then already "lost art" of sketch reporting.