Category: Books

Andre Barnet|Books

The Age of Wreckers and Exterminators

For many people, the sudden appearance of Carson’s and Jacobs’s brilliant and prescient books was one of those moments that seem, in retrospect, to have changed the very order of things.

Ken Gordon|Books

AI + Designers = ?

AI is a tool, a really powerful one, for designers to use; not an alternative to designers.

Edwin Carels|Books

Training Grounds

A new book out from Ludion Publishers explores at the Quay Brothers training as graphic artists and the artwork that they created.

Molly Young|Books

Puzzling Out William Steig

A new book is a coded exploration of New York City—an account of local customs and affinities, a catalog of macro and microaggressions, a narrative of life in the modern metropolis.

Julie Anixter|Books

Understanding is the Hard Part

TED founder Richard Saul Wurman’s new book, Understanding Understanding, reminds AIGA executive director Julie Anixter that while mastering any discipline is a difficult task, designers might be the ones best suited to guide the …

Kathryn Lofton|Books

Forms of Obsession

How do we define the line between attention and obsession?

Louise Harpman|Books

Coffee Lids: Peel, Pinch, Pucker, Puncture

The origin of the coffee lid is a distinctly American story and can be traced to the late 1970s, when coffee-loving car drivers, bus riders, train travelers, and walkers forever changed the hot-beverage-drinking landscape in this …

Oliver Vodeb|Books

Critical Lessons in Food, Communication, Design, and Art

An excerpt from Oliver Vodeb’s Food Democracy on how design, art, and communication can transform our relationship to food, power, and society.

Steven Heller|Books

Vignelli’s Subway Map For Little Ones

Massimo Vignelli’s subway map, and the graphic design process, immortalized in new form: a children’s book.

Bonnie Siegler|Books

Dear Client

“Ironically, there are many books for designers about how we can better work with clients...But, as far as I know, there are no books to help clients better work with creative people, who are a unique species with a unique language …

Bonnie Siegler|Books

Signs of Resistance

This book is a collection of visual expressions of resistance throughout American history. They include broadsides, postcards, posters, greeting cards, sculptures, paintings, ads, book covers, magazine covers, handmade-signs, …

Lilly Smith|Books

Stefan Bucher’s Letterheads: A Zany but Totally Methodical Take on Reinvention

The designer explains why humor is a good tool, how to overcome artistic fears, and what he means by saying he’s a “Victorian gardener of the mind.”