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Chip Kidd|Books

Designing The Road

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

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.

House Industries|Books

Finding a Kindred Spirit

“I’m not sure if we needed a new logo and thought of House, or if we needed a new logo because of House.” —Jimmy Kimmel

Steven Heller|Books

Cosmos of Signs

The universe of signs and symbols devised throughout the ages of human history is head-spinningly immense and forever expanding.

Manuel Lima|Books

Visualizing Spheres of Knowledge

The circularity exhibited in nature turned out to be much more than a source of wonder. It soon became a chief guiding principle of human culture, emulated and reinvented in art, religion, language, technology, architecture, philosophy, …

Sean Adams|Books

Subjective + Emotional

Color is subjective and emotional.

Milton Glaser|Books

Call for Submissions: The Design of Dissent

Artists usually are the alarm system for society.

Jade Doskow|Books

Lost Utopias

Lost Utopias documents the remains of World’s Fair sites.

The AIGA Design Educators Community|Books

Required Reading

AIGA’s Design Educators Community list their must-have books for design inspiration for 2017

Julie Anixter|Books

Design Observer Holiday Reading List

Looking for something to read this holiday season? Look no further!

Lucienne Roberts|Books

Looking Good

A visual guide to the nun’s habit.

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The Past, Present and Future of Design with Lee Moreau, DB|BD Season 12 Finale

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Patrick Whitney on Designing for What’s Next | Design As Season Finale

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Design As Creation | Design As Consumption