Media

Observed|Essays

Let's Talk Movie Posters

Movie poster for the upcoming drama The Gambler.

Rick Poynor|Essays

Bohumil Stepan’s Family Album of Oddities

Bohumil Stepan’s Familienalbum presents a series of surreally equipped and irreverently modified collages of his family.

John Thackara|Essays

Ways of Knowing

John Thackara's contrubution to the book Gallery of the Senses, that explores the ways we expereince the contemporary world through sight, hearing, smell, taste and touch.

Rick Poynor|Essays

Bohumil Stepan’s Gallery of Erotic Humor

Mapp Editions has released a digital version of Bohumil Stepan’s Galerie (1968), a surreal collection of collages and drawings about the relationship between the sexes.

John Thackara|Essays

Speed? What Speed? The Falcon, by Sebastian Trapp

Field biologist Sebastian Trapp on Frederic the Second's book, On the Art of Hunting with Birds.

Karen Green|Poetry

Bough Down

An excerpt from Bough Down, Karen Green's transcendent book about surviving her husband's suicide.

Observed|Books

Recent Books Received: 08.29.13

The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas; The User Experience Team of One: A Research and Design Survival Guide by Leah Buley; Build Your Own Brand: Strategies, Prompts and Exercises for Marketing Yourself by Robin Landa; Rotman on …

Observed|Essays

A Nearly Perfect Book

The poetry critic, the publisher, and the art of bookmaking in a digital era.

John Thackara|Essays

Connecting With The Other

A review of Empreintes, by Céline Boyer

Rick Poynor|Essays

Collage Now, Part 2: Cut and Paste Culture

Cut-and-paste culture is booming and collage-making is rampant: paper-based, digital, and all points between.

Observed|Books

Recent Books Received: 08.22.13

Still: American Silent Motion Picture Photography by David S. Shields; Multiple Signatures: On Designers, Authors, Readers and Users by Michael Rock; Adhocism: The Case for Improvisation by Charles Jencks and Nathan Silver; Recalculating …

Andrew Howard|Primary Sources

A Manifesto for Higher Learning

Andrew Howard, MA course director in Communication Design at ESAD — Escola Superior de Artes e Design in Matosinhos, Portugal — shares this with his incoming graduate students each year.