Media

Observed|Miscellaneous

The Craft of Design

American Craft's special 2013 design issue is available online or as an iPad app.

Observed|Books

Recent Books Received: 05.02.13

Souvenir Nation by William L. Bird Jr., Building: Inside Studio Gang Architects by Jeanne Gang and Zoë Ryan, Editors, The Where, the Why, and the How: 75 Artists Illustrate Wondrous Mysteries of Science by Jenny Volvovski, Julia …

Observed|Photos

FILMography

FILMography, a blog dedicated to matching scenes from movies with their real life locations

Observed|Collections

Book Trade Labels

Book trade labels are advertising artifacts from booksellers, binders, printers, publishers, importers, and distributors of books.

Rick Poynor|Essays

On the Trail of The Eater of Darkness

The Eater of Darkness is a collision of science fiction, murder mystery, Surrealism and experimental typography.

Observed|Books

Recent Books Received: 04.25.13

Curiosity and Method: Ten Years of Cabinet Magazine; Norman Bel Geddes Designs America by Donald Albrecht: The Complete Engraver: Monograms, Crests, Ciphers, Seals, and The Etiquette of Social Stationary by Nancy Sharon Collins; Sky High …

Mark Lamster|Essays

The Bush Library

A review of the Bush Library.

Observed|Books

Awful Library Books

Awful Library Books is a collection of amusing and/or questionable library holdings found in real libraries and curated by librarians Mary Kelly and Holly Hibner.

Observed|Books

Recent Books Received: 04.18.13

Between Page and Screen by Amaranth Borsuk and Brad Bouse; Design for Emotion by Trevor van Gorp and Edie Adams; Material Manifestations by Rensselaer Architecture, Shaker Museum Mt. Lebanon; A Topology of Everyday Constellatons by Georges …

Observed|Books

Recent Books Received: 04.11.13

Various writer's Eye On A Century; I Used To Be A Design Student by Frank Philippin and Billy Kiosoglou; Work For Money, Design For Love by David Airey; See What I Mean : How to Use Comics to Communicate Ideas by Kevin Cheng; Content …

Observed|Collections

Czech Book Covers of the 1920's and 30's

The Smithsonian has an engaging collection of Czech avant-garde book cover designs from the 1920s and 30s.

Rick Poynor|Essays

The Practical Virtue of Works That Work

Works That Work magazine reclaims the word “creativity” from the stultifying embrace of branding culture and design thinking.