Tag: book

AD at Home is a better argument than it is a manual. Amy Astley's 496-page hardcover shows that personality makes a room memorable. Yet...

A Chapter-by-Chapter Book Review of Graphic Design Rules by Princeton Architectural Press Some design books age like Helvetica, while others age like a Comic Sans...

Energy design sounds like a job for engineers in hard hats. But Vitra's Transform! Designing the Future of Energy argues otherwise. Its pages hold...

Architecture Against Architecture opens with a confession, not a compliment. Reinier de Graaf, a partner at OMA for three decades, makes that clear on...

I think I bought Design as Art in 2020, during the first strange months of the pandemic, when Amazon deliveries were the only thing...

Some of you may have already read my review of A Dictionary of Color Combinations Vol. 1 here on WE AND THE COLOR. After...

Myquillyn Smith has a theory, and it's a good one. Empty rooms don't feel peaceful. They feel abandoned. In House Hushing: The Simple Method...

I bought this book on a whim back in June, mostly because the cover pattern looked sharper than anything else on my shelf that...

A review of Vintage Graphic Design, Steven Heller and Louise Fili's sourcebook of type, monograms, and ornaments from the golden age of printing. I bought...

I recently bought Rainbow Dreams mostly because I wanted to know if a 256-page book could hold that much color without collapsing into visual...

The Art of Less is not a book about owning fewer things. That's the first assumption gestalten wants readers to drop before they even...

My copy of The Graphic Design Bible has a coffee ring on page 214. It sits right on top of the Swiss grid systems...