Tag: book
Mid-Century Modern Design: A Complete Sourcebook Is the Best Reference Book...
Some books belong on a shelf. This one belongs on your desk, your coffee table, and your conscience as a designer. Mid-Century Modern Design:...
The World According to David Hockney Is the Art Book You...
David Hockney died on June 11, 2026. He was 88 years old. For me personally, that news hit differently than most obituaries do. Hockney...
The Best Books on Art and Design to Read This Summer
Summer is the one season that actually gives you permission to read slowly. Not the frantic, bookmark-everything-and-come-back-to-it reading we do the rest of the...
Today Was Fun by Bree Groff: Does This Workbook Actually Work?
Bree Groff opens her new book with a dare. She claims your job can feel genuinely fun, not just tolerable. I tested that claim...
What Does Jenna McKnight’s “Design: Mid-Century Modern” Teach Us About the...
Just look around you, and you will notice that Mid-Century Modern design refuses to die, and Jenna McKnight's new guidebook explains exactly why. I...
Art Deco: Why Penny Craswell’s New Book Belongs on Every Designer’s...
Art Deco announces itself in chrome edges, sunburst motifs, and skyscrapers that scrape at the clouds like they have somewhere urgent to be. Penny...
Atlas of Brutalist Architecture, the Book That Proves Concrete Was Never...
Concrete doesn't apologize. Neither does this book. The Atlas of Brutalist Architecture by Phaidon Editors arrived in 2020 as a 568-page, 5.6-pound argument that...
Breakout #2—100 Posters by Cihan Tamti Proves That Daily Practice Builds...
Some design books document a finished career. This one documents a transformation in progress. Breakout #2—100 Posters by Cihan Tamti, published by Slanted Publishers...
The Work of Art—A Book by Adam Moss About How Something...
The question sounds almost too simple: where does art come from? Yet the answer has eluded critics, philosophers, and curious readers for centuries. Adam...
Thinking with Type Is Still the Best Typography Book You Can...
Typography shapes how people experience words before they even read them. The weight of a serif, the rhythm of a line, the tension between...
100 Iconic Buildings to See Before You Die: The Architecture Book...
Honestly, travel and architecture books come and go. Most of them promise the world and deliver a recycled slideshow of images you've already seen...
Call It Home: The Details That Matter—Book by Amber Lewis
Is Amber Lewis's Book Call It Home the Interior Design Guide You've Been Waiting For?
Honestly, I think that many interior design books give you...
