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A Way to Learn to See: The new Interaction of Color iPad app 16 Aug 2013 | 05:30 pm
Reviewed by Carolina de Bartolo In my 2010 review of Josef Albers’s Interaction of Color, I summarized this most excellent volume as “an eternal gift to the world of design.” I stand by that statemen...
An Interview with Noah Scalin and Michelle Taute on The Design Activist’s Handbook 12 Aug 2013 | 05:30 pm
As part of a DROB series of interviews with authors, Jenny Venn interviews Noah Scalin and Michelle Taute about co-authoring the useful and inspiring book The Design Activists Handbook and about the e...
Design Anthropology: object culture in the 21st century 27 May 2013 | 04:34 pm
Design Anthropology: object culture in the 21st century, edited by Alison J. Clarke Publisher: Springer, Vienna, 2011. Review by Maria Blyzinsky ‘This book describes a seismic shift in the way experts...
Draw Your Own Fonts: 30 Alphabets to Scribble, Sketch, and Make Your Own 5 Apr 2013 | 05:30 pm
As a graphic designer who can barely draw, I have always envied those who can incorporate hand drawing to make their designs look unique. When I saw Draw Your Own Fonts: 30 Alphabets to Scribble, Sket...
Looking at Type: A Pictorial Review of Four Type Reference Books 25 Mar 2013 | 04:30 pm
Photographed and Reviewed by Carolina de Bartolo How many type reference books do you need in your library? If you love looking at letters like I do, I’d say the more the merrier. Stock up! Sure, I’ve...
Cause and Effect: Visualizing Sustainability 4 Mar 2013 | 06:30 pm
Lester Brown, an American environmental analyst and founder of the Worldwatch Institute said: The communications industry is the only agency possessing the capacity to convey the knowledge necessary f...
An interview with Andrew Shea on Designing for Social Change 22 Feb 2013 | 06:30 pm
Identified as a “place to start” by renowned designer and social entrepreneur, William Drenttel, Designing for Social Change by Andrew Shea, is an insightful guidebook and designer’s co-pilot containi...
Comparison Review: Graphic Design Theory 28 Jan 2013 | 06:30 pm
For those interested in graphic design theory, there are two compelling books on the market with nearly identical titles: Graphic Design Theory: Readings From the Field, by Miami University professor ...
Design Axioms 21 Jan 2013 | 06:30 pm
(Click to enlarge) Have you ever wanted to learn interface design in a single day? Well, you won’t be able to, at least not thoroughly. You would, however, be in pretty good shape if you started that ...
The Sketchnote Handbook 7 Jan 2013 | 06:30 pm
Hear. See. Think. Draw. This is the approach to visual note taking that author Mike Rohde, illustrator of the wildly popular book Rework, outlines in The Sketchnote Handbook. While most of us take not...
