Help, It’s Broken!

Posted on October 18, 2005 Under Books

Are you rendered useless when you're faced with unassembled furniture? A leaky faucet? Broken lamp? If this sounds like you, I've got the book for you that I saw floating around the blogosphere a little while ago. I wasn't going…

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It’s A Matter of Packaging

Posted on September 7, 2005 Under Books

Victionary recently announced their latest release, called "It's a matter of packaging", the fourth installment in the Amatterofdesign Series. The book is divided into three sections: Visual, Touch, and Idea, and features the most interesting packaging work from nearly sixty…

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I love my chair

Posted on August 9, 2005 Under Books

I Love My Chair, is a great interactive book making project by Sense Worldewide. The soon to be book will contain pictures of reader submitted chairs, along with a short piece of text justifying why it is their favorite. Everyone…

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Design Bookshop

Posted on July 18, 2005 Under Books

I love design books, I find myself lusting after rare typography books online all the time. There is a new site, called the Design Bookshop, that is making finding the right books easier. They hand picked the most essential and…

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Rob Walker

Posted on July 6, 2005 Under Books

All though the Core77 interview with Rob Walker has been up for a while, I finally gave it a read today in some free time. The interview is very insightful, and I recommend it to anybody with interest in the…

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Graphic Poetry

Posted on June 2, 2005 Under Books

Graphic Poetry is a book of "modern poetry" from around the globe--but that's not all. International designers, and illustrators, have taken the challenge of creating a "visual response" to each of these written poems, their ideas take up spreads throughout…

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Sneakers: The Complete Collectors Guide

Posted on May 18, 2005 Under Books

I need to give a gracious nod to Cool Hunting for mentioning the new book by Unorthodox Styles--"Sneakers: The Complete Collectors' Guide"-- it's absolutely the best sneaker book I have ever seen. It's organized in an easy to navigate encyclopedia…

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Angry Young Cliche

Posted on May 11, 2005 Under Books

Angry Young Cliche is a 160 page book, exploring the interaction of social and political commentary within the realm of concept-based design. The book is full of work from Colin Smith--an incredibly talented graphic designer, soon to be Savannah College…

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ARKITIP 27

Posted on April 4, 2005 Under Books

ARKITIP magazine's 27th issue is out now. This book is limited edition, hand numbered to 1000. The current issue features artists like Michael Leon, Charles Glaubitz, and Jay Howell. Each issue is packaged with a special Michael Leon and Marc…

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Freewave

Posted on February 28, 2005 Under Books

Oooh fonts, designs, goodies, I totally love the concept of Freewave. It's a book and DVD packaged together full of cutting edge design that "allows immediate access to graphic design applications and provides a close study by peeling back the…

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