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Collective Museum Collection
TITLE: Collective Museum Collection
AUTHOR: Public Doors and Windows
PUBLISHER: Institute of the Arts and Sciences

DESIGNER: Molly Sherman
DESIGN FIRM: Molly Sherman



Concrete Cuba: Cuban Geometric Abstraction from the 1950s
TITLE: Concrete Cuba: Cuban Geometric Abstraction from the 1950s
AUTHOR: Text by Abigail McEwen. Interview with Pedro de Ora_ by Lucas Zwirner. Illustrated chronology by Susanna Temkin
PUBLISHER: David Zwirner Books

DESIGNER: Henk van Assen



Consumed Socialism
TITLE: Consumed Socialism
AUTHOR: Branislav Dimitrijevi_
PUBLISHER: Fabrika knjiga (Book Factory)

DESIGNER: Olivera Bataji_ Sretenovi_
CREATIVE DIRECTOR: Olivera Bataji_ Sretenovi_
ART DIRECTOR: Olivera Bataji_ Sretenovi_
DESIGN FIRM: -



Correspondence in D Minor
TITLE: Correspondence in D Minor
AUTHOR: James Dennis
PUBLISHER: Stephen F Austin University Press

DESIGNER: Carmen Garza
CREATIVE DIRECTOR: Lana Rigsby
ART DIRECTOR: Lana Rigsby
DESIGN FIRM: Rigsby Hull



Creatures of the Deep
TITLE: Creatures of the Deep
AUTHOR: Illustrations from Ernst Haeckel, Maike Biederst_dt
PUBLISHER: Prestel Publishing

DESIGNER: Maike Biederst_dt/Meike Sellier



Cuba: A Personal Journey 1989-2016
TITLE: Cuba: A Personal Journey 1989-2016
AUTHOR: Manuello Paganelli
PUBLISHER: Daylight Books

DESIGNER: Melanie McLaughlin
CREATIVE DIRECTOR: Melanie McLaughlin



Dan Flavin: Corners, Barriers and Corridors
TITLE: Dan Flavin: Corners, Barriers and Corridors
AUTHOR: Texts by Michael Auping and Alexandra Whitney
PUBLISHER: David Zwirner Books

DESIGNER: McCall Associates



Danh Vo ____ _______
TITLE: Danh Vo ____ _______
AUTHOR: Magal_ Arriola, Danh Vo, Patrick Charpenel, Virgilio Pi_era, Mark Godfrey, Patricia Falgueires, Francesco Pellizzi, Tom McDonough
PUBLISHER: Fundaci_n Jumex Arte Contempor_neo

DESIGNER: Emilio Per_z
CREATIVE DIRECTOR: Maricris Herrera
DESIGN FIRM: Estudio Herrera



Danny Lyon: Message to the Future
TITLE: Danny Lyon: Message to the Future
AUTHOR: Julian Cox and Elisabeth Sussman, with Alexander Nemerov, Danica Willard Sachs, Ed Halter, and Alan Rinzler
PUBLISHER: Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco and Yale University Press

DESIGN FIRM: Aufuldish & Warinner



Dead Animals or The Curious Occurrence of Taxidermy in Contemporary Art
TITLE: Dead Animals or The Curious Occurrence of Taxidermy in Contemporary Art
AUTHOR: Jo-Ann Conklin, Curator
PUBLISHER: David Winton Bell Gallery, Brown University

DESIGNER: Malcolm Grear Designers
DESIGN FIRM: Malcolm Grear Designers



Del Posto
TITLE: Del Posto
AUTHOR: Mark Ladner, Forewords by Mario Batali and Joe Bastianich
PUBLISHER: Grand Central Publishing

CREATIVE DIRECTOR: Anne Twomey
DESIGN FIRM: Gary Tooth, Empire Design



DELHI: Communities of Belonging
TITLE: DELHI: Communities of Belonging
AUTHOR: Sunil Gupta & Charan Singh
PUBLISHER: The New Press

DESIGNER: Lisa LaRochelle / Manuel Mendez / Yoko Yoshida-Carrera
CREATIVE DIRECTOR: Jurek Wajdowicz
ART DIRECTOR: Lisa LaRochelle / Jurek Wajdowicz
DESIGN FIRM: Emerson, Wajdowicz Studios (EWS)



Design  The Invention of Desire
TITLE: Design The Invention of Desire
AUTHOR: Jessica Helfand
PUBLISHER: Yale University Press

DESIGNER: Jessica Helfand and Sara Jamshidi



Design a Better Business
TITLE: Design a Better Business
AUTHOR: Patrick van der Pijl, Lisa Kay Solomon, Justin Lokitz
PUBLISHER: Wiley

DESIGNER: Jonas Louisse
CREATIVE DIRECTOR: Erik van der Pluijm
ART DIRECTOR: Maarten van Lieshout
DESIGN FIRM: Thirty-X



Design for People
TITLE: Design for People
AUTHOR: Scott Stowell
PUBLISHER: Metropolis Books

DESIGNER: Scott Stowell, Martha Kang McGill, Ryan Thacker
CREATIVE DIRECTOR: Scott Stowell
DESIGN FIRM: Open



Design: The Invention of Desire
TITLE: Design: The Invention of Desire
AUTHOR: Jessica Helfand
PUBLISHER: Yale University Press

DESIGNER: Sara Jamshidi
CREATIVE DIRECTOR: Jesscia Helfand
ART DIRECTOR: Jessica Helfand



Destroying The Laboratory For The Sake Of The Experiment
TITLE: Destroying The Laboratory For The Sake Of The Experiment
AUTHOR: Mark Power and Daniel Cockrill
PUBLISHER: Globtik Books

DESIGNER: Dominic Brookman
DESIGN FIRM: Kenosha Design



Diplomatic Security Service Then and Now
TITLE: Diplomatic Security Service Then and Now
AUTHOR: Vincent Crawley
PUBLISHER: Goetz Printing

DESIGNER: Stephanie Archuleta
CREATIVE DIRECTOR: Stephanie Archuleta
ART DIRECTOR: Stephanie Archuleta
DESIGN FIRM: Bureau of Diplomatic Security Public Affairs



Document
TITLE: Document
AUTHOR: Henry Leutwyler
PUBLISHER: Steidl

CREATIVE DIRECTOR: Ruba Abu-Nimah
ART DIRECTOR: Eleanor Ren_e Rogers
DESIGN FIRM: Water NYC



Documenting the Salon: Paris Salon Catalogs, 1673_1945
TITLE: Documenting the Salon: Paris Salon Catalogs, 1673_1945
AUTHOR: John Hagood, Yuriko Jackall, Kimberly A. Jones, and Yuri Long
PUBLISHER: National Gallery of Art, Washington

DESIGNER: Brad Ireland
DESIGN FIRM: National Gallery of Art, Washington



Dog Years
TITLE: Dog Years
AUTHOR: Melissa Yancy
PUBLISHER: University of Pittsburgh Press

DESIGN FIRM: in-house



Doris Salcedo: The Materiality of Mourning
TITLE: Doris Salcedo: The Materiality of Mourning
AUTHOR: Mary Schneider Enriquez; With contributions by Doris Salcedo and Narayan Khandekar
PUBLISHER: Harvard Art Museums (distributed by Yale University Press)

DESIGNER: Zak Jensen, Becky Hunt, Adam Sherkanowski
ART DIRECTOR: Zak Jensen
DESIGN FIRM: Harvard Art Museums Design Department



Doug Aitken: Electric Earth
TITLE: Doug Aitken: Electric Earth
AUTHOR: Donna Wingate
PUBLISHER: The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles and Delmonico / Prestel

DESIGNER: Marina Mills Kitchen
CREATIVE DIRECTOR: Lorraine Wild
DESIGN FIRM: Green Dragon Office



Draplin Design Co. Pretty Much Everything
TITLE: Draplin Design Co. Pretty Much Everything
AUTHOR: Aaron James Draplin/John Gall and Sarah Massey
PUBLISHER: Abrams Books

DESIGNER: Aaron James Draplin



Dreamcrashers
TITLE: Dreamcrashers
AUTHOR: Susan Terris
PUBLISHER: Conflux Press

DESIGNER: Tania Baban
CREATIVE DIRECTOR: Tania Baban
ART DIRECTOR: Tania Baban
DESIGN FIRM: Atelier Baban



Dwan Gallery: Los Angeles to New York, 1959_1971
TITLE: Dwan Gallery: Los Angeles to New York, 1959_1971
AUTHOR: James Meyer, Virginia Dwan, and Paige Rozanski
PUBLISHER: National Gallery of Art, Washington

DESIGNER: Margaret Bauer
DESIGN FIRM: National Gallery of Art, Washington



EachOther
TITLE: EachOther
AUTHOR: Laurie Hernandez
PUBLISHER: Self Publisher

CREATIVE DIRECTOR: Laurie Hernandez
ART DIRECTOR: Laurie Hernandez



Eat In My Kitchen
TITLE: Eat In My Kitchen
AUTHOR: Meike Peters
PUBLISHER: Prestel Publishing

DESIGNER: Jan Derevjanik



Ed Ruscha and the Great American West
TITLE: Ed Ruscha and the Great American West
AUTHOR: Karin Breuer, Kerry Brougher, Colleen Terry, and D. J. Waldie
PUBLISHER: Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco and University of California Press

DESIGN FIRM: Em Dash



Eija-Liisa Ahtila: Ecologies of Drama: Collected Writings, Interviews, and Scripts
TITLE: Eija-Liisa Ahtila: Ecologies of Drama: Collected Writings, Interviews, and Scripts
AUTHOR: Cathleen Chafee (ed.)
PUBLISHER: Albright-Knox Art Gallery

DESIGNER: Christopher Sleboda, Kathleen Sleboda



Elephant Child
TITLE: Elephant Child
AUTHOR: Camille Henrot
PUBLISHER: Inventory Press

DESIGNER: Project Projects
CREATIVE DIRECTOR: Adam Michaels
ART DIRECTOR: Adam Michaels
DESIGN FIRM: Project Projects



Enter Title Here
TITLE: Enter Title Here
AUTHOR: Rahul Kanakia / Kieran Viola
PUBLISHER: Disney Hyperion

DESIGNER: Maria Elias
ART DIRECTOR: Art Director Joann Hill, Associate Art Director Marci Senders



Everything Becomes a Poem
TITLE: Everything Becomes a Poem
AUTHOR: James W. Gaynor
PUBLISHER: Nemeton Press

CREATIVE DIRECTOR: Kelly McKinley
DESIGN FIRM: Pak Creative



Everything I Want to Eat
TITLE: Everything I Want to Eat
AUTHOR: Jessica Koslow/Holly Dolce
PUBLISHER: Abrams Books

DESIGNER: Scott Barry



Everywhen: The Eternal Present in Indigenous Art from Australia
TITLE: Everywhen: The Eternal Present in Indigenous Art from Australia
AUTHOR: Edited by Stephen Gilchrist; With essays by Stephen Gilchrist, Henry F. Skerritt, Hetti Perkins, Fred Myers, Shawn C. Rowlands, Narayan Khandekar, Georgina Rayner, and Daniel P. Kirby
PUBLISHER: Harvard Art Museums (Distributed by Yale University Press)

DESIGNER: Zak Jensen, Adam Sherkanowski, Becky Hunt
CREATIVE DIRECTOR: Steven Waldron
DESIGN FIRM: Harvard Art Museums Design Department



Expanded Field*
TITLE: Expanded Field*
AUTHOR: Ila Berman + Douglas Burnham
PUBLISHER: ar&d (Applied Research + Design Publishing), ORO Editions

DESIGNER: Erik Adigard + Patricia McShane
CREATIVE DIRECTOR: Erik Adigard + Patricia McShane
ART DIRECTOR: Erik Adigard + Patricia McShane
DESIGN FIRM: M-A-D



Explode Every Day: An Inquiry into the Phenomena of Wonder
TITLE: Explode Every Day: An Inquiry into the Phenomena of Wonder
AUTHOR: Edited by Denise Markonish
PUBLISHER: DelMonico Books _ Prestel | MASS MoCa

DESIGNER: Brett Yasko



Explorations in Typography (2nd edition)
TITLE: Explorations in Typography (2nd edition)
AUTHOR: Carolina de Bartolo with Stephen Coles and Erik Spiekermann
PUBLISHER: 101 Editions, LLC

CREATIVE DIRECTOR: Carolina de Bartolo
DESIGN FIRM: 101 Editions, LLC



FATHER DAUGHTER
TITLE: FATHER DAUGHTER
AUTHOR: Terry Corrao
PUBLISHER: Colfax Press

DESIGNER: Amanda Shaw, Terry Corrao



Fernando Coburgo fecit - A Atividade Art_stica do Rei-Consorte
TITLE: Fernando Coburgo fecit - A Atividade Art_stica do Rei-Consorte
AUTHOR: Parques de Sintra - Monte da Lua, S.A.
PUBLISHER: Parques de Sintra - Monte da Lua, S.A.

DESIGNER: Estela Estanislau
CREATIVE DIRECTOR: Estela Estanislau
ART DIRECTOR: Estela Estanislau
DESIGN FIRM: P-06 ATELIER



First Light: Tala Madani
TITLE: First Light: Tala Madani
AUTHOR: Philomena Mariani
PUBLISHER: Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, MIT List Visual Arts Center, and Delmonico Books / Prestel

DESIGNER: Amy Fortunato
CREATIVE DIRECTOR: Lorraine Wild
DESIGN FIRM: Green Dragon Office



Five Bells: Being LGBT in Australia
TITLE: Five Bells: Being LGBT in Australia
AUTHOR: Jenny Papalexandris
PUBLISHER: The New Press

DESIGNER: Lisa LaRochelle, Manuel Mendez & Yoko Yoshida-Carrera
CREATIVE DIRECTOR: Jurek Wajdowicz
ART DIRECTOR: Lisa LaRochelle & Jurek Wajdowicz
DESIGN FIRM: Emerson, Wajdowicz Studios (EWS)



Footnotes from the World's Greatest Bookstores
TITLE: Footnotes from the World's Greatest Bookstores
AUTHOR: Bob Eckstein
PUBLISHER: Clarkson Potter

DESIGNER: Danielle Deschenes
CREATIVE DIRECTOR: Marysarah Quinn
ART DIRECTOR: Danielle Deschenes



Francis Bacon: Invisible Rooms
TITLE: Francis Bacon: Invisible Rooms
AUTHOR: Edited by Staatsgalerie Stuttgart and Ina Conzen
PUBLISHER: Prestel Publishing/Staatsgalerie Stuttgart




Francis Picabia: Our Heads Are Round so Our Thoughts Can Change Direction
TITLE: Francis Picabia: Our Heads Are Round so Our Thoughts Can Change Direction
AUTHOR: Anne Umland and Cath_rine Hug
PUBLISHER: The Museum of Modern Art

DESIGNER: Mark Nelson
DESIGN FIRM: McCall Associates



Francois Catroux
TITLE: Francois Catroux
AUTHOR: David Netto
PUBLISHER: Rizzoli

DESIGNER: Takaaki Matsumoto
CREATIVE DIRECTOR: Takaaki Matsumoto
DESIGN FIRM: Matsumoto Incorporated



Franz Erhard Walther: First Work Set
TITLE: Franz Erhard Walther: First Work Set
AUTHOR: Edited by Stephen Hoban, Kelly Kivland, and Yasmil Raymond
PUBLISHER: Dia Art Foundation

DESIGNER: Laura Fields



Fred Sandback: Light, Space, Facts
TITLE: Fred Sandback: Light, Space, Facts
AUTHOR: Harry Cooper, Briony Fer
PUBLISHER: Prestel/Glenstone

DESIGN FIRM: Joseph Logan Design



From The Heart
TITLE: From The Heart
AUTHOR: Brian Lanker
PUBLISHER: Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art

DESIGNER: Barrett Fry
ART DIRECTOR: DJ Stout
DESIGN FIRM: Pentagram



Frontier Shores: Collection, Entanglement, and the Manufacture of Identity in Oceania
TITLE: Frontier Shores: Collection, Entanglement, and the Manufacture of Identity in Oceania
AUTHOR: Shawn Rowlands
PUBLISHER: Bard Graduate Center

DESIGNER: Hue Park
CREATIVE DIRECTOR: Kate DeWitt
DESIGN FIRM: Bard Graduate Center



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Observed


Coming soon to the Center for Contemporary Arts In Berlin, an exhibition featuring more than100 original posters by one of Japan’s most influential and internationally renowned graphic designers and poster artists, Shigeo Fukuda

The Design Newsroom is a new digital platform designed to streamline the interaction between award-winning designers, brands, and the global media landscape.

“The idea was to create a sanctuary in the center of the city where anyone is welcomed, no matter their faith, religion, what brings them there, or their backgrounds, “ observes Krista Nightengale, Executive Director of Better Block, a placemaking nonprofit based in Dallas. Read more about their newest initiative: a design competition to combat loneliness. Elswehere in Texas, Icon—an Austin-based startup—launched own competition, inviting professionals to design homes that could be built for $99,000 or less “without sacrificing beauty, dignity, comfort, sustainability, or resiliency”.

Two Australian First Nation artists, Naminapu Maymuru-White and Daniel Boyd, are uniting at Art Basel Hong Kong to present complex and contrasting views of Indigenous identity. 

March 21st was the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination. We may need more than one day for this.

Ryan O’Rourke, Alberto Ponte, and Dan Sheniak are responsible for some of the most iconic ad campaigns Nike ever produced. The Wieden+Kennedy veterans are heading out on their own with Someplace, a new LA-based, full-spectrum creative, brand, identity, and design shop. “We wanted to challenge ourselves in a new way,” says Sheniak. “What does our next chapter look like? How do we push ourselves and make ourselves uncomfortable to create something? From there, we just started getting excited about what we could dream up together.”

Along with Ann Demeulemeester, Dirk Van Saene, Walter Van Beirendonck, Dirk Bikkembergs, and Marina Yeeone (originally known as the Antwerp Six), renowned Dutch designer Dries Van Noten—whose clothes are known for their simplicity, elegance, and drape—makes a graceful exit.

Enzo Mari saw design as the production of knowledge (as opposed to consumption). The Italian theorist, ethicist, and spirited provocateur—who died in 2020—is the subject of a new show opening next week at London’s Design Museum, and running through September.

Are you lying awake at night pondering the future of the world—and in particular, of design? “And when it doesn’t seem to matter, suddenly it really does..” The extraordinary Forest Young weighs in.

Prospective students working at the nexus of virtual reality, video games, political campaigns, or even on the next Hollywood blockbuster, look no further. A new one-year Masters program at Sci-Arc in Los Angeles may be just what you're looking for.  

Designing an app for a … (wait for it) … parrot.

Fast Company's Most Innovative Design Companies for 2024 include Adobe—"for embracing generative AI the right way—and a shortlist of tech, product, and branding firms.

While human-centered design was once the pinnacle of progressive ambition, a tricky question now confronts us all: what about the rest of life? Working with John Thackara and Caterina Castiglioni, at the School of Design of the Politecnico di Milano twenty international design students were asked to design an urban ecology tool, place, equipment, or experience, that would enhance the interdependence of all of life in practical ways. Their conclusions are diverse, inspiring, and powerful. (Read the full report here.)

Reports of discrimination (and a lawsuit) at Harvard's Graduate School of Design.

Native American graphic design: a primer.

Cheryl Holmes's next book documents the history of the question she has been asking for decades—where are the Black designers?— along with related questions that are urgent to the design profession: where did they originate, where have they been, and why haven't they been represented in design histories and canons? With a foreword by Crystal Williams, President of Rhode Island School of Design, HERE: Where the Black Designers Are will be published next fall by Princeton Architectural Press.

Can ballot design be deemed unconstitutional? More on the phenomenon known as "Ballot Siberia," where un-bracketed candidates often find themselves disadvantaged by being relegated to the end of the ballot.

Designing the Modern World—Lucy Johnston's new monograph celebrating the extraordinary range of British industrial designer (and Pentagram co-founder) Sir Kenneth Grange—is just out from our friends at Thames&Hudson. More here.

Good news to start your week: design jobs are in demand!

An interview with DB | BD Minisode cohost and The State of Black Design founder Omari Souza about his conference,  and another about his new book. (And a delightful conversation between Souza and Revision Path host Maurice Cherry here.) 

What happens when you let everyone have a hand in the way things should look and feel and perform—including the kids? An inspiring story about one school’s inclusive design efforts

Graphic designer Fred Troller forged a Swiss modernist path through corporate America in a career that spanned five decades. The Dutch-born, Troller—whose clients included, among others, IBM, Faber Castell, Hoffmann LaRoche, Champion International, and the New York Zoological Society—was also an educator, artist, and sculptor. Want more? Help our friends at Volume raise the funds they both need and deserve by supporting the publication of a Troller monograph here.

The Independence Institute is less a think tank than an action tank—and part of that action means rethinking how the framing of the US Constitution might benefit from some closer observation. In order to ensure election integrity for the foreseeable future, they propose a constitutional amendment restoring and reinforcing the Constitution’s original protections.

Design! Fintech! Discuss amongst yourselves!

The art (and design) of “traffic calming” is like language: it’s best when it is extremely clear and concise, eliminating the need for extra thinking on the receiving end. How bollards, arrows, and other design interventions on the street promote public safety for everyone. (If you really want to go down the design-and-traffic rabbit hole with us here, read about how speculative scenario mapping benefits from something called “digital twins”.)

Opening this week and running through next fall at Poster House in New York, a career retrospective for Dawn Baillie, whose posters for Silence of the Lambs, Little Miss Sunshine, and Dirty Dancing, among countless others, have helped shape our experience of cinema. In a field long-dominated by men, Bailie's posters span some thirty-five years, an achievement in itself. (The New York Times reviews it here.)

Can't make it to Austin for SXSW this year? In one discussion, a selection of designers, policymakers, scientists, and engineers sought identify creative solutions to bigger challenges. (The “design track” ends today, but you can catch up with all the highlights here.)

Should there be an Oscar for main title design?

Design contributes hugely to how we spend (okay, waste) time online. But does that mean that screen addiction is a moral imperative for designers? Liz Gorny weighs in, and Brazillian designer Lara Mendonça (who, and we love this, also self-identifies as a philosopher) shares some of her own pithy observations.

Oscar nominees, one poster at a time.



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