What I’m Reading
posted on January 22, 2010 at 9:07 am by admin
It’s a common misconception that designers don’t read. Being visual people, so the story goes, we float through life absorbing culture and intuiting everything. I’m here to debunk that. Naturally, being net-bound, we tend to peruse lots of sites. Here are a few good ones…
And lest you think the printed word is dead (put your Kindle down now, please…), here are some books best experienced in print:
This is an awesome monograph edited by Ellen Lupton (MICA) and J. Abbott Miller (Pentagram), with essays by literary theorists, a physicist and Mike Mills.
Bill Scott works for Netflix and details web 2.0 interface standards in extreme detail. An excellent read.
And for a little fun, Jay Ryan’s new book of posters. Jay (http://www.thebirdmachine.com/) has created a hand-drawn style that comes through in his silkscreened prints. Awesome concepts and a real inspiration for any printmaker.