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05.09.13: OBlog
Recent Books Received: 05.09.13Vernier: Fashion, Femininity and Form by Robin Muir and Becky Conekin; Negro Building: Black Americans in the World of Fairs and Museums by Mabel O. Wilson; Maynard L. Parker: Modern Photography and the American Dream, Jennifer A. Watts, Editor; Meme Wars by Kalle Lasn and Adbusters; Designing the Creative Child: Playthings and Places in Midcentury Americaby Amy F. Ogata
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05.02.13: OBlog
Recent Books Received: 05.02.13Souvenir Nation by William L. Bird Jr., Building: Inside Studio Gang Architects by Jeanne Gang and Zoë Ryan, Editors, The Where, the Why, and the How: 75 Artists Illustrate Wondrous Mysteries of Science by Jenny Volvovski, Julia Rothman, Matt Lamothe, John Heartfield and the Agitated Image by Andrés Mario Zervigón, The Address Book by Sophie Calle
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04.29.13: OBlog
Book Trade LabelsBook trade labels are advertising artifacts from booksellers, binders, printers, publishers, importers, and distributors of books.
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04.25.13: OBlog
Recent Books Received: 04.25.13Curiosity and Method: Ten Years of Cabinet Magazine; Norman Bel Geddes Designs America by Donald Albrecht: The Complete Engraver: Monograms, Crests, Ciphers, Seals, and The Etiquette of Social Stationary by Nancy Sharon Collins; Sky High by Germano Zullo; Brooklyn Makers: Food, Design, Craft and Other Scenes from the Tactile Life by Jennifer Causey
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04.22.13: OBlog
Awful Library BooksAwful Library Books is a collection of amusing and/or questionable library holdings found in real libraries and curated by librarians Mary Kelly and Holly Hibner.
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04.18.13: OBlog
Recent Books Received: 04.18.13Between Page and Screen by Amaranth Borsuk and Brad Bouse; Design for Emotion by Trevor van Gorp and Edie Adams; Material Manifestations by Rensselaer Architecture, Shaker Museum Mt. Lebanon; A Topology of Everyday Constellatons by Georges Teyssot; An Intellectual's Visual Miscellany by Daniel P. Murphy, PhD
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04.11.13: OBlog
Recent Books Received: 04.11.13Various writer's Eye On A Century; I Used To Be A Design Student by Frank Philippin and Billy Kiosoglou; Work For Money, Design For Love by David Airey; See What I Mean : How to Use Comics to Communicate Ideas by Kevin Cheng; Content Everywhere by Sara Wachter-Boettcher
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04.09.13: OBlog
Czech Book Covers of the 1920's and 30'sThe Smithsonian has an engaging collection of Czech avant-garde book cover designs from the 1920s and 30s.
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04.04.13: OBlog
Flickr Collection of the Week: The LibraryThe Library is a curated Flickr gallery of antique books.
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03.26.13: OBlog
Classic Albums Reimagined as BooksChristophe Gowans re-imagines well-known album covers as book jackets.
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03.26.13: OBlog
Recent Books Received: 03.26.13"Dialog" : What Makes a Great Partnership, Philosophy of Design, The Cinema of Me, Infinity Mirror Room—Phalli's Field and Ken Garland: Structure and Substance
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02.04.13: OBlog
Irving Harper, Paper WizardIrving Harper's paper sculptures are the subject of a new book out next week from Skira Rizzoli, Irving Harper Works in Paper.
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12.17.12: Pamela Hovland
Happy Holidays from Robert FrostA brief history of the collaboration between Robert Frost and Joseph Blumenthal as well as many top woodcut and engraving artists of the day.
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10.16.12: OBlog
UnboredUnbored: The Essential Field Guide to Serious Fun from Joshua Glenn and Elizabeth Foy Larsen features 350 pages of projects, games, and information for kids aged 8-13, and their parents.
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09.11.12: Rob Walker
Uncreative WritingRob Walker recommends Kenneth Goldsmith's "Uncreative Writing".
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08.15.12: Rob Walker
Swimming StudiesLeanne Shapton is known for her work as a writer and illustrator, but it turns out that her new book, Swimming Studies, is animated by her abilities as an athlete.
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08.13.12: OBlog
Merce Cunningham: The AppLaunched in conjunction with Aperture Foundation’s sixtieth anniversary and the centennial of John Cage’s birth, Merce Cunningham: 65 Years is a monograph in the form of a dynamic and interactive iPad app.
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07.15.12: The Editors
50 Books/50 Covers Competition: Enter TodaySince 1924, the 50 Books/50 Covers book design competition has been a yearly mainstay of the AIGA. We are pleased to announce that this important design competition is now being hosted by Design Observer. Enter today.
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06.14.12: Anne Mikoleit and Moritz Purckhauer
100 Lessons for Understanding the CityWe were struck by the Table of Contents of this new title, Urban Code: 100 Lessons for Understanding the City. It reads like a staccato narrative of citylife.
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06.14.12: Rob Walker
Air Guitar: Essays on Art & DemocracyRob Walker recommendeds Dave Hickey's "Air Guitar: Essays on Art & Democracy".
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05.10.12: OBlog
A Pattern LanguageAlexandra Lange reviews A Pattern Language by Christopher Alexander.
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