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Sachiko: A Nagasaki Bomb Survivor's Story
TITLE: Sachiko: A Nagasaki Bomb Survivor's Story
AUTHOR: Caren Stelson
PUBLISHER: Carolrhoda Books / Lerner Publishing Group

DESIGNER: Danielle Carnito
ART DIRECTOR: Danielle Carnito



Safe Ni_os Design for Holistic Healing
TITLE: Safe Ni_os Design for Holistic Healing
AUTHOR: Managing Editor - Susannah Ramshaw
PUBLISHER: Designmatters at ArtCenter College of Design

DESIGNER: Leonardo Santamaria



Salvatore Scarpitta 1956-1964
TITLE: Salvatore Scarpitta 1956-1964
AUTHOR: Raffaele Bedarida, Davide Colombo
PUBLISHER: Luxembourg & Dayan

DESIGNER: Joshua Shaddock
DESIGN FIRM: Joshua Shaddock



San Francisco Museum of Modern Art 360_: Views on the Collection
TITLE: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art 360_: Views on the Collection
AUTHOR: Editors: Judy Bloch and Suzanne Stein
PUBLISHER: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

ART DIRECTOR: Jennifer Sonderby
DESIGN FIRM: SFMOMA Design Studio



Scraps: Fashion, Textiles, and Creative Reuse
TITLE: Scraps: Fashion, Textiles, and Creative Reuse
AUTHOR: Susan Brown, Matilda McQuaid
PUBLISHER: Cooper Hewitt Publications

DESIGNER: 978-1-942303-17-6
CREATIVE DIRECTOR: Ingrid Paulson
ART DIRECTOR: Ingrid Paulson
DESIGN FIRM: Ingrid Paulson



Season's Greetings
TITLE: Season's Greetings
AUTHOR: Vincent Cianni
PUBLISHER: Daylight Books

DESIGNER: Ursula Damm
CREATIVE DIRECTOR: Ursula Damm
DESIGN FIRM: Dammsaveg Inc



Seeds On Ice
TITLE: Seeds On Ice
AUTHOR: Cary Fowler
PUBLISHER: Prospecta Press

DESIGNER: Ben Tousley
CREATIVE DIRECTOR: Stephen Doyle
ART DIRECTOR: ---
DESIGN FIRM: Doyle Partners



Seeing Things: A Kid_s Guide to Looking at Photographs
TITLE: Seeing Things: A Kid_s Guide to Looking at Photographs
AUTHOR: Joel Meyerowitz
PUBLISHER: Aperture Foundation

DESIGNER: Atelier Dyakova, London



Serious Nonsense
TITLE: Serious Nonsense
AUTHOR: William W. Donner
PUBLISHER: Penn State University Press

DESIGNER: Regina Starace
CREATIVE DIRECTOR: Jennifer Norton
DESIGN FIRM: Penn State University Press



Service: Platon
TITLE: Service: Platon
AUTHOR: Photographs by Platon/ Introduction by Elisabeth Biondi
PUBLISHER: Prestel Publishing

DESIGNER: Victor Krummenacher and Platon, with Scott Dadich



Shinique Smith: Wonder and Rainbows
TITLE: Shinique Smith: Wonder and Rainbows
AUTHOR: Katie Delmez
PUBLISHER: Frist Center for the Visual Arts

DESIGNER: Kristina Colucci
CREATIVE DIRECTOR: Katie Delmez
ART DIRECTOR: Shinique Smith
DESIGN FIRM: Frist Center for the Visual Arts Design



Something To Food About
TITLE: Something To Food About
AUTHOR: Questlove
PUBLISHER: Clarkson Potter

DESIGNER: Jeanette Abbink
CREATIVE DIRECTOR: Marysarah Quinn
ART DIRECTOR: Alexis Rosenzweig



Sophie Calle: And So Forth
TITLE: Sophie Calle: And So Forth
AUTHOR: Sophie Calle
PUBLISHER: Prestel Publishing

DESIGNER: Xavier Barral, Coline Aguettaz



Southern Accent: Seeking the American South in Contemporary Art
TITLE: Southern Accent: Seeking the American South in Contemporary Art
AUTHOR: Miranda Lash (Editor), Trevor Schoonmaker (Editor)
PUBLISHER: Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University

DESIGNER: Renee Cagnina Haynes and Julie Klugman Braude



Spice and Wolf Anniversary Collector's Edition
TITLE: Spice and Wolf Anniversary Collector's Edition
AUTHOR: Isuna Hasekura/Kurt Hassler
PUBLISHER: Yen Press

DESIGNER: Wendy Chan
ART DIRECTOR: Wendy Chan
DESIGN FIRM: Yen Press In-house team



STAND FOR THE VULNERABLE
TITLE: STAND FOR THE VULNERABLE
AUTHOR: World Relief
PUBLISHER: World Relief

CREATIVE DIRECTOR: Shannon Lee
ART DIRECTOR: Marilyn Frank
DESIGN FIRM: StudioNorth



Stationery Fever: From Pencils to Paper Clips and Everything In Between
TITLE: Stationery Fever: From Pencils to Paper Clips and Everything In Between
AUTHOR: John Z. Komurki/ Edited by Angela Nicoletti and Luca Bendandi
PUBLISHER: Prestel Publishing

DESIGNER: Luca Bogoni



Stuart Davis: In Full Swing
TITLE: Stuart Davis: In Full Swing
AUTHOR: Harry Cooper and Barbara Haskell
PUBLISHER: National Gallery of Art, Washington

DESIGNER: Wendy Schleicher
DESIGN FIRM: National Gallery of Art, Washington



Sun and Moon
TITLE: Sun and Moon
AUTHOR: Gita Wolf
PUBLISHER: Tara Books

DESIGNER: Catriona Maciver



Sunday Sketching
TITLE: Sunday Sketching
AUTHOR: Christoph Niemann/John Gall
PUBLISHER: Abrams Books

DESIGNER: Ariane Spanier



Sunnylands: America_s Midcentury Masterpiece
TITLE: Sunnylands: America_s Midcentury Masterpiece
AUTHOR: Janice Lyle
PUBLISHER: The Vendome Press

DESIGNER: Celia Fuller



Symbols: A Handbook for Seeing
TITLE: Symbols: A Handbook for Seeing
AUTHOR: Mark Fox and Angie Wang, authors / Alan Rapp, editor
PUBLISHER: The Monacelli Press

DESIGNER: Angie Wang and Mark Fox
DESIGN FIRM: Design is Play



TEXTURES OF LIFE
TITLE: TEXTURES OF LIFE
AUTHOR: JOANA VASCONCELOS
PUBLISHER: ARoS Aarhus Art Museum

DESIGNER: Susana Cruz



The 2 AM Principle
TITLE: The 2 AM Principle
AUTHOR: Jon Levy
PUBLISHER: Regan Arts

DESIGNER: Paul Kepple
CREATIVE DIRECTOR: Richard Ljoenes
ART DIRECTOR: Paul Kepple
DESIGN FIRM: Headcase Design



The Art of Business Value
TITLE: The Art of Business Value
AUTHOR: Mark Schwartz
PUBLISHER: IT Revolution

DESIGNER: Joy Panos Stauber
CREATIVE DIRECTOR: Joy Panos Stauber
DESIGN FIRM: Stauber Brand Studio



The Art of Inequality: Architecture, Housing, and Real Estate (A Provisional Report)
TITLE: The Art of Inequality: Architecture, Housing, and Real Estate (A Provisional Report)
AUTHOR: Reinhold Martin, Jacob Moore, and Susanne Schindler, eds.
PUBLISHER: The Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture

DESIGNER: Michela Povoleri and Aliza Dzik
CREATIVE DIRECTOR: Glen Cummings
DESIGN FIRM: MTWTF



The Art of the Hollywood Backdrop
TITLE: The Art of the Hollywood Backdrop
AUTHOR: Richard M. Isackes and Karen L. Maness
PUBLISHER: Regan Arts

DESIGNER: Gabriele Wilson
CREATIVE DIRECTOR: Richard Ljoenes
ART DIRECTOR: Gabriele Wilson
DESIGN FIRM: Gabriele Wilson Design



The Bone Sparrow
TITLE: The Bone Sparrow
AUTHOR: Zana Fraillon/ Editor Emily Mehan & Assistant Editor Hannah Allaman
PUBLISHER: Disney Hyperion

DESIGNER: Maria Elias
ART DIRECTOR: Joann Hill



The Brothers Le Nain: Painters of Seventeenth-Century France
TITLE: The Brothers Le Nain: Painters of Seventeenth-Century France
AUTHOR: C. D. Dickerson III and Esther Bell, with Claire Barry, Emerson Bowyer, Elise Effmann Clifford, Fr_d_rique Lano_, Nicolas Milovanovic, and Alain Tallon
PUBLISHER: Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco and Yale University Press

DESIGN FIRM: Katy Homans



The Camera Does the Rest
TITLE: The Camera Does the Rest
AUTHOR: Peter Buse
PUBLISHER: The University of Chicago Press

DESIGNER: Matt Avery
CREATIVE DIRECTOR: Jill Shimabukuro
DESIGN FIRM: The University of Chicago Press



The Collection | Highlights from the Portland Museum of Art
TITLE: The Collection | Highlights from the Portland Museum of Art
AUTHOR: Karen A. Sherry, Editor
PUBLISHER: Portland Museum of Art

DESIGNER: Malcolm Grear Designers
DESIGN FIRM: Malcolm Grear Designers



The Cosmopolitans
TITLE: The Cosmopolitans
AUTHOR: Sarah Schulman
PUBLISHER: Feminist Press at CUNY

DESIGNER: Drew Stevens
ART DIRECTOR: Drew Stevens
DESIGN FIRM: studioDrew



The Daily Henry James
TITLE: The Daily Henry James
AUTHOR: Henry James
PUBLISHER: University of Chicago Press

DESIGNER: Jill Shimabukuro
CREATIVE DIRECTOR: Jill Shimabukuro
ART DIRECTOR: Jill Shimabukuro



The Day the Earth Shook: Washington National Cathedral Earthquake Restoration
TITLE: The Day the Earth Shook: Washington National Cathedral Earthquake Restoration
AUTHOR: James W. Shepherd, author/Kevin Eckstrom, editor
PUBLISHER: Washington National Cathedral

DESIGNER: Mimi McNamara
CREATIVE DIRECTOR: Mimi McNamara
DESIGN FIRM: in house



The Drum Thing
TITLE: The Drum Thing
AUTHOR: Deirdre O'Callaghan
PUBLISHER: Prestel Publishing

DESIGNER: Gerard Saint and Ali Esen
DESIGN FIRM: Big Active Design



The Extraordinary Beauty of Birds: Designs, Patterns and Details
TITLE: The Extraordinary Beauty of Birds: Designs, Patterns and Details
AUTHOR: Photographs by Deborah Samuel/Text by Mark Peck
PUBLISHER: Prestel Publishing

DESIGNER: Amy Preston and Ame_lie Bonhomme



The Finer Things
TITLE: The Finer Things
AUTHOR: Christiane Lemieux
PUBLISHER: Clarkson Potter

DESIGNER: Rita Sowins/ Sowins Design; Cover by Ian Dingman
CREATIVE DIRECTOR: Marysarah Quinn
ART DIRECTOR: Stephanie Huntwork



The Game Worlds of Jason Rohrer
TITLE: The Game Worlds of Jason Rohrer
AUTHOR: Michael Maizels and Patrick Jagoda
PUBLISHER: MIT Press

DESIGNER: Prin Limphongpand, Katherine Hughes
CREATIVE DIRECTOR: Clif Stoltze
ART DIRECTOR: Sara Williams
DESIGN FIRM: Stoltze Design



The Godfather Notebook, Limited Edition
TITLE: The Godfather Notebook, Limited Edition
AUTHOR: Francis Ford Coppola (author) / Lucas Wittman (editor)
PUBLISHER: Regan Arts

DESIGNER: Richard Ljoenes and Nancy Singer
CREATIVE DIRECTOR: Richard Ljoenes
ART DIRECTOR: Richard Ljoenes
DESIGN FIRM: Regan Arts



The Idealist
TITLE: The Idealist
AUTHOR: Hirthler, George
PUBLISHER: Ringworks Press LLC

DESIGNER: David Laufer
CREATIVE DIRECTOR: David Laufer
ART DIRECTOR: David Laufer
DESIGN FIRM: BrandBook LLC



The Incidents: Abstract from the Concrete
TITLE: The Incidents: Abstract from the Concrete
AUTHOR: Author: David Harvey, with interview conducted by Mariano Gomez Luque and Daniel Iba_ez ; Editors: Jennifer Sigler and Leah Whitman-Salkin
PUBLISHER: Co-published by Harvard University Graduate School of Design and Sternberg Press

DESIGNER: _b_ke
DESIGN FIRM: _b_ke



The Letters Page, Vol.1
TITLE: The Letters Page, Vol.1
AUTHOR: Jon McGregor
PUBLISHER: Book Ex Machina

DESIGNER: Ioanna Mavrou & Thodoris Tzalavras



The Lumen Seed
TITLE: The Lumen Seed
AUTHOR: Judith Crispin
PUBLISHER: Daylight Books

DESIGNER: Ursula Damm
CREATIVE DIRECTOR: Ursula Damm
DESIGN FIRM: Dammsavage Inc.



The Mechanical Horse: How the Bicycle Reshaped American Life
TITLE: The Mechanical Horse: How the Bicycle Reshaped American Life
AUTHOR: Margaret Guroff
PUBLISHER: University of Texas Press

DESIGNER: Lindsay Starr



The Medici's Painter: Carlo Dolci and 17th-Century Florence
TITLE: The Medici's Painter: Carlo Dolci and 17th-Century Florence
AUTHOR: Eve Straussman-Pflanzer
PUBLISHER: Davis Museum at Wellesley College

DESIGNER: Katherine Hughes
CREATIVE DIRECTOR: Clif Stoltze
DESIGN FIRM: Stoltze Design



The Natural Flow of Things
TITLE: The Natural Flow of Things
AUTHOR: Jos_ Duarte/La Casa Encendida
PUBLISHER: La Casa Encendida

DESIGNER: Jos_ Duarte
CREATIVE DIRECTOR: Jos_ Duarte
DESIGN FIRM: Jos_ Duarte



The Phish Companion: A Guide to the Band and their Music, 3rd Edition
TITLE: The Phish Companion: A Guide to the Band and their Music, 3rd Edition
AUTHOR: The Mockingbird Foundation (Author), Marco Walsh (Editor), Phillip Zerbo (Editor)
PUBLISHER: The Mockingbird Foundation

DESIGNER: Cara Cox
CREATIVE DIRECTOR: Brian Jacobson
ART DIRECTOR: Cara Cox
DESIGN FIRM: J2 Design



The Photographer's Cookbook
TITLE: The Photographer's Cookbook
AUTHOR: Originally conceived and edited by Deborah Barsel, Edited by Denise Wolff
PUBLISHER: Aperture Foundation and George Eastman Museum

DESIGNER: Atelier Dyakova



The Spice Companion
TITLE: The Spice Companion
AUTHOR: Lior Lev Sercarz
PUBLISHER: Clarkson Potter

DESIGNER: Christine Fischer
CREATIVE DIRECTOR: Marysarah Quinn
ART DIRECTOR: Marysarah Quinn



The Story of Emoji
TITLE: The Story of Emoji
AUTHOR: Gavin Lucas
PUBLISHER: Prestel Publishing

DESIGNER: FL@33
DESIGN FIRM: FL@33



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Observed


A number of prominent—and progressive—initiatives that once promised to attract women and people of color to the tech industry (including Girls In Tech and Women Who Code) are closing. Three reporters at The Washington Post dig in: “The drop in support for programs that tech companies once touted as a sign of their commitment to adding women, Black people and Hispanic people to their ranks follows a right-wing campaign to challenge diversity initiatives in court.”

Celebrating Black Business month with two inspiring design legends, Kevan Hall and TJ Walker – the founders of the Black Design Collective.

Book cover design is a careful navigation between creativity and brute-force market logic. But is it also inherently racist?

Designer's weigh in on … the Olympics!

Billed as a “color trend intelligence service,” Pantone Color Insider provides global data on use of all 15,000 shades in the company color matching system. This year's color? Peach Fuzz!

Lunacy on LinkedIn.

Brian Johnson—one of the founders of BIPOC Design History,  Creative Director at Polymode, and a member of the Monacan Indian Nation — has spent years researching Indigenous design in an effort to help decolonize graphic design by speaking to the field’s racial biases. Links to his essays for Hyperallergic  (including the brilliantly-titled How Can a Poster Sing?) are here.

Bring Them Home is a documentary film that highlights a small group of Blackfoot people on their mission to establish—on their own ancestral territory—the first wild buffalo herd since the species’ near-extinction a century ago, an act that would restore the land, re-enliven traditional culture, and bring much-needed healing to their community. The film, directed by Blackfeet (Niitsitapi/ Siksikaitsitapi) siblings Ivan and Ivy MacDonald alongside filmmaker Daniel Glick, has just won a climate justice award.

What knots in our histories do we need to disentangle? What future relationships do we need to re-weave? Who and what is missing from the connections we make and unmake with our systems and technologies? Spend two days this month in Sweden at The Conference and "you’ll walk away with new mindsets and materials, teachings and tools, practices and parallels to help get us out of “oh fuck,” and into “now what?”  

There are only 75 Māori architects among New Zealand's roughly 2,000 licensed practitioners (and fewer than 10 Pacific Islanders), despite these Indigenous groups making up more than 25 per cent of the country's population—but Elisapeta Heta is one, and she's got something to say about this—and why it matters. "It's no wonder that our built environments don't necessarily reflect who we are as people," she observes. "There's no diversity in it because it's all been designed through the same Western lens."

Through his charitable organization, Bloomberg Philanthropies, Michael Bloomberg is giving $175 million each to Meharry Medical College in Nashville, Morehouse School of Medicine in Atlanta, and Howard University College of Medicine in Washington. These donations are believed to be the largest ever to any single H.B.C.U.

An indigenous design camp for teenagers is the first of its kind in the United States (or maybe anywhere). The goal is to teach Indigenous teens about the range of career options in architecture and design, a field where Native Americans are notably underrepresented.

The functional design elements of the new Michael Graves Design for Pottery Barn collection leverage ethnographic research across several communities, from those aging in place, to individuals with permanent, situational, or temporary disabilities, to those who are planning for the future without compromise, and those who want their homes to be welcoming to everybody, all without sacrificing good design.

“There is no doubt that domestic harmony is endangered by having a designer about,” Mr. Grange told The Daily Telegraph in 2012. “If you are good at your job you cannot avoid looking at everything and, given half a chance, affecting it. I even have an opinion about a tea towel — I just cannot help it.” British industrial designer (and Pentagram co-founder) Sir Kenneth Grange has died. He was 95. 

It's August! You may be heading out on that much-needed vacation! And how will you get there? Map lovers—and travelers all—rejoice! And look no further.

Did you know there is a way to dig in deep to stories about the Olympics that are design-focused? You do, now!

A design-focused conversation about coding, communication, and the beauty of simplicity.

TBD*—the  in-house design studio of the CCA in San Francisco—is looking for local nonprofit/civic partners needing design help this coming fall. Details here.

What does it mean to bestow a “good design” award in today’s design landscape—especially within the context of public space?

A logo conspiracy theory—about the Olympics?

The recent handoff from Joe Biden to Kamala Harris obliged the campaign's designers to launch a new Harris for President logo in just three hours: they also crafted an entire brand refresh—including ads and print collateral AND a website—all of which they built out in just over a day. More on this massive (and speedy) undertaking here.

Our friends at WXY Architecture and Jerome Haferd Studio are among four firms that have won a competition to design a series of cultural venues for historic Africatown in Alabama.

“Our mascot, Phryges, is based on the Phrygian hat, which is a powerful emblem in France on everything from coins to stamps. Phryges is gender-free, which feels appropriate because this is the society we live in. Toys should be for everyone, and not gendered.” An interview with Joachim Roncin, the designer of the Paris Olympics.

The Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) recently announced that it would eliminate the term “equity” from its Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) language. “What organizations like SHRM may or may not realize is that abandoning the work of diversity, equity, and inclusion causes real harm and serious pain,” says Amira Barger. “By sidelining equity, SHRM’s move may unintentionally exacerbate something called ‘dirty pain.’”

“As a person who spent the first part of my career as a graphic designer and art director, I immediately saw the visual power and nearly infinite graphic possibilities of this image.” In today's New York Times, Charles Blow discusses the irrefutable power of an iconic photograph.

In New York City, The Design Trust for Public Space is looking for photographers with “unique lenses on an equitable water future for New York”. Deadline for entry is 11 August. More here.

One artist's (musical) cry for help—or at least, fewer fast-food franchises in North Adams, Massachusetts.

“My design philosophy is to make people happy and comfortable in their environment,” says the 83-year old Irish designer known simply by her first name—Clodagh. “Since I don’t know the rules, I can actually break them all the time.” 

Design for accessibility, blessedly, is on the minds of architects and builders all over the world. Given the fact that an estimated 15-20% of the population is neurodivergent, commercial buildings are increasingly working to become more welcoming, inclusive, and comfortable for all individuals.

“While designers are eager for praise and acclaim and create an aura of ostensibly cultured and intellectual pursuit, often involving awards and accolades, design itself takes no responsibility for what happens when things go wrong.” An excerpt from Manuel Lima's latest book.  



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