Books, Design and Culture
In a fascinating and wide-ranging conversation, design historian Steven Heller talks about design and his recent book 100 Ideas That Changed Graphic Design with Debbie Millman on Design Matters:
Design Matters: Steven Heller mp3
Heller really is an astonishingly prolific author.
(Full disclosure: 100 Ideas That Changed Graphic Design is published by Laurence King and is distributed in Canada by my employer Raincoast Books)
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Debbie Millman talks with designer and self-confessed typomaniac Erik Spiekermann on the latest episode of Design Matters:
Design Matters with Debbie Millman: Erik Spiekermann mp3
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Peter Mendelsund — senior book designer at Knopf, art director for Vertical Press and all-round superstar — talks to Debbie Millman on Design Matters:
DESIGN MATTERS: Peter Mendelsund mp3
I interviewed Peter last year about his book cover design for the Knopf edition of Tom McCarthy’s novel C, and you can read a short essay I wrote about his cover for the Schocken editions of Kafka here.
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In the latest Design Matters podcast, Debbie Millman interviews artist and illustrator Brian Rea. The former art director for the Op-Ed page of The New York Times, Rea recently illustrated three of Malcolm Gladwell’s most popular books for a new boxed-set, Malcolm Gladwell Collected, designed by Paul Sahre:
In the latest Design Matters interview, Debbie Millman talks to Fast Company’s design editor Linda Tischler about the current state of American design and how services like Kickstarter are changing the way designers work:
DESIGN MATTERS: Linda Tischler, Fast Company mp3
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Pentagram partner Angus Hyland has designed book covers for Canongate, Penguin and others. On the latest Design Matters podcast, Hyland discusses childhood brand recognition, Tintin, music, dyslexia, book design and his new book Symbol, co-authored with Steven Bateman, with host Debbie Millman:
Disclosure: Symbol is published by Laurence King and distributed in Canada by my employer Raincoast Books.
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