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Product Design Off Book

December 12, 2011

The latest short film from PBS Arts Off Book is all about product design:

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Peter Mendelsund on Design Matters

December 10, 2011

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 [...]

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My Favourite Covers of 2010

December 7, 2011

At the end of last year, Joseph Sullivan, curator of the late lamented The Book Design Review, asked me to write about my favourite covers of 2010. I’d always stayed away from such posts in the past because it was Joseph’s thing (his 2009 list is here). But since it was Joe who was doing the asking [...]

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Ken Barber, House Industries

December 6, 2011

In this fascinating interview, Gestalten.tv talks to Ken Barber, lead letterer at the amazing House Industries, about lettering, typography, and font design:

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In the Cube: Michael Bierut and James Biber

November 22, 2011

In this video for Designers and Books, graphic designer and Pentagram partner Michael Bierut chats with architect James Biber about the books he selected for the site. The setting is the Rachel Whiteread-like library, or “book cube”, in Biber’s architectural office, located on the 2oth floor of Cass Gilbert’s Woolworth Building in downtown Manhattan: The [...]

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