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Smith and Vignelli

As is no doubt clear from recent blog posts, I have a huge amount of respect for the work of designer Massimo Vignelli and so I really enjoyed this recent interview with Debbie Millman for the new series of Design Matters.

Vignelli, however, does not want for ego, and so I was struck how humble British designer and cycling enthusiast Paul Smith is in this fascinating and inspiring conversation with designer Mike Dempsey by comparison:

Paul Smith Interview

Egos aside, it interesting that the lives and careers Smith and Vignelli seem share some unlikely common threads — from their early apprenticeships and life-long partners, to their sense of design, tradition, and detail.

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The Books That Made Me: China Miéville

China Miéville, author of one of my favourite novels this past year The City and the City, talks to Claire Armitstead about the six books that inspired him for a new Guardian Books podcast series ‘The Books That Made Me’. The books range from Beatrix Potter’s Tale of Jeremy Fisher to Max Ernst’s surrealist Une Semaine de Bonté:

The Books That Made Me: China Mieville

Miéville latest novel is Kraken.

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Words

Latest WYNC RadioLab podcast is all about words, and filmmakers Will Hoffman and Daniel Mercadante have made a beautiful video about wordplay and visual connections to accompany the episode:

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Too Many Books

“We have reason to fear that the multitude of books which grows every day in a prodigious fashion will make the following centuries fall into a state as barbarous as that of the centuries that followed the fall of the Roman Empire.”

“Too many books” is one old complaint. Historian Adrien Baillet wrote that in 1685. Plummeting book prices is another…

An interesting segment about books on NPR’s On The Media from late November 2009:

(Too bad about the dreadful Moxy Fruvous song)

The transcript is here.

(via Lined & Unlined)

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