Graphic
The Kirkus Review released a spotlight on 30 graphic titles (graphic novels, comics, manga etc). Some nice titles in there. It’s about halfway down the page as a PDF download.
Read moreAfter spending 4 days in Las Vegas at the HOW Design Conference and seeing over 3500 designers, 15 speakers, endless paper samples, countless slot machines and too many PowerPoint slides, it’s difficult to distill it all down into a concise statement of the experience. Since design tends to fall on the expressive, intuitive and asethetic [...]
Read moreI have just finished reading Kazuo Ishiguro’s latest, Never Let Me Go. I had heard of the book but hadn’t given it much thought until I noticed the Abebooks Book Club was going to be reading it… I ordered it right away and I am glad I did. It is a wonderful story of friendship [...]
Read moreFor quite some time I’ve been waiting for the release of the Edward Tufte book – Beautiful Evidence. And a recent note on his bulletin board showed the book in production and ultimately for sale. Over the last several years Tufte has been slowly revealing more about the book, offering up chapters and sections for [...]
Read moreSomething you don’t get to see everyday — a 1922 edition of James Joyce’s Ulysses.
Read moreLike death and taxes, it seems the cubicle is an inevitability of life. For anyone who has spent any time working in an office environment, they have come up against this dreaded cube. It has been mocked in movies, books and Dilbert comics, and there are even action figures based on the cubicle world. The [...]
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