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Judge a Book's Cover: AIGA 50/50 Exhibition
I love books. I will buy one if, after reading the first page, I want to turn it. But before reading the first word, it's generally necessary to pick up the book; and when faced with a bazaar of...
written by: Jamie Waugh09.10.08 -
Massive Book Sale at MoMA
Put down your Kindles, New Yorkers, and head straight to MoMA to buy some books. A giant half-off sale of some 1200 titles starts today. But you can't get them online (Boo!), you'll have to show up...
written by: Aaron Britt01.25.11 -
Photography Focus: Jeannette Montgomery Barron
Jeannette Montgomery Barron found her way into some of the most socially renowned 1980's NYC underground artist culture and turned those infamous artists into her subjects. Scene is a new book—more...
written by: Anna Goldwater Alexander05.23.13 -
L.A. Art Book Fair 2013
Last weekend, Printed Matter, Inc. presented the first annual L.A. Art Book Fair, the West Coast companion to the NY Art Book Fair held every fall in New York, at The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA in...
written by: Cortney Cassidyphotos by: Torrey Jay02.05.13 -
Designers and Book Fair 2012
The first-ever Designers and Book Fair was held last weekend at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City. The two-day fair featured 35 publishers and around 1,500 books ranging in...
written by: Emily Nonko11.02.12 -
Sale: William Stout Architectural Books
Our friends around the block at William Stout Architectural Books are having a big sale today through Saturday, offering 25 percent off all in-print titles in the store and online.
written by: Miyoko Ohtake02.19.09 -
Emigre No. 70
From 1984 through 2005, Emigre magazine was to graphic designers what L'Espirit Nouveau was to architects in the early 1920s. This year, Gingko Press has published Emigre No. 70: The Look Back...
written by: Miyoko Ohtake12.26.09 -
Cover to Cover Design
The Book Cover Archive is exactly that; an online compendium of the best book cover art and design of the last few decades, as curated by Eric Jacobsen and Ben Pieratt of General Projects, the...
written by: David A. Greene01.20.09 -
Great Source for Modern Bookshelves
For book enthusiasts who are up to their eyeballs in books, there are tons of great modern systems for storing them, some that you can even build yourself. Most of the pages of Dwell are...
written by: Laure Joliet11.04.08 -
Five Buck Book
Got five dollars lying around? For $5.00 (plus, um, $7.50 shipping), you can snag a copy of George Nelson's 1977 classic How To See: A Guide to Reading our Man Made Environment from Design Within...
written by: David A. Greene11.01.08 -
Airstream Books
There's a magical nook on Williamsburg's Metropolitan Ave. sidewalk where the Graham St. L Train vent allows the underground train's announcements to waft up through the grates to the hardware...
written by: Jamie Waugh10.06.08 -
Tidy Books Box
Conceptualized by a Parisian violin maker and handmade of limewood with a water-based finish, the Tidy Books Box allows kids to select books from their covers rather than their spines.
written by: Erika Heet01.01.11 -
Unpacking My Library
I just got a wonderful new book in the mail today concerning famous archtiects and their personal collections of books. Unpacking My Library: Architects and their Books is due out from Yale...
written by: Aaron Britt11.23.09 -
Paul Smith on Architecture
Fashion icon, branding expert, and all around English design maven Paul Smith is the subject of the new book Paul Smith A to Z, a collection of his musings on a vast array of topics. Interviewed by...
written by: Aaron Britt08.29.12 -
A Week at the Airport: Part I
Not so long ago I read the English pop philospher and writer Alain de Botton's book The Architecture of Happiness. It was a middling book, one that took great pains to make the case that the...
written by: Aaron Britt10.26.10 -
Announcing The World Views Photo Book
It's inevitable that most of us wind up in the same routine and see the same landscapes or cityscapes over and over again. We get caught up so easily in the every day that the views and sights we...
written by: Dwell Staff06.02.11 -
Michelle Kaufmann Book Reading
These days, it's a common saying that recessions breed creativity. To Michelle Kaufmann, this means creating solutions for affordable, green living. Kaufmann found her calling after she and her...
written by: Ilana Diamond04.27.09 -
Editor’s Choice: Amanda Dameron’s Book List
What books does the editor of a high-profile modern home design magazine read? Designers & Books went to Amanda Dameron, editor in chief of Dwell Media, to find out. “Last year I moved from the...
02.22.13 -
Definitive Collections
We all know not to judge a book by its cover, or people by the company they keep. Unpacking My Library: Architects and Their Books offers a guided tour across the shelves of ten famous architects,...
written by: Jordan Kushins03.18.10 -
Bunker Archaeology
Paul Virilio's classic book of wartime architectural history, Bunker Archeology, is finally back in print with a fantastic new edition from Princeton Architectural Press. The book had taken on the...
written by: Geoff Manaugh12.22.08 -
Moleskine’s New Folio Collection – It’s BIG!
The iconic little black book gets big with the introduction of Moleskine’s new Folio collection. They’re the same smart notebooks you know and love, same classic shape, and same elastic...
written by: Jordan Kushins02.01.09 -
Postcards from the Edge of Design
An email is nice and a letter is better, but for those whose epistolary habits begin and end with the postcard, an overlooked book from 2008 is for them.
written by: Aaron Britt01.23.09 -
The Writing's on the Wall
New York-based designer Sherwood Forlee, through Quirk Books, has produced the Walls Notebook, where everything you write is an act of graffiti. Forlee describes it as "a notebook / sketchbook...
written by: Geoff Manaugh01.17.09 -
Kid Lit Goes Undergound
What is a paper engineer? Something like an architect—but for paper. (Think pop-up books and origami, not bridges and skyscrapers.)
written by: David A. Greene01.08.09 -
Urban Sprawl, Squared
The Places We Live is a new book of extraordinary photographs by Norwegian photographer Jonas Bendiksen, documenting the teeming urban slums and shantytowns of four world cities: Nairobi, Mumbai,...
written by: David A. Greene10.13.08
