Archive for category: Book reviews
Book reviews
- Half an endorsement of Misha Glouberman (2011.09.19)
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A ringing endorsement of half of Half an endorsement of
The Chairs Are Where the People Go by Glouberman (“with” Heti)
- ‘Mad Men Unbuttoned’: Sometimes blogs should stay blogs (2010.12.08)
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Natasha Vargas-Cooper’s Mad Men Unbuttoned worked better as postings on the Awl
- Half-fulfilled promises of ‘Half Empty’ (2010.10.08)
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Is David Rakoff’s Half Empty an attempt at autobiography? Then why is it a failed attempt?
- Design book of the year (2010.07.17)
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100 Years of Menswear by Cally Blackman tells a gripping tale largely through pictures
- Graphic design, mishmashed (2010.03.18)
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Not only is Graphic Design, Referenced disorganized, it’s barely written in English sometimes. (But love the hand-sketched illos)
- Title as punchline (2009.09.13)
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When you name your book Graphic Design Theory: Readings from the Field, isn’t that conceding defeat right there? (Is “the field” really where you’re gonna find “theory”?)
- A ‘wayfinding’ book that doesn’t suck (2009.09.07)
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Finally. Since the rest of them pretty much do. But The Wayfinding Handbook by Gibson does not
- ‘The Language of Things’ (2009.07.31)
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The Language of Things by Deyan Sudjic is all about flow. This is not a criticism