Archive for category: Book reviews

Book reviews

Robert Brownjohn quotes    (2009.07.31)

Quotes from Sex and Typography by Emily King

‘Do Good Design’    (2009.07.17)

Do Good Design by David Berman lays on the ethics a bit thick, I think

‘Women of Design’    (2009.06.27)

Why aren’t there more wymmynz in graphic design? This new book answers a nonsensical question

‘Save the Males’    (2009.02.24)

Not quite “Who wants crème brûlée?” but getting there. (Also: How to boss around a group of Cub Scouts.)

‘The Solitary Vice’    (2009.02.09)

Don’t read books if you don’t want to, Mikita Brottman does not quite argue. Now, what does this have to do with designers?

People are books too!    (2009.02.06)

Bobby Bringhurst: “[B]ooks are invisible.” No, they are not

Faggiest book of the year    (2008.11.25)

The Perfect Scent by the obviously gay Chandler Burr (no relation)

‘While You’re Reading’    (2008.10.13)

The rather disappointing While You’re Reading by Gerard Unger