Weekly Wrap-Up & Preview: December 20
December 20, 2013
This week we featured book recommendations from IDEO’s Tom and David Kelley; some larger than life-size visuals from Steven Heller and Mirko Ilić’s new book, Lettering Large; and an interactive novel. In anticipation of our interview with architect, urban planner, educator, and author Denise Scott Brown this coming January, we posted some reflections from students who were enrolled in Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown’s famous 1968 studio class at the Yale School of Architecture, “Learning from Las Vegas.” Next week we’ll find out who the winners are for our giveway of signed copies of the book Learning from Las Vegas (drawing ends Dec. 21 at 12:01 EST). The book is also available for sale at the Designers & Books Online Book Fair, at a 30% discount. We’ll also be bringing you a book list from celebrated interior designer Sheila Bridges, who counts former President Bill Clinton among her clients.
Weekly Wrap-Up
Students from Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown’s 1968 studio class at the Yale School of Architecture, Learning from Las Vegas, which would give rise to a famous book of the same name, share some memories of the class they took 45 years ago.
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Steven Heller and Mirko Ilić’s new book, Lettering Large, explores the art and design of monumental type.
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In the mystery novel S., an inventive format demonstrates new ways that print can surprise and engage a reader.
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In this list of books on food and food design, cooking, and dining (with a design twist) are 20 recommendations by our contributors, including Tim Brown, Louise Fili, Zuzana Licko, Michael Manfredi, and Maria Popova.
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IDEO partners, and brothers, Tom and David Kelley talk with Designers & Books about being lucky kids, why they started the hashtag #creativeconfidence—and what it really means, as explained in the new book they wrote together: Creative Confidence: Unleashing the Creative Potential within Us All (2013, Crown Business).
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On the walls in one of her rooms at home, Sheila Bridges has painted the words of the authors and books she loves, she tells Design Matters’s Debbie Millman in a recent interview.
We announce the six winners of signed copies of Learning from Las Vegas.
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