Digits Conductive Glove Pins. 5 Voyeuristic, Cross-Disciplinary Peeks Inside Great Creators' Notebooks. By Maria Popova What Brazil’s favelas have to do with field science and Milton Glaser’s creative process.
The nature and origin of creativity is the subject of many a theory. Graphis diagrams: The graphic visualization of abstract data (9783857094101): Walter Herdeg. Thinking with Type, 2nd revised and expanded edition: A Critical Guide for Designers, Writers, Editors, & Students (Design Briefs) (9781568989693): Ellen Lupton. Alex Steinweiss: The Inventor of the Modern Album Cover (9783836527712): Kevin Reagan, Steven Heller. A Brief History of Vintage Typographic Scripts. By Maria Popova From Victorian letters to modernist lettering, or what Venice has to do with children’s penmanship.
Iconic design writer Steven Heller has previously delighted us with a peek inside the sketchbooks of famous graphic designers and a fascinating look at the design and branding of dictatorships. The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood (9780375423727): James Gleick. Type: A Visual History of Typefaces and Graphic Styles, Vol. 1 (9783836511018): Jan Tholenaar, Cees De Jong.