Design Favorites

Graphic Design, Referenced Armin Vit and Bryony Gomez-Palacio

It Is Beautiful... Then Gone Martin Venezky

Type Addicted Victionary

Playful Type: Ephemeral Lettering and Illustrative Fonts Robert Klanten

How To Be a Graphic Designer Without Losing Your Soul Adrian Shaughnessy

Make It Bigger Paula Scher

Thoughtless Acts?: Observations On Intuitive Design Janet Fulton Suri, IDEO

Whatever You Think Think the Opposite Paul Arden

Graphic Design: The New Basics Ellen Lupton

 

Recent Books

A Day at elBulli Ferran Adria

The Girl Who Played With Fire Steig Larsson

In the Green Kitchen Alice Waters

Food Rules Michael Pollan

A Natural History of the Senses Diane Ackerman

Rules of the Red Rubber Ball Kevin Carroll

Straight Man Richard Russo

The Man Who Ate Everything Jeffrey Steingarten

An Anthropologist on Mars Oliver Sacks

 

Inspiration/Resources

MacFadden and Thorpe — terrific design work

Cranbrook Design — design alumni site

Design Observer — good reading

Underware — nice fonts and such

Design Resources — from Michelle Bowers

University of Washington — Visual Communication Design program

APFEL — nice design work

Variegated.com — beautiful home furnishings made by nice people

Blue Vertigo — a link to more links

Kummer Herrman — lovely design work

ffffound — a good place to wander

Blanka — nice prints and posters

Three Potato Four — retro design stuff

OpenSatellite — contemporary art exhibition hall in Bellevue

Typecuts — Andrea Tinnes, great work

Looking forward to... The Gone Away World Nick Harkaway and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest Steig Larsson