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Every year, there are great design books released, and 2022 was no exception. But what is a design book, really? Is it a big, glossy coffee table book filled with full-bleed images—perhaps ...
The book is a short, lively and practical introduction to content design. Using real-world and imagined examples, it steps you through the content design process, explaining everything along the way.
Jason Mayden’s new book breaks down design so simply that a child can get it, so your C-suite stands a chance, too. Jason Mayden [Photo: courtesy A Kids Company About] On top of all of that ...
Here's a selection of covers from years past up through the present; the good, the bad, the jaw-droppingly gorgeous, and a few that pale in comparison to the book's contents. First impressions are ...
A list of seven selected books on analog chip design, along with a downloadable table of contents for each. “With the TinyTapeout philosophy of anyone being able to design a chip, and with the ...
EJB Design Patterns goes beyond high-level design pattern descriptions into critical EJB-specific implementation issues, illustrated with source code implementations. The book contains a catalog of ...
Dezeen has selected four of the best designers at this year's Look Book by Wanted exhibition, one of the largest showcases at ...
From Edith Wharton’s treatise on décor to a portrait of 1990s Tokyo, the books that designers return to again and again for inspiration. By Catherine Hong In our very online era, design trends ...
Of course, design books are not removed from the Mobius strip of visual content available online. With accounts like The 80s Interior, once-obscure tomes have themselves become Instagram fodder.
Among the many challenges book cover designers face is trying to represent a book’s premise or main character without getting so specific that readers are left with little to imagine.