This is another shout-out for the website Designers & Books. Every Tuesday on their blog they post a list from a selected designer of books that have played a significant role in that designer’s thinking (see my previous post about this aspect of the site). It gets better. Take …
The magazine, ArchiAfrica, has been redesigned and is now based in Accra (used to be Amsterdam). Take a look around both the digital edition of the magazine and the website for a glimpse into a world that’s little-covered in the Western architectural press. Our mission is to broaden the …
Saw this great Venetian library renovation in Lotus 151 (p 42) by Michele De Lucchi, the Biblioteca di Storia dell’Arte in a wing of the Fondazione Cini, a former dormitory for Benedictine monks. If you have a few minutes, treat yourself to a visit to De Lucchi’s website, aMDL …
The wrong goodbye of Barnes and Noble – post from independent publisher Melville House on the possible, some would say probable, demise of Barnes & Noble, our last big chain bookstore. The author says it best (bolding added): If you include the company’s college stores, this is going to mean …
A Writing Life Built on the Power and Joy of Architecture – an appreciation of Ada Louise Huxtable in The New York Times; she died yesterday at the age of 91. The NYTimes is where she started as the “first full-time critic writing on architecture for an American newspaper” in 1963. …
All you need to know to get the library card right now [infographic] – shows statistics about librarians (salary, age, type of library, what they do) and libraries (number of visits, number of libraries, transactions). A couple of interesting points: Each day, U.S. libraries circulate nearly 4 times more …
If you’re an urban planner or if you’re interested in how cities work, check out the magazine The Urbanist from the San Francisco Urban Planning and Research Association (SPUR). The focus is on “good planning and good government in the San Francisco Bay Area” but the issues addressed, the …
Designers talk about books that have inspired them on Designers & Books‘ section on Designers. Choose from 127 (as of today; what you see here is the first of three pages) “architects, fashion designers, graphic designers, interior designers, landscape architects, product designers, urban designers, and other design professionals” and …
The Importance of Soil and Its Conservation [Video] – this 5+ min video is packed with statistics about soil and how we use and thoughtlessly misuse this most valuable of resources. See more at Global Soil Forum, a European partnership that recently sponsored the first Global Soils Week. The Global Soil …
BLOG : Design for Emotion – Posts on this blog include parts of Chapter One of the book of the same name. Design for Emotion is a guide to understanding and applying emotion and personality to create products, applications and websites that are more desirable, usable and useful.