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The definitive overview through the 80s-90s designer and art director Tibor Kalman thought provoking career
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Recommended to me by a favorite professor in college – I was able to track down a library copy that I clung to for months at the time. Not easy to purchase, I recently found my own copy at a used book store and was wowed once again by the enthusiasm design can hold. Thank u Adream for the recommendation years ago 🫶🏻 I share it whenever I can
Jan 22, 2024
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A cool book featuring vintage typography and design.
I found this book at the public library when I was 16 or 17. The library is a great place for finding all sorts of unexpected and whimsical books. (This is a recommendation nested within a recommendation!)
Feb 16, 2024
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really Fun read, lots of fun graphics if you are t good at reading like me
Sep 17, 2024
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I’ve seen these annual digests of the best in product innovation around forever but only started buying them recently. I grabbed one at a place in LA that had loads of dusty design books on the cheap. Not long after that, I went to a Housing Works on the UES because someone on TikTok said it had the best clothing selection. It didn’t, but they did have 2 of these for $10 each.They’re pure cheat code. Every good idea that’s being ripped off by contemporary artisans is in one of these - lamps bent into unnatural shapes, shelves that don’t look like they hold very much, dinnerware that you’d never dare eat off of. The designs are Italian and Japanese, of course, but also Finnish, Canadian, Spanish, even American. Each edition has a different luminary as an editor: Arata Isozaki, Mario Bellini, Philippe Starck, freakin’ Alessandro Mendini. They’re tidy, portable museums.
Aug 24, 2021
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