Design Observer posts about a little book called The Next Page: Thirty Tables of Contents by Michael Bierut, William Drenttel and Jessica Helfand. When designers have the lucky chance of designing a book, even the tedious, more right brained (is that correct?) parts deserve attention. And this book is entirely focused on the front men of all reading material – the table of contents.
It's nice to see a book dedicated to one of the harder working parts of our hard and soft covered friends.
Supermarket by Rudy Vanderlans is a great-photography-book-possibly-a-nice-christmas-present. For lovers of Emigre, and its photo-graphic stories, this book is a definite must-have. It's full of Vanderlans' spirit of capturing the everyday and turning it into eye candy. In this case, he's taking the California desert and developer's initiatives to settle it, and delivers captivating images of surprising beauty.
Originally published in 2001, the book is priced from $45 to $53, but can be found for $14.99 and $11.99 used.
a link off the QBN Bookshelf section of newstoday led me to you work for them - a cool online bookstore that i wish was down the street, rather than online. it'd be across the street from the phaidon design library, caddycorner to the graphic-designer's-salary-friendly design matters outlet store, and i could get to it easily on my environmentally conscious and stylish hybrid range rover.
even though that little scenario is as close to real becoming real as the current administration is to being trustworthy, you work for them is a great site full of design classics, specialty short-run, hand-made items, worldwide design products unavailable in many local markets, typefaces, stock design, other tools, books, mags, videos, cd-roms, t-shirts - and most importantly inspiration.
