Legendary New York book designer Massimo Vignelli describes his process when laying out a publication in this movie by design consultancy Pentagram. More »
"The grid is the underwear of the book"
- Massimo Vignelli
Tag: Books
"The grid is the underwear of the book"
Competition: five Ma Yansong
monographs to be won
Competition: we're giving readers the chance to win one of five copies of a new book of projects by Ma Yansong, director at Beijing architecture studio MAD, including the recently completed China Wood Sculpture Museum in Harbin. More »
Competition: five copies of
Inside Smartgeometry to be won
Competition: we’ve teamed up with publisher Wiley to give away five copies of their new book Inside Smartgeometry, about advances in parametric design. More »
The Underground Library by Keri Tan,
Max Pilwat and Ferdi Rodriguez
This virtual library shelf would let New York subway passengers read the first 10 pages of a book on their smartphones before directing them to the nearest library to pick up a hard copy (+ movie). More »
Competition: five Torre David books
to be won
Competition: we're giving readers the chance to win one of five copies of a book about the Golden Lion-winning Torre David project presented at last year's Venice Architecture Biennale. More »
Competition: five copies of Factory Towns
of South China to be won
Competition: we're giving readers the chance to win one of five books about cities around the Pearl River Delta in China, the largest industrial region in the world. More »
Competition: five copies of Ronan & Erwan
Bouroullec - Drawing to be won
Competition: we're giving readers the chance to win one of five copies of a new book containing over 800 drawings by the Bouroullec brothers. More »
Competition: five Saunders Architecture
books to be won
Competition: we're giving readers the chance to win one of five copies of Todd Saunders' new monograph of architecture, including artists' studio on remote islands and lookout points over Nordic fjords (+ slideshow). More »
Great Orwell book covers
by David Pearson
Graphic designer David Pearson has censored the cover of George Orwell's classic novel 1984 as part of his series of redesigned books for publisher Penguin. More »
Competition: five copies of
Behind the Scenes to be won
Competition: we're giving readers the chance to win one of five copies of a new book full of stories from the furniture design industry, which includes a chapter about the story of Dezeen. More »
Competition: three copies of Tree Houses
to be won
Competition: Dezeen and publisher Taschen have teamed up to give away three copies of a book containing 50 remarkable treehouses. More »
Competition: two copies of BOOM
by Yuri Suzuki to be won
Competition: Dezeen is giving readers the chance to win one of two books from a limited edition containing visualisations of sound projects by Japanese designer Yuri Suzuki. More »
Competition: five copies of The New Wave
in Danish Architecture to be won
Competition: we're giving readers the chance to win one of five copies of The New Wave in Danish Architecture, a book featuring contemporary projects by Danish architects such as BIG and NORD. More »
Competition: three copies of the
It's Nice That Annual 2012 to give away
Competition: Dezeen is giving readers the chance to win one of three copies of the first limited-edition It's Nice That Annual. More »
"Social responsibility has been forgotten"
- author of book on Ulm School of Design
News: social responsibility has fallen down the agenda of today's designers and design schools, according to the author of a new history of Ulm School of Design, the German institution that reshaped design education in the 1950s and 1960s. More »