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 collecting ...

Isaac Tobin peruses his wares in the old Seminary Co-Op bookstore at the University of Chicago. Photo: Alyssa Pointer/Chicago Tribune; Cover courtesy of Isaac Tobin After graduating from the Rhode ...

With more and more authors taking the production of their books into their own hands, more and more of those books look... strange. That’s not a good thing for either authors or their readers. Book ...

Last October in New York, Designers & Books launched the Designers & Books Fair-a weekend-long celebration of the design book community. "There are so many events in the design world and so many books ...

Primary school students have been reading TikTok sensation Icebr­eaker, an enemies-to-lovers romance about a figure skater and an ice-hockey player. The cartoon cover features a ponytailed girl (who ...

I own a book that I’ve read into but never really read. Still, I hang onto it. It’s a 1907 edition of Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, with a fire-engine-red cover out of which ...

Spatial Design, Breaking the 2D Paradigm,' a new book by Dominique Wu, puts forth design principles for spatial computing, XR, and AI-driven immersive experiences.

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 seem to ...