As design students, we are always looking to enhance our work with research and inspiration from books. Listed here are a selection of books that we recommend for the month of July.The list is growing daily, so check back for more regularly!
For researcher Sherry Turkle, Abby Rockefeller Mauzé Professor of the Social Studies of Science and Technology at MIT and Founder and Director of the MIT Initiative on Technology and Self. , “We think with the objects we love; we love the objects we think with.” In Evocative Objects, Turkle pairs the autobiographical writings of artists, designers, educators, scientists, and social scientists that trace the power of everyday things with a texts from philosophy, history, literature, or theory. These juxtapositions are playful, profound, emotional and intellectual serving as memory companions, relationship-initiators and triggers for new ideas.
Ellen Lupton’s Thinking With Type is a beautifully designed and written guide for designers using typography. It comes highly recommended for students from almost all Communication Design professors. Here is a synopsis of the book: “Thinking with Type is the definitive guide to using typography in visual communication, from the printed page to the computer screen. This revised edition includes forty-eight pages of new content, including the latest information on style sheets for print and the web, the use of ornaments and captions, lining and non-lining numerals, the use of small caps and enlarged capitals, as well as information on captions, font licensing, mixing typefaces, and hand lettering.” Princeton Architectural Press
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