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Seeking Contributors for the DRoB

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I could use some help.
When I started the Designer’s Review of Books, I had a bit of time on my hands and managed to keep a steady flow of weekly reviews. I have been helped along the way by some generous guest reviewers and to them I am very grateful. However, since starting a more [...]

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[Sponsor] An Event Apart San Francisco

An Event Apart

My thanks to An Event Apart San Francisco for sponsoring The Designer’s Review of Books again through October.
The list of speakers is long, but Dave Shea’s They’re Letting Designers Code Now? and Facebook’s Product Design Manager Julie Zhuo on Design Lessons From 300 Million look particularly provocative.
If you’d like to sponsor The Designer’s Review of [...]

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19 Books for Core77’s Hack2Work

I did a bit of moonlighting for Core77’s Hack2Work event, which is a collection of essential tips and tricks for the design professional. My contribution is a fairly arbitrary selection of 19 Books Every Design Professional Should Own.
The list could be much, much longer (and we will be reviewing the new Lawrence King publication, Bibliographics: [...]

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[Sponsor] An Event Apart Chigago

My thanks to An Event Apart – Chicago for sponsoring The Designer’s Review of Books this month, especially with Design Disasters being the major post of the month. Like the other AEA events, the line up is looking pretty impressive.
If you are interested in sponsoring The Designer’s Review of Books there are spaces available in [...]

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Thank you, An Event Apart

Thank you to An Event Apart Seattle who have sponsored The Designer’s Review of Books throughout March. If you enjoyed the review of Luke Wroblewski’s Web Form Design: Filling in the Blanks you can see him live there along with Jared Spool, the man Zeldman, Eric Meyer (who looks slightly shocked in his photo) and [...]

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How do you like it?

Eggs. Everyone likes them different and each of us eats them in a certain way, just like blogs. Okay, so you don’t fry blogs, but humour me with the metaphor for a moment.
The Designer’s Review of Books has been running for a few months now and I am very grateful for all the readers and [...]

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Designer’s Review of Books Canadian Store?

It’s clear from my Mint server logs that The Designer’s Review of Books has a few visitors from Canada. So I have a question for you – would you like me to set up a Canadian Amazon Store, which would also include the relevant links at the bottom of reviews?
I ask because Amazon’s affiliate system [...]

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Kenya Hara Preview

I have been doing some moonlighting over at Eye magazine’s blog for their The Form of the Book series.
The Form of the Book is about what books look like – how they are designed, produced and feel more than the content itself. The physical aspect of design books is one of the key reasons [...]

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Buy Books, Help Australian Bushfire Victims

Sitepoint, the Melbourne-based publisher on all things web, currently has a Five for One PDF book offer in order to help victims of the terrible Australian bushfires.
You get around $150 of books for $30 and all of the proceeds go towards the Australian Red Cross:
“[W]e’re taking one day, working around the clock to plan, package, [...]

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Back on the Grid

I have been off the grid all last week in the Australian bush (see above) and then in the air for the excruciatingly long flight back to Germany, so I felt a little editorial news was in order. I can recommend a week of being unplugged though.
The review pile grows ever taller with some fantastic [...]

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