editorial

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 [...]

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Winner of For The Love of Vinyl Competition

The For The Love of Vinyl competition has a winner. What a difficult choice! They were all good suggestions and I was impressed by Colin and Gregory’s analysis of the several covers they chose. Loved Matt’s ELO, Out of the Blue choice for the childhood flashback it gave me (actually rifling through my brother’s albums). [...]

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Coming Up in 2009

Apart from announcing the winner of the For The Love of Vinyl competition, we will be taking a some time off over the holiday season. This might mean some comments take a while to get through moderation, unless you are a regular commenter in which case you will go straight through. We will, of course, [...]

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Win a Copy of For the Love of Vinyl

The holidays are nearly here and the DRB will be, well, catching up with some holiday reading. As Christmas is also the time of goodwill and generosity we are giving away a copy of the superb book, For the Love of Vinyl: The Album Art of Hipgnosis, that we reviewed last week because we liked [...]

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Coroflot 8th Design Salary Survey

A quick note to say that Coroflot’s 8th Annual Design Salary Survey closes December 10th and they need as much data as they can get, especially for Design Management. It’s confidential, so go tell them how filthy rich (or cleanly poor) you are.

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Share Your Design Book Disappointments

Most of the book reviews on the DRB so far have been very positive. The simple reason is that it’s more pleasant to seek out and review books that I think I’m going to like than to wade through a pile of stinkers. But, once in a while, you hear about a book and buy [...]

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Apostrophe

Thanks to everyone who has e-mailed or commented with positive feedback about the launch of The Designers Review of Books. By far the most common question has been, “I don’t mean to be picky, but shouldn’t there be an apostrophe in the title?”. It is good to see designers so eagle-eyed about apostrophes, but as [...]

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Welcome to the Designer’s Review Books

Welcome to The Designer’s Review of Books – a selection of books for the creative mind. For sometime I have been looking for a site that only reviewed books on design and related areas rather than a blog or site that also reviewed books. I couldn’t find one (or not one that I liked) so [...]

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