Summer Reading List
Earlier this summer I borrowed the book Making Ideas Happen from my friend Elena. This week Elena managed to raise over $33,000 on Kickstarter for her documentary film, The Illusionists looking at body image in the media. She read this book before she put together the campaign, so I can only hope as good of things are around the corner for me – some really good ideas inside. (p.s. There’s still a week left to donate to The Illusionists!)
Then my friend Rachel lent me Just My Type. It not a relationship book, but an insightful and humorously geeky look at typography. Leave it to a Brit to share this fun read with me which I loved so much I had to get my own copy. Just as a heads up, it’s not out in the US until September (but the UK cover – pictured above is way cooler if you ask me). So continuing on my type kick, I figured it was time to pick up a copy of the classic Elements of Typographic Style. I’m totally ready to savor the intricacies of type in my down time.
The other inspiration for my design-related summer reading is that I’ll be teaching a 3-day intensive design module to non-designers this fall. It should be an exciting challenge for us all. I’m actually really loving creating the curriculum, but I wanted to pick up a few books for added inspiration. Ellen Lupton is the Queen of design if you ask me, so I decided it was time to round out my library of Design It Yourself and Thinking With Type with Graphic Design: the New Basics and the latest addition, Graphic Design Thinking: Beyond Brainstorming. All of Ellen’s books reflect a stellar collaboration with talented students, in addition to having fabulous websites which are resources in and of themselves.
What about you? What are you reading this summer?
Bronwyn
July 29, 2011 at 10:39 pm //
I’m planning on reading “The Secret History” on vacation with my family! And on finally finishing “Ulysses,” which I am ashamed to say I’ve been neglecting pretty much constantly….
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Lost In Cheeseland
July 30, 2011 at 8:46 am //
Great list for creatives! Mine of course does not fall into that category but helps me to laugh a little (during difficult times). Tina Fey’s “Bossypants” is a riot, and I’m reading “La Séduction”
risamay
July 31, 2011 at 10:09 pm //
My summer reading list may well expand to include “Bossypants” – every time I see the cover I stop for a chuckle – but right now its comprised of just three titles: “Paris, Paris” by David Downie, “Venice: Lion City” by Garry Wills, and “La Bella Lingua” by Dianne Halles. As you can see, I’d rather be anywhere but here this summer, in California :D