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From the Designer’s Desk: Barbara E. Williams

We are thrilled to share the April 2015 edition of From the Designer’s Desk: a beautiful reflection by Barbara E. Williams on 40 years in the business of book design.  Barbara started her work in scholarly publishing at Duke University Press. She then served as production manager for a start-up

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Lina Bo Bardi is everywhere

Lina Bo Bardi, the Italian-born, Brazilian modernist architect, has been referred to as “Brazil’s best-kept secret” and an “overlooked creative innovator.”  Her trajectory toward international fame and critical acclaim has been ascendant since her death in 1992, and seems to have reached a peak.  Bo Bardi figures large in the current MoMA

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Postcolonial Realism—The Architecture of David Adjaye: Interview with David Adjaye by David Ebony

David Ebony— Merging the worlds of architecture, art, and design in a unique way, David Adjaye is very much in the spotlight these days. The African-born, London-based starchitect seems to be everywhere lately. His work, and that of his firm, David Adjaye Associates, is currently the subject of a major

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Winter YaleARTbooks contest roundup!

Dear readers, thank you for responding with both words and pictures to our recent contests.  We love hearing from you.  Please stay tuned for more opportunities soon to win copies of our marvelous books (and check out our two ongoing contests, for An Eames Anthology and Samuel F. B. Morse’s “Gallery of the

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Happy birthday, Vincent van Gogh – hip, hip, hip, hoera!

Throughout the month of March we featured excerpts from our recently-published collaboration with the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, a beautiful volume (deemed a best art book of 2014 by the Huffington Post) of van Gogh’s letters entitled Ever Yours: The Essential Letters, edited by Leo Jansen, Hans Luijten, and Nienke Bakker. We

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From the Designer’s Desk: Roy Brooks

Our March 2015 edition of From the Designer’s Desk is a delightful tour through successive iterations of design for a new book entitled Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo in Detroit, which we are honored to distribute for the Detroit Institute of Arts (the book accompanies an exhibition of the same

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Congratulations to Vittoria di Palma, author of Wasteland

Congratulations to our author Vittoria di Palma, whose recent book Wasteland: A History has just received the Louis Gottschalk Prize for an outstanding historical or critical study on the eighteenth century, awarded by the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies.  Read on for an excerpt from the book’s introduction, which makes us

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Arles, on or about Sunday, March 25th, 1888; To Theo van Gogh

Throughout the month of March, we’re featuring excerpts from our recently-published collaboration with the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, a beautiful volume of van Gogh’s letters entitled Ever Yours: The Essential Letters, edited by Leo Jansen, Hans Luijten, and Nienke Bakker. The letters we feature will be posted on the same day of

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Tiger stripes in ink and gold

Felice Fischer – As curator of the exhibition, Ink and Gold: Art of the Kano, on view now at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, I often am asked, “which painting do you like best?”  This is a difficult question to answer, akin to asking a parent to name a favorite

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Nuenen, on or about Thursday, March 20th, 1884; To Theo van Gogh

Throughout the month of March, we’re featuring excerpts from our recently-published collaboration with the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, a beautiful volume of van Gogh’s letters entitled Ever Yours: The Essential Letters, edited by Leo Jansen, Hans Luijten, and Nienke Bakker. The letters we feature will be posted on the same day of

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