Revival Type: Digital Typefaces Inspired by the PastFrom the Designers’ Desks: Abby Goldstein and Paul Shaw is a new book that provides a fascinating, visually rich tour through typographic history. The book is the result of a close collaboration between Abby Goldstein and Paul Shaw that does not fit neatly into the usual
Peter M. Blaiwas — The Absolutely Unique Challenges of Publishing the Voynich Manuscript Fascsimile Book In 2014, Yale University Press approached Wordesign Services to copyedit, design, and produce a facsimile edition of the Voynich Manuscript, a very old, mysterious, beautifully illustrated text. The book would include the first full-size reproduction
Today’s edition of From the Designer’s Desk features insight and humor from Michael Bierut, a partner at design firm Pentagram whose numerous, genius designs we encounter daily — whose inimitable designs make the physical world more interesting and beautiful every day. Why did you pursue design, rather than, say, painting or architecture or
Henk van Assen, in addition to being a marvelous, long-time collaborator as the designer of many books published and distributed by Yale University Press, is founding principal at HvADesign, senior critic at Yale University, and lecturer at Parsons the New School for Design. Read on for his adventurous, international, and
Our June 2015 edition of From the Designer’s Desk features Bruce Campbell, an extraordinary designer of exhibition catalogues and restorer of vintage printing presses. Why did you pursue design, rather than, say, painting or architecture or sculpture? Actually, I went to graduate school as a printmaker. But then I saw
The May 2015 edition of From the Designer’s Desk is a missive from Chicago – from the incomparable Cheryl Towler Weese of Studio Blue. Why did you pursue design, rather than, say, painting or architecture or sculpture? Like some of the other designers who have contributed to this blog series, I didn’t
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
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
Our February 2015 edition of From the Designer’s Desk is a lively dispatch from from Frank Baseman, principal at Baseman Design Associates. 1.) Why did you pursue Design, rather than, say, Painting or Architecture or Sculpture? I dunno, I thought about Architecture for a little while when I was a kid—or
We’re kicking off our second year of monthly From the Designer’s Desk posts with some observation and inspiration from Margaret Bauer, formerly design manager in the Publishing Office at the National Gallery of Art and currently principal at Margaret Bauer Graphic Design in Washington, DC (and New Haven native!). Why did you pursue