Cover story: a year of beautiful booksPublishers are fighting back against the ebook tide with great designs
Hughes, Kathryn
Article
2011
The Guardian
Publishers have started building their marketing strategies around form rather than content.
The article emphasises that the whole point of a good book design is to grab the attention of both the rea...
Design for the Real WorldHuman Ecology and Social Change
Papanek, Victor
Book
1970
While two-thirds of the world's population lives in poverty, valuable human and natural resources are used to produce: fur-covered toilet seats, electronic nail polish dryers, diapers for parakeets, a...