Wanton Spirit - SXSW Reflections

Notes from SXSW sessions. Lots of great writing and thinking in the archives. Read more later.

The Swiss Poster Collection - Carnegie Mellon University

Long lost link, found again! Swiss poster design 1970 - present.

Industrial design - John Heskett

Lib use only

A history of graphic design - Philip B. Meggs

Library use only

Stop stealing sheep and find out how type works - Erik Spiekerman

Library use only (special typography collection)

Toothpicks and logos: design in everyday life - John Heskett

From Jeff Howard’s CMU “Communication Design” reading list. Checkout at the SFPL.

Thinking with type: a critical guide for designers, writers, editors & students - Ellen Lupton


Visual explanations: images and quantities, evidence and narrative - Edward R. Tufte


Envisioning information - Edward R. Tufte


The visual display of quantitative information - Edward R. Tufte


Understanding comics: the invisible art - Scott McCloud


Grid systems: principles of organizing type - Kimberly Elam


The power of followership - Robert Earl Kelley

From Jeff Howard’s “Design Management” reading list from CMU. Avail. at the SFPL.

The art of the long view - Peter Schwartz


Designing business: multiple media, multiple disciplines - Clement Mok

From the “Design Management” reading list

Now don’t try to reason with me; essays and ironies for a credulous age - Wayne C. Booth.

From Jeff Howard’s CMU “Interaction Design” reading list

Technopoly: the surrender of culture to technology - Neil Postman

At the SFPL.

The design of everyday things - Donald A. Norman

Available at the SFPL.

Identity and the life cycle - Erik H. Erikson

From Jeff Howard’s “Interaction Design” reading list while at CMU.

Flow: the psychology of optimal experience - Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi


Why things bite back: technology and the revenge of unintended consequences - Edward Tenner


The ecological approach to visual perception - James J. Gibson

From Jeff Howard’s “Interaction Design” CMU reading list. Available at the SFPL.

The aesthetics of the Japanese lunchbox - Kenji Ekuan

Wow, didn’t think the SFPL would have this one!

City sense and city design: writings and projects of Kevin Lynch

Library use only.

A designer’s art - Paul Rand