Category Archives: Book Reviews

First things first: Invisible Women by Caroline Criado Perez is a white-knuckle read. Written with gusto, providing a blizzard of data which whip across the page. You are almost snow-blind (with rage) at the end of Part 1: Daily Life. The book is divided into 6 parts. Each explores an area where data and design…

Cræft, is written by a British archaeologist Alexander Langlands; who looks at Craft with a particular professional enthusiasm. Archaeology often uses craft as a way of interpreting a culture. Craft is the building block in the narrative of the past. Each chapter (there are 14 in total) investigates a series of tools and practices –…

The first thing to say about Peter Korn’s Why we Make Things & Why it Matters – is you do not have to be a creative or a maker to enjoy the book. If you are a collector or interested in interior design and homemaking; this book provides insight to why we are drawn to…

An Atlas of Rare and Familiar Colour takes us on a journey into the shade and light which sketches out the world. The beautifully produced book is a combination of text and Instagram ready images of tinctures, dyes and distillations of pigments. Published by Atelier Editions for Harvard Art Museums, each colour from red to…

Today, as we become more engaged with the things we use and wear, one of the joys of design are the many histories published on the subject.  Design’s past has opened up before us experientially. Mining the cultural and technical elements which inform the things we collect in our homes and museums. In The Golden…