“There is no word for ‘design’ in our Indian languages,” says design historian Suchitra Balasubramanyan. The discourse, she points out, has been built almost entirely in English, shaped by upper-caste ...

Penguin Books has announced the winners of its 2026 Cover Design Award, with entrants tasked with redesigning fantasy classics Night Watch by Terry Pratchett and A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle ...

If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Variety may receive an affiliate commission. Wes Anderson’s meticulously curated worlds are heading ...

Spatial Design, Breaking the 2D Paradigm, a new book by Dominique Kun-Yu Wu, is a thoughtful and well structured contribution to the scant literature around spatial computing, XR, and immersive ...

It’s easy, for me at least, to be cynical about the state of design. Our visual environment can feel bland, everything from brands to buildings homogenized around similar styles. The ever-impending AI ...

The saying goes: Never judge a book by its cover. But what about the edges of its pages? Sumptuous fore-edges – sprayed a bright color, stenciled with city skylines, made to look like pointy teeth – ...

Famm: Female Artists of the Mougins Museum, France by Samantha Baskind, Jennifer R Cohen and others (Merrell) A rare pleasure: a book entering the minefield of art and gender politics with sense, ...

Your book collection is often a reflection of your interests and when one of them is design, there’s no dearth of titles that you can stock up. They also make for great gifts whether it is for adding ...

The winners of the 2024 British Book Design and Production Awards have been announced from a shortlist of 95 books across 18 categories. The awards were held at De Vere Grand Connaught Rooms in London ...

For those still looking for Christmas gifts, we round up this year's top architecture and design books as part of our review of 2024. Simply named Kiosk, this book features photos of more than 150 ...

This year was a particularly great year for books that seemed long overdue, including monographs on Alexander Girard, Rosario Candela, and Donald Judd — specifically one dedicated to his furniture ...