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Great interviews & diverse perspectives on Design
Introspection, honesty, and advice from some of the greatest design minds (interviewed by Debbie Millman).
Debbie Millman was able to build an highly enjoyable journey through the minds of celebrated designers. We get to understand how they think, what motivates them, what makes them anger, fear, content and happy. If you want to be a designer, this book is obligatory. If you want to know how a mind of a designer works, read this book. If you want a glimpse on the creative thought, its challenges, concerns, disruptions, deficiencies as its marvels, read this book.More in my blog (PT) - http://virtual...
I recently saw a great exhibit called the HAPPY SHOW at the Chicago Cultural Center. The exhibit was the work of graphic designer Stefan Sagmeister depicting recent research about the nature of happiness. A couple of the primary lessons I took from it was that besides from the death of a child and having a relative with alzheimers happiness is not related substantially to external circumstances. Also after about $80,000 dollars per year the basic contentment and happiness of an individual does n...
Was an enjoyable read and insight to some amazing designers, although there was more I wanted to know. There was a few that I wasn't very familiar with but I'm now totally digging like Chip Kidd. Yup, good read but just missing out on 'Pure Dead Brilliant' status.
Alright, this one has decent value Debbie asks interesting questions but I just prefer podcasts as its raw and it feels more honest then reading a dialog.A collective wisdom of the best-known designers.
Loved this. Easy to read since it's a series of short interview.
This book contains a collection of interviews of graphic designers conducted by fellow designer Debbie Millman.As a designer doing a lot of web developing recently, reading this book is a perfect anodyne for those times when I hit a wall coding. I've met several of the subjects Debbie interviews but my brief intro's and questions only provided a glimpse of who they are. What's nice is that she infuses such shared experience and knowledge into each question that it brings out those responses I wa...
As other reviewers have pointed out, a more appropriate, if maybe not as sales-worthy title for this book would be, "Thoughts of the Great Graphic Designers". It contains a series of interviews with the some of the most recognizable names in graphic design - this is not a how-to book! Still, if you take the contents of the interviews to heart, I think there's a lot of inspiration anyone can take away.My review would be more positive except for the few interviews that wound up being conducted by
This was not only a great read as a graphic designer (finding insight into some fantastically talented creative minds), but also a thoughtful journey into what vocation means...how we are called to some tasks and find pleasure in them. This book made me think a lot about what I love and what I want to do and learn more about and pursue. It was creatively inspiring without being a myopic designer's book--I felt less torn about wanting to do a million things and being interested in everything. I a...
A remarkable collection of interviews with some of the brilliant graphic designers of the world revealing the unknown facets of their life, career, and craft. Debbie Millman had done a commendable job of bringing the booty of an extraordinary treasure hunt to readers to enjoy. The budding and practicing design professionals would find this wonderful volume enlightening and inspiring.
I enjoyed this exercise in going to an area which I really have no affinity other than enjoying and being fascinated by book covers. I was surprised at the similarities between the writing and graphic design world. There also seemed to be a lot of cross over and I was intrigued by how the different artists approached their work and dealt with the inherent paradox of art versus commercial. The presence of the audience is front and center in graphic design, maybe it should be in every art form.
Insightful!
While a book of interviews wasn't what I expected when I originally bought it, this book was ok. There are some real gems in here. The funny thing is in almost every single case, whether or not I a particular interview had nothing to do with the person being interviewed or what they said, but how the interview was conducted. Almost every interview conducted via email felt flat and lifeless. The ones done in person came to life and engaged me. I realize it's not always possible to conduct in pers...
As a brand new Graphic Design student specializing in Interactive Design, this book has been a great introduction to who's who in the industry. With the exception of maybe Massimo Vignelli and some of the other people that appeared on the film Helvetica, I had no idea who most of these people were. As a matter of fact, my first assignment for my Graphic Design Essentials class was to pick a designer from a list. I picked Stefan Sagmeister without really knowing that much about him, except that h...
This book was a good insight in to the, well known, minds of graphic designers. You will have to put yourself into the graphic designer's shoes to really enjoy this book. Good read.
I first listened to Debbie's podcast around 1 year ago, and I just discovered this book like one week ago! She has deep expertise in this area. I like the idea of bringing lots of great designers and artists and asking tough, mindblowing questions.This book is a compilation, a culmination, a cornucopia of interviews of Debbie along with her great guests in her podcast. While it seems superficial, the guests are some of the most talented artists, such as Massimo Vignelli, Milton Glaser, Paula Sch...
Do yourself a favor and ignore the title! As is said in the introduction, it’s not a ‘how to manual’ or some kind ‘process’, it’s actually some great interviews with graphic designers like Stefan Sagmeister, Peter Saville & Paula Scher (to name but three), who give beautifully honest interviews that will make you realize that even the best are insecure / sometimes deliver work they’re unhappy with; which was a huge relief to read!For those who’ve ever had self doubt about themselves or their des...
I love her podcast and it feels so wrong to NOT hear her voice on this audiobook. But it was very interesting to hear the thoughts of so many great graphic designers.3 stars
Definitely mis-titled. This is really a series of interviews with some of the iconic designers of our time, but it's not in any way a "how to" book. You will learn some of the though processes of the designers, but very little about design itself. That said, it's an excellent intro to who's who and going through the books interviewees and following up on Google will give you some great examples.Also, as others have noted, the email interviews follow a sort of generic template and don't have the