Leaf through its pages, though, and you realize there’s no such article in the magazine. Yes, there are probably 30 designers in the issue if you felt like counting, and yes they’re probably on the way up, but as near as I can tell, that’s the extent of the tie-in.

Did anyone else feel bamboozled by this?

While I understand it’s probably hard to push Designer Tote Bags off the rack, and I’m sure sales are dwindling, as a big fan of PRINT, I hope this isn’t the start of an editorial push which sacrifices common decency for sales.

(I’d also like to note that their new Designer Couples feature is frustratingly similar to The Strange Attractor’s wonderful ongoing Creative Couples series.)

See the rest of them.

The book is a repackaging of a series of books that Baker and Blik put out back in the 80s. I’m not exaggerating when I say that they were as formative to my development as a designer as any other single resource. To be included in this repackaging amongst such an esteemed list of designers is easily the biggest professional compliment of my career thus far.

Pretty proud of this one. Good stuff.

(Big high-five to Draplin, the other young buck in the lineup.)

If you sell coffee as a commodity, it’s worth 2 cents a cup. If you sell it as a good, it’s worth 25 cents a cup. If you sell it as a service it’s worth $1.00 a cup. If you sell it as an experience, it’s $5.00 a cup. A 250:1 difference between commodity and experience.

The rest of this post isn’t terribly relevant unless you’re interested in affiliate marketing, but that first paragraph really hits home.

Flaunt, which addresses best-practices and inspiration in portfolio design, cuts to the heart of the insecurities of every student designer out there. The focus is brilliant, I would have killed for this book when I graduated. Given that as many as 40,000 design students are pouring into the market annually, I can only imagine that Flaunt will be a best-seller for years to come.

Congratulations to both Armin and Bryony.

I believe that good books should be well made, and I try to give every book I publish a format that is distinctive and attractive.

I believe that I have never unknowingly published an unworthy book.

I believe that a publisher has a moral as well as a commercial obligation to his authors to try in every way to promote the sales of their books, to keep them in print, and to enhance his author’s prestige.

I believe that a review by an incompetent critic is a sin against the author, the book, the publisher, and the publication in which the review appears.

I believe that the basic need of the book business is not Madison Avenue ballyhoo, but more booksellers who love and understand books and who can communicate their enthusiasm to a waiting audience.

I believe that magazines, movies, television, and radio will never replace good books.

— Alfred A Knopf, 1957

Wonderfully earnest and relevant.

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