If you’re the kind of creative who likes to deconstruct things and you enjoy video games, this new book is a fascinating dive into speedrunning and the community surrounding it. It started around 1992 with… Read More »ANY%: A History of Speedrunning – new book explores gaming’s craziest counterculture
Talk of AI has driven endless design dialogues since ChatGPT debuted in 2022, and this month, it takes center stage in two new books. Below, Joanne O’Neill details her work on one of those, Bryan… Read More »17 of the Best Book Covers of the Month: September 2024
There isn’t a week that goes by that I don’t think of producer Sandy Stern’s Best First Feature acceptance speech at the 2000 American Spirit Awards. The film was Being John Malkovich. Notably, Charlie Kauffman… Read More »The Failure Story That’s Stuck With Me
This is the story of how my book cover came to be, which is not only a story that includes Oliver Jeffers but also turns out to be a slightly Oliver-Jeffers-ish story. (Side note: I… Read More »My Book Cover Has Its Own Story
This week’s guest is Erin Sarofsky. Erin is an internationally heralded creative, regularly chosen by brand and entertainment titans to lead their most artful storytelling projects. Erin launched Sarofsky Corp in 2009, in Chicago’s West Loop. The firm… Read More »DesignThinkers Podcast: Erin Sarofsky
Here is a important remembrance of politics past . . . This rare booklet published by the International Workers Order excerpts portions of a 1942 speech by FDR’s vice president, Henry A. Wallace. As the… Read More »Social Ideals and Social Realism, Gellert Style