The Future of the Design Book at Designers & Books Fair
Massimo Vignelli, Lorraine Wild, Irma Boom, Michael Bierut, and Barry Bergdoll took the stage Friday night as the Keynote presentation for the first Designers & Books Fair.
- The Future of the Design Book Vignelli, Bierut, Wild, Boom, Bergdoll on stage. #DBFair #Futurebook #Graphicd instagr.am/p/RSECqfiTft/
- Professor Bergdoll introduces the panel.
You know Vignelli's work because you read the subway, fly American Airlines, go to the MOMA. ~Barry Bergdoll #DBFair #Futurebook
The accolades and introductions are astounding. And long. #DBfair #Futurebook Vignelli, Bierut et al- Barry Bergdoll begins by asking questions about the relationship between books and buildings as well as the role of the architecture book in the future of the design book.
What's the difference between designing a book or a building? Massimo: complexity #DBFair #Futurebook- Victor Hugo "The book will kill the building." - Barry Bergdoll #Futurebook #DBFair
Vignelli: Designing a book is like being a mortician, putting beauty on a dead body (the book) #futurebook #DBFair @designersbooks
Massimo Vignelli: "When you design a book you play with space and the white space is even more important." #DBFair #futurebook
The 4 most interesting legacy designers are on this panel and 12 minutes into it Vignelli still talking. #futurebook- Irma Boom talks about making models of every book she makes. The "Boom book" is discussed. And Michael Bierut and Lorraine Wild both discuss the differences between working in 2d v. 3d.
Irma Boom at the Designers & Books Fair: "I see making a book as building a book." @designersbooks #DBFair #futurebook- Irma boom sees what she does like architecture is both do model making. #futurebook
- Bierut talks regretfully about the lack of the messiness that depicts real use missing in arch depictions. #futurebook
- When making an architecture book you're trying to give the experience of the building; we usually fail says Bierut #DBFair #Futurebook
- Making books is like building books. Fat books, thin books, very small books. I make models of every book I make. - Boom #DBFair #Futurebook
- Michael Bierut also talks about the effort as trying to translate the experience of the architecture to print. #futurebook
"I get so mad when people go through books backwards! Barbarians!" - Massimo Vignelli #DBFair #futurebook- "Designing a book and designing a building is the same thing." - Massimo Vignelli #DBFair #futurebook
Hmm. RT @designersbooks "Designing a book and designing a building is the same thing." - Massimo Vignelli #DBFair #futurebook- Vignelli and Boom on who will design the last book.
- Massimo and Boom competing over who will live long enough to design the last book #DBFair #Futurebook
