Ask DN: What books are you reading right now?
over 7 years ago from Mackenzie Davidson
I feel like a lot of our style as designers is informed by everything we consume, even books. Would love to hear what you're all reading right now.
over 7 years ago from Mackenzie Davidson
I feel like a lot of our style as designers is informed by everything we consume, even books. Would love to hear what you're all reading right now.
I just got a Kindle Voyage. It's not for sale in Finland but my aunt brought it for me from Germany.
Right now I'm reading The Design of Everyday Things.
What a fantastic book. One of them rare books I go back to and read again often.
Just read The Martian Animal Farm now
I recently read The Martian as well. Very good & entertaining book.
Now I'm reading a classic. Glory by Vladimir Nabokov.
+1 on The Martian. I'm also wrapping up on A Dance with Dragons.
Mid way: A New Earth - Eckhart Tolle
Started: 1984 - George Orwell
the portrait of the artist as a young man – joyce
"Becoming Steve Jobs"
Loving it so far.
Junot Diaz - This Is How You Lose Her
Unbearable lightness of being by Milan Kundera
So good. His other book Slowness is also really good.
Life is elsewhere, by Milan Kundera.
Fiction: The Southern Reach trilogy Non-Fiction: Well Designed by John Koko
The Girl With All The Gifts
This is next on my list! Currently reading 'Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World' and 'How They Got There'.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_High_Frontier:_Human_Colonies_in_Space —> AMAZING BOOK for any space aficionado.
Start With Whyby Simon Sinek
The Semantic Turn by Klaus Krippendorff. This is a book about the redesign of design itself.
Other than that I've just bought The History of Modern Design by David Raizman.
When I'm feeling motivated:
Thinking Fast & Slow - Daniel Kahneman
When I'm not:
Mr Midshipman Hornblower - C.S. Forester
Currently rereading The Raw Shark Texts. So much fun.
Becoming Steve Jobs (http://becomingstevejobs.com) and The Circle (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Circle_(Eggers_novel)). I read one work of fiction and one work of non-fiction at the same time. Non-fiction during the day, fiction before I go to sleep.
The User Experience team of One by Leah Buley
Assata: An Autobiography
Imagine you’re in a game with one objective: a bestselling product or service. The rules? No marketing budget, no PR stunts, and it must be sustainably successful. No short-term fads. This is not a game of chance. It is a game of skill and strategy.
74 Creative Strategies for Electronic Music Producers
Understanding Media - Marshal McLuhan
I've read around him, but this is the first time I'm digging into this book. It's pretty great--a non-obnoxious combination of literary and theoretical approaches. Goes well w/ Matt Jones's talk at IxDA 15 and his general attention to the 'grain' of a medium.
Just reread The Giver (for the umpteenth time)
Rereading Catcher in the Rye
Planning to read The Martian
Just finished: Debt: The First 5000 Years - David Graeber
In Progress: Reality is Broken - Jane McGonigal
Up Next: Freakonomics - The Freakonomics guys Steven & Stephen
Sketching User Experiences by Bill Buxton.
Books in progress at the moment:
The Hunger Games
Light read: Nautilus Magazine;
Medium read: Helvetica Forever (Indra Kupferschmid);
Serious read: (re-reading) Bringhurst’s ETS
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