I've got loads of design books that I ought to read. Like, properly read. Not just skim through them or leave them by the side of the bed or in the bathroom. Actually read them.
So I'm going to do that this summer. And then I'm going to give a brief report on this blog. It won't be a review, it's just be a few notes on what I've garnered from the book.
Would you like to join in? Great. Log on to Typepad and using the username summerof and the password designbooks you'll be able to post a report on this blog. It will wait in limbo until I've approved it and then it will go live. Any book you want, as long as it's about design. Or should that be Design. Anyway.
UPDATE: I think Typepad have changed it so that guest authors have to log in with an email address and not a neat username. But hold on a minute, I'm on the case.
Tried unsuccessfully to log into Typepad with your username and password, but I guess you need your own Typepad account first (which I kind of guessed, but wanted to give it a shot anyway).
Posted by: David Airey | Jun 16, 2008 at 11:34
Great to see Cradle to Cradle on your list. It's incredibly inspiring. Look forward to hearing what you think.
Posted by: Mike Reed | Jun 16, 2008 at 11:38
My pile of purchased design and branding books (there but never fully explored) seems to grow month on month... nice idea and a good motivational prompt for me to make some time to get stuck in.
Posted by: Blair Thomson | Jun 16, 2008 at 11:59
Let me look into that David.
Posted by: Ben | Jun 16, 2008 at 12:01
ooh - i'd love to participate! i've got a corker of a book about colour that needs finishing and a bunch of architecture stuff too. let us know when you've sorted out the non-typepad login user thingy.
Posted by: lauren | Jun 16, 2008 at 12:42
Cradle to Cradle is so good, I read it for my dissertation research. I possibly just like the 'paper' it's printed on though... smoothness.
I have a whole pile of books on Sustainable Design to read this summer (my dissertation is on the aesthetics of sustainable design, i'm so current, oh yeah) so I shall participate too. Once you've figured out how we can. Haha.
Posted by: RacheL | Jun 16, 2008 at 16:21
The project is an excellent idea, if you can't manage to fix the typepad access, we could try to build a L'Imprimante blog dedicated to it.
I'd love to host SofDB, and I guess I can easily manage guest authors.
So drop me a line if you need.
ps: my pile of books is ready, haha!
Posted by: Loïc Boyer | Jun 22, 2008 at 15:10
Excellent idea! I would love to contribute to the SoDB project.
Any progress on the organistion of the project? Can I help?
Posted by: Dirk Sabbe | Jul 08, 2008 at 22:10
Dirk - go here to get the log in details http://noisydecentgraphics.typepad.com/design/2008/06/summer-of-des-1.html
Posted by: Ben | Jul 08, 2008 at 22:17