The Good Design Book

One for the boys

Last Friday I posted about our need to include more women designers in the book. Since then I’ve heard from several of design’s leading ladies and I’m really excited to see what comes in this week.

Over the weekend I also received emails from a number of male designers that I am equally excited about. Aaron Draplin, Mick Hodgson, Sean Adams, Jason Munn, Frank Chimero, Bill Drenttel, Brian Jones, Joel Templin, and many other wrote in with a heads up that they’ll be submitting work. Meanwhile, entries have been arriving from Singapore, New Zealand, Venezuela, the UK and all over the U.S. We’re going to have a big task ahead of us as we sort through all the submissions, but I think it bodes well for the overall quality of the book.

If you’re reading this and haven’t submitted anything yet, you still have a few days left to do so. Do it.

John Bielenberg to Write Foreword

Celebrated designer, lecturer and former AIGA National Board Member, John Bielenberg, will write the foreword to The Good Design Book. John is the mastermind behind Project M and one of the founding partners of C2. John’s work touches on all six categories featured in the book, particularly the notion of problem seeking (a term coined by Brian Collins while on a trip to Project M in rural Alabama). We’re very excited to have John on board. It will be some time before actually has to write anything, so stay tuned for future updates.

John Bielenberg | Photo: Michael Weymouth