For this issue, instead of picking just one book that’s on our list, we wanted to share our favorite new website… www.designersandbooks.com. This site is updated once a week with books that top design leaders have identified as important, meaningful, and informative. These are books that have shaped their values, their worldview, and their ideas about design. In creating this resource, the founders of the site hope to focus attention on how books can be important and inspired sources of creativity, innovation, and invention.

Consider, among others, Vitruvius, William Morris, Frank Lloyd Wright, Edith Wharton, Le Corbusier, Paul Rand − there has always been a particularly special and robust relationship between designers and books: reading them, writing them, designing them, collecting them, learning from them, and being inspired by them. Designers and Books celebrates that relationship.