Michael Bierut: 79 Short Essays on Design

Michael Bierut has a new book out called Seventy-nine Short Essays on Design. He acknowledges that it may be a difficult book for some. "It is a 272-page book about design that contains no pictures. Each essay is published in a different typeface, and you may not find every typeface equally easy to read." And the majority of the essays can be read for free in the Design Observer archives. But Bierut has wrapped his words up in book form because "putting the words on paper changes the claim those words make on your attention. Is it better? Is it worse? The answer may be different for every reader."