A new compilation of sketchbooks from over a hundred designers — including me.

Coming to a bookseller near you in December: “Ordering Disorder: Grid Principles for Web Design.”

An interview with Armin Vit on the occasion of his book “Graphic Design, Referenced.&#8221

Proving Steve Jobs wrong for myself, anyway.

A beautiful — and I mean gorgeous — book about galleries in Tokyo.

Where design books are found at your local bookstore.

Real books written by real people I know.

Accusing the company of being a company.

Design books are endlessly fascinating, but not particularly entertaining.

Seth’s “Wimbledon Green” lives up to the romantic hype of print.

The 37signals book “Getting Real” as a casual manifesto.

“The Complete New Yorker” is an amazing archive of content with a disappointing user interface.

Jonathan Mahler’s account of New York City at the edge of disaster.

What is a blog, weblogs as fiction, and other vague, ill-formed ideas about the medium.

Books on my table, just sitting there, waiting to be read.

In the midst of learning digital photography, an appreciation of an old book.

Retreating into the world of comic book history.

Jon Stewart’s book doesn’t look as good as it reads.

The reissued “This Is New York” from M. Sasek.

How impulse shopping helps baseball trump literature.

What I would read given an imaginary week-long vacation.

Michael Lewis’s “Moneyball” is at the top of my reading list.

One hundred words every high school student should know.

“The Big Con” is a guidebook to the underworld of yesteryear.

I sheepishly admit that “Computers, An Illustrated History” is probably the perfect book for me.

Elvis Costello in graffiti form.

Reading “The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay.”

“The Russian Avant-Garde Book” at MOMA.

Michael Lewis got “Next.”

That lovable old Howard Hawks.

Books on my night stand.

A list of movies, books, magazines and other pop junk that came my way in the year 2000.