Ebooks are convenient and all , but there ’s nothing quite like an awesome , physical record book pass over to really get you stoke to dive into a old - school tome . The run-in inside are crucial , but there ’s something to be say for a really dainty piece of shelf - candy too .
Every year , the Design Observer and the American Institute of Graphic Arts worst up a list of the year ’s undecomposed masking purpose , and they just put outtheir 50 bestestest of 2012 . Taste varies , but these are a few of our front-runner .
Curiosity and Method: Ten Years of Cabinet Magazine
By Blood
Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace
The Bug
After Freud Left: A Century of Psychoanalysis in America
The Flame Alphabet
The Day The World Ends
The Sardinians
A Wilderness of Error: The Trails of Jeffrey MacDonald
Stripped
May We Be Forgiven
you’re able to check out the rest of the absolutely fantastic excogitation over atThe Design Observer .
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