Twenty-four books, three pamphlets, and a manuscript still in galleys — what the studio has been reading between February and April. Annotated. Loosely shelved. None of it is required; all of it has been useful.
Five books we returned to this season. None of them are about what you make; all of them are about how to keep making it without losing the thread.
"Actuality is the void between events; for an actuality is forever a void, until and unless an act has filled it."
We re-read this every spring. A small book that argues — beautifully, almost in passing — that practice is what fills the space between the things one makes, and that what one makes is therefore the negative shape of the practice. Read with a pencil in hand. Mark the chapter on serial time; ignore the index.
Four books on space, considered loosely. The argument running through them: rooms do half the work of the people inside them, and we tend to forget this when we are designing.
The four books that should be within arm's reach if you set type for a living, and one we are reading in galleys. Of the four, only Bringhurst is a book one reads through; the rest are referenced.