2004-11-15

Book recommendations, taken from photographs of postits that I can't really
read:


* Purple postit, blue ink [Ben]

- Self-Made Tapestry
- 1000 Years of Non-Linear History
- Abstracting Craft

* Yellow, blue ink [Jack]

- Signs: Lettering in the environment
- Physical Computing (Tom Igoe)
- 1000 Years of Non-Linear History

* Orange, red+black ink [Matt Jones]

- Rules of Play (Katie Ealen, Erik Zimmerman)
- Cloud Atlas (David Mitchell)
- We 3 (Grant Morrison, comic)

* Green, red ink [Sanjay]

- Massive Change (Bruce Mau)
- Political Dictionary of America
- Lovemarks (Kevin Roberts)

* Yellow, blue ink

- Chris Ware biog
- Pattern on the Stone
- Digital Ground

* Yellow, black ink [Matt Ward?]

- The Third Policeman
- Writings on the city (Henri Lefervre)
- A Thousand Plateaux

* Yellow, black felt tip

- Crowded With Genius (Buchan)
- Multitude (Hardt + Negri)
- Getting Things Done

* Red, black felt tip

- Digital City
- Mind Wide Open
- Visual Rhetoric

* Yellow, blue ink

- the complete Tufte oeuvre

* Blue, red ink

- If On A Winters Night A Traveller (Calvino)
- The Snow Leopard (Mathiesjen)
- Invisible Cities (Calvino)

* Purple, blue ink

- The Mythical Man Month
- T-shirts and Genes (R Asplin) [?]
- The Different Engine

* Purple, shiny blue ink

- Imperial San Francisco
- Human-Made World
- The Red Queen

* Yellow, black, red, green ink

- Jamoso Ohlsie Schonis' Panama [?]
- Emergence (Steven Johnson)
- Visitor "Q"

* Purple, blue ink [Matt Webb]

- Always Coming Home (Ursula Le Guin)
- Cloud Atlas (David Mitchell)
- How We Became Post-Human (N Katherine Hayles)

* Grey, black ink

- Building Suburbia (Haygen)
- Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World (Haruki Murakori)
- Microserfs (Coupland)

* Grey, also black ink next to the last one, but heavier

- Einstein's Dreams

* Grey, black ink

- A Million Little Pieces
- The Physiology of Taste
- Hey Nostrodamus

* Orange, red ink

- Exercised in Style
- Lolita
- Leaves of Grass

* Yellow, green ink

- Turtles and Traffic James
- Pictoplasma Character Designe
- Creative Code (Maeda)

* Red, black ink

- Shantaram (Gregory David Roberts)
- The Last Party: Britpop, Blair, and the Demise of British Rock (John Harris)
- Fall of Public Man (Richard Sennett)

* Purple, blue ink [Dan Hill]

- Where the action is (Paul Dourish)
- Re:CP (Cedric Price)
- Soft City (Jonathan Raban)

* Red, black ink [Tom Coates]

- Getting Things Done
- Window Seat
- The Hidden Dimension (Edward Hall)

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these are extracted from my notes on the presentations:

book: "Organic Information Design"
book: Thomas Disch's 1974 novel, 334 [I also need to read We]
book: paul dourish, in action
book: stewart brand, how buildings learn
book: rich warren, the purpose driven life.
book: building suburbia, dolores hayden
book: anthony townsend's thesis
book: Georg Simmel, The Metropolis and Mental Life
book: henri lefebvre, the production of space. also writings on cities. also,
book: iain borden, skateboarding, space and the city
book: [practice of everyday life. situationism is about reclaiming agency from