Beer

A book documenting a beer can collection that spans seven decades and 32 countries

Dan Becker and Lance Wilson—two San Francisco, CA-based designers— discovered a real gem when they stumbled upon Becker’s stepdad John Russo’s extensive beer can collection tucked away in his Midwest basement. Hoarding cans since 1975, the collection spans all shapes, styles and sizes of brews from around the world, which thankfully the duo decided to photograph and document in a book that they aptly titled …

Functional Aesthetics

LED eyelashes, wearable displays and biofeedback accessories in Dr. Sabine Seymour's latest book

Featuring a woven fabric cover embossed with a scannable QR code, Sabine Seymour‘s new book “Functional Aesthetics: Visions In Fashionable Technology” immediately offers a simple proof that textile can be interface. In Seymour’s second book on the subject, the professor and innovator defines fashionable wearables as “designed garments, accessories or jewelry that combine aesthetics and style with functional technology.” Seymour takes a more analog approach …

Best of CH 2010: Top Five Books

From public radio to public art, our favorite books for 2010 exemplify the beauty in freedom of speech and beyond

Though this year consumers had their pick of platforms with the e-reader, iPad and at its tail end, the ambitious Google eBooks project all at the pinnacle of published matter, print stood strong and proved that just like with the movies, the book is usually better. 3DD Photographer Henry Hargreaves’ “3DD” took an in-your-face approach with 86 pages of topless women, whose all-natural breasts were …