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Published to coincide with a memorial for the late design writer Phil Patton, this is a compilation of 38 of his incisive and witty essays on design.

About the Author

Phil Patton (1952-2015) was a design journalist, curator and author. He wrote regularly about automobile design for the New York Times. His books include Open Road: A Celebration of The American Highway; Made in USA: The Secret Histories of the Things that Made America; Bug, a cultural history of the Volkswagen Beetle; and Dreamland, about the culture of experimental aircraft.

Caroline Baumann became the Director of Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum in 2013.

Edward Tufte is a statistician and professor emeritus of political science, statistics, and computer science at Yale University. He is noted for his writings on information design and as a pioneer in the field of data visualization.