Winners in the Scholarly Typographic category include:






*Ipse Dixit: How the World Looks to a Federal Judge by William L. Dwyer and designed by Audrey Meyer












*Beyond Literary Chinatown by Jeffrey F.L. Partridge and designed by Pamela Canell






Our winner in the Scholarly Typographic category is:






*Danish Cookbooks by Carol Gold and designed by Ashley Saleeba







Our winner in the Trade Illustrated category is:





*Arctic Spectacles by Russell Potter and designed by Ashley Saleeba

 

Lionel Pries (1897-1968) was one of the most influential teachers of architecture and design at the University of Washington. Many prominent twentieth-century architects were trained by Pries, whose highly artistic style of design helped shape the development of American Modernism in architecture.

Ochsner offers an erudite celebration of Pries's professional legacy, tracing his evolution as a designer, architect, teacher, and artist. He shows how Pries absorbed and synthesized disparate influences and movements in design -- California Arts and Crafts and Spanish Colonial Revival, the Ecole des Beaux-Arts tradition, Art Deco, Mexican and Japanese motifs, and various strains of the Modern movement.

 

 

There is something offensive and scandalous about poetry, judging by the number of attacks on it and defenses of it written over the centuries. Poetry, Hazard Adams argues, exists to offend -- not through its subject matter but through the challenges it presents to the prevailing view of what language is for. Poetry's main cultural value is its offensiveness; it should be defended as offensive.

 

At the Northwest's legendary Northwest Flower and Garden Show, held at the Seattle Convention Center, you will have multiple chances to join Linda Chalker-Scott, author of the forthcoming book The Informed Gardener, at gardening sessions and book signings. Sales will be provided by the University Book Store.

For more information, check out the Northwest Flower and Garden Show's website.

 

The University of Washington Press has joined with the Frye Art Museum in a collaboration that will result in a book in March 2009. Quarterly readings from the book, which will pair writers with pieces of art either from the Frye's permanent collection or an exhibit that traveled through the Frye, are now in progress.

Join us at the Frye on February 28 at 7:00 p.m. to hear pieces from contributors Ryan Boudinot (author of The Littlest Hitler) and Jonathan Raban (author of Surveillance and Passage to Juneau among many others) that will be included in the book. The reading will be followed by a reception.


The University of Washington Press is copublishing Lino Tagliapietra in Retrospect: A Modern Renaissance in Italian Glass with the Museum of Glass, Tacoma. An exhibit of Lino Tagliapietra's work will go on display at the Museum of Glass on February 22.