On behalf of the Fashion Institute of Technology, Mrs. Lee edited "American Fashion: The Life and Times of Adrian, Mainbocher, McCardell, Norell, Trigère," a compilation of midcentury American clothing designers, published by The New York Times in 1975.
And the image economy (if that really is a Memphis legacy) is now so advanced that designers publish computer-generated images of work that is not only skin-deep, but doesn't even exist.
The two Canadian companies are teaming up for CorelDrawConceptShare.com, a new version of ConceptShare that will let designers publish their drawings to the web using CorelDraw, and critique them with coworkers using ConceptShare.
Half Norwegian, half Greek, Zografos is also an accomplished photographer and musician, and has worked for magazines and newspapers, as well as for artists, designers, publishing houses around the world.
The take-away: if you really want to turn that gleam in your eye into a book, there are lots of people out there willing to help make it happen -- editors, designers, publishing outfits, publicists, people like Brooke Warner -- for a price.
In 2007, David Tracey, a Vancouver journalist and environmental designer, published "Guerrilla Gardening, a Manualfesto".
Three years after the Guide first appeared, Thomas Sheraton, an equally famous English Neoclassical designer, published The Cabinet-Maker and Upholsterers' Drawing Book, in which he writes slightingly of Hepplewhite in his preface, even though he probably borrowed from the Guide.
The shift toward a knowledge-based and service economy has created a new set of middle-class jobs, like graphic designer, publishing professional and health care administrator.
There are lots of photographs of them in vintage graphic design magazines, and a few years ago, the Australian typography designer Stephen Banham published a wonderful book, "Characters," about the ghost signs and other forms of signage in his home city, Melbourne.
In a gushing article on the designer Thomas Heatherwick, published soon after it was announced that Sky TV would sponsor his proposed garden bridge, Richard Morrison of the Times wondered why the project attracts opponents "whose hostility seems implacable".
In 2010, data journalist and information designer David McCandless published an infographic on his Information is Beautiful website showing how much musicians earned online from sales and streams of their music.
