There are solely twelve procuring days left till Christmas, and what higher reward than a design guide? Nevertheless, relatively than supply my customary (admittedly self-serving) reward guide listing, this season I’m suggesting a vacation spot to your one-stop vacation design guide procuring. New York’s Poster Home has earned the newly coveted A-Quantity-1-museum-bookstore-on-the-East-Coast ranking from The Each day Heller. In truth, that is arguably the one well-stocked design-centric bookstore in Manhattan (and possibly even Higher New York too).
Under, I requested Joseph Brichacek, the Poster Home Store Director (beforehand the guide purchaser on the Cooper Hewitt reward store) to weigh in on how he curates the books, posters, and associated merchandise.
How do you select/curate which books you choose?
We see guide gross sales as an integral element of Poster Home’s mission to teach our viewers about poster design and historical past. We herald books associated to present exhibitions but additionally inventory a core collection of titles centered on the next subjects:
- Poster design and historical past: monographs of necessary designers and surveys of necessary eras, types, and media.
- Typography design and historical past.
- Graphic design and historical past.
- Promoting design and historical past.
- Children’ books relating to those classes or exemplifying excellence in graphic design, illustration, or printing methods.
- Artwork books and reward titles regarding New York Metropolis.
We all know our viewers enjoys books about industrial design, structure, and different subjects, however with restricted house, we need to hold our choice centered sufficient to offer some specialist titles in typography and promoting historical past that you simply received’t discover at different museum outlets.
So many unbiased New York bookstores the place design books have been bountiful are gone. How do meet the sustainability problem?
We get pleasure from working in a phenomenal museum house with rotating exhibitions and a restaurant. These all drive guests to us: each neighbors and worldwide vacationers. Our manageable measurement means that you could go to Poster Home in your lunch break, seize a chunk in our cafe, and perform a little procuring as effectively. We’ve had a record-breaking visitation this 12 months as extra good word-of-mouth spreads.
What’s the hottest guide style within the retailer?
By sale, our hottest style of books is poster historical past— no shock there— however we additionally get plenty of constructive suggestions about our massive typography choice. Poster Home hosts plenty of superb public packages about typography, and we’ve actually tapped into the sort fanatic group.
