Current Obsessions: Summer Reading List

It’s finally time to get to summer reading. Here’s a look at the books—plus reading paraphernalia—on our list.

• Edited by Joanne Dugan, Summertime is a “photography book about the essence of summer” with images by 46 photographers from around the world
• A balancing bookshelf that allows you to measure how many books you’ve finished versus how many are wait to be read.
• One of Meredith’s favorite magazines right now is Frame, a design periodical from Amsterdam.

• Weekend project: DIY bookshelf.
• Attention print and pattern enthusiasts: you must read The Print Revolution.
• We’re still poring over 300 pages of DIYs and design ideas from our friends at Young House Love.

• • Dalilah just picked up Vampires in the Lemon Grove by Karen Russell. (The insomniacs among us are reading Russell’s new novella, Sleep Donation.)
  • ABCDCS: David Collins is a new coffee table book from the portfolio of the late Irish architect and designer.
  • What’s better—the book or the movie? Here’s a roundup of good reads slated for the big screen.
  • We’re only halfway through 2014, but so far here are the best graphic design books of the year.
  • A British magazine about makers and doers.

For more from this week on Remodelista, take a look at The Life Aquatic, and don’t miss Gardenista’s week of water in the garden.