Eva Zeisel On Design:
The Magic Language of Things

By Eva Zeisel
Overlook Press, 2004

In this lavishly illustrated, full-color book, the designer for the first time communicates the ideas that have guided and inspired her. Based on her lectures and her years of teaching, each aspect of the design process is analyzed; variety, spontaneity, line, contour, shading, and texture. To show how the best works are the result of a dialogue between creator and object. This magic language is one in which Zeisel's fluency is unparalleled. Her thoughts, read alongside the photos of her stunning creations and those that have inspired her, make this book indispensable to every enthusiast and teacher of art, ceramics, and design.