Ville Vartiainen
portfolio, blog and the occasional Nordic musing
Got me some tasty new books by Ellen Lupton…can’t wait to dive into them! Been feeling frustrated lately, wanting to do more design and creative output, but haven’t really tried as I know I’m lacking some discipline and knowledge with regards to several areas of design! Also as I’ve gotten older I’ve become more and more interested in Typography and layout patterns, so time to delve in.
This has to be my book of the year so far. Why?
Because if you want to know how unscrupulously evil tabloid journalists, Big Pharmas and other dubious organisations manage to bamboozle the general public with misleading and inaccurate facts, figures and sensational headlines – then, buddy, this is the book for you.
I studied the Biological Sciences at University but they never covered the dark arts of cherry picking research data and how to skew results in your favour. But I had gotten out of practise with basic common science-sense and critical thinking. I feel like I am now mentally protected against all the rubbish you see and hear in the news, and will never take those headlines at face value again!