While I was Director of Community Development for AIGA Boston, my energetic and disciplined design co-conspirator Cyndy proposed a local design-oriented book group with the goal of stimulating thinking on design. Discussing design is not only great fun, but serves the additional purpose of helping me identify topics and environments that successfully engage professional designers. Together we launched the group and Cyndy went on to chair the program. She has successfully kept it going for two years and about a dozen books and counting.

The project has grown to have two groups and 20+ local design professionals. We've held our first public event at the The Institute of Contemporary Art presenting a guest lecture by Nicholas Blechman, author of Empire: Nozone IX.