Website of a design doyenne

The designer and writer Barbara Stauffacher Solomon just launched a website. A few days ago, I found one started by Claudio Naranjo, Solomon's near contemporary and the author of Ennea-type Structures, one of the best books on the enneagram (Sufi character analysis, rediscovered by Oscar Ichazo and taught by him to Naranjo and others in the late 1960s). Noting his misgivings about the medium, Naranjo writes that being on the web is a necessity now. Solomon has just self-published Why?, an illustrated memoir of her remarkable life, and she hopes to find a real publisher for it. The book deserves a wider audience. She's one of design's polymaths, moving from supergraphics, which she pioneered in the 1960s, to landscape design and two exceptionally good books on landscape. An excerpt from Why? appeared in Zyzzyva (Spring 2005). My favorite part of the book is her account of studying design with Armin Hofmann and Emil Ruder in Basel. That in itself warrants the book's publication.