I Seem To Be A Verb
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Architect, engineer and self-described futurist R. Buckminster Fuller teamed up with writer Jerome Agel and designer Quentin Fiore to make a book that breaks the usual rules of print. Rather than a straight treatise, I Seem to Be a Verb mixes visionary schemes for building a better world with playful asides and sharp reminders that people and the universe are constantly changing.
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Its pages are crowded with pictures, dense layouts and passages that can be followed in more than one direction, which makes reading an active experience. Fuller's central idea is that we should think of ourselves as processes in motion rather than fixed things. First issued in 1970, the book remains a striking mix of design, philosophy and provocation.
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