6 COFFEE TABLE BOOKS

to Elevate Every Designer’s Collection

Big Type by Counter Print Books

Explores graphic design and identity work with emphasis on typography. Showcases a fascinating world of design where technology, typography and trends merge to create something unique.

Design Struggles: Intersecting Histories, Pedagogies and Perspectives by Claudia Mareis

& Nine Paim

An intersectional take on design history and design discourse, with feminist, decolonial, anti-racist, activist, non-Western and indigenous perspectives.

Process: Visual Journeys in Graphic Design (2nd Edition) by Banker Wessel

A unique book highlighting the sketching phase and the early processes behind the making of marks and logotypes. Includes ideations from a range of art: including music, fashion and furniture design.

Palette Perfect by Sara Caldas

The creative use of color and its combinations in design in relation to how emotions are conveyed and how they affect our design. (Colors identified with CMYK, RGB and HEX codes.)

Rock Graphic Originals by Daniel Street

A compilation of Peter Golding’s rock and roll graphics from the 60s and 70s during the height of the psychedelic movement, chronologically showing the progression of the psychedelic movement of design.

Spin/Adventures In Typography Issue

002 by Tony Brook, Claudia Klat and Jonathan Nielsen

Searching for the new and the surprising, this trio has made a series of experiments, by computer and by hand, that stretch the boundaries of typographic expression almost to a breaking point.

Johannes Gutenberg invented the printing press using blackletter typefaces.