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Paper Engineering:
Then Is Now:
This clever text shows the complexities of paper engineering for graphic designers. It shows how simple techniques of folding and cutting, add depth + materiality to otherwise 2D work.
This book is a time travel adventure to the late 19th century up to the 1990’s. It examines the events that influenced graphic design as well as the fonts, and even the specific colors of the era.
3D Techniques for a 2D Material
Recommended by Ellen Neal
Using case studies from eminent designers and including templates from the finished pieces, this book gives its readers a cutting edge in 3D applications.
A Handbook for Contemporary Design
This historical information is then paired with current graphic works and how they are using the same themes and styles from earlier decades.
Recommended by Sarah Sorden
The Big Book of Design Ideas 3
This book contains many works from designers from all over the world bringing the best designs and innovative ideas. The works ranges from advertising to logos, from websites to jackets, and so Recommended by Cecilia Oh
on. All designers can get inspired and improve their projects to a finish presentational look. This book can also be looked as a reference for guiding and helping our designs.
hand job:
a catalogue of type
Hand Job investigates the world of handdrawn type, showing off the art of fifty-five typographers and graphic designers. In everything from magazines to movie titles, hand-drawn type has emerged from the underground as a dynamic vehicle for visual communication. Hand Job shows off just how popular hand-drawn type has become. Recommended by Tara Dahabsu
Explore the world of handwritten typography with this book. Hand Job is a great way to get new, refreshing ideas on how to approach text treatment and extend type into an illustrative and expressive state. It displays a full spectrum of hand typography drawn by 50 of the most talented typographers today. Every letterform is a work of art and the nature of the book itself is highly dynamic with numerous layouts and applications fit into a wonderfully designed package. If you love all things typographic, this book would be great reference and inspiration. Recommended by Whitney Wright
This handwritten and illustrated text suggest a look into typography design using hand drawn letterforms and images. A look that is not only a learning experience but aesthetically pleasing to those who might appreciate such imagery. The book gives is a comfortable feeling, as the typography and imagery is welcoming to the one engaging with it. These contents offer their own world inside containing it’s own thoughts and emotions. Recommended by Derek Torsani
“American Signs” provides a look into the history of the sign-age of the classic roadside motel. It not only boasts a fantastic collection of images from the 1930’s to the 1970’s, but also delves deep into the methodology behind their making. The book includes detailed information on the typography used, and is a must have for the typographer or the traveler interested in iconography of the “road trip.”
Form and Meaning on Route 66
AMERICAN SIGNS Recommended by Peyton Sorah
All the Art That’s Fit to Print (and some that wasn’t) Inside the New York Times Op-Ed Page
This funny + exciting book includes over 300 illustrations from the past 30 years in the New York Times Op-Ed page. Kraus, a former art director of the page, provides
insight into the battles between art director and editors. Most importantly, the book proves how art can change the world. Recommended by Carolyn Williams
Smile i-D: Fashion and Style The Best From 20 Years of i-D
i-D Magazine has documented European street fashion and culture since 1980. Smile i-D compiles the best of the past 200 issues of the magazine. It perfectly depicts the evolution of the magazine from it’s humble punk-zine beginnings to a highly regarded fashion magazine come the end of the 20th century. The book features the early works of nowfamous photographers Wolfgang Tillmans, Juergen Teller and David LaChapelle. Recommended by John Sperandeo
Designing Programmes Recommended by Nick Hum
In four essays, Gerstner offers his solutions for the graphic designer of the 60’s and 70’s. The intellectual models he proposes, however, continue to be useful today. Gerstner develops fundamental principles in an innovative and future-oriented way. The book is especially topical and exciting in the context of current developments in computational design, which seem to hold out the possibility of programmed design.
With many examples from the worlds of graphic and product design, music, architecture, and art, it inspires the reader to seize on the material, develop it further, and integrate it into his or her own work. This element brings those of the computer generation to search back to the basics of design, to slow down and realize the wonders of design with out computer assistance.
A Photographer’s Life: 1990-2005 Most People see the editorial sided of Annie Leibovitz. Her name is synonymous with Vogue and Celebrity. What is often times over looked is they eye of the Artist. The chronicler of popular culture merges her ad campaigns with personal photographs creating an unheard of narrative of the photographer. Recommended by Adam Panasowich
Women of Design This book is compiled of today’s top leading female designers, and is broken up into three selections the trailer blazers, pathfinder and the ground-breakers. It explores the work that have influence the modern landscape of design. In a world where design is predominantly made by men, this book was created to show that this is slowly becoming an old fable. Recommended by Charde Fuller
altitude
A complete look at intellectually rigorous, iconoclastic Swiss designers carving their niche in a new graphic language. Altitude is a showcase of the current generation of contemporary designers, who combine traditional high-quality Swiss Style with advanced media and novel design approaches to give rise to a progressive style of visual expression. The collected work provides insight into the impact, essence and diversity of Swiss graphic design in recent years and evaluates its significant evolution. Recommended by JT Holly
Contemporary American Graphic Design
coast to coast
This book features color plates of innovative graphic design from 2002. The book was compiled in Germany, yet features numerous American design firms. Firms include House Industries, Aesthetic Apparatus, Sagmeister, Ben Motz, Laundry, and others. There are 65 firms represented overall, and 199 color pages, each devoted to a single piece. Recommended by Colin Nyborg
The Best of Life is a compilation of photos from the 36 years (1936-1972) of LIFE Magazine’s printing. Seeing the photographs in context allows designers to more clearly grasp how photo-journalistic imagery can be paired with small amounts of text to delineate a succinct narrative. Recommended by Jenna Kaminsky
The Best of Life
House Industries This book is an amazing insight into to the blue-collar graphic designers frame of thought and process. Designers tell the story of where House originated, the artist’s personal experiences and growth along the way, the good times and hardships, as well as display some wonderfully mastered works on high
quality paper. House is known for their use of metallic inks, irregular papers, and for doing most of the design work mechanically with little or no computer involvement. This is a great book for graphic designers that develop their work by hand physically, and enjoy the “painterly� aspect of the design. Recommended by Nick Kaufman
Art is Work This dynamic book explores Milton Glaser’s definition of the word art. He redefines the word as work, attempting to eliminate confusion, and restore art to a central activity in daily life. This book is filled with beautiful graphic designs, interiors, objects and illustrations over the past few years. Bright, vibrant images fill the pages, as well as give some insight on Milton Glaser’s output on the last twenty-five years of design. Recommended by Bri Antonaccio
Fingerprint: This inspirational book embraces the advantages of the human hand in visual communication. Inside are examples of work that exhibits a variety of design methods including mixed media, illustration, letterpress, screenprinting and collage. Discover tips on using different materials and read insightful essays from the lead designers whose art is showcased! Recommended by Kailie Parrish
Recommended by Elly Kim
Paula Scher has gained worldwide reputation for her bold, modern graphics and her insightful critiques of the design profession. In Make it Bigger, Scher reveals her thoughts on design practice from her own experiences as one of the leading female graphic designers. She goes into excellent detail about working with employees, artists, and clients who may not know a whole lot about design.
Make it Bigger
Typography now the next wave
This book reports the changes that digital tools generated for the use of type, by showing the work of Graphic designers from America, Germany, France and Netherlands whose works redefinds our approach of type. The presentation and explanation are interesting and beautifully designed, and the chosen works are good exemples of how differently type can be used. Recommended by Chloe Morisset
Typographic
Design:
Form and Communication
This book offers a decent history of type and is a good book for a graphic designer. It is packed with content and examples. Examples are kept to a minimum instead of filling every page with a large portion of examples and a miniscule amount of text. The content is dense and all the examples have their place. This book is good for a graphic designer who struggles with typography. Recommended by Megan Barber
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Color Design book talks about use of color in design field. The book covers basic definitions of color to image and feelings each
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hue carries, as well as how they are used in everyday life. Pictures and the color charts helps readers understand the content.
Recommended by Rosa Im
colophon This book was created using book reviews from the Typography II classes at the Maryland Institute College of Art. It was created using Baskerville and Frutiger on premium presentation paper, matte double-sided by Michelle Ghiotti.