Category: Books
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Citizen Designer
What does it mean to be a designer in today’s corporate-driven, over-branded global consumer culture? The following is an excerpt from the introduction to Steven Heller and Véronique Vienne’s Citizen Designer: Perspectives on Design Responsibility. So, what is the responsibility of a designer when the design is impeccable but the client is tainted? Being accountable…
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Identity Designed, the book
The Identity Designed hardcover (published by Rockport, available from January 2019) aims to uncover the most valuable details about what it takes to create a compelling visual identity. Since the Identity Designed website was launched in 2010, it’s been a bit of a labour of love sharing insights into more than 500 projects from design…
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On recycled paper and “green” printing
From her new book Designing for Print, Marina Poropat Joyce answers questions on the environmental footprint of recycled paper compared to virgin paper. It’s not necessarily better to choose the former. Is recycled paper more environmentally friendly? A few factors need to be weighed in order to gauge the environmental footprint of recycled versus virgin…
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Swim the other way
Don’t Get a Job… Make a Job, by Gem Barton, is a book that’ll help recent design graduates find work. It’s full of case studies and interviews with designers who’ve chosen their own paths in business rather than follow the traditional “get a job, work your way up” route. They talk about how to find…
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The Drinkable Book
According to Unicef, in 2015 there were 663 million people using unsafe drinking water. To combat the problem and to help educate about the dangers of unsafe water, WATERisLIFE teamed up with Dr Teri Dankovich from Carnegie Mellon to create the Drinkable Book. Each page, costing just pennies to make, is coated with silver nanoparticles…
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The Typography Idea Book
Steven Heller and Gail Anderson have released The Typography Idea Book, geared toward helping you evolve different typographic characters or styles. “What this book is not is a tutorial in typographic basics — kerning, spacing, selecting, and so on. There are many excellent existing volumes that will give you that essential knowledge. Our intention here…
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Ogilvy on meeting clients and prospects
In 1962, Time magazine called David Ogilvy (1911-1999) “the most sought-after wizard in today’s advertising industry.”
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Things Organized Neatly, the book
Things Organized Neatly capitalises on our current obsession with photographing and cataloguing all the objects that we interact with on a daily basis.
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MIN: The New Simplicity in Graphic Design
A new book by Stuart Tolley focuses on a “rebirth of simplicity in graphic design.” Taking nearly two years to complete, the 288-pager showcases around 150 designers working across a wide range of formats and media — from independent magazines and album covers to corporate identity and branding. “I’ve aimed to document some of the…
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Digital Print. A Bigger Spectrum.
A Bigger Spectrum is a book by Silas Amos that looks at how top brands are using digital print to increase sales.