Category: Books
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Logo Design Love in Spanish
A huge thanks to Madrid-based publisher Grupo Anaya for buying the translation rights for Logo Design Love.
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The Process: A New Foundation in Art and Design
A collection of 13 experimental projects designed to teach conceptual thinking and problem solving to art and design students. “The projects, created by Judith and Richard Wilde, focus on developing formal excellence and a strong sense of aesthetics, along with the ability to generate new ideas. Each project is illustrated with multiple visual solutions, provided…
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Trade Marks & Symbols, 1973
“A comprehensive, profusely illustrated guide to more than 1,500 trademarks from all over the world.” Written and compiled by Yasaburo Kuwayama, every page of the 1973 volume one — Alphabetical Designs — can be seen on trademarksandsymbols.com A couple of excerpts… History of marks: Origins in the West “The use of identifying marks in the…
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Renoir, My Father
A passage I enjoyed from Renoir, My Father (Collins, 1962) about what life was like in 1845 when Pierre-Auguste Renoir arrived in Paris at the age of four. Self-portrait by Renoir (c. 1910) Many of the great discoveries which were to transform the world had now been made: iron ore was smelted in blast-furnaces, coal…
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Typeface combinations used in design books
The authors of the following books work with type for a living, and although they weren’t all responsible for their book designs, I was intrigued to know what typeface combinations were chosen to represent their words. The comparative images that follow show the mid-weight members of the respective type families, but it should be noted…
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Remember those great Volkswagen ads?
The Volkswagen advertising campaign of the 1960s and 70s is said to be the greatest and most influential ever created, acclaimed as “the campaign of the century” in the Millennium editions of Time Magazine and Advertising Age. Remember those great Volkswagen ads? is the only comprehensive review of the campaign by DDB (Doyle Dane Bernbach).…
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Keep experimenting
Job applicant advice from design business owner Drew de Soto.
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G . F Smith, 1885 onwards
I always appreciate the work that paper specialist G . F Smith puts into the company’s print material. The 2014 “Portrait of a Company” book is no exception.
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The Geometry of Type
A lovely typographic primer by Stephen Coles, with a foreword from Erik Spiekermann.
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On negotiating your design salary
A chapter from Ted Leonhardt’s new book Nail It: Stories for Designers on Negotiating with Confidence — a collection of true stories about designers getting the salaries they deserve.