David Airey

Category: Books

  • Steal Like an Artist

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    Steal Like an Artist is a great little book by Austin Kleon.

  • Bob Gill, so far.

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    The definitive book on the work of Bob Gill, with more than three hundred pieces of his most inventive work, collated from his eighteen books along with some thoughts about how to come up with an original idea. “If anyone who can type can do much of the work previously done by well-paid specialists, what’s…

  • Creative Penguin book covers

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    These cover designs for Penguin Education are great. Juniors, cover design by: Omnific/Philip Thompson. Personality, design by: Omnific/George Mayhew. Half Way There, design by: Omnific/Martin Causer. Ageing, design by: Omnific/Derek Birdsall. Males & Females, design by: Omnific/Derek Birdsall. Courtesy of avid Penguin collector Richard Weston. You can view Richard’s complete series of covers in the…

  • When designing a book cover…

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    …even if it’s likely to be a one-off, it can a good idea (and potentially easier to sell to a client or publisher) to treat the cover design like the first in a series, because you never know where it might lead. A few cover collections I like (some more obviously pre-planned than others). By…

  • Penguin, in Champions of Design

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    Excerpted from Champions of Design, the paperback by Silas Amos of Jones Knowles Ritchie, featuring on one of the 25 brands from the book. Given its beloved status as a British institution to rival the BBC, it’s worth remembering what a revolutionary idea Penguin originally was. The company’s cheap but well-made, well-designed books found a…

  • Design by Nature

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    Design by Nature: Using Universal Forms and Principals in Design is a new book from Maggie Macnab that takes an in-depth look at relationships between nature, design, economics, geometry, and art. “Design by Nature is a revelation. It is both a book and a bible of sorts. Maggie demonstrates how the design process embodies and…

  • Saul Bass: A Life in Film & Design

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    The first book dedicated to Saul Bass, one of the great American designers, produced by Jennifer Bass (Saul’s daughter) and Pat Kirkham. “…before we worked together, he was a legend in my eyes. His designs, for film titles and company logos and record albums and posters, defined an era.” — Martin Scorsese The following paragraph…

  • Brand Thinking and Other Noble Pursuits

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    Debbie Millman’s new book Brand Thinking and Other Noble Pursuits is an engaging collection of dialogues between Debbie and different leaders in the field.

  • Identify, by Chermayeff & Geismar & Haviv

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    In Identify, designers Tom Geismar and Ivan Chermayeff, and partner Sagi Haviv, open their studio for the first time in the firm’s 55-year history, revealing the creative process that led to some of the world’s most well-known marks. “Identity design is not about what one likes or dislikes. It’s about what works.” There’s a preface…

  • You are the map maker

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    What’s the formula for blog posts that will get the greatest number of retweets? Which new product or service will make you the most money? Do you know? “The truth is that nobody knows for sure what’s going to work. If they did the J.K. Rowlings of this world wouldn’t get rejected by twelve publishers.…