Lawrence King 2004
280 pages B&W reproductions. ISBN 1856694062
24 x 24 cm English text. Softcover
This classic book, first published in 1983 and updated in 1990, helps designers to recognize and identify typefaces seen and used on an everyday basis, and also provides assistance with the process of typeface selection. It highlights the essential characteristics of over 700 typeface specimens, all fully cross-referenced to a comprehensive index. Typefaces are grouped according to specific design features and the typefinding process is by visual inspection and elimination. 'Earmark' or letter feature tables offer an alternative but companion method of identifying text typefaces, illustrating the more distinctive and unusual identifying features of letters. Each category of typeface is prefaced with an introduction by Phil Baines examining its historical background. The book also contains an eight-page section of fifty brief biographies of leading type designers. Price: £24.95
Princeton Architectural Press 2004
200 pages Colour and B&W reproductions. ISBN 156898491X
21 x 24.5 cm English text. Softcover
It's said that you can't judge a book by its cover. George Salter, a legendary figure in the field of book design, never subscribed to this belief. For more than forty years, his beautifully drawn and lettered covers served as elegant windows onto the works of such revered authors as Albert Camus, John Dos Passos, Jack London, and Thomas Mann. Salter had the rare ability to reduce the illustrated dust jacket—a new part of the book package—to its essential elements. He could visually evoke—with typography, calligraphy, and pictorial imagery—the contents of any given book.
Salter's life and work bridged two continents and cultures, and spanned the severest political turmoil of the 20th century. Through a tumultuous life, nothing halted his tireless and brilliant design work. Classic Book Jackets tells Salter's story and describes the innovative design thinking he brought to his design students (including his designation of seven different jacket types that are still valid today). It includes more than 200 reproductions of his finest works, and a complete catalog of his jackets, designs, layouts, and lettering jobs for the book trade.
Thomas Hansen is Professor of German Language at Wellesley College and lives in Wellesley, Massachusetts. Price: £25.00
Die Gestalten Verlag 2004
160 pages free DVD Colour reproductions. ISBN ISBN 3899550676
24 x 30 cm English text. Softcover
As a visual essay focusing on dreams, the imagination, the surreal and the divine, Wonderland builds on the success of last year's Romantik. The book is a stunning collection of the very latest inspiring and surprising fashion photography, graphic design, illustration and fine art from around the world.
Price: £23.00
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Holy Water 2004
80 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 0954823818
19 x 26 cm English text. Softcover
Price: £13.00
Phaidon 2004
400 pages Colour and B&W reproductions. ISBN 0714840696
17 x 24.5 cm English text. Hardcover
A timely overview of innovative contemporary design in the Netherlands, an internatonal hotbed of design creativity, featuring work by Rem Koolhaas, MVRDV, Ben van Berkel & Caroline Bos, Marcel Wanders, Petra Blaisse, and /jop van Bennekom, among others. 1,000 images offer a visual sourcebook of Dutch design in all forms including architecture, urban planning, industrial design and graphic design. Price: £39.95
244 pages Colour and B&W reproductions. ISBN 0714844039
25.5 x 25 cm English/German/French text. Softcover
Josef Müller-Brockmann (1914-1996) was a great poster designer and a leading authority on graphic design whose own work demonstrates an immediately recognizable style of minimalist clarity and intense composition. He lectured extensively and was author of many books, among them the hugely influential Grid Systems in Graphic Design.
Shizuko Müller-Brockmann, born in 1934, worked with her husband on a number of projects and was lecturer in Visual Design at Kyoto Kyoiku University. She also worked as a freelance graphic designer throughout her career. Price: £24.95
