15.07.10
Categories: Book Love
With its ‘hi-there-pop-pickers’ title; its bible black cover; its ‘Swiss’ typography and its photograph of the author smoking a pipe and sporting a bow tie, you might be forgiven for thinking this was a book from the 1960s. Not so. It was published in 1983. But we shouldn’t hold that against it. It’s much better than that.
01.07.10
Categories: Book Love
The link between architecture and graphic design is often discussed: designers tend to like architecture, and most architects claim to have an instinctive interest in graphics. But how much great work does this mutual admiration society really produce?
12.04.10
Categories: Book Love
I’ve been a long-time admirer of the ultra-desirable, mini-monographs published by ggg Books in Japan. I own four or five editions, and every time I look at one of them I yearn to have all 92 volumes. By an amazing dollop of good luck I now own the entire series.
06.04.10
Categories: Book Love
Few of us have sacrificed so much time, money and comfort for the sake of their profession, as Armin Hofmann. He is one of the few exceptions to Shaw’s dictum ‘He who can does; he who cannot, teaches.’
05.02.10
Categories: Book Love
Another cult book from the graphic design archive of forgotten, neglected or overlooked classics.
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