 | Karl Gerstner by Karl Gerstner
One of Switzerland's leading graphic designers, this great looking book celebrates fifty years of creativity. Examples of his abstract art, graphics, typography, ads, book and magazine design. LOOK INSIDE.
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 | The Machine Age in America: 1918-1941 by Richard Guy Wilson
Buy used from: $23.99 A well designed book about US industrial design in the twenties and thirties. LOOK INSIDE.
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 | Long May She Wave: A Graphic History of the American Flag by Kit Hinrichs
Buy new: $42.00 / Used from: $14.86 Kit Hinrich creates another masterpiece, using his stars and stripes collection
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 | Transit: Around the World in 1424 Days
Buy new: $49.00 / Used from: $34.99 An incredidible 720 page collage of Uwe Ommer's four year trip round the world to photograph families. Every spread is a collection of photos and other graphics creating a beautiful scrapbook effect. LOOK INSIDE.
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 | Posters of the WPA by Christopher Denoon
Buy used from: $54.00 If you are studying publication design and typography have a look at the way this book has been designed, excellent grid format, type and overall concept. LOOK INSIDE.
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 | Historical Atlas of the United States by National Geographic Society (U. S.)
Buy used from: $45.00 A masterpiece, if only all books were designed as well as this one. Attention to detail pays off. You can pick up this amazing book quite cheaply if you look around the web. LOOK INSIDE.
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 | The Pentagram Papers: A collection of 36 papers by Pentagram Partners
Buy new: $37.80 / Used from: $10.99 A beautiful book designed by Pentagram's Kit Hinrichs about the companies keepsakes. The total package can't be faulted: contents, design, printing and paper. Wait there's more: you'll get a FREE Paper (number 36) included with the book. LOOK INSIDE.
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 | Skate Crazy by Lou Brooks
Buy new: $16.95 / Used from: $0.97 Lou Brooks is an illustator and designer which explains why this book looks so good. Hundreds of photos and graphics are combined beautifully in breezy page layouts. LOOK INSIDE.
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 | The Story of a Collector by Wim Meter
Buy new: $19.50 / Used from: $2.99 A quite stunning looking book about novelty radios, from the collection of Wim Meter who also designed the book. Hundreds of radios presented in a collage format and bursting from the pages. LOOK INSIDE.
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 | Swiss Graphic Design: The Origins and Growth of an International Style, 1920-1965 by Richard Hollis
Buy new: $37.09 / Used from: $29.95 You would expect any book about Swiss graphics to be well designed and this one certainly is. Based on a two-column grid with frquently one column a page and the other colunm divided into two for graphics and captions. A beautifully designed and fascinating history of the subject. LOOK INSIDE.
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 | Look of the Century by Michael Tambini
Buy used from: $1.16 How to handle a lot of images and information and make it look good.
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 | Typewise by Kit Hinrichs
Buy used from: $0.83 A handsome book of Mr Hindrichs's design thoughts and plenty of graphic examples, by him and others, all presented in a beautiful volume. LOOK INSIDE.
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 | The American Magazine by Amy Janello
Buy new: $45.60 / Used from: $4.29 Sumptuous presentation, a book designer's dream. It really should be reprinted. LOOK INSIDE.
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 | Iconic America: A Roller-Coaster Ride through the Eye-Popping Panorama of American Pop Culture by Tommy Hilfiger
Buy new: $37.80 / Used from: $29.96 George Lois has designed a wonderful celebration of the Nation. Essentially a visual book with hundreds of images well printed in 175dpi. Neat typography throughtout, too. LOOK INSIDE.
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 | School Days by Steven Heller
Buy used from: $0.45 A beautiful nostalgic look back at school with several hundred images. The five chapter openers are particularly well thought out, as are the credit and contents pages. LOOK INSIDE.
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 | The Macmillan Visual Dictionary: 3,500 Color Illustrations, 25,000 Terms, 600 Subjects by Jean-Claude Corbeil
Buy used from: $5.80 Superb presentation of visual material, great typography too. LOOK INSIDE.
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 | The Hanna-Barbera Treasury by Jerry Beck
Buy new: $29.25 / Used from: $27.25 If you have to design something for the nostalgia market that involves popular culture here's a possible template. The production is taken to the extreme with color panels, cartoon style graphics and type and to really make it hard there are plenty of extra printed items (booklets and individual items) in envelopes stuck onto the pages. The designers probably took a few months off to recover!
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| Design for Life by Susan Yelavich
Buy used from: $7.65 An amazingly beautiful paperback of objects from the past and present in the National Design Musuem.
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 | WALL STREET JOURNAL GUIDE TO UNDERSTANDING PERSONAL FINANCE: Revised and Updated by Kenneth M. Morris
Buy used from: $0.01 Everything visual going on at once but very controlled and it works.
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 | Typographic Communications Today by Edward Gottschall
Buy new: $85.00 / Used from: $27.99 Published in 1989 this is still a beautifully designed (oversized) book about typography.Hundreds of color illustrations of printed examples explaining the history of type and design. If I have a criticism it is that all the illusrations have a rather thick keyline. LOOK INSIDE.
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 | Notes on Book Design by Derek Birdsall
Buy new: $38.40 / Used from: $20.95 A beautiful book about book design, includes some useful hands-on material, too. LOOK INSIDE.
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| Building Construction Illustrated by Francis D. K. Ching
Buy new: $27.19 / Used from: $8.99 Who would have thought that a technical book of more than a thousand illustrations and all in one color: black, could look so good! LOOK INSIDE.
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| Completely Mad: A History of the Comic Book and Magazine by Maria Reidelbach
Buy used from: $1.70 Alexander Isley Design did a brilliant job. Hundreds of illustrations, with plenty in color, sidebars and really creative chapter heading pages. Beautifully thought out from the front cover onwards.
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 | Design (A Crash Course) by Paul Clark
Buy used from: $0.01 Small, yet this book packs so much in. Excellent example of design and text working together.
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 | Hello World: A Life in Ham Radio by Danny Gregory
Buy new: $16.47 / Used from: $4.04 A book of radio amateur QSL cards and related photos, well worth looking at because it shows how lots of little items can be made interesting with type, color and layout.
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 | The Paranoid's Pocket Guide: Hundreds of Things You Never Knew You Had to Worry About by Cameron Tuttle
Buy new: $10.95 / Used from: $0.01 You don't need color and glossy paper to design well, This little book does it with expressive typography with black and white photos only..
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| A Bridge to the Seven Seas by Dick, Schaap
Buy used from: $6.00 The Holland-America shipping line corporate history, originally published in 1973 and a beautiful example of how to use historical images in lots of creative ways. A joy to look at.
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 | Our Dumb World: The Onion's Atlas of the Planet Earth, 73rd Edition by The Onion
Buy new: $18.47 / Used from: $10.40 A very clever satire on a world atlas, it really looks so convincing. Excellent use of color and type for the maps, graphics and panels. Good choice and handling of photos. Considering the huge amount of material used the format is very cleanly presented. Pretty boring cover though, the UK edition is much better. LOOK INSIDE.
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