The postings on this blog are very sporadic, but the content is damn good.

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Press 1 is a brochure featuring recent work printed by Team Impression. Printed on GF Smith Colourplan Yellow Sorbet 135gsm, Press 1 features work by Design Project, Spin, Saturday, Six and Made Thought.
I wish there were more detailed shots of the brochure but I checked the TI site and didn’t find any reference to it. […]

Excellent book by UK studio Create/Reject featuring favorite typefaces by 50 designers. The list includes Wim Crouwel, Experimental Jetset and Build. You can purchase a copy here. All proceeds go to UNICEF.

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Andrew Townsend notified me that his self published book Previous/Next in on sale for the bargain price of £5. The book is a collection of experiments and projects by Wig-01, which is made up of Andrew Townsend and James Warfield.
There are only a few copies left so if you want one send an email to:
 [projects]-[at]-[andrew-townsend.com].

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The super talented UK agency Un.titled has updated their stationery with new branding and has released a gorgeous new book.

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My good friend Alex has informed me that his illustrations along with work from many other illustrators have been plagiarized in a book called Colorful Illustrations 93°C. The book is also filled with interviews by Darren di Lieto from The Little Chimp Society. If you see this book DO NOT BUY IT! Notify the store […]

These next two additions to my collection have to be the most rare and the most expensive but also the most satisfying. Publicity and Graphic Design in the Chemical Industry (1967) and Graphic Design in Swiss Industry (1965) are both by Hans Neuberg and are part of the excellent ABC Verlag collection and contain page […]

I added a new book to my collection this weekend titled Swiss Sports Posters that features… well… Swiss sports posters. The book is a collection of the best sports posters covering more than a century. Printed in 1983 and authored by Karl Wobmann and Max Triet, Swiss Sports Posters contains brilliant work that will get […]

Check out these gorgeous book covers designed by Klas Ernflo that were rejected by a publisher. What were they thinking? These cover designs are stunning and I would buy the book just for it! There are other covers on the site that are great as well.

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Smashing Magazine put together an excellent collection of book covers.

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Pentagram has just announced the Black Book, a new 800-page overview of their recent work. The book is a compilation of over 400 projects from the last several years, arranged in alphabetical order, like a dictionary, and printed on Bible paper, like a Bible, complete with tabbed sections and ribbons for bookmarking. It covers pretty […]

Dave posted a gallery of his Icographic Magazine collection. Icographic was founded by John Halas in 1971. It was designed and edited by Patrick Wallis Burke and focused on visual communication. Excellent collection. I have to get my hands on some of them.

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Joe Russ, the Deputy Editor of Computer Arts, sent me an email about their latest issue. Looks like it’s going to be a good one.
In our main feature this issue: Supersize Design we’re celebrating the work of those designers who are lucky enough to land those really enormous jobs. They project images onto buildings, paint aircraft […]

Here’s another rare gem that I managed to find. Signet Signal Symbol, by Walter J. Diethelm and published in 1984, is a book displaying commercial and cultural signs, symbols, logos and icons. What makes this book very unique are the three translucent pages featuring actual design sketches from the designers. An excellent insight into the […]

This beautiful specimen just arrived today. A Sign Systems Manual by Theo Crosby, Alan Fletcher and Colin Forbes illustrates and describes a simple basic system for designing, contracting and displaying signs. It also dives into the history of alphabets and the development of type. It’s an excellent inspirational resource jam packed with pages and pages […]

Recently my obsession with collecting rare design books has reached an all-time high. In the last month I’ve added 14 books to my collection. Some hard to find, some not, some expensive, some cheap, but all amazing. I’ve photographed them for your viewing pleasure.
Books:
1999 - 20Th-Century Type Remix - Lewis Blackwell
1974 - Basic Typography - Ruedi Ruegg, […]

The wonderful magazine Creative Review has redesigned the publication. Beautiful.

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This weekend I finally picked up Grid Systems in Graphic Design by Josef Müller Brockmann. To say this is a great book would be an understatement. I think it’s one of the most important books on graphic design and every serious designer should put this at the top of their must read list. Brockmann does […]

I wrote about this magazine back in May and I managed to get a copy. It’s one of my favorite items in my collection, a true gem.
You can check out some more photos of it on my Flickr page.

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Recently I started to collecting vintage Avant Garde Magazines, mainly the ones with the pretty covers full of Avant Garde goodness. Herb Lubalin did a wonder job with this magazine. His interior layout designs are simple, clean and beautiful to look at and the typeface is one of my favorites. It’s amazing how the typeface […]