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Along with Brockmann, Crouwel and Aicher, Seitz is one of my biggest influences. His work has influenced many and is considered to be some of the best of our time. Design Observer has a great article on Seitz by Andrew Blauvelt, who also designed a book with Ryan Nelson called Peter Seitz: Designing a Life, a book featuring his work for the Walker Art Center. You can read about the making of the book on Ryan’s site and you can purchase the book from the Walker Art Center bookshop.
London based studio SEA Design’s new book Ten/SEA is out on Saturday 8th December. It is going to be available at Magma, Foyles and select Waterstone branches (Convent Garden). There will be a mini exhibition, held at their SEA Gallery in London, where the book will be on sale. The event will be held from the December 10th to December 14th.
Interesting book available on You Work For Them explaining grid systems and how they are used. A CD is also included that contains 500 grid templates that can be customized.
Good graphic design relies on a simple, fundamental concept: the grid. With the invisible, unifying structure they provide, grids bring consistency and visual harmony to multi-page or multi-screen documents. The Designer’s Toolkit is the first book to streamline the use of this critical tool, providing a fast-track way for both experienced and amateur designers to identify and employ the best grid for the job. A CD embedded in the book’s cover includes 500 ready-to-use grid templates formatted for the most commonly used design programs. The templates can be used as-is or be easily customized to create professional-quality work. This unique book-plus-CD package provides the foundation for anyone to create effective, original, and sophisticated design.
Dimensions: 8.25″ x 9.25″ (inches)
Pages: 160
Edition: Hardcover w/ CD-rom
Languages: English
A friend of mine sent me this link to a site for a book called Body Type, labeled as “the first book devoted entirely to typographic tattoos”. A lot of interesting tattoos but the one that caught my attention is this image of an art director branded in Franklin Gothic No. 2 and Univers 65.
I don’t know about everyone else but when I sit down to create a logo I need as much inspiration as I can get. More so than when I have to design a website or business card. The soon to be released book Logo by Michael Evamy is that inspirational resource that everyone designer can use. I’m definitely picking this one up.
The logo bible, this book provides graphic designers with an indispensable reference source for contemporary logo design. More than 1300 logos are grouped according to their focal form, symbol, and graphic associations into 75 categories such as crosses, stars, crowns, animals, people, handwritten, illustrative type, etc. To emphasize the visual form of the logos, they are shown predominantly in black and white.
By sorting a vast, international array of current logotypes ranging from those of small, design-led businesses to global brands the book offers design consultancies a ready resource to draw on in the research phase of identity projects. Logos are also indexed alphabetically by name of company/designer and by industrial sector, making it easy to piece together a picture of the state of the identity art in any client’s marketplace.
Hydro 74 (Joshua Smith) will soon release two books featuring his work. You can pre-order now.