Tag Book Review

FF3300

FF3300 is a design publication written partially in Italian and partially in English. The design is beautiful and features a yet-to-be-released typeface—Dic Sans—by Molotro. You can download PDFs of all the previous issues right here.

365: AIGA Year in Design 29

I’m really excited to get my hands on this year’s AIGA Design Annual, 365: AIGA Year in Design 29, designed by Paula Scher and her team at Pentagram. If you’re not an AIGA member, you’ll be able to pick up…

The Election Collection

Artist/designer Chris Piascik documented the 2008 Presidential election through typographic illustrations. And now he’s put them all together in a 28-page book, which you can purchase right here for $9.60.

Harvard Business Review Classics

There’s nothing I don’t love about the design of these books—their compact size, the colors, their common design elements and, this goes without saying, the patterns. The topics are also, of course, extremely pertinent for anyone in business. First seen…

Playful Type

“Playful Type presents an inspiring collection of illustrative fonts and hand-made typography created from a variety of cutting-edge approaches and indicates current development in font design.” This new release from Gestalten is definitely going on the wish list. It won’t…

Over & Over

I read about this new book from Mike Perry yesterday on Treasuring, and immediately placed an order. “Over & Over” follows the same format, only with hand-drawn patterns. Knowing how amazing his first book is (since I own a copy)…

Katie Kirk

The other day Free Design pointed out “Eli No!”, a children’s book designed by the extremely talented illustrator, Katie Kirk. I absolutely loved the style, color and feeling of the images when I saw them, so I did a little…

Old School

“The “Old School” theme will celebrate the aesthetics of twentieth century education through an art exhibition and companion book, as well as curated objects. It is inspired by vintage flash cards, old desks, biology class, science fairs, crayons, card catalogs,…

Area 2

I took a peek at this book in Barnes & Noble yesterday, and at around 450 pages, it is chock full of inspiration. Area 2 is pretty much a curated gallery show in book form, profiling the work of 100…

We tell stories

I just realized that this post didn’t publish when I told it to yesterday. So the whole “Speaking of Penguin” follow-up didn’t make much sense. Ah well, such is life. Here’s the original post… This website is amazing. I heard…

Dream In Color

This book—the first monograph on artist Lulu de Kwiatkowski—looks gorgeous. de Kwiatkowski is more well-known for her designer textile line, LULU DK; but this book features her colorful multimedia collages. See more of the book and/or purchase here or here.

Type Galore

One of the highlights of the conference was the Type Director’s Club exhibit (TDC54) at the conference. I love the books cataloging these competitions. I personally own Typography 26 and Typography 28 and will definitely be adding this new one…