Thursday, 4:13pm
28 June 2012
Books
Books received
Thirty-one books in briefThe Art Of Looking Sideways
Alan Fletcher
Phaidon, £24.95
Space, type, image, colour and lateral thinking from the legendary designer.
Big Book of Design Ideas / Big Book of Corporate Identity Design
David E Carter
HBI, £30/£32.50
A cumbersome pair of reference books, crammed with logos, brands and systems.
Books and Pages
Piotr Rypson
Centre for Contemporary Art, Warsaw,
Polish book design, including new design from the postwar \'Exhibitions of the Independents\', conceptual work from the 1960s and 70s and recent experiments.
Brazil Incarnate
Christopher Pillitz
Network Photographers, £29.95
A study of the body in Brazilian culture through luscious black and white photos, plus interviews on Eros and exhibitionism.
Eyes Only
John Holden and Sadie Plant
Ümran Projects, £30
Designer Chris Ashworth combines photography, video stills and graphics with Plant?s text, attempting to create a visual narrative communicating the bizarre emotions preceding UFO encounters.
The Education of an Illustrator
Edited by Steven Heller and Marshall Arisman
Allworth Press, £13.95
A collection of essays, interviews and a \'syllabi sampler\' with contributions from Véronique Vienne, Dugald Stermer, Teal Triggs, Brad Holland and Milton Glaser.
Experimental Formats
Ed. Roger Fawcett-Tang
Rotovision, £22.50
Showcase of unusual book and catalogue design in an experimental, doubled-back format of its own. Essays by John O\'Reilly.
Fresh Dialogue 1:
New Voices in Graphic Design
Blechman, Niemann & Sahre
Princeton Architectural Press, £18.95
The book of the AIGA lecture.
For a Better World:
Posters from the United Nations
Edward B Marks
Pomegranate, £19.99
Archive from the early League of Nations posters to the modern day, including work by Rockwell, Marx and Rauschenberg.
Gabor Palotai Graphic Designer:
Maximizing the Audience
GPP/Gabor Palotai Publisher, SEK 865
The Grammar of Ornament
Owen Jones
Dorling Kindersley, £9.99
A reprint of the manifesto originally published in 1856: a source of inspiration to many from Lloyd Wright to GTF.
Graphic Design & Reading:
Explorations of Uneasy Relationship
Edited by Gunnar Swanson
Allworth Press, £13.95
A collection of essays from the likes of Elliman, Heller and Drenttel.
To be reviewed in a future issue.
Graphis Design Annual 2001
B Martin Pederson
HBI, £55
Helvetica: Homage to a Typeface
Edited by Lars Muller
Lars Muller Publishing, £17
The life and crimes of Helvetica.
Icons of Graphic Design
Steve Heller & Mirco Ilic
Thames & Hudson, £24.95
Each year of the past century is marked by an iconic piece of design, accompanied by antecedents and future reverberations. To be reviewed in a future issue.
Impossible Worlds
Edited by Stephen Coates & Alex Stetter
August / Birkhaüser, £38
Visual and verbal essays, including work by Zaha Hadid, Buckminster Fuller, David Spero?s resort photographs and Takehiko Nagakura?s Unbuilt Monuments.
Jerome Robbins: That Broadway Man, That Ballet Man
Ed. Christine Conrad
Booth-Clibborn Editions, £35
Absorbing account of the life of the
West Side Story director / choreographer, gracefully art directed by J. Abbott Miller
Nothing
Edited by Graham Gussin & Ele Carpenter
August & Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, £14.95
An elegant assembly of texts and concepts with all the usual suspects: Ballard, Cage, Carroll, Keiller, Ruscha, Warhol, Weiner.
Street Graphics Cuba
Barry Dawson
Thames & Hudson, £12.95
A collection of 1950s Cuban design, signage, advertising and iconography, including the original Korda portrait of Che Guevara (see Critique, page 8).
On the Surface
Peter Maybury & Marie-Pierre Richard
Temple Bar Properties, £6
Visual essay published with a series of experimental slide projections in Dublin.
Pen and Mouse: Commercial Art and Digital Illustration
Edited by Angus Hyland
Laurence King, £19.95
Stefan Sagmeister: Made You Look
Edited by Peter Hall
Booth-Clibborn Editions, £38
Readable and funny graphic portfolio.
To be reviewed in a future issue.
Webworks: Navigation
Ken Coupland
Rotovision, £27.50
The best of navigation interface design comprising work from leading agencies.
Zero: Hans Schleger: A life of design
Ed. Pat Schleger
Lund Humphries, £30
To be reviewed in a future issue.
Typography
Big Book of Typographics
Roger Walton
HBI, £30
Digital Type
compiled by Clifford Stolze Design
Rockport, £16.99
Letter Perfect: The Art of Modernist Typography 1896-1953
David Ryan
Pomegranate, £20
A partial but rich, colourful compilation
- from Morris to Duchamp - from the Minneapolis Institute of Arts collection.
Revival of the Fittest: Digital Versions of Classic Typefaces
Ed. Philip B. Meggs & Roy McKelvey
RotoVision, £25
Type Graphics
Margaret Richardson
Rotovision, £29.99
Type Style Mixer
Wiebke Holjes
Laurence King, £12.99
A curious little book of type specimens with pages split into three sections.
Typography 21
Annual of the Type Directors Club
HBI, £40
\'Award-winning\' international typography. Designed by Attik.
First published in Eye no. 40 vol. 10, 2001