Thursday, 4:13pm
28 June 2012
Books received Eye 48
The 1920s Scrapbook
By Robert Opie
New Cavendish Books, £14.95
American Signs: Form and Meaning on Route 66
By Lisa Mahar
The Monacelli Press,
To be reviewed in a future issue.
Appendix
By Ryan Gander
Designed by Stuart Bailey
Artimo, €20
Browns: A Walk through Books
Written by Peter Kirby
Gabriele Capelli Editore,
GCE Directions Series no. 4
£15/€25
Deep Sites: Intelligent Innovation in Contemporary Web Design
By Max Bruinsma
With contributions by Sjoukje van der Meulen and Willem van Weelden
Designed by Annelys de Vet
Thames & Hudson, £18.95
To be reviewed in a future issue.
Experience, the media rat race
Edited by Frits Gierstberg and Bas Vroege
NAi Uitgevers, €32.50
An eccentric, tactile catalogue for the ‘Experience’ exhibition at the newly merged Nederlands fotomuseum.
Garry Emery: Outside Inside
Out, Inside Outside In
Images Publishing,
Emery Vincent Design
Images Publishing
Work by the respected Australian designer, and his former practice, as glimpsed in Eye no. 46 vol. 12.
Graphic Design for the 21st Century: 100 of the World’s Best Graphic Designers
By Charlotte and Peter Fiell
Taschen, £20
Gutenberg Galaxie 2: Irma Boom
Institut für Buchkunst Leipzig
To be reviewed in a future issue.
Hello World: A Life in Ham Radio
By Danny Gregory and Paul Sahre
Princeton Architectural Press, £16.99
To be reviewed in a future issue.
Identify: Building Brand through Letterheads, Logos and Business Cards
By Charlotte Rivers
Rotovision, £32.50
ijp: The Book of Surfaces
George Liaropoulos-Legendre
Architectural Association, £20
Designed by Nicola Bailey
The Illustrated Voice
By Craig Frazier
Graphis, USD45
A ‘rearview mirror’ look at Frazier’s career, plus thoughts on the theory and practice of illustration and design. Introduction by Ivan Chermayeff.
Improvisational Design
By Suguru Ishizaki
MIT Press, £22.25,
Inside the Business of Graphic Design: 60 Leaders Share Their Secrets of Success
By Catharine Fishel
Allworth, USD19.95
The Invisible Grail: In Search of the True Language of Brands
By John Simmons
Texere, £14.99
Looking Closer Four: Critical Writings on Graphic Design
Edited by Michael Bierut, William Drenttel and Steven Heller
Allworth Press, £15.95, USD21.95
New Material as New Media: The Fabric Workshop and Museum
By Marion Boulton Stroud
MIT Press, £33.50
A lavish, outsize book made to accompany a 25-year retrospective from the collection of this experimental arts laboratory in Philadelphia.
Outsize: Large Scale Graphic Design
By Chris Foges
Rotovision, £29.99
Pathfinder: A Way through Swiss Graphix
By Happypets products
Laurence King /IdN, £25
To be reviewed in a future issue of Eye
The Perfect Digital Portfolio
By Stephen Romaniello
AVA Publishing, £24.50
Poster Collection 07: Armin Hofmann
Lars Müller Publishers, €23
Street Graphics New York
By Barry Dawson
Thames & Hudson, £12.95
The latest instalment.
Super, Welcome to Graphic Wonderland
Edited by Thomas Bruggisser and Michel Fries
Die Gestalten Verlag, £25.00
Trying to get in between
By Maria Lindberg
Göteborgs Konsthall, distributed by Bookworks, £20
Type for the Internet and Other Digital Media
By Veruschka Götz
AVA, £24.50
Visual Thesaurus
By Chris Goveia
Rockport, £24.99
Yes Yes Y’all
The Experience Music Project Oral History of Hip-hop: the First Decade
By Jim Fricke and Charlie Ahearn
Perseus Press, £14.99
To be reviewed in a future issue.