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Holiday Book List

Because you clearly have money to spend this Holiday season, I have put together a list of some of the best books of 2008. If you prefer not to buy, I do strongly recommend paying your local bookstore a visit and lingering. All these titles have also been added to our growing (albeit slowly) archive of recommendations.


For the Love of Vinyl: The Album Art of Hipgnosis by Aubrey Powell, Storm Thorgerson


Daniel Eatock Imprint: Works 1975-2007 by Daniel Eatock


Graphic Thought Facility (A+D Series) by Zoe Ryan


Peter Saville: Estate 1-127 by Peter Saville


My work is not my work: Pierre Bernard - Design for the public domain by by Hugues Boekraad


Reasons to be Cheerful: The Life and Work of Barney Bubbles by Paul Gorman


Active Literature: Jan Tschichold and New Typography by Christopher Burke


Otto Neurath by by Nader Vossoughian


Iron Fists: Branding the 20th-Century Totalitarian State by Steven Heller


The Design Entrepreneur: Turning Graphic Design Into Goods That Sell by Steven Heller, Lita Talarico


The Essential Principles Of Graphic Design by Debbie Millman


For Sale: 200 Innovative Packaging Designs by John Foster


NEVER SLEEP: Graduating to Graphic Design by Andre Andreev, Dan Covert


The Printmaking Bible: The Complete Guide to Materials and Techniques by by Ann d’Arcy Hughes, Hebe Vernon-Morris


Latin American Graphic Design by Julius Wiedemann, Felipe Taborda


Fully Booked: Cover Art and Design for Books by M. Hubner, R. Klanten


Data Flow: Visualising Information in Graphic Design by R. Klanten, N. Bourquin, S. Ehmann, F. van Heerden, T. Tissot


Playful Type: Ephemeral Lettering and Illustrative Fonts by R. Klanten, H. Hellige


Classique: Cover Art for Classical Music by Horst Scherg, Robert Klanten

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PUBLISHED ON Dec.10.2008 BY Armin
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Comments
Chad K’s comment is:

Iron Fists is one book on the top of my list. As well as:

Typo. Desk Reference

Medium is the Message

Women of Design (something tells me you might already have this one)

It's Not How Good You Are, Its How Good You Want to Be

Outliers

On Dec.11.2008 at 09:30 AM
Pesky’s comment is:

My plan is to pretend to be the pregnant man and shoplift about 20 design books from Barnes & Noble by putting them all in my shirt. Conspicuous boldness might do it...

On Dec.11.2008 at 10:12 AM
Bruce’s comment is:

I recommend Alina Wheeler's fine Designing Brand Identity(subtitled "A Complete Guide to Creating, Building, and Maintaining Strong Brands"). It's a very good read.

http://www.amazon.com/Designing-Brand-Identity-Complete-Maintaining/dp/0471746843/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1229018441&sr=1-1

On Dec.11.2008 at 01:03 PM
millie rossman kidd’s comment is:

For those not feeling these harsh economic times, there's always Rodney Smith's The End offered for the special price of $600 (plus $50 shipping) if you order by Dec 15th.

On Dec.11.2008 at 08:41 PM
Jason Tselentis’s comment is:

Do these come digitally for my Kindle?

On Dec.12.2008 at 10:58 AM