Design Books I Heart

A jumbled selection of books that during my education as a graphic designer have been influential, informative, inspirational, or just intriguing, and perhaps interesting to the next generation of graphic designers… Some of these publications can be found and purchased cheaply at bookfinder.com, especially the paperbacks. I’ve written short articles for Eye magazine about the Paulo Soleri book, Compendium for Literates and Right On!

I Seem To Be A Verb by Buckminster Fuller, designed by Quentin Fiore, 1970

Bits World by Graphic Thought Facility/Emily King, designed by GTF, 2001

Blueprint for Counter Education by Maurice Stein & Larry Miller, designed by Marshall Henrichs, 1970

Visionary Cities: The Arcology of Paolo Soleri, designed by Donald Wall, 1971

Bruno Munari, Air Made Visible by Claude Lichtenstein and Alfredo W. Haberli, designed by Atelier Lars Muller, 2000

Printed Matter by Karel Martens, designed by Karel Martens, 1996

Thames and Hudson Manual of Television Graphics by Ron Hurrell, designer Unknown 1973

Graphic Designers in the USA / 3, designed by Gan Hosoya, 1972

Typographica Number 7, ed. By Herbert Spencer, designed by Herbert Spencer, 1963

The Colophon, each signature designed by a different press, 1931

Modern Typography by Robin Kinross, designed by Robin Kinross, 1992

Best Book Designs 1993, designed by Thomas Widdershoven, 1994

Right On! By Maryl Levine and John Naisbitt, designed by David L. Burke, 1970

Sandberg, A Documentary by Ad Petersen and Pieter Brattinga, designed by Brattinga and Petersen , 1975

Alphabet and Image Number 6, designer Unknown , 1948

Tradedmarks by Peter Wildbur, designer Unknown (possibly Wildbur), 1966

Compendium For Literates by Karl Gerstner, designed by Karl Gerstner, 1974