My best friend Romuald Stivine (The Lazydog) is having a 12 pages focus in the next issue of WAD Magazine. We wanted to make a “All-Time Winners” book selection. So he asked me to make mine. Here it is… A little bit of swiss, a little bit of that…
The List:
Josef Müller-Brockmann, The graphic artist and his design problems (niggli)
Josef Müller-Brockmann, Monography (Phaidon)
The Designers Republic, IDEA vs Designers Republic (IDEA)
Adrian Shaughnessy, Look at This: Contemporary Brochures, Catalogues and Documents (Laurence King Publishing)
Daniel Mason & Angharad Lewis, Materials, Process, Print: Creative Solutions for Graphic Design (Laurence King Publishing)
Josef Müller-Brockmann, Grid Systems in Graphic Design (niggli)
Nicholas Bourquin, R. Klanten and Christian Mareis, Altitude: Contemporary Swiss Graphic Design (DGV)
Richard Hollis, Swiss Graphic Design (Laurence King Publishing)
Imin Pao and Joshua Berger, 30 Essential Typefaces for A Lifetime (Rockport)
Adrian Shaughnessy, How to be graphic designer without loosing your soul (Laurence King Publishing)
Wim Crouwel, Alphabets (BIS)
Geert Setola et Joep Polhen, La fontaine aux lettres (Fontana)
Niklaus Troxler, Jazz Blvd. (Lars Müller)
—Published February 23, 2008 at 1:33 pm, by Xavier Encinas
—Published February 23, 2008 at 1:29 pm, by Xavier Encinas
— David Barrett said,
February 23, 2008 at 4:44 pm ∞
I can only make out a few of these book titles from this picture (and the Flickr photo is private). Would you mind listing the titles?
— Tomi said,
February 23, 2008 at 9:14 pm ∞
Sweet, I myself have 7 of those titles on my shelf, excellent books!
Look At This, Swiss GD, How To be a GD without…, GD and his.. by Brockhman, Altitude, Win Crouwel, and Materials Process Print.
I would add to that great list “Drip Dry Shirts”
— Jesse said,
February 24, 2008 at 11:42 pm ∞
I call this “how to suck at blogging”
1, photo’s too small to read the titles - FAIL
2, no text list of the books - FAIL
3, no amazon links to the books - FAIL
4, the photo’s private on flickr, for no goddamn reason - FAIL
in short, you FAIL at blogging.
— Xavier Encinas said,
February 24, 2008 at 11:45 pm ∞
you fail at being smart….
— nick said,
February 25, 2008 at 3:47 am ∞
Can you list the titles please?
— Xavier Encinas said,
February 25, 2008 at 9:50 am ∞
done.
— Jesse said,
February 25, 2008 at 11:17 pm ∞
you fail at comebacks, but at least you fixed your shit :P
— Bronson said,
February 26, 2008 at 11:06 pm ∞
Jesse fails at life because he contributes to the deterioration of human communication in the most anonymous of forums
— Xavier Encinas said,
February 27, 2008 at 8:47 am ∞
thank you Bronson :-)
— owen said,
February 27, 2008 at 8:52 pm ∞
my all-time fav book list would be:
paul rand: design, form and chaos
paul rand: a designer’s art
armin hofmann: his work, quest and philosophy
armin hofmann: graphic design manual
josef muller brockmann: the graphic artist and his design problems
willi kunz: macro+micro aesthetic
moritz zwimpfer: 2d visual perception
hans rudolf bosshard: typographic grid
wim crouwel: mode en module
— Xavier Encinas said,
February 27, 2008 at 8:55 pm ∞
very nice list. I also like very much the work of Paul Rand. And Crouwel’s “mode en module” is defenetly very good.
— Bronson said,
February 28, 2008 at 5:06 pm ∞
I would add Elements of Typographic Style (any edition) by Robert Bringhurst
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