Here at the Designers Review of Books we all have lengthy Amazon wish lists. While the holidays are a time of giving, they are also a good excuse to pick out one or two of the top books on our list and reward ourselves for another year of hard work, study and accomplishment.
Gestalten recently released the sixth book in the infamous Los Logos series. This is actually the first of the series that I have had the pleasure of owning, and it definitely does not disappoint.
I have read a fair amount about avant garde design, as any self-respecting designer should, but I’ve never come across a text as thorough or well produced as The Avant Garde Applied (1890-1950).
Shaping Text by Jan Middendorp boldly and concisely describes itself right on its front cover.
This book will show you how shaping text can help you grab, hold, direct and manipulate the reader’s attention.
There’s a horrible cardboard car on a rubber band wrapped around this lovely book. Ewww. What’s that doing there?
Never mind, I’ll chuck that and just get on with admiring an exquisitely designed thing.
As part of a new series of interviews with authors, Andy Polaine interviews David Sherwin about the background to the writing of his successful and extremely useful book, Creative Workshop and the development of his new book, Success by Design to be published in November, 2012.