There is an abundance of books available to us, all waiting to be digested and appreciated in order to grow and refine our graphic design talents.
These outstanding books are popular in the libraries of Shillington's six campuses across the world, where students actively study and reference for their studies and design briefs. These books, which range from industry classics to the most recent must-reads, should be on your reading list.
1. Andreas Uebele Material
Andreas Uebele, a key figure in contemporary German graphic design, began his career as an architect, a thread that runs through most of his work. His experiments lead to dynamic solutions while keeping lightness and clarity, from the Reichstag graphics to the iconic signage of the Vitra campus.
The raw elements from which Uebele's ideas arose, as well as materials from creative collaborators who've accompanied the studio along the way, are presented in this new book. Matthew Carter, Adrian Frutiger, Massimo Vignelli, and Hermann Zapf are among them.
2. How to be a Graphic Designer, Without Losing Your Soul by Adrian Shaughnessy
Many people are familiar with modernist aesthetics in architecture, art, and product design. We recognise a moment of tremendous technological advancement in soaring glass towers or minimalist canvases, which reinforced the potential of human beings to modify their environment and to break, drastically, from the customs or limits of the past .Less well known, but no less fascinating, is the distillation of modernism in graphic design.
Jens Müller's groundbreaking book pulls together around 6,000 trademarks from the 1940s to 1980s to analyse how modernist attitudes and imperatives gave rise to corporate identity.
5. Typorama: The Graphic Work of Philippe Apeloig — Philippe Apeloig
Philippe Apeloig began his design career at the Musée dOrsay in 1985, where he created the poster for the museum's inaugural exhibition, Chicago, Birth of a Metropolis. He is known for his posters, several of which are in the MoMA collection, as well as his typography, which includes the Octobre and Drop typefaces.
This highly recommended book examines and evaluates the complete graphic design process and philosophy of Apeloig. His posters, logos, visual identities, books, and animations are all recreated, along with the stages of their creation and the primary inspirations that influenced him.
6. How to Use Graphic Design to Sell Things, Explain Things, Make Things Look Better, Make People Laugh, Make People Cry, and (Every Once in a While) Change the World — Michael Bierut
Michael Bierut, a protégé of design great Massimo Vignelli and a partner in the worldwide design firm Pentagram's New York office, has had one of the most diverse careers of any living graphic designer.
Bierut presents 35 pieces in this must-have book that reflect the variety of graphic design activity today, with the purpose of demonstrating not a single ideology, but the cheerfully eclectic approach that has been a characteristic of his career. It's become the bible of graphic design concepts because it's inspiring, instructive, and authoritative.
7. NASA Graphics Standards Manual
The NASA Graphics Standards Manual pays homage to the original comprehensive guide, which featured design directions for every facet of NASA's new brand, from letterheads to space shuttles. The identity, which was led by a logo that became known as the 'Worm,' gave NASA's various departments a unified voice through which they could communicate as a single institution.
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