On design process
Where does the creative process begin? You could argue that the creative process begins with the decision to become a designer. From that moment on, everything you see and do feeds your visual intelligence, and contributes to the making of a designer. It’s one of the best things about being a designer: seeing design everywhere,...
You are the map maker
“What’s unique about these people whether they are designers, entrepreneurs, leaders of movements or strategists is that they started out with nothing but their talent and determination. Without a guidebook or instructions, perhaps from a place where you are right now they went on (and still do), to achieve amazing things in their creative, entrepreneurial...
Milton Glaser on technology
Over a year ago now I wrote my dissertation on the Future of the Printed book. I was reading an old copy of It’s Nice That 3 (April 2010) yesterday and found this great piece from an interview with Milton Glaser about the future of print. With the wealth of knowledge from setting up New...
I would like…
I’ve had a bit of a break from buying book and design goodness. But I’ve had my eye on a couple things, a few of them way out of my price range. This is a print handbook for designers by the media collective Just waiting for this to arrive in the post now, it looks...
Re-work
I’ve been reading a lot recently, to pass the time whilst travelling to work each day. I’ve been reading a lot of fiction, but one book that I had been meaning to read for a while is Re-work by 37 Signals. I heard a lot about it when it was first published, mainly about the...
The complete and essential list of Graphic Design-y books and publications
I was asked a while a ago to compile a list of books that every designer needs to look at on a daily basis for reference and research so here it is: It’s Nice That (found at It’s nice that) The Art of Looking Sideways (Photo by Jason Santa Maria) Smile in the mind (found...
Frank Chimero – The Shape of Design
This looks like it’s going to be a very cool book. The video for it is also really cool. Frank put it up on Kickstarter.com to create interest and funding, aimed for $27,000 and is on $56,093 at the moment and there is still 26 days to go. That’s 207% funded! After years of creating,...
Sick City // Richard Barnett
This is the book that my tutors showed me at my assessment, it is ‘Sick City’ by Richard Barnett. It is all about the sicknesses and diseases of London in the past, It also features a series of booklets, which open up to be maps for various walks around London. It’s very interesting but the...
Fully Booked
I mentioned before that I really wanted this book for Christmas and after much hinting to family members, I did get a copy. It has proved so useful over the last few weeks where I have just been embracing myself in Book Design. Here are some of the books featured: Made you Look // Stefan...
Notes on Book Design
This book has become my book of choice at the moment, along with a few other books of the book-ish nature.
On my Christmas List…
This book, I found in the depths of the Amazon listings a while back and it’s been on my wish list for years but only because I thought it might be useful for me, maybe someone recommended it to me. I don’t remember, but I finally borrowed it from the library the other day and...
Why haven't you done it yet…?
You’d think that with my recent obssession with Book Design and namely, Penguin books, I would have bought this book by now, BUT I’ve failed miserably to sell a few other books on Amazon and have also had way to much to do to even CONSIDER thinking about going to buy it! Anyway, the reason...
