Marking their 21st year in the design industry, Stockholm Design Lab compiled their work to create a monograph that features over 550 pages of work, inspiration, and insight in their creative processes and portfolio.
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How To is Michael Bierut's monograph of his work at Vignelli Associates and Pentagram as well as his manifesto. This book features over 35 of his projects ranging in brand identities, poster designs, and experience design, and publication design. Bierut shares his design philosophy as well as his process through each project. How To is one of the most important books in the industry and there’s no secret as to why.
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Make it Now is a blend of monograph, advice, and auto-biography by graphic designer, Anthony Burrill. This is his second of four books, and includes examples of his work and stories from his life up until 2016. Make it Now offers advice on various topics like finding inspiration, communication, and creating self-initiated work. Burrille weaves his personal experience throughout the advice that provides a glimpse into his life and career.
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The Crafter’s Guide to Patterns is an excellent primer for learning about surface design and pattern making. This book is a collection of information on various pattern types, how to make color palettes, and finding inspiration, and how to make patterns analogously and digitally. There are also interviews, and projects that inspire crafters to implement patterns into their crafts.
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Screenprinting: The Ultimate Studio Guide from Sketchbook to Squeegee is the Holy Grail of screen printing manuals. Written by Print Club London, this manual guides screen printing novices through the field from creating an idea to final production. Filled with advice, step-by-step tutorials, artists profiles, and countless examples of screen printed work, this book is the go-to guide.
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Nice to Meet You Again is a collection of unique business cards, greeting cards, and invitations from designers and businesses around the world. This collection of work presents new and interesting concepts and designs, and not only showcases the beauty, but also the importance of making a memorable first impression that solidifies the tones of the brands they represent.
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Graphic Design for Art, Fashion, Film, Architecture, Photography, Product Design, and Everything In Between features a collection of contemporary graphic design work from the Western World that epitomizes the use of collaboration with other fields of design. It focuses on a designer/project/client basis with questions and answers intertwined within. All of the work is centralized around the concept that graphic design is more impactful when it is used in collaboration with other fields of design.
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Written by London-based designer, Adrian Shaughnessy focuses on the how-to’s of becoming a successful graphic designer from thinking skills, education, getting a job, establishing a career, owning a studio, and where design is headed towards the future. he also features several interviews with several prolific graphic designers at the end of the book. Shaughnessy’s writing is concise, insightful, and logically charming, making this book easy to read, hard to put down, and informational no matter what stage of your career you’re in.
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Jon Contino’s debut book, Brand by Hand, is his first monograph featuring his work as a graphic designer in New York. The book begins off telling the quick story of his childhood and early life into the arts and graphic design, but then transforms into various lessons he has learned throughout his career.
Read MoreGeometry is one of the biggest elements within design. Without it, there would have never been the Bauhaus movement, no Midcentury Modernism, and certainly no Memphis.
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