Weaving: Contemporary Makers on the Loom

Weaving by Katie Treggiden is a collection of essays and profiles of contemporary weavers. There are 21 featured designers of various genders, ages, races, and nationalities, making this book one of the best representative collections of contemporary weavers. With each profile focusing on the modus operandi of each creator, the reader is able to build an understanding along as some context as to why the weavers create what they do. There are significantly less essays than profiles, but the essays help build a contextual foundation that helps the reader comprehend today’s world of weaving.

TextileZachary FaustDecember 21, 2018weaving, weave, yarn, art, design, craft, loomComment

Thread's Not Dead

Written by apparel entrepreneur, Jeff Finley, with contributions from other designers in the business, Thread’s Not Dead, focuses on the in’s and out’s of owning and running a successful apparel design business. With a multitude of topics ranging from freelancing, to contracting, to design fundamentals, and marketing, this book is written for the novice who is eager to jump into the industry.

Fashion, BusinessZachary FaustDecember 18, 2018apparel, design, fashion, marketing, business, print, screenprintComment

Don't Get a Job...Make a Job

Don’t Get a Job…Make a Job is a collection of designers’ experiences of working for themselves immediately, or almost immediately after graduating or dropping out of college. Curated by Gem Barton, this book is structured to provide a multitude of different types of advice to aspiring design entrepreneurs.

BusinessZachary FaustDecember 14, 2018business, entrepreneur, architect, architecture, fashion, design, design business, graphic, animation, industrial, furnitureComment

Graphic Design for Art, Fashion, Film, Architecture, Photography, Product Design, and Everything In Between

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.

Graphic DesignZachary FaustDecember 5, 2018art, fashion, graphic, design, architecture, collaboration, studio, interview, q+a, filmComment

How to be a Graphic Designer Without Losing Your Soul - Adrian Shaughnessy

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.

Graphic DesignZachary FaustNovember 23, 2018graphic, design, theory, advice, how to, typography, gridComment

Graphic Artists Guild Handbook Pricing & Ethical Guidelines

Today I finally bit the bullet and purchased the Graphic Artists Guild Handbook Pricing & Ethical Guidelines. I have been accumulating some more freelance graphic design opportunities and decided that there is absolutely no reason that this book should not have a spot in my library.

Zachary FaustNovember 21, 2018design, business, design business, guidelines, guide, graphic artists, guildComment

What We See When We Read - Peter Mendelsund

What We See When We Read is a fully illustrated exploration of what humans see while we are reading. It focuses on how we visualize the narrative, characters, and our senses while reading fiction. Written by Peter Mendelsund, Associate Art Director of Alfred A. Knopf Publishing, this book delves into the theory of the phenomenology of what our minds do while exploring the words of our favorite books.

Zachary FaustNovember 20, 2018book, review, theory, graphi, graphic, design, typography, illustration, photographyComment

How to Have Great Ideas - John Ingledew

How to Have Great Ideas focuses on curating a collection of idea generative activities that can spark inspirational ideas in any creative individual. Written for designers of any background, Ingledew mixes theory and practice to help, literally, anyone come up with ideas.

Design ThinkingZachary FaustOctober 31, 2018graphic, design, ideas, generation, idea generation, typographyComment

Whatcha Mean, What's a Zine?

Whatcha Mean What’s a Zine is the all-to guide about the zine, how to make it, and how to distribute it. With its quirky illustrations, type-writer-esque fonts, and overall lack of formal format, this book emphasizes the basics of zine culture that will have any reader eager to make a zine before they can even finish reading this book.

Publication/PublishingZachary FaustOctober 9, 2018zine, graphic, design, illustration, funky, type Comment

Magical Geometry

Geometry 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.

Graphic DesignZachary FaustOctober 2, 2018pattern, graphic, design, geometry, geometricComment

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