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Typography Sketchbooks

by Steven Heller and Talarico Lita

“Aimed at all those who use type, whether by hand or on-screen, this pleasing compendium stresses the importance of good typography at a time when reading habits are changing and celebrates a craft that has endured for centuries.”

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Jackson Pollock (Icons of America)

Author: Evelyn Toynton

Jackson Pollock, the iconic artist’s life and work examined by Evelyn Toynton.

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The Freelancer’s Guide to Winning Incredible Clients through Google+ Mastery

Author: Alex Mathers

Learn how to land bigger and better jobs, stand out from the rest on Google+, make more money and more often, save time through streamlining your online activity.

Available directly from the publisher Red Lemon Club.

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Living with Art

Author: Mark Getlein

With a variety of examples, “Living with Art” helps students to understand and analyze art effectively. 592 pages full of different topics, comprehensive history of art and high quality images from a broad range of art periods and cultures.

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Christ to Coke: How Image Becomes Icon

Author: Martin Kemp

“How does an image become iconic? In Christ to Coke, eminent art historian Martin Kemp offers a highly original look at the main types of visual icons. Lavishly illustrated with 165 color images, this marvelous work illuminates eleven universally recognized images, both historical and contemporary, to see how they arose and how they continue to function in our culture.”

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Hard Ground

Author: Tom Waits, Michael O’Brien (Photography)

“In Hard Ground, O’Brien joins with renowned singer-songwriter Tom Waits, described by the New York Times as “the poet of outcasts,” to create a portrait of homelessness that impels us to look into the eyes of people who live “on the hard ground” and recognize our common humanity.”

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Thinking with Type, 2nd revised and expanded edition: A Critical Guide for Designers, Writers, Editors, & Students

Author: Ellen Lupton

The revised and expanded second edition. this book is the perfect guide how to use typography in visual communication. In the revised edition you can find fortyeight pages of new content. “Latest information on style sheets for print and the web, the use of ornaments and captions, lining and non-lining numerals, the use of small caps and enlarged capitals, as well as information on captions, font licensing, mixing typefaces, and hand lettering.”

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The Modernist

Author, Editor: R. Klanten, Editor: H. Hellige

“The Modernist is a collection of work in graphic design and illustration that is created with minimal intrusions. The deliberately limited palette of colors, tools, and geometric forms that it uses makes the work seem both contemporary and timeless. The book makes clear that today s work does not simply copy the classic design of the 1960s and 1970s.”

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Saul Bass

Author: Jennifer Bass, Pat Kirkham

“This is the first book to be published on one of the greatest American designers of the 20th Century, who was as famous for his work in film as for his corporate identity and graphic work. With more than 1,400 illustrations, many of them never published before and written by the leading design historian Pat Kirkham, this is the definitive study that design and film enthusiasts have been eagerly anticipating.”

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Book: Bike Art - Bicycles In Art Around The World - including an artwork by Dirk Petzold

Author: Kiriakos Iosifidis

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The Graphic Design Exercise Book

Author: Jessica Glaser, Carolyn Knight

Great design exercises for packaging, visual identity and branding, page layout, music graphics and screen-based design.

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Meggs’ History of Graphic Design

Author: Philip B. Meggs, Alston W. Purvis

“Meggs’ History of Graphic Design is the unrivaled, comprehensive reference tool for graphic designers and students that was heralded as a publishing landmark by the Association of American Publishers, who awarded it a coveted award for publishing excellence. Due to the constantly changing world of design and computer-generated graphics, a revised edition of this landmark text is essential for students and designers alike. The Fifth Edition includes updated images, as well as new information on current graphic design trends and technologies, such as web, multi-media, interactive design, and private presses.”

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Tackling Tumblr: Web Publishing Made Simple

Author: Thord Daniel Hedengren

Tackling Tumblr by Thord Daniel Hedengren is the perfect guide for newcomers as well as advanced Tumblr users and web designers, who want to make more of their Tumblblogs. Learn step by step how to maximize Tumblr’s full potential or how to make your blog unique by creating your own custom themes.

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Logo Design Love: A Guide to Creating Iconic Brand Identities

Author: David Airey

This book is the perfect guide and showcase for professional designers and clients who are interested in stunning logo design. The Author David Airey is an Irish graphic designer and owner of the same named blog (www.logodesignlove.com). In the book he explains best practices for designing brand identities by use of real-life examples.

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Book Review - “Steve Jobs”

by Walter Isaacson.

“Based on more than forty interviews with Jobs conducted over two years—as well as interviews with more than a hundred family members, friends, adversaries, competitors, and colleagues—Walter Isaacson has written a riveting story of the roller-coaster life and searingly intense personality of a creative entrepreneur whose passion for perfection and ferocious drive revolutionized six industries: personal computers, animated movies, music, phones, tablet computing, and digital publishing. At a time when America is seeking ways to sustain its innovative edge, and when societies around the world are trying to build digital-age economies, Jobs stands as the ultimate icon of inventiveness and applied imagination. He knew that the best way to create value in the twenty-first century was to connect creativity with technology. He built a company where leaps of the imagination were combined with remarkable feats of engineering. Although Jobs cooperated with this book, he asked for no control over what was written nor even the right to read it before it was published. He put nothing off-limits. He encouraged the people he knew to speak honestly. And Jobs speaks candidly, sometimes brutally so, about the people he worked with and competed against. His friends, foes, and colleagues provide an unvarnished view of the passions, perfectionism, obsessions, artistry, devilry, and compulsion for control that shaped his approach to business and the innovative products that resulted. Driven by demons, Jobs could drive those around him to fury and despair. But his personality and products were interrelated, just as Apple’s hardware and software tended to be, as if part of an integrated system. His tale is instructive and cautionary, filled with lessons about innovation, character, leadership, and values.”

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