The seventh issue of A Line Which Forms a Volume documents and explores the role of emotions in the process of design research. Internally, participants from MA Graphic Media Design – London...
Since the Boyer of 1996 of ‘Building Communities: A New future for Architectural Education and Practice’ there has been some movements in architectural and design schools and practitioners exploring ways...
How often have you seen a label on a product proclaiming it to be made from ‘recycled material’, ‘bioplastic’ or similar, without it giving any details of the concrete environmental...
A Line Which Forms a Volume 6 is a critical reader and symposium of graphic design-led research that is written, edited, designed and published annually by participants of the MA...
A Line Which Forms a Volume 4 is a critical reader and symposium of graphic design-led research. Bridging the gap between academia and the public sphere of design, it just...
A Line Which Forms a Volume 5 is a critical reader and symposium of graphic design-led research, which is written, edited, designed, and published by participants of the MA Graphic...
The Logo Design Idea Book is an accessible introduction to the key elements of good logo design, including insights into the logos of iconic brands.This guide is an indispensable resource for...
This book serves as an introduction to the key elements of good design. Broken into sections covering the fundamental elements of design, key works by acclaimed designers serve to illustrate...
Playing with typographic puzzle pieces is one of the joys of graphic design and typographers have many entertaining, esoteric and eccentric options at their disposal. The Typography Idea Book presents...
This book serves as an introduction to the key elements of good illustration. The Illustration Idea Book presents 50 of the most inspiring approaches used by masters of the field...
Printmaking is a practical and comprehensive guide to printmaking techniques.This fully updated edition includes expanded chapters on digital and mixed media processes, and a brand new 'Print & Make' chapter,...
Bookbinding is a unique and essential reference guide for designers, explaining industrial bookbinding techniques with a focus on the design and conception of print products. Packed full of insights from...
With more than 600 new entries, this revised and expanded logo bible builds on the breakthrough success of the original edition. Arranged across more than 80 categories according to their...
Materials have the power to affect human experiences and emotions by helping us build intimate connections with inanimate objects through touch and feel. Whether they are used as a point...
Some art forms have had more of an impact on the language of graphic design than others, but not many have helped contribute the same dynamism, energy and vitality as...
The world today can be an infinitely better place. With the increasing amount of issues affecting us as a whole in recent years, such as the global health crises, environmental...
An exciting new series from industry leader Victionary, BRANDlife examines immersive brand experience across a variety of consumer or service related businesses in the fields of hospitality, retail and dining....
Concept stores and pop-ups are all about discovery and stimulation. In a world where shopping options abound in the digital realm alone, perceptive brands are pushing creative boundaries to weave...
Colour is one of the essential elements of many branding designs. It can help give an identity personality and warmth, express emotion, communicate messages in an unconscious and subtle way...
Big Type explores graphic design and identity work where the emphasis is on typography. The visual landscape in which today’s designers are contributing to is very cluttered and the digital...
Editorial Design: Digital and Print is a comprehensive guide to the traditional and digital skills that a designer will need for a future career in visual journalism today – the...
Digital Textile Design, Second Edition covers everything students and practitioners of textile design will need to learn about designing and printing digitally. Written specifically for textile designers, Digital Textile Design,...
A product can be manufactured in many ways, but most designers know a handful of techniques only. With specially commissioned diagrams, case studies and photographs of the manufacturing process, Making...
The Visual History of Type is a comprehensive, detailed survey of the major typefaces produced since the advent of printing with movable type in the mid-fifteenth century to the present...
In this, the first product design book devoted purely to styling, Peter Dabbs helps students and professionals to understand how to style their own consumer-focused products. Providing a clear and...
This unparalleled and wide-ranging book surveys the history of applied arts and industrial design from the eighteenth century to the present day, exploring the dynamic relationship between design and manufacturing,...
We all engage with digital user experience design and user interfaces every day - if you are reading this on an e-commerce platform then you are doing it right now....
The Brand Book provides a straightforward and practical guide to the fundamentals of brands and branding, enabling anyone in business to create their own powerful brand. Entertainingly written in jargon-free...
This book explains, in simple steps and non-mathematical terminology, how to create repeat patterns in a line, on the plane, as tiles and as Escher-like repeats. The book also...
Creating a brand identity is a fascinating and complex challenge for the graphic designer. It requires practical design skills and creative drive as well as an understanding of marketing and...
An assembly of speculative essays, reviews, interviews and collected statements, its concern is with the recent history of the book and the idea of publication arising from its occurrence in...
Monospaced fonts are fascinating! Mono Moment is aimed at type designers typographers and designers, but also at people who are dealing with type design for the first time. The publication...
From sheets of papyrus to the mass press-printed volumes as we know them today, books as we know them have come a long way. Although digital technology has impacted how...
Graphics have a way of living that is often awkward and unplanned. We see it when they are ripped from walls, littered on streets and faded in shop windows. We...
This ambitious book brings together a wide international selection of new and recent writing by educators and practitioners who question the rules and hierarchies of graphic design education today. It...
Hold That Thought is a walk through the work of visual artist Johannes Langkamp. This book is a reflection of an archive with (digital) works of art, experiments, (kinetic) models...
Cassandra Press was founded in 2016 by artist Kandis Williams as an independent publishing project. At its core, Cassandra Press examines tools of perception and racism, and their dominant role...
The last copy is reduced in price due to slight damage on the cover. What is the future of the book? And, specifically, what is the future of books on art,...
The world today faces overwhelming ecological and social problems and the concern for material existence on earth is more pressing than ever. Making Matters spells out various roles that visual...
The world today faces overwhelming ecological and social problems and the concern for material existence on earth is more pressing than ever. Making Matters spells out various roles that visual...
Henry van de Velde (1863–1957) is a pivotal figure in the history of modern design. His range was prodigious: from furniture, jewellery and dress design to interiors and entire buildings....
The first anthology of its kind, Graphic Design: History in the Writing (1983–2011) comprises the most influential texts about graphic design history published in English. Edited by a graphic design...
This book offers a collaborative panorama of Belgian graphic design history from a multiplicity of perspectives, with essays on type design, colonisation and labour relations among other subjects. Contributors include...
In this minimalist black and white zine, graphic designer Scarlett Xin Meng isolates specific physical spaces into a series of abstracted graphic works. Meng's publication is a study of perspective,...
An inventory of posters produced by Draw Down Books for art book fairs, workshops, and lectures between 2013 and 2021. Documenting Draw Down's activities throughout the period, the publication also...
A monochromatic publication that brings together a series of texts written and designed by graphic designer Maziyar Pahlevan. Educated in Iran and the Hague before obtaining his MFA from Yale,...
Gitai (Gitai means biological mimicry in Japanese) is an art book collection with the theme of "object’s mimicry" by a Japan based designer, Tomoyuki Koseko. By applying the concept of...
A book, supposedly by the presumed pseudonymous “Satoshi Nakamoto”, of private musings, poetry, drawings and collage/imageries that expose the interiority of one committed to absence. Published by FUFU PRESSEdition of 15Softcover 66 pages203 × 266...
*aaaaaaaaaaaargh is about the shape of words and how words are shapes and sounds and containers of the struggle in the world. Published by FUFU PRESSUpdated Edition of 15Softcover 108 pages207 × 273...
“The photobook does not contain the photos in a fish tank. It would be ideal for a photobook to release photos and images like fish in the river. The most...
In this issue, The Modernist are looking at all things grand, large, colossal and epic; literally, metaphorically and otherwise. John Grindrod celebrates the much maligned Millennium Dome. While its initial ambition...
It is almost impossible to separate the ascendance of Modernism from the rise of the machine. In the long history of humanity, machines are a relatively new part of our...
Driving the Human is a catalyst for experimentation, shaping sustainable and collective futures that combine science, technology, and the arts in a transdisciplinary and collaborative approach. This publication documents all...
Mini Stories came about from our love of history and story-telling. Inspired by the everyday, we delve into the back stories of what surrounds us - from the wonderful natural...
Proprietary algorithms, secret data troves, and inscrutable systems rule the day. How is this registered in art? In Poetics of Encryption Nadim Samman explores works that highlight the hidden dimensions...
å falle mellom stoler by Jelsen Lee Innocent is a project that encourages a discourse that surpasses the aesthetic of ethnic integration as proof of racial progress in Norway. In...
Together! The New Architecture of the Collective presents an overview of contemporary collective housing projects from contexts as different as Europe, Asia, and the United States. The exhibition catalogue traces...
Garden Futures examines what gardens and their design reveal aboutour relationship to nature. In exploring the history of ideas behind the moderngarden, this book takes a close look at the...
The photobook visually and materially contextualises arrangements of photographs and brings them into a sensually tangible form. The book format, the materiality of the paper, and the type of binding...
As much as skills and styles matter when it comes to design, every visual begins with a fundamental element that can be enhanced or expanded into an aesthetically pleasing and...
In 1969, shortly after moving to Detroit, Lorraine and Fredy Perlman and a group of kindred spirits purchased a printing press from a defunct militant printer and the Detroit Printing...
Global dramas can lead us to question our own credibility and the significance of our own lives and/or actions. Recent events in Ukraine have led the Slanted team to ask...
Why does a newspaper look different than a magazine or a book? What effect does using a certain typeface or a specific grid have? And why do some layouts just...
The minimalism movement has become a mainstay in popular culture, due in no small part to the mounting pressures of modern life and the need to cut clutter. In graphic...
When a product is labelled as “Made in Japan”, it is often a promise of quality, and the consistent clarity, order and precision of Japanese designs definitely ensures that the...
Diagrammatic writing is a poetic demonstration of the capacity of format to produce meaning. The articulation of the codex, as a space of semantically generative relations, has rarely (if ever)...
‘Critical Designers’ produced by an increasing number of design schools are prompted to address social, political and environmental issues through their practices. Yet, who can afford to continue such effort...
Hands reaching and feeling, noses sniffing, eyes scrolling: the magic at book shops and at book fairs is also very much a tactile one. But what exactly is the tactile,...
The local authority, the borough council, was the furthest away from central government, but many of its officers were fiercely proud of their municipality and their role in shaping its...
This book is an attempt to think through life and the universe in graphic-design terms. With concise drawings and brief texts, illustrator and designer Ruida Si quietly shows humanity in...
The Air from Other Planets introduces an architecture built and controlled by amplifying and designing the energy within our electromagnetic, thermodynamic, acoustic, and chemical environment. This approach to design exchanges...
Immutable: Designing History explores the banal genre of the document and its entanglement with statecraft and colonial(ism/ity). This is framed as a ~5,000 year chronology, imbricating the developments of money...
There is a spot. It is the perfect spot to stand. But somewhere above there is also a rock. A rock from the sky. Published by Walker BooksSoftcover96 pages260 x 195...
Atelier E.B: Passer-by examines an essential facet of the fashion industry: the world of mannequins and retail display. Since the Surrealists took them up in the early twentieth century, mannequin...
This revised and expanded second edition of Hey: Design & Illustration contains many new projects as well as the work and collaborations carried out as part of Hey's expansion into...
The age of the internet and media have brought about a growing interest in Asian culture and its various languages across the region. Due to theie unique structures, the Han characters are being...
Videogame Atlas presents a journey through twelve well-known videogame worlds via panoramic maps, intricate exploded diagrams and detailed illustrations. The book offers a playful new way of seeing these beloved...
2nd, revised and extended edition. This new edition (first published in 2017) includes a number of new projects as well as an introductory text presenting important recent developments in robotics...
The secret history of mid-century America might've been just another Saturday night after all. Pennies in a Stream haphazardly documents the nation's surreal suburbanesque diversions through an illogical dreamscape of...
Queer Earth Food is a collection of writing and art on food, the earth, and queerness. In this book you will find firsthand accounts of rural queer experiences. The contributors...
Bungalow Bliss, first published in 1971, was a book of house designs that buyers could use to build a home for themselves affordably. It first appeared two years before Ireland...
Is it a book, an exhibition, a catalogue of the exhibition? Is it mass produced? Is it unique? Dayanita Singh is a book artist who stretches the imagination of what...
This book is a revelatory guide to hundreds and hundreds of original 7” record cover sleeve designs – visual artefacts found at the heart of the most radical and anarchistic...
Slanted Magazine #40 Experimental Type opens eight doors, each one offering a glimpse into spaces that were explored by pushing conventions, limitations, and thoughts to the next level. We all know though,...
29Letters Type Foundry S.L. is dedicated to creating and publishing multiscript typefaces. Its Arabic and Latin typography leading edge arises from its collaborative team of professional Arab and European type...
29Letters Type Foundry S.L. is dedicated to creating and publishing multiscript typefaces. Its Arabic and Latin typography leading edge arises from its collaborative team of professional Arab and European type...
The world today faces overwhelming ecological and social problems and the concern for material existence on earth is more pressing than ever. Making Matters spells out various roles that visual...
For centuries, the garden has been regarded as a mirror of society, a microcosm, in which the broader relationships between nature and culture are played out on small scale. From...
Through a collection of essays by selected scholars and practitioners, this volume explores the ways in which digital technology has deeply influenced how one produces interacts with, and consumes narratives...
What does it mean to acknowledge one’s closeness to, enmeshment in or even kinship with the material world? And what does it mean to question family structures – the way...
Inspired by the recent tendency among architects and designers to opt out of traditional office work in favour of creating self-initiated interventions in public space,‘Co-machines’ maps out a new architectural movement motivated...
From Google reviews to YouTube tutorials, and from online service desks to real-life ‘may I speak to the manager’ requests–we are all critics of our designed environments. It seems therefore...
100 Poster Battle 2 — Sharing Cultural Identities is an experimental, bilingual poster design project supervised by Lars Harmsen and Markus Lange, that brings together students from different universities to...
Materials have the power to affect human experiences and emotions by helping us build intimate connections with inanimate objects through touch and feel. Whether they are used as a point...
Materials have the power to affect human experiences and emotions by helping us build intimate connections with inanimate objects through touch and feel. Whether they are used as a point...
Materials have the power to affect human experiences and emotions by helping us build intimate connections with inanimate objects through touch and feel. Whether they are used as a point...
An Encyclopedia of Political Record Labels is a compendium of information about political music and radical cultural production. Focusing on vinyl records and the labels that released them, this groundbreaking...
The Risograph printer is at the forefront of a new creative explosion. More and more artists and designers all over the world are rediscovering this stencil duplicator for themselves, sparking...
On the 16th of September 2016, Adobe, Google, Apple, and Microsoft announced a new update to the OpenType specification that will allow for fonts to be variable. Through this update,...
Rights of Way, the body as witness in public space takes our bodily movements as a departure point to cross into the terrains of art, culture, architecture, sociology, literature, and...
A guidebook slash notebook of things designers should think about in order for them to know. Design thinking has created divisions in the discipline: either designers are too theory driven...
The Print Handbook is a friendly guide for all those tricky bits in design. It's packed full of examples, handy tools, charts and information. It helps you produce perfect print projects. The tools...
Printmaking is a practical and comprehensive guide to printmaking techniques.This fully updated edition includes expanded chapters on digital and mixed media processes, and a brand new 'Print & Make' chapter,...
The flag bearing twelve yellow stars on a blue background has become Europe’s most recognisable symbol. Since its introduction by the Council of Europe in 1955, it has stood for...
692 pages containing 19,840 letters, all derived from one framework. Letterform Variations is a playful study into letterform construction using basic grid and shape based systems, and its potential to...
Homebound – New Wave shows the collaborative works of designers, artists, and authors, answering and visualising the influence of the pandemic on their attitudes and projects! The Homebound project was...
Process: Visual Journeys in Graphic Design is a unique book highlighting the rarely shown sketching and process behind the making of marks and logotypes. It is based on the work...
Custom type solutions for identity design Custom typefaces have become an increasingly common means for forward-thinking brands to establish and further strengthen their visual identities. By expressing a unique personality...
Minimalist design has grown into a popular and timeless aesthetic due to its emphasis on uncluttered spaces and the exclusion of unnecessary elements, making it the perfect anecdote to the...
"This collection of label art is a compelling look at a graphic Ireland that most fictional depictions of the country have overlooked. The acid-bright colours of Egan’s Lemon Crush and...
With a Foreword by Dermot Bannon and an introductory essay by the architect Jonathan Sergison, The Dublin Architecture Guide is a companion guide to the modern architecture of Dublin. With...
When first published in 1970, The Uses of Disorder was a call to arms against the deadening hand of modernist urban planning upon the thriving chaotic city. Written in the...
Capitalism could not exist without the coins, notes, documents, graphics, interfaces, branding and advertisements; artefacts that have been (partly) created by graphic designers. Even anti-consumerist strategies such as social design...
Flexible Visual Systems is the design manual for contemporary visual identities. It teaches you a variety of approaches on how to design flexible systems, adjustable to any aesthetic or project...
While birth often brings great joy, making babies is a knotty enterprise. The designed objects that surround us when it comes to menstruation, birth control, conception, pregnancy, childbirth, and early...
Meeting Grounds is an artistic project that seeks to explore the formation of community and our changing perceptions towards publicness through the medium of public space. The project grew in resonance...
Most of us live our lives in our clothes without realising their power. But in the hands of artists, garments reveal themselves. They are pure tools of expression, storytelling, resistance...
What is artistic research? What is a research document? How do these relate to the making process, invention, and creativity? What exactly is expected of me? If you have ever...
In Black, Brown + Latinx Design Educators, Kelly Walters collects twelve deeply personal interviews with graphic design educators of color who teach at colleges and universities across the United States...
Faire is a bi-monthly publication dedicated to graphic design. Produced by designers Sacha Léopold and François Havegeer as studio Syndicat, Revue Faire is aimed at students as well as researchers...
Punk Troubles: Northern Ireland examines the subject of Northern Ireland punk in the context of sectarianism. The book offers a new and unique perspective on The Troubles and the NI punk...
Spot-on identities for festivals & fairs. Identity design plays an integral part in shaping the entire experience of a festival or fair even though it is often overlooked. As the...
Planners, privatisation, and police surveillance are laying siege to urban public spaces. The streets are becoming ever more regimented as life and character are sapped from our cities. What is...
As a complex urban system, the city constantly seeks balance. The rise of new ways to co-create or experience cities is breaking down traditional urban planning dichotomies. Interactive maps, mixed...
In Anna Charlotte’s new book “The Word of Colours”, she shares her love for creative power, nature’s inherent wisdom and her great passion for living an holistic life through colour,...
An Atlas of Agenda's is a political, social and economic atlas: informing the public about socio-political power structures and activating opportunities for the self and the commons. The French research...
The Print Handbook is a friendly guide for all those tricky bits in design. It's packed full of examples, handy tools, charts and information. It helps you produce perfect print projects. Unlike all...
So you want to publish a magazine? Start here! This guide shows you how to take your concept from idea to proper publication, step by step. It covers all the...