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For The Love of Vinyl: The Album Art of Hipgnosis

For the Love of Vinyl: The Album Art of Hipgnosisby Storm Thorgerson and Aubrey Powell is quite simply the most engaging and entertaining design book I have read all year.

Coroflot 8th Design Salary Survey

A quick note to say that Coroflot’s 8th Annual Design Salary Survey closes December 10th and they need as much data as they can get, especially for Design Management.

Universal Principles of Design

Reviewed by Rob Tannen. Although Universal Principles of Designwas published in 2003, I am embarrassed to admit that I only learned about it several years later via Amazon’s related books feature.

How do you design?

Hugh Dubberly from Dubberly Design Studios is writing a book called How Do You Design?, which examines design processes that they have collected over the years.

Process: 50 Product Designs from Concept to Manufacture

When I was a child I visited a Rembrandt exhibition with my father and remember being more fascinated by his sketches than the final paintings. Seeing the creative process in the quick lines of a pen and ink sketch somehow made the finished article more personal.

geometric from Kapitza

[Update: Abduzeedo are giving away a copy of Geometric to the person who leaves the best comment on their site.] If you are thinking of designing and printing your own uber cool Christmas wrapping paper, look no further.