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.
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.
[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.
If there is one resource we’re not short of these days it is data. We’re swimming in the stuff and generating it all the time. Making visual sense of all that data requires a fine balance between complexity and simplicity.
The Little Know-It-Allfrom Gestalten is either a desk reference or a toilet book, depending on your reading preferences.
With the tag-line of “Common Sense for Designers” it’s a book full of all the things you didn’t bother to pay attention to in design school and wish you had.
Three years ago I interviewed Jon Burgerman after I stumbled across his web site and was immediately sucked into his bizarre world of characters. Like quite a few illustrators and animators I know, Burgerman appears to have an inexhaustible supply of oddities inside his head and an equally unstoppable urge to draw them.
