Guest Review by David Sherwin
A is for Aleph. B is for Beit. G is for Gimel…
When I was a child, Hebrew was beaten into me by a series of well-meaning teachers.
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.
[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.
