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Graphic designer Terry Marks polls several designers of varied age groups and phases in their careers about what they consider “good design.” Each has selected an existing design piece they feel to be “good” — based on their personal definitions of what is "good." He takes a backwards approach through design — interviewing the designer of each piece to unlock the concept behind the design. […]

This thoroughly unusual book by designer and critic Jennifer Helfand will delight graphic, information, and book designers. It will equally fascinate those interested in intellectual history, history of technology, and popular culture. Helfand begins with an essay that interweaves the history of wheel charts with humanity’s fascination with the circle. The earliest volvelles (graduated movable [...]

First published in 1928 in Germany and out of print for many years until this English publication, this text has been recognized as one of the most important statements of modern, twentieth-century typographical design. This curious and fascinating work ranges through theories of social criticism, art history, architecture, and the emerging importance of photography as [...]

Besides his decades’-long activity as a typographer, Adrian Frutiger has also occupied himself with “free” forms, which now have been comprehensively documented for the first time in this book. In Frutiger’s work the harmonious relationship between form and opposing form, and between black and white, becomes a statement about what humans and the world could [...]