Design is Kinky is a online Graphic design magazine acting largely as a gallery of artwork. Also includes commentary, interviews, profiles, mug shots. They also create EMPTY which is a magazine about creativity, in all its forms. It’s published 4 times a year, however in Australia. You may be able to get issues shipped over to the uk but until [...]
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January 7, 2009
Alan Aldridge Books…
Alan Aldridge – The Man with Kaleidoscope Eyes
This illustrated biography charts Aldridges life as a graphic entertainer, with paintings and drawings covering his whole career from 1964 right up to the present. Interspersed in some 250 colour illustrations are stories and anecdotes about those who Aldridge encountered along the way, among them Picasso, the Queen [...]
January 5, 2009
viction:ary
viction:workshop was founded by Victor Cheung in 2001 in Hong Kong. It is a young and creative workshop created to inspire people, inside and outside of the industry. It provides a broad range of design services, to maximise the true potential of its clients by building innovative solutions that enable them to develop deeper and more [...]
January 5, 2009
Gestalten
Gestalten is best known for the more than two hundred fifty books they have published that document important design movements as well as customer publishing projects. Gestalten also provides Art Direction, Consulting, Production, Distribution and Design Services to international clients. Working directly with talented young designers and artists, Gestalten brings a deep understanding of visual culture on [...]
January 4, 2009
Data Flow: Visualising Information in Graphic Design.
Data Flow: Visualising Information in Graphic Design.
Authors: R. Klanten, N. Bourquin, S. Ehmann.
Publisher: Die Gestalten Verlag
Based on information graphic’s, it displays some of the most inspiring contemporary diagrams, data and information graphic’s around. Data Flow charts this development, introducing designed diagrams and shows the possibilities in visualising data and information. Each chapter deals with everything from bar, plot [...]
January 4, 2009
Tactile: High Touch Visuals.
Tactile: High Touch Visuals.
Authors: Sven Ehmann, M.Hubner, Robert Klanten
Publisher: Die Gestalten Verlag
Tactile shows how graphic design is moving into three-dimensional objects and products. Tactile covers everything you can lay your hands on from design products to art objects, installations to collages. It showcases the designers who are experimenting by mixing physical work with both traditional and [...]
January 4, 2009
Sometimes I Think, Sometimes I am …
Sometimes I Think, Sometimes I am … by Sara Fanelli, published by the Tate. They were awarded the 2008 Design & Art Direction award for outstanding achievement in illustration and book design for the book. At the awards ceremony at the Royal Festival Hall, the judges described the book as ‘visually exciting and magical’.
‘Fanelli’s originality has [...]
January 4, 2009
Jon Burgerman: Pens are my Friends
For the first time ever Jon Burgerman’s commercial, personal and collaborative works are collected together in one lavish publication. Included amongst the many projects are toys, clothing, exhibitions, murals, customizations, sketchbooks and a sick bag.
About Jon Burgerman
Though known for his colourful work in drawing and print, animation and toy design, Jon Burgerman retains a British [...]
January 4, 2009
Non-Format
Non-Format is the creative team of Kjell Ekhorn (Norwegian) and Jon Forss (British). They work on a range of projects including art direction, design and ilustration for arts and culture, music industry and fashion and advertising clients. They also art direct Varoom: the journal of illustration and made images.
Covers for wire…
and Creative Review.
Love Song, a [...]
December 15, 2008
my first design books.
Before I get into my top design books I thought id give Princeton Architectural Press a bit of a plug.
http://www.papress.com/
They publish books on architecture, design, photography, landscape and visual culture. They are known for books of a strong and unique editorial perspective at high production values and affordable prices. I found out about them while [...]
