Signs & Symbols of the World: Over 1,001 Visual Signs Explained (Complete Illustrated Encyclopedia)

Typography confronts us everywhere: in books and newspapers, on road signs, product packaging and political leaflets. It is ubiquitous to the point of mundanity. But while the typeface might be secondary to the message, it remains crucial to the way we respond. Fonts spark emotions; they evoke eras and ideologies. Some, like Edward Johnson’s for […]

Nietzsche said all of life is a question of taste. And he was right. But nowadays all of life is also a question of branding. A brand is not something concocted by graphic designers and marketing consultants: it is “the intangible aspects of an intangible thing”, as Massimo Vignelli (who re-branded the New York subway) […]

Now in its fourth iteration, revised and dramatically expanded with over 100 new pages, Julian Rothenstein’s classic compendium, A2Z remains the ultimate source for unusual, inventive fonts not found anywhere else: the “Tippler” alphabet created from an elegant, drunk man’s meanderings, one based on ink spots, and another derived from an avant-garde Czech ballet. Eye […]

One of the last surviving members of the futurist generation, Bruno Munari’s Design as Art is an illustrated journey into the artistic possibilities of modern design translated by Patrick Creagh published as part of the ‘Penguin on Design’ series in Penguin Modern Classics. ‘The designer of today re-establishes the long-lost contact between art and the […]