Showing results 9–16 of 17 for the tag: books
Flaunt, the newest publication from Bryony Gomez-Palacio and Armin Vit, the co-founders of UnderConsideration LLC, is a manual to assembling your next portfolio. The book features beautiful examples of portfolios with explanations of technique and price along with graphs that show what your first email should contain to a prospective employer, to how many pieces…
Super cool book covers by Book City Jackets. I really wish I had these when I was in school! I used to draw on my paper bag covers but nothing this elaborate! More like “Sharon loves Math class.” Ok, maybe not that specifically. Purchase your own set here. via seesaw designs
Awesome timelapse photography video (3000+ photos) of Abigail Uhteg letterpressing and hand-binding 35 books over the course of two months at Women’s Studio Workshop in Rosendale, NY. The book titled The Complex of All of These was printed with intaglio and letterpress techniques on handmade flax & abaca paper; with German bradel binding with handsewn…
‘designworkplan’ has reviewed The Wayfinding Handbook, by David Gibson. Read the entire book review http://www.designworkplan.com/design/wayfinding-handbook.htm
Never Sleep: Graduating to Graphic Design is a book written by Andre Andreev and Dan Covert. In it they share the failures, successes, and surprises they experienced during their years in college and their progression into the field: the creative process, monetary problems, internships, interviews, mistakes, and personal relationships. They include work from their first…
Issuu let’s you collect, share and publish in a very unique way. Upload everything from self-promotion to a personal zine, and flip through it like a real magazine. You can also search through a huge stash of other great magazines, so check it out here.
For those of you, like myself, frustrated with $50 entry fees for good design contests/books, you will be excited about this. The Dieline is calling for entries for its new book to be published by How Books. Unlimited amount of submissions, free. Get on it, there’s no excuse not to submit. Details here.
FaceOut Books features a different book cover/title every Monday, in which the designer discusses their process, failures, initial designs, and final solution to their book-jacket problem. It’s so neat to see the secret evolution of the cover before it hits the shelves—the concepts that would have sat pressed in a book somewhere—given new life and attention.
