Visual Culture

PSFK has just released a 80 page book that contains 9 Good Ideas for 2009. Buy yours here. In addition, there will be a “Good Ideas Salon” in London. Over 20 speakers will be participating to discuss topics such as design, collaboration, and trends in London.

Here is a great book to bring in the new year. It’s a book by De Designpolitie and consists of essays, success stories, failed projects, fascinations and experiments. For more info click here.

Victor and Susie is a new children’s book created by Brighten the Corners, and is illustrated entirely from type. It’s a modern tale about caring, mending, and letting-go, drawn with letters and punctuation marks.

“The main idea was to stress the images and text equally,” explains the book’s author, Billy Kiossoglou of BTC, “and play with the fact that they’re both made out of the same ‘ingredients’, which are simply arranged and subsequently read differently. Children’s books often treat text and images like they belong to altogether different worlds and we wanted to avoid that.”

via Urbanpreschool:

True, we’re a bit weary of these pieces that pay homage to the loved (and hated) typeface “Helvetica.” Nonetheless, this publication - which is soon to be released by Lars Müller Publishers - called “Helvetica Forever” is a great read for the typeface enthusiast.

via Swiss Legacy:

Marks is a collection of 400 symbols and logotypes designed by Pentagram partners from 1962 to the present day. Arranged alphabetically, the book offers a deeper look at both Pentagram’s legacy and continued work in the field of identity design. For more on the publication you know what to do.

We stumbled upon this a couple of days ago and felt it was an appropriate site to pass along for anyone looking for design books new and old. We’ve included a book from the Editor’s Picks section, a visually stunning book by artist/illustrator Jon Burgerman.

Women of Design is now available in stores. Authors Byrony Gomez-Palacio and Armin Vit present this awesome resource that showcases extremely talented women in graphic design.

London design studio Kapitza just released a stunning book called Geometric. This resource book is full of 264 colored and black and white patterns including 100 pattern fonts on an accompanying CD that contains helpful tutorials that will enable you to generate your own original patterns.

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60, Unite for Children is a one of a kind limited edition book that brings together the likes of Joshua Davis, Renascent, The Ronin, Niko Stumpo, Si Scott and many more. All proceeds go to UNICEF. To purchase click here.

“Three D – Graphic Spaces” highlights a current trend in international graphic design.

More and more visual designers are staging three-dimensional scenarios and turning them into posters, flyers, book and magazine covers, and animated films. The result is new and evocative pictorial worlds that range from playfully arranged still lifes to room-filling installations. Common to them all is the use of analogue design techniques that give real objects precedence over perfectly simulated computer representations.

We’ve highlighted a few designer’s that have exlpored this trend from our archives for your perusal.

Shaz Madani, and Damien Poulain