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Know Your Onions: Graphic Design, written by Drew de Solo, looks great especially as it’s designed more like a notebook

Book Overview: Brand Identity Essentials by Rockport

Just received my 3 gorgeous t-shirts from The Noun Project and they look and fit great.

Exciting times when another book on design comes out from Laurence King. This time a gorgeous looking book called Symbols has just been published and looks set to carry on where Logo finished off.

Logo is one of my most read and prized logo design books.

Letter Fountain: The Anatomy Of Type By Taschen looks set to be THE type book to get this year.

Font Fuddle is relatively new, and low key font project/quiz that I thought some people might like to have the odd crack at. The concept is simple but the actual unfuddling can be quite tricky

I reviewed Backboard way back in December, 2008, albeit a short and sweet one. This is an update.

Imagomundi is not a logo design book but it is a book full of concept icons, pictograms, ideograms and signs for utility/usefullness.

Just like design, books can be quite subjective. Some books speak for themselves, some need help reaching a audience. I had no such reservations with David Airey’s first book, based on his logo design website titled “Logo Design Love”. Pulling in everything to do with successful logo and brand identity design, this book really achieves what many books seem to fail to do.

Been after Logology for some time, specifically had it on back-order with Amazon.co.uk for about 4 months. Each month they would email me saying it was delayed. Then finally, last week, they emailed me saying they would have to cancel the order as the publishers of Logology no longer had any copies available.

Seems the LogoLounge range of books are the staple diet of any designer interested in logo design. I still carry the small pocket sized volumes around with me when I think I might end up in a coffee shop somewhere, a quick flick through for inspiration whilst sipping a coffee. Having all previous volumes of the LogoLoung series, I am in eager expectation of Vol 6.

There are a number of Logo Design Inspiration sites out there, all of which offer pretty much the same type of content. They offer the designer a valuable way to increase the exposure of their work for ego purposes and impressing potential new clients. LogoGala however offers a few extras which sets it out from the other logo design inspiration and showcasing websites.

Always happy on days such as today. Just got this in the post this morning, I so love books, especially when they come shrink wrapped. More so when it’s a book on Typography and Helvetica. Which then poses the problem, …

Yet another book from Rockport, swear half my collection of books are from Rockport. Most of which are logo design orientated. Actually, whilst talking about Rockport, I do love their logo that you find on the book sleeves. Very elegant. And just dig the letter ‘p’.

Having a number of years experience with typography and design didn’t stop me from wanting to buy this book. And indeed, it still proves to be a well thumbed and has countless tabbed sticky notes on many pages. Yes, it’s not the bible or the entire type collection of Adobe, but it does a great job of making things seem less ‘infinite’ where font choices are concerned.