Graphic & editorial design Below is an incomplete list of my favourite magazines, books and online publications related to art and design. I like to read them again or check for updates to always find something that will inspire me or teach.
Online magazines and blogs 100 beste Plakate – best poster from Austria, Germany and Switzerland.arte – I don’t watch TV, but if I do I’ll look at Arte TV. Design made in Germany – showcasting graphic and editorial designs made in Germany. Design Tagebuch – blog concentrating on rebranding: big and small brands, cities and local authorities. I’ve found comments section especially interesting. Frieze – magazine of contemporary art and culture; includes essays, reviews and columns by today’s most forward-thinking writers, artists and curators. I love typography – blog about typography and type history, making fonts, and all the things in between – from printmaking to book history, and sometimes even calligraphy. Shady characters – all about books, ampersands, interrobangs and other typographical curiosities. Slanted – publishing house from Karlsruhe, in addition to the blog and magazine, Slanted Publishers initiates and creates projects such as the Yearbook of Type, tear-off calendars Typodarium and Photodarium, independent type foundry VolcanoType and other design-related projects and publications.Szum – magazine from Academy of Fine Arts in Warszawa. typo⧸graphic posters – the site is developed and curated by André Felipe. It features over 7000 posters in its archive, from over 40 countries, and created by almost 300 authors. The collection can be explored through an enhanced search with colors, tags, and keywords. Typography.guru – best place on the internet for typography geeks. Typoteka – index of typefaces created by authors associated with Poland.
Bibliography – inspiring books and publications 100 Beste Plakate, 19. Dortmund 2020Albers Josef, Interaction of color. Yale 2013 Ambler Frances, Brief lessons in creativity. London 2019 Ambler Frances, Brief lessons in rule breaking. London 2019 Ambrose Gavin, Paul Harris, Design th!nking. Lausanne 2010 Ambrose Gavin, Paul Harris, Layout. Lausanne 2011 Ambrose Gavin, Paul Harris, The fundamnetals of creative design. Crans-près-Céligny 2003Ambrose Gavin, Paul Harris, The fundamnetals of graphic design. Lausanne 2009 Ambrose Gavin, Paul Harris, The fundamnetals of typography. London 2011Ball Philip, Bright Earth. The invention of colour. London 2008 Bringhurst Robert, The elements of typographic style. Vancouver 2012 Coles Stephen, The geometry of type. The anatomy of 100 essential typefaces. London 2014Delamare François, Bernard Guineau, Colour. Making and using dyes and pigments. London 2020 Finlay Victoria, Colour. Travels through the pintbox. London 2002 Finlay Victoria, The Brilliant history of colour in art. Los Angeles 2014From Eastern Europe. Graphic design from Eastern Europe, compiled and published by Counter-Print. Ifold 2018 From Japan. Graphic design from Japan, compiled and published by Counter-Print. Ifold 2017 From Latin America. Graphic design from Latin America, compiled and published by Counter-Print. Ifold 2017 From Scandinavia. Graphic design from Scandinavia, compiled and published by Counter-Print. Ifold 2017 Frutiger Adrian, Człowiek i jego znaki. Kraków 2015 Frutiger Adrian, Der Mensch und seine Zeichen. Wiesbaden 2006 Frutiger Adrian, L'homme et ses signes. Paris 1999Frutiger Adrian, Type. Sign. Symbol. Zürich 1980 Gurney James, A guide for the realist painter. Kansas City 2010 Houston Keith, Shady characters. The secret life of punctuation, symbols & othertypographical marks. London 2013 Huston Keith, The Book. A cover-to-cover exploration of the most powerful object of our time. London 2016 Kastan David Scott, Stephen Farthing, On colour. New Heaven and London 2018 Loske Alexandra, Colour. A visual history. London 2019 Lupton Ellen, Thinking with type. A critical guide for designers, writers, editors & students. New York 2010 Mitchell Michael, Susan Wightman, Book typography. A designer’s manual. Marlborough 2005 Mitchell Michael, Susan Wightman, Typografia książki. Podręcznik projektanta. Kraków 2012 Munari Bruno, Design as art. London 2008Müller Jens (Hg. / ed.), Best German posters. Eine Gschichte der deutschen Plakatwettbewerbe. / A history of German poster competitions. Dortmund 2019Müller Jens (Hg. / ed.), West-Berlin Grafik-Design. Gestaltung hinter dem Eisernen Vorhang. / Graphic design behind the Iron Curtain. Dortmund 2019 Müller Manuela (ed.), Typography. Getting the hang of web typography. Freiburg 2011Müller-Brockmann Josef, Raster systeme für visuelle Gestaltung. Ein Handbuch für Grafiker, Typografen und Ausstellungsgestalter. Grid systems in graphic design. A visual communication manual for graphic designers, typographers and three dimensional designers. Salenstein 2017 Pérez Denisse Ariana, A middle finger in the shape of words to whoever told you that you are not creative enough. München 2016 Samara Timothy, Making and breaking the grid. A graphic design layout workshop. Beverly 2002 Simon Jesse, Berlin typography. München, London, New York 2021 Slanted. Karlsruhe (regular magazine and special editions) St Clair Kassia, The secret lives of colour. London 2016 Strizver Ilene, Type rules! The designer’s guide to professional typography. Hoboken 2006 Williams Jim, Type matters! Simple tips for everyday typography. London 2012