My New Book Has Arrived: The Essential Principles of Graphic Design
My new book is out! The title is Essential Principles of Graphic Design and it is published by Rotovision, and distributed in the U.S. by the generous folks at HOW Books. It is a book of 35 case studies by some of the world's greatest designers, and it features a look at how they work and come up with ideas. Essentially, it is both a visual and verbal journey of a project from concept to creation. It also includes basic primers to the principles of Graphic Design, written by experts in each discipline. Some of the designers included are Stephen Doyle, Marian Bantjes, Fabian Monheim, Peter Buchanan-Smith, Vault 49, Yves Behar, Hillman Curtis, Jacob Trollback and many, many more (full list, and examples of some of the images and spreads are below). The magnificent Rodrigo Corral (naturally) designed the interior and he set the entire book in the typeface Chronicle, gorgeously created by Hoefler & Frere-Jones.
Zetter Hotel identity created by Fabian Monheim
Sprint Identity exploratory by Lippincott, Creative Director Connie Birdsall
Examples of the breadth of the exploratory of the grammy award winning CD cover design for Wilco's "A Ghost Is Born" by Peter Buchanan-Smith
Images by Brian Rea & Nicholas Blechman for VM World 2007
Sketches for a Shakespeare Poster for Columbia University by Luba Lukova
Sketches for the title for the 2007 Society of Typographic Aficionado's Annual Competition by Marian Bantjes
Sketches for the cover of McSweeney's 23 by Andrea Dezso
Front page of the proposal for the design of Herman Miller's magazine SEE from Bill Cahan, Cahan & Associates
Sketches by Chris Bolton for a Helsinki Museum Exhibit
Final Identity for the MTV Video Music Awards Brasil in 2005
posted by debbie millman at 7/05/2008 04:29:00 PM
15 Comments:
Congrats! I can't believe this is already out, I still haven't finished your first book! (yea, I'm a bit behind in my reading) I just bought it, but you owe me a signature.
Are you having another launch party shindig? Any fanfare?
btw, now that you have loads of free time on your hands, hit me up on email.
Debbie!!!!
Congrats! Wow, i am sooo happy this is out. If its as good as your last book we are all in for a treat!
you continue to be one of the most amazing people in the entire history of the world. i'm really happy for you and kind of proud to know you.
congrats, Debbie! Can't wait to read it :)
Amazon over-night. Yay!
Hooray! I'm looking forward to your new book, Debbie!
Ricardo C.
exciiiiiiiiting :) congrats, again!
A.G
Great News DM...
I am heading to the Cape this weekend and need something to read.
Cheers
Great News DM...
I am heading to the Cape this weekend and need something to read.
Cheers
Congratulations on the book! I will have to pick up a copy!
I saw your book on the weekend and the interiors are fantastic. Love the case studies.
Curious what the thinking was behind the cover design. Care to share?
Finally.
This has been in my Amazon shopping cart since I first heard about it.
Can't wait to finally read and be awed!
Can't wait to get my hands on this.
The cover is growing on me. It's clunkiness and odd execution feels... clunky and odd. But in a good way.
Funny you should say that! Rodrigo did everything but the cover. At the last minute, the publishers designed their own cover. Rodrigo's were very different, I should do a post showing the 20 different (amazing) covers he and his team created.
But the final cover is growing on me as well...
Clunky and odd ina good way - we'll take that as a compliment (especially the odd bit). I thought it would be interesting to share our viewpoint on the cover of Debbie's excellent book. Rodrigo produced some very elegant and compelling cover designs which we liked very much as pieces of design. However, our sales team and our co-edition customer had their reservations. Book covers are often an odd (that word again) mix of pleasing aesthetic and commercial presence. This very early cover concept which we created in-house for the initial presentation struck a chord with the people on our sales team and we felt their knowledge of the market, combined with some very positive feedback from our customers, had to be taken into account for the final decision.
It's great that it's growing on those of you that have discussed the point however. The cover design is always the most emotive part of any publishing project.
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