Books

Logo Design Workbook focuses on creating powerful logo designs and answers the question, "What makes a logo work?" In the first half of this book, authors Sean Adams and Noreen Morioka walk readers step-by-step through the entire logo-development process. Topics include developing a concept that communicates the right message and is appropriate for both the client and the market; defining how the client's long-term goals might affect the look and needs of the mark; choosing colors and typefaces; avoiding common mistakes; and deciphering why some logos are successful whereas others are not.

From Capsule comes Design Matters: Logos 01: An Essential Primer for Today's Competitive Market, new from the Design Matters series. Essentially, Logo 01 is the nuts and bolts of effective logo design, focusing on on creating logos, while others in the series dissect brochures, packaging, publications, and letterhead systems. Each book offers all the essential information needed to execute strong designs in concert with beautiful and well-crafted examples, so readers can successfully hit the mark every time.

From Julius Widemann comes Logo Design Now! n excellent reference book, with handy elastic page marker to save a page. With text in 3 languages there are several case histories, eg Rebranding of Corbis, redesign of The Guardian, relaunch of the Mini Cooper. Also 9 categories of logo design full of well chosen designs. A handy little read that we recommend you take a look at.

The Small Print is an on-going exploration in creating lots of tiny things. Each design is meant to be reproduced small (no larger than 6x6") and are meant to only focus around communicating one idea.

Princeton Architectural Press presents Letter by Letter by designer/calligrapher/artist Laurent Pflughaupt who begins with a historical look at the creation of early alphabets, starting with ancient hieroglyphics and proceeding to our current Latin-based system. Next, he takes a formal analysis of their physical structure using base-level observations while regarding letters as simple combinations of straight and curved lines.Though necessarily rudimentary at times, "Letter by Letter" is an exemplary reference for those interested in typography or language in general.

Published and distributed by RotoVision SA, What is Web Design? builds on a decade of writing about design and technology, and draws on learning derived from programming many high-profile design events. It is based on the collective experience of a wide variety of designers the author has worked with and interviewed in his role as a design strategist and journalist.

News, notes about announcements about the book Identity Crisis fromn author Jeff Fisher. Readers will get an inside look at the challenges of redesigning identities. They'll see the creative and strategic thinking behind fresh design work as well as have a powerful tool to show clients what a difference a professional can make to their image.

Von Glitschka new design book & textures CD. Crumble Crackle Burn features 60 real-world surface textures, sample usages in design and illustration and comes with a DVD packed with over 120 textures you can use in your art.