adrian shaughnessy has written a new book on graphic design, as he himself says ‘not about the correct typefaces to use but more about the soft stuff, dealing with clients’ etc..
here he presents his top ten graphic design paradoxes, i have to say i find myself disagreeing with some of his points, way too facile at times… sure there are plenty of bad designers who blame the client for everything that goes wrong but there really are bad clients adrian… perhaps you’ve never met them…
a website full of must-read book recommendations from graphic designers, not everybody will be interested, i understand… good to see mister sagmeister naming brian eno’s fabulous ‘a year with swollen appendices’ diary, it would be on my list too…
great neon sign made by the incomparable ‘david shrigley’ for a current exhibition of his work in berlin (picture courtesy of david shrigley himself via twitter)
typotheque have placed an interview online with dutch designer ‘rené knip’ the interview is an excerpt form a book entitled 158 answers
…i saw so much in lettering that the whole idea for me is to create a world of images; I do a lot of lettering which is very illustrative. I got out of the world of book typography because it has so many rules for readability; the text needs to be more or less transparent. I use letters like a photographer does a camera: I use them to illustrate emotions…
