Alice's Book Shelf
AboutShortlist of my favourite books on graphic design, typography, and visual arts in general. Each title listed below has impact on my work.
Royal Academy of Art
Wim Crouwel Gerrit Noordzij prize
De Buitenkant
- Graphic Design
- Typography
Tomoko Hirose
Kiyosato Museum of Contemporary Art: Archive 1 Ephemera
- Graphic Design
- Inspiration
Nancy Spector and Nat Trorman
Peter Fischli David Weiss: How to Work Better
Prestel
- Inspiration
- Culture
Wolfgang Weingart
My Way to Typography
Lars Müller Publishers
- Graphic Design
- Typography
Paul Rand
A Designer's Art
Yale University Press
- Graphic Design
Richard Lorenz
Imogen Cunningham: On the Body
Little, Brown and Company
- Photography
Richard Lorenz
Imogen Cunningham: Flora
Little, Brown and Company
- Photography
Susan Sontag
On Photography
Penguin
- Photography
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Page 1: Great Expectations
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- Graphic Design
- Typography
Jeroen Lutters
Creative Theories of (Just About) Everything
Valiz
- Inspiration
- Culture
David Douglas Duncan
The Private World of Pablo Picasso
The Ridge Press
- Inspiration
- Photography
Rudolf Arnheim
Film as Art
University of California Press
- Inspiration
- Culture
Mark Shaw
Copywriting
Laurence King Publishing
- Inspiration
Jean-Claude Ellena
The Diary of a Nose
Particular Books
- Inspiration
Rudolf Arnheim
Art and Visual Perception
University of California Press
- Graphic Design
- Culture
Henri Cartier-Bresson
The mind's eye. Writings on Photography and Photographers
Aperture
- Photography
Tony Brook, Adrian Shaughnessy
Studio Culture: The secret life of the graphic design studio
Unit Editions
- Inspiration
- Culture
Henri Cartier-Bresson
Interviews and Conversations 1951-1998
Aperture
- Photography
Jun'ichirō Tanizaki
In Praise of Shadows
Leete's Island Books
Peter Zumthor
Atmospheres
Birkhäuser Science
- Culture
Paul Rousteau
Seascapes
Loose Joints Publishing
- Inspiration
Armin Hofmann
Graphic Design Manual. Principles and Practice
- Graphic Design
Martin Lorenz
Flexible Visual Systems
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- Graphic Design
Ben Wittner, Sascha Thoma, Timm Hartmann
Bi-Scriptual. Typography and Graphic Design with Multiple Script Systems
Niggli
- Typography
Collaborative work
Taking a Line for a Walk
Spector Books
- Graphic Design
Karl Gertner
Designing Programmes
Lars Müller Publishers
- Graphic Design
Christopher Grunberger
Analog algorithm. Source-related grid systems
Lars Müller Publishers
- Graphic Design
- Typography