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.
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