Susan Kare is an absolute legend, and should be worthy of all our—at least friends of Macintosh—hearts and thanks. What a thing to have had the privilege to get involved with all those years ago.
Susan Kare has self published her first book where all the above and more are discussed, Susan Kare – Icons.
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I have 2-3 copies of the #3 issue of 8 Faces to giveaway. In order to enter please just leave your full name, and a brief comment below with some form of contact information. The only requirement is that you RT this post at some point this week.
I’ll announce the random winners sometime next week.
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AceJet170 found a nice new book: Pantone: The 20th Century in Color, to hook up should you fancy it. Buy it on Amazon.co.uk for £18.78. Published by Chronicle Books.
I love reading snippets about how Paul Rand came up with the NeXT logo for Steve Jobs, so this article is just great. Also reading this article made me aware of a book called Design Dialogues by Steven Heller where this article was taken from.
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Antonio Carusone over on AisleOne is utterly obsessed with getting his hands on original brand identity books, and so his latest purchase leaves me slightly jealous.
Read more 1976 Montréal Olympics Graphics Manual
The Big Book of Font Combinations is/was a steal at the usual price of $24.95, but at only $11 through MightyDeals you would be a little daft not to purchase this right.
So if mixing type is a frequent occurrence for you then this book will be an invaluable source of ideas and inspirations for further font matching.
Purchase via http://www.mightydeals.com
…is a beautifully crafted journal that takes a fresh look, in print, at the maturing of the discipline and profession of web design.
Source http://alwaysreadthemanual.com/
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The Jedi Path is a limited edition book created by Imago, publisherbecker&mayer!, and Lucasfilm.
Loads more images and video via link below.
Source http://creativereview.co.uk
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New book out in February, all about Helvetica and the subway. Intriguing.
Source Link Swiss Legacy
Read MoreThe author of Just My Type, Simon Garfield, talks about fonts over at The Browser and recommends a few books on typography.
Source Link http://thebrowser.com
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Read MoreJan Tschichold embraced extremes. His work, most notably “Die Neue Typographie”, embraced and defined modernist typographic ideas. At his most provocative Tschichold only condoned the use of sans serif type.
Sweet website, Display is a curated collection of important modern, mid 20th century graphic design books, periodicals and ephemera. The collection is a source of original items for educational, historical and scholarly analysis. Link found on bumbumbum
Link http://www.thisisdisplay.org/
Read MoreDon’t be a slave to nonsense rules, design how you want to design, break the rules when you believe the result will shine because you did.
Link http://www.fastcodesign.com & BIS Publishers
Read MoreA handy excerpt from the book by Khoi Vinh. Found on Creative Bits.
Read more Graphics.com: The shared resource for creative design
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