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The first anthology of its kind, Graphic Design: History in the Writing (1984–2011) comprises some of the most influential published texts about graphic design history. The book documents the development of the relatively young field of graphic design history from 1983 to today, underscoring the aesthetic, theoretical, political and social tensions that have underpinned it from the beginning. Included in the anthology are texts by:Jeremy Aynsley, Steve Baker, Andrew Blauvelt, Piers Carey, François Chastanet, Wen Huei Chou, Denise Gonzales Crisp, Brian Donnelly, Johanna Drucker, Steven Heller, Richard Hollis, Robin Kinross, Ellen Lupton, Victor Margolin, Ellen Mazur Thomson, Philip B. Meggs, Gérard Mermoz, Abbott Miller, Rick Poynor, Martha Scotford, Catherine de Smet, Teal Triggs, Massimo Vignelli and Bridget Wilkins.

Edited by Catherine de Smet and Sara De Bondt

A4, 304 pages, soft cover, black and white

Buy your copy over at Occasional Papers.

The book will be introduced by its co-editors, Catherine de Smet and Sara De Bondt.

Thursday 24 May, from 7 to 9pm.

castillo/corrales
80 rue Julien Lacroix
75020 Paris

The story of a boy born on the day Pentagram opened and how his life has been tracked (and kerned) by forty years of Pentagram design.

The invention of movable type printing sparked the knowledge revolution and changed the world forever. Named after the inventor, the Gutenburg series is a great accessory for people of a certain type.

See more products over at DayCraft.

Fashionista, by UMA/design Farm, is a book of fashion review. Contents are thesis and essays by researchers and designers, interview and introduction to overseas fashion research. These contents are focused on ‘reading and thinking’, so Harada Yuma especially concentrated to design size of character and visual things.

Process Journal Edition Seven contributors include: Heydays, Lars Müller Publishers, Studio Dumbar, Projects of Imagination, Lundgren+Lindqvist, Colophon, Six, The Hungry Workshop, ManvsMachine, This is Real Art, Semi-Permanent, MadeThought and with a conversation between Rob Duncan and Clinton Duncan.

Now shipping worldwide from the Published by Process Online Store.

Companies like Apple are making design impossible for startups to ignore. Startups like Path, Airbnb, Square, and Massive Health have design at the core of their business, and they’re doing phenomenal work. But what is ‘design’ actually? Is it a logo? A WordPress theme? An innovative UI?

It’s so much more than that. It’s a state of mind. It’s an approach to a problem. It’s how you’re going to kick your competitor’s ass. This handy guide will help you understand design and provide resources to help you find awesome design talent.

Startups, This is How Design Works.

Offscreen is an “old-fashioned” magazine in high-quality print, exploring the life and work of people that create websites and apps. We want to tell the less obvious human stories of creativity, passion and hard work that hide behind every interface.

Their 2nd issue is coming soon, so stay tuned!

Surface is a personal photographic réflexion, by Aurélien Juner, on the function of fashion magazine as a medium of dissemination of “mass culture” images and its relation to reality – questioning the status of the fictional world and idealized created for the magazine, and its relationship to the real world where the image is built.

Process Journal: Edition Six

Sea Design, Unit Editions, Wieden+Kennedy, NB Studio, Ultra Studio, DesignStudio, Underware, BVD, Kobi Benezri Studio, Daniel Freytag (Berg), Dowling Duncan and with essays from Dellano Pereira and Clinton Duncan.

Size: 96pp 300mm x 218mm 

Production Process: 4 Colour Process Plus PMS 021U
Cover: 4 Colour Process Plus matte black foil
Shipping: Free within Australia, plus P&P ROW
$25.00 + P&P

FIGURE is a cultural journal featuring art, design, music, architecture, nature, photography, medias, gastronomy, style, sport and art de vivre investigations. Biannual and bilingual, each issue features 10 portraits of anonymous, emerging, famous or iconic personnalities.

To produce FIGURE N°1, they need 6500 €. It will cover their printing and shaping expenses, as well as iconographic production, translation and travels costs.

To make this possible, they need your support! They have launched a fundraising campaign on the french crowdfunding website Kisskissbankbank.