Respect for the Letter: How to Create Typefaces: From Sketch to Screen
A practical guide to designing type, start to finish, that made me a better user of fonts even if I never ship one.
Still on the Desk: Grid Systems in Graphic Design, Revisited
I first read Josef Müller-Brockmann in art school. Reading him again after fifteen years of client work, the book is less about rules than about calm.
Working Copy: Why I Am Starting a Small Press
Designers spend careers making things for other people's publications. I want a place to publish our own.
Read and Looked At: Why I Collect Dot Dot Dot
Twenty issues, ten years, no ads and very few pictures of graphic design. The most influential design magazine most designers never read.
Designing for Concrete: My Mile High Sidewalks Stamp
A design meant to be pressed into wet concrete and walked on for decades has to follow different rules.
うたかた / Ephemeral: Making a Photo Book From a Week of 35mm Film
Notes on turning a week in Hokkaido and Tokyo, shot on 35mm, into the first volume of a book series.
Design as a Liberal Art: Reading “A New Program for Graphic Design”
David Reinfurt's Princeton course, bound into one paperback, makes a quiet case that graphic design belongs with the liberal arts.
A Small Red Book About the Future: “After All, There Is No Finish Line”
Nike's look at the next 50 years of sport fits in a jacket pocket, and that is the smartest decision in it.