Books?

[jacambece]

I just got in a shipment of books and they are great, I was wondering if you could help me out. I am looking for design books, well they don’t need to be books, but something visual, websites, magazines, flyers even a cereal box(if it looks cool). I want to expand my knowledge and see what other people do for design work. If you have some drawings that look cool I would love to see those too. I am not trying to style ideas, just trying to get a feel for the field.

Thanks,

Cambece

[ovine king]

the problem with books is that they are inherently always going to be a few months behind the latest trends and in design terms, "out of date".

as such, what you will find is that people who work in the design industry will look towards things like magazines (anything+everything since they often have an internal team of graphics+typo people who are all doing the same thing i.e looking at everything for new ideas), album covers, television commercials; generally everything and yes, that includes club flyers.

(I personally have 500+flyers from around the world and everytime I go to somewhere new, I go to all of the little boutique clothes stores and pick up the free flyers).

you'd be surprised at how a single idea can be taken and developed through every part of design from trainers to cars to buildings to a music video....

galleries are also a godsend and in london I am lucky to have so many free galleries (and having friends who can get me into shows for free also helps)

from looking at what you posted, i would say that, if you haven't already, google a guy called dave mckean.

incidentally, design is a very, very general term, especially if you are talking about it on a professional level.

i'm in the uk and i'm not sure if yu have an equivilant association but here we have http://www.theaoi.com/. As the site says, the people listed there are all illustration graduates. Is this the kind of thing you are talking about?

another personal favourite of mine, mainly because i seem to run into quite a few "works" of his is http://www.banksy.co.uk/. It's graffiti but not as you know it. Very distinctive and you'd probably recognise the blur think tank album cover as being one of his.

going slightly left field, also have a google on these names:

zaha hadid, daniel libeskind, shaun murray,

and don't forget the oldies:

luigi russulo, ludvig von zumbusch, klimt and of course, mucha

[jacambece]

Thanks, thats some good info.

Cambece