Summer Reading
Books to round out your library
Have I Ever Told You Black Lives Matter?
Bobby C. Martin
An inspiring title that chronicles African American accomplishments from the Revolutionary War to the present the book is an ideal companion to the importance of the Black Lives Matter movement for children.
The typographic eye-catching design of the book is an element of beauty for this must-purchase publication that aims to empower Black children and beyond.
A book that tells a “beautiful and powerful story and a way to engage and teach children—on Black history, which is American history, and on the legacy of Black struggle and achievement in this nation” authored by Shani Mahiri King, law professor at the University of Florida and a father of two, and published by Tilbury House Publishing.
Advertising by Design: Generating and Designing Creative Ideas Across Media
Robin Landa
The new Fourth Edition of Advertising by Design: Generating and Designing Creative Ideas Across Media delivers a cutting-edge take on ideation, art direction and design across media channels. It offers principles, step-by-step instructions, case studies, and advice from esteemed experts to guide you through the fundamentals of advertising art direction and the creative process.
With a fresh focus on building integrated brand campaigns through storytelling, Advertising by Design shows you how to conceive strategic and creative ideas that will resonate.
Louise Fili: Inspiration and Process in Design
Louise Fili
Renowned graphic designer and author Louise Fili takes us on a personal tour through her most famous brands, books, and packaging. This peek behind-the-scenes shows how research and vintage typography give rise to her unique and ingenious designs. See how her work—still done by hand—transforms from early sketches to final design. Her instantly recognizable style, elegant and timeless, takes shape on the page before our eyes. Also included are Fili's copyright pages, which are works of art in their own right. Much of the content appears in print for the first time.
Milton Glaser: Inspiration and Process in Design
Milton Glaser
The late designer Milton Glaser once said, “The most overused word, creativity, should in fact be described as discovery. This revealing peek inside Glaser’s never-before-published journals offers uncommon insight into his design process. Through notes, drawings, and sketches from his home in New York City and his travels throughout Italy, France, and Spain, Glaser inspires the reader to find meaning in even the smallest details: a cat, a stage set, a portrait, a building—all are significant. “The joyfulness of art is discovering the connections themselves,“ Glaser wrote. A brief introduction by Glaser and an interview conducted by Jeremy Elias, originally printed in the New York Times, are included.
Artistic Places
Susie Hodge; illustrated by Amy Grimes
Explore the landscapes and places that inspired great art: find peace in Monet’s lily-filled garden oasis, climb Mount Fuji on a printmaker’s pilgrimage, sail with Gauguin to the South Pacific to stretch your imagination, or contemplate light and the changing seasons on Chelsea Embankment.
Artistic Places is a stunningly hand-illustrated, visionary guide for seekers of beauty, rare tales, and cultural riches. Find yourself instantly transported to the places where great artists have sought refuge, found their inspiration and changed the course of art history forever.
Black, Brown + Latinx Design Educators: Conversations on Design and Race
Kelly Walters
In Black, Brown + Latinx Design Educators, Kelly Walters collects twelve deeply personal interviews with graphic design educators of color who teach at colleges and universities across the United States and Canada. The book centers the unique narratives from their childhood experiences to their navigation of undergraduate and graduate studies and their career paths in academia and practice. They represent a cross-section of ethnic and multiracial backgrounds—African American, Jamaican, Indian, Pakistani, Puerto Rican, Dominican, Mexican, and Brazilian. Their impactful stories offer invaluable perspectives for students and emerging designers of color, creating an entry point to address the complexities of race in design and bring to light the challenges of teaching graphic design at different types of public and private institutions. Interwoven are images that maintain cultural significance, from family heirlooms to design works that highlight aspects of their cultural identities.
Extra Bold: A Feminist, Inclusive, Anti-racist, Nonbinary Field Guide for Graphic Designers
Ellen Lupton, Farah Kafei, Jennifer Tobias, Josh A. Halstead, Kaleena Sales, Leslie Xia, Valentina Vergara
Extra Bold is the inclusive, practical, and informative career handbook for designers that we’ve all been waiting for. Written collaboratively by a diverse team of authors, the book opens with critical essays that rethink design principles and practices through theories of feminism, anti-racism, inclusion, and nonbinary thinking. Extra Bold features interviews, essays, typefaces, and projects from dozens of contributors with a variety of racial and ethnic backgrounds, abilities, gender identities, and positions of economic and social privilege. The book adds new voices to the dominant design canon.