The Bookshelf

Explore the latest contemporary topics, references and thinking in design, art, business, and culture from our publishing partners. Friends of AIGA receive exclusive discounts to collect and explore new titles for their book collections.

Photo from Computer Generated: The 3D Art Anthology. Courtesy of Gingko Press.

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Photo from Computer Generated The 3D Art Anthology

Featured Partner: Gingko Press

Gingko Press is a publisher of books on design, visual art and culture, representing artistic inspiration from partners around the world including Victionary. Founded in 1991 by a graphic designer and a long time book industry professional, the expansive breadth of our list is connected by our love of all things print and strong belief in book as object. With cutting-edge collections on typography and graphic design alongside visually stunning lifestyle titles, our program has something for every creative.

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Friends of AIGA receive 15% off their purchase at Gingko Press using code AIGA15! With cutting-edge collections on typography and graphic design alongside visually stunning lifestyle titles, there is something for every creative.

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Featured Title, Milton Glaser: POP

From 1954, when he co-founded the legendary Push Pin Studios, to the late ’70s, Milton Glaser was one of the most celebrated graphic designers of his day, whose work graced countless book and album covers, posters, magazine covers, and advertisements, both famous and little-known. Glaser largely defined the international visual style for illustration, advertising, and typeface design and interest in his legacy continues unabated, with modern creatives acknowledging his influence.

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Ellen Lupton

Bauhaus Typography at 100

The Bauhaus looms large as one of the most influential legacies in 20th-century graphic design. Known for its bold sans-serif typefaces, crisp asymmetrical grids and clean use of negative space, the school emerged as the forebearer of a new look—one that seized the tools of mass production in the creation of a radical new art.

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Earthquakes, Mudslides, Fires & Riots

Earthquakes, Mudslides, Fires & Riots is the first publication to capture the enormous body of distinctive and visually ecstatic graphic design that emanated from California throughout most of the twentieth century.

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How Many Female Type Designers Do You Know?

A pioneering appraisal of female typographers, with historical research and interviews with contemporary practitioners.
This important new book surveys the past and present of women working in typography.

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Victionary

A Book on Books

From scrolls and sheets of papyrus to elaborate and expensive codices to the mass press-printed volumes as we know them today, books have come a long way since writing was first developed. A Book on Books showcases some of the best book design work from all over the world in celebrating the designers’ contributions to preserving reading culture, as they continue to make books eye-catching and exciting to read or own.

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Tobias Revell + Hannah Stouffer

Computer Generated

Computer Generated represents a holistic, big picture view of contemporary, independent, artist-driven CG and features 210 artists from 39 countries. The collection takes a deep dive into the movement and showcases a cross-section of work from some of the most innovative, imaginative and influential contemporary CG creators.

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Sarah Hyndman

Why Fonts Matter

Graphic designer Sarah Hyndman specializes in exploring how fonts influence us as type consumers; Why Fonts Matter synthesizes Hyndman’s 20 years of experience as graphic designer with her typographic research and the findings of experimental psychologists and neuroscientists.

Phaidon Selections

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Fake Love Letters, Forged Telegrams, and Prison Escape Maps

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Annie Atkins

Fake Love Letters, Forged Telegrams, and Prison Escape Maps

A behind-the-scenes look at the extraordinary and meticulous design of graphic objects for film sets

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Rossella Menegazzo, Stefania Piotti, Kenya Hara

WA: The Essence of Japanese Design

Through some 300 objects this book explores contemporary Japanese design: from everyday objects and packaging to interior design and lighting elements. Ultimately the book aims to explore the way in which Japanese design manages to harness its materials and at the same time combines respect for tradition with forward-thinking and experimentation.

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Phaidon Editors

Phaidon Archive of Graphic Design

Born of the traditions of fine art and printing, graphic design is a form of visual communication that seeks to inform, identify or promote through the combination of word and image. But unlike the written word or a work of art, a graphic design operates exclusively in the context in which it will be seen, and mediates between the wishes of the client and the expectations of the public.