— Swiss Legacy

All-Time Winners

My best friend Romuald Stivine (The Lazydog) is having a 12 pages focus in the next issue of WAD Magazine. We wanted to make a “All-Time Winners” book selection. So he asked me to make mine. Here it is… A little bit of swiss, a little bit of that…

The List:

  • Josef Müller-Brockmann, The graphic artist and his design problems (niggli)
  • Josef Müller-Brockmann, Monography (Phaidon)
  • The Designers Republic, IDEA vs Designers Republic (IDEA)
  • Adrian Shaughnessy, Look at This: Contemporary Brochures, Catalogues and Documents (Laurence King Publishing)
  • Daniel Mason & Angharad Lewis, Materials, Process, Print: Creative Solutions for Graphic Design (Laurence King Publishing)
  • Josef Müller-Brockmann, Grid Systems in Graphic Design (niggli)
  • Nicholas Bourquin, R. Klanten and Christian Mareis, Altitude: Contemporary Swiss Graphic Design (DGV)
  • Richard Hollis, Swiss Graphic Design (Laurence King Publishing)
  • Imin Pao and Joshua Berger, 30 Essential Typefaces for A Lifetime (Rockport)
  • Adrian Shaughnessy, How to be graphic designer without loosing your soul (Laurence King Publishing)
  • Wim Crouwel, Alphabets (BIS)
  • Geert Setola et Joep Polhen, La fontaine aux lettres (Fontana)
  • Niklaus Troxler, Jazz Blvd. (Lars Müller)
  • 12 comments
    1. David Barrett says: February 23, 20084:44 pm

      I can only make out a few of these book titles from this picture (and the Flickr photo is private). Would you mind listing the titles?

    2. Tomi says: February 23, 20089:14 pm

      Sweet, I myself have 7 of those titles on my shelf, excellent books!

      Look At This, Swiss GD, How To be a GD without…, GD and his.. by Brockhman, Altitude, Win Crouwel, and Materials Process Print.

      I would add to that great list “Drip Dry Shirts”

    3. Jesse says: February 24, 200811:42 pm

      I call this “how to suck at blogging”

      1, photo’s too small to read the titles – FAIL
      2, no text list of the books – FAIL
      3, no amazon links to the books – FAIL
      4, the photo’s private on flickr, for no goddamn reason – FAIL

      in short, you FAIL at blogging.

    4. Xavier Encinas says: February 24, 200811:45 pm

      you fail at being smart….

    5. nick says: February 25, 20083:47 am

      Can you list the titles please?

    6. Xavier Encinas says: February 25, 20089:50 am

      done.

    7. Jesse says: February 25, 200811:17 pm

      you fail at comebacks, but at least you fixed your shit :P

    8. Bronson says: February 26, 200811:06 pm

      Jesse fails at life because he contributes to the deterioration of human communication in the most anonymous of forums

    9. Xavier Encinas says: February 27, 20088:47 am

      thank you Bronson :-)

    10. owen says: February 27, 20088:52 pm

      my all-time fav book list would be:

      paul rand: design, form and chaos
      paul rand: a designer’s art
      armin hofmann: his work, quest and philosophy
      armin hofmann: graphic design manual
      josef muller brockmann: the graphic artist and his design problems
      willi kunz: macro+micro aesthetic
      moritz zwimpfer: 2d visual perception
      hans rudolf bosshard: typographic grid
      wim crouwel: mode en module

    11. Xavier Encinas says: February 27, 20088:55 pm

      very nice list. I also like very much the work of Paul Rand. And Crouwel’s “mode en module” is defenetly very good.

    12. Bronson says: February 28, 20085:06 pm

      I would add Elements of Typographic Style (any edition) by Robert Bringhurst

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