Graphic Design Sourcebook: The 100 Best Contemporary Graphic Designers

The cover says: 'The 100 best contemporary graphic designers' and it's probably true because as I looked through the pages I was overwhelmed by the creativity and control evident in so many of these examples. The range of work is impressive, obviously print comes first with books, brochures and posters but also included is packaging, exhibitions, web pages and more.My favourites in the book include Irma Boom's remarkable publications, Loise Fili and her beautiful typographic covers, Hilary Greenbaum's work for the New York Times magazine 'Who made that' feature, Aron Jancso with some clever typographic designs he produced for himself and Oliver Munday who created an alphabet out of those cheap miniature plastic soldiers kids play with. There are two other alphabets that caught my eye, one using fashion photography of body parts from Yvette Yang and another from Zim & Zou using woven orange, blue and white thread. Oddly there are hardly any logos in the book.The hundred designers featured (and this includes design groups) each get between three and six pages, the first one includes their design philosophy (predictably they're rather repetitive) training, location and website. All the images in these mini portfolios are reproduced large enough to get a feel of each project and they all have captions though I think it would have been helpful to have included the dimensions and maybe a reference to paper and printing process. The book is printed on a good matt art with a 175 screen.The Fiell's have edited a worthwhile overview of contemporary graphic design which should interest anyone who works in this area of creativity.

really do love all of the contemporary designs, it have help me a lot

The designers in this book are NOT the best 100 current global graphic designers, as advertised. Most are rather obsure and come from a small selection of European countries. Weird book, do not recommend.

This book is heavy, which is not efficient to take it out from your workspace, and it was published on 2013. Despite of that, this book has a great quality content.You may use this book as reference for doing graphic design things, such as designing layout for poster, or, even for your self-project/portfolio.There are many design examples from design studio around the world in this book. Thus, it might help you to see the point of view from the others graphic designer outside from your country.The price that Amazon gave also nice and affordable (the real price on the book back cover is £35), super saver delivery totally saving for your pocket.

One of my favourite books. I would definitely recommend this book, I'm in uni studying graphics at the moment and his book has helped me loads!

This book isn't the general, independent selection of the best design it sets out to pretend it is. Considering the mix and the set-up (with bio and web adresses of designers etc), the entries are most likely editorial "ads", paid by the selected designers. Some nice stuff in there but I wouldn't have bought it had I realised what it actually contained.