mmm, books!
I spent a good chunk of time last night "shopping" on amazon.com. Books, books, and more books 😀
So, here are my goodies (broken down into categories, of course). This is a list mostly for me, so ignore it if you want to.
Art + Inspiration
1. 1,000 Artist Journal Pages: Personal Pages & Inspirations by Dawn DeVries Sokol
2. An Illustrated Life: Drawing Inspiration from the Private Sketchbooks of Artists, Illustrators, and Designers by Danny Gregory
3. The Creative License: Giving Yourself Permission to Be The Artist You Truly Are by Danny Gregory
4. How to Make a Journal of Your Life by Dan Price
5. Art Journals & Creative Healing: Restoring the Spirit Through Self-Expression by Sharon Soneff
6. Living Out Loud by Keri Smith (the same girl who does the Wreck This Journal thing)
7. Caffeine for the Creative Mind: 250 Exercises to Wake Up Your Brain by Stefan Mumaw + Wendy Lee Oldfield
8. Graphics Alive by Victionary
Graphic Design Theory
9. Decoding Design: Understanding + Using Symbols in Visual Communication by Maggie Macnab
10. Graphic Design: The New Basics by Ellen Lupton + Jennifer Cole Phillips
11. Design Elements: A Graphic Style Manual by Timothy Samara
12. Information Design Workbook: Graphic Approaches, Solutions, and Inspiration plus 30 Case Studies by Kim Baer + Jill Vacarra
Photography
13. The Moment It Clicks: Photography Secrets (Voices that Matter) by Joe McNally
14. Understanding Exposure: How to Shoot Great Photographs with a Film or Digital Camera by Bryan Peterson
15. The Digital Photography Book by Scott Kelby
16. The Digital Photography Book, Volume 2 by Scott Kelby
Photoshop
17. The Adobe Photoshop CS4 Book for Digital Photographers (Voices that Matter) by Scott Kelby
18. The Creative Digital Darkroom by Katrin Eismann + Sean Duggan
19. Photoshop CS4 Digital Classroom by Jennifer Smith + Team
20. Layers: The Complete Guide to Photoshop’s Most Powerful Feature by Matt Kloskowski
21. Adobe Photoshop CS4 for Photographers: A Professional Image Editor’s Guide to the Creative Use of Photoshop for MAC + PC by Martin Evening
Typography
22. Type Addicted (The New Trend of A to Z Typo-Graphics) by Victionary
23. Typography Workbook: A Real-World Guide to Using Type in Graphic Design by Timothy Samara
24. Hand Job: A Catalog of Type by Michael Perry (what an awesome name for a book haha! it’s all about hand-drawn typography–cool!)
25. New Vintage Type: Classic Fonts for the Digital Age by Steven Heller + Gail Anderson
So there you go. $550 worth of yummy yummy books! Right now, I am only ordering numbers 2, 6, 11, 15, 19, 20, and 24. Well, after I take a shower, that is. I can’t wait to get them! 🙂