Insights
Insights
As we slowly gear up for what we hope to be a lovely summer at the beach, countryside or city, Saffron brings you a selection of design-focused books to accompany you wherever it is you end up this summer.
Our book recommendations:
Caps lock: how capitalism took hold of graphic design, and how to escape from it
by Ruben Pater
This book uses clear language and visual examples to showcase how graphic design and capitalism are inseparably linked. Pater offers different cooperatives that resist capitalist thinking, hoping to inspire a more socially aware graphic design.
The black experience in design: Identity, expression and reflection
by Anne H. Berry, Kareem Collie and Penina Acayo Laker
Bridging between design, geopolitics, architecture, and branding, this book offers a sequence of chapters each compiling case studies, notes and essays to explore visual identity in a networked and multi-polar world.
The politics of design: A (not so) global design manual for visual communication
by Ruben PaterThis book is a collection of global visual examples to bring awareness of different cultural contexts to designers. Pater creates surprising and educational insight in contemporary visual communication to avoid design stereotyping.
A new program for graphic design
by David Reinfurt
This book offers practical insights for designers or undergraduates looking to understand more in depth contemporary design principles. Treating graphic design as a liberal art, this guide to visual literacy is an indispensable tool.
Uncorporate identity
by Daniel van der Velden and Vinca Kruk
Bridging between design, geopolitics, architecture, and branding, this book offers a sequence of chapters each compiling case studies, notes and essays to explore visual identity in a networked and multi-polar world.