book design — VISUALOUNGE

Buckley’s Heroes Book Design by Transformer

Transformer, an Auckland studio founded in 2002 by Nigel and Anita Smith, designed the book Buckley's Heroes.

Querida, the Barcelona studio, designed a compact first-year book for Paloma Wool that treats the label's first twelve months as worth archiving.

Stuart Tolley’s MIN surveys the return of simplicity to graphic design, from its pale blue cover to the work inside.

Yi-Hsuan Li used illustration to make Su Beng's 'First Class of Taiwan History' a book people would actually pick up.

Balland's Basel studio makes typographic compositions and identities for cultural institutions, and holds Switzerland's Jan Tschichold Award.

Aloof's book for Gloria Cortina refuses the design monograph as brand exercise — circling the work rather than illustrating it.

Two book covers set dense black-and-white pattern against densely set type, in a selection shared with designer Mitch Goldstein.