tips and tricks

useful books
- Experimental Formats 1 and 2, Roger Fawcett-Tang
- Special Effects - a book about Special Print Effects
- Typography Today - Helmud Schmid
- New Typographic Design, Roger Fawcett-Tang, David Jury
- 8vo, On the outside, Mark Holt, Hamish Muir
- Contemporary Brochures, Catalogues & Documents, Adrian Shaughessy
- The new handmade graphics, Anne Odling-Smee
- notes on book design, Derek Birdsall
- Printed matter, mainly books, Jost Hochuli
- printed matter, Karel Martens
- Dutch resource: Collaborative exercises in graphic design
- Apples & Oranges, best dutch graphic design
- Area: 100 graphic designers, 010 curators, 010 design classics
- Altitude, Contemporary Swiss Graphic Design
- All Messed Up, unpredictable graphics, Anna Gerber
- Great British Editorial
- Lead between the lines
- The Best Dutch Book Designs (there is one for each year)
- Die schoensten deutschen Buecher (there is one for each year)
- 1000 Graphic Elements, Wilson Harvey

good bookshops to go to for Artcatalogues & Graphic Books
- Tate Modern (ten minutes from college!!)
- Walter Koenig, 80 Charing Cross Rd or in the Serpentine Gallery (http://www.buchhandlung-walther-koenig.de/)
- Magma (http://www.magmabooks.com/)
- Artwords (http://www.artwords.co.uk/aboutus/)
- Bookartbookshop (http://www.bookartbookshop.com/)
- Design Museum
- Donlon Books

also worth going
- St Brides Library (http://stbride.org/)

graphic design websites etc …
(posted either because there is good work on the site or the website itself seems nice or or or …., there are obviously more good sites ... this is just a start)
various
- http://pubres.janvaneyck.nl/#
- http://www.bookworks.org.uk
graphic design related websites
- http://ffffound.com/
- http://www.formfiftyfive.com/
- http://www.blanka.co.uk/Home
- http://www.lehni-trueb.ch/
- http://www.ponybox.co.uk/
- http://www.km-d.com/
- http://www.polimekanos.com
- http://www.apeloig.com
- http://www.milchhof.net/site/
- http://www.spin.co.uk/
- http://www.juligudehus.net
- http://www.graphicthoughtfacility.com/
- http://www.muellerhess.ch/
- http://www.uweloesch.de
- http://dreibholz.com/
- http://www.nmodesign.co.uk/
- http://www.ohyescoolgreat.com/
- http://www.onlab.ch/
- http://www.nothingdiluted.com
- http://www.nothingdiluted.com/
- http://www.peterb.sk/
- http://www.blottodesign.de/
- http://www.waynedaly.com/
- http://www.marcuskraft.net/
- http://www.nbstudio.co.uk/
- http://www.esmog.org
- http://www.designproject.co.uk
- http://www.apracticeforeverydaylife.com/
- http://www.a2swhk.co.uk/
- http://www.yesstudio.co.uk/
- http://www.blast.co.uk/
- http://www.catalogtree.net/
- http://ultra.li/
- http://www.scrollan.de/