Books about Books

Please excuse the slacker photos. The assignment was to create a book of book reviews and recommendations by some Graphic Design Majors at MICA. The recommendations were supposed to be creative, anything that could benefit or inspire a designer, but many of them were shallow, obvious, or just blatantly bad books. Hence, the title of the book is “Punk Kids Who Think They Know Shit”. Some of the selections in the book put the title in a quite literal context and make it clear we still have plenty to learn, but the better recommendations flip the relationship and turn the title into satire. Some selected spreads from the 60+ page book below the fold. (more…)