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I just bought the Hand Job, A Catalog of Type yesterday
http://www.amazon.com/Hand-Job-C…
I also got a really interesting book called 101 Things I learned in Architecture School.
http://www.amazon.com/101-Things…
I was at Borders browsing books, and this crossed my eye. The cover is, to me, stunning. The color combination, the cover material, the red Helvetica, the small architecture sketch at the top, something this clean and perfect is nirvana to me. I wish I had a better picture of the cover, it's a nice cardboard texture, visible grain, etc. The red title is stamped in, the sketch is raised, the binding is red fabric
I'm a huge fan of book design - some of you might not think the image above amounts to much but it's really beautiful to me. I did go through 2 1/2 years of architecture school before changing majors, but I have a minor in Architecture and there's some really great advice and info that can apply to design in general in it.