Jeremy Mura recommends four logo design books: Michael Evamy's visual collection, David Airey's process guide for beginners, Aaron Draplin's inspirational work, and Jens Müller and Julius Wiedemann's 400-page historical survey. Use them as references and inspiration, not templates to copy.
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"Logo" (Michael Evamy); "Logo Design Love" (David Airey); a book by Aaron Draplin; "Logo Modernism" (Jens Müller and Julius Wiedemann).
September 2, 2018.
About 400 pages (spoken as "like 400 pages").
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So I'm going to share with you my top books for logo design and these have been really helpful and super useful. Number one is called Logo. Super nice cover. It's by Michael Evermy. This is one of my first logo design books I got. So you can see it's got plenty of logos in here, different types. It's got symbols, it's got some word marks, abstract shapes and forms, and it shows you some of the, you know, big brands like Disney, you can see their word mark there. Super cool. So I love this book. Nice and handy and you can get on Amazon and stuff like that. So that's pretty cool. Love that. Another awesome book that I recommend every designer should get is called Logo Design Love by David Airey. He's been in the industry for like over 10 years and he's a great designer. He shows you the process from sketches and design and you know how to work as a freelancer as well. But it really shows you and goes through all the key things that you need to know as a designer when you're doing a logo design and doing branding as well, identity design. So super useful, super good. And it's pretty much the fundamental book that you should get if you're starting out this book. I love it. It's amazing. Aaron Draplin's pretty much everything. This book is super inspirational, super cool. He's one of my favorite designers and his work is amazing. He just shows you how he does his logo design, how he does his process. It also talks about his inspiration, you know, a bit of his life story. It shows pretty much all his work. But, you know, he's one of those influential logo designers and I think you'll learn heaps in this book. So, like, super good. That's a recommended book to get. So definitely get that. And we've got one more that's one of my new ones called Logo Modernism. This is super useful. It's written by Jens Mueller and Julius Wooderman and it's a collection of logos over the past, like hundred years or fifty years or something. Talks a bit about history and then pretty much it just has loads and loads of logos. There's like how many pages? There's like 400 pages. Like super cool. And it's got different types that will show you some word marks, symbols if you want to look up arrows and you can search on the side and all. It's got different categories. So this is great for doing logo design. I can always come here if I'm looking for a reference, not to copy, but to get some inspiration and to see what other people have done. Because you know, most logo designs have been done before. So it's just about utilizing that and adding your own spin on it, adding your modern spin on it in today's day and age. So yeah, there's my top logo design books. Hope they were useful. Comment like and subscribe on this video and let me know on what videos you want to see in the future. Look forward to creating more design content every week.
