A short bibliography on logos, signs and lettering

(updated 6/2/07)

Baines, P. & Dixon, C. (2003). Signs: Lettering in the Environment. London: Laurence King/HarperCollins.

Bartram, A. (1975). Lettering in Architecture. London: Lund Humphries.

Chmielewska, E. (2005). Logos or the resonance of branding: A close reading of the iconosphere of Warsaw. Space and Culture 8(4), pp. 349-380.

Drucker, J. (1995). The alphabetic labyrinth: The letters in history and imagination. London: Thames & Hudson.

Evans, G. (2003). Hard-branding the cultural city - From Prado to Prada. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 27(2). June, pp. 417-440.

Evans, W. (1998). Walker Evans: Signs / with an essay by Andrei Codrescu. Los Angeles: The J. Paul Getty Museum.

Gray, N. (1960). Lettering on Buildings. London: The Architectural Press.

Henkin, D. (1998). City Reading: Written words and public spaces in antebellum New York. New York: Columbia University Press.

Kinneir, J. (1980). Words and Buildings: The Art and Practice of Public Lettering. New York: Whitney Library of Design/Watson-Guptill.

Klein, N. (2000). No Logo: Taking aim at the brand bullies. New York: Picador.

Lavin, M. (2001). Clean new world: Culture, politics, and graphic design. Cambridge: MIT Press.

Littlejohn, D. (Ed.) (2003). Metro Letters: A Typeface for the Twin Cities. Minneapolis: Design Institute, University of Minnesota, and University of Minnesota Press.

Lury, C. (2004). Brands: The Logos of the Global Economy. Abingdon: Taylor & Francis.

Macdonald, K. (1985). The commercial strip: From main street to television road. Landscape 28(2), pp. 12-19.

Mitchell, W. J. (2005). Placing words: Symbols, space, and the city. Cambridge: MIT Press.

Mollerup, P. (1998). Marks of excellence: The history and taxonomy of trademarks. London: Phaidon.

Moor, L. (2007). The Rise of Brands. Oxford: Berg.

Nye, D. (1994). American Technological Sublime. Cambridge MA: The MIT Press.

Petrucci, A. (1993). Public Lettering: Script, Power, Culture (trans. Linda Lappin). Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Schwarzer, M. (2004). Zoomscape: Architecture in motion and media. New York: Princeton Architectural Press.

Soar, M. (2004). Excoffon's autograph: Why is Mistral the typeface of choice for so many of Montréal's small businesses? Eye: The International Review of Graphic Design 54, Winter. Available here as a pdf.

Sutton, J. (1965). Sign in Action. London: Studio Vista.

Unger, G. (1998). A type design for Rome and the year 2000. Typography Papers 3, p. 61-73.