Reddit reviews Alphabetical Designs (Trade Marks and Symbols) (English and Japanese Edition)

Great video! I thought to myself, I should buy those trade mark & symbol books.

http://www.amazon.com/Alphabetical-Designs-Trademarks-Yasaburo-Kuwayama/dp/0442245637/ref=pd_rhf_se_s_cp_1_QVJR?ie=UTF8&refRID=05CVGX777X3GZTT5CCEJ

Nope.

To clarify; this is a logo design book recommended by Aaron Draplin, from the informative short film that was posted a while ago, and a lot of people discovered that it costs a fuckload of money. This isn't right, and the book is also out of print - so unless you have it in your local library or are rich and stupid, it's out of reach.
This guy/girl uploaded the images, but I haven't a clue why they made it so difficult to download, and after a tedious 45 minutes, I managed to collect all of the images and publish them in a convenient .pdf.

Enjoy!

Edit: here is a non-frog version with bookmarks, thanks to /u/PM_ME_YOUR_PALMS !

http://wikisend.com/download/315374/Trademarks_and_Symbols%20Yasaburo%20Kuwayama.pdf

Found one:
http://www.amazon.com/Alphabetical-Designs-Trademarks-Yasaburo-Kuwayama/dp/0442245637

Found this book for 19 cents:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/0442245637/ref=tmm_hrd_used_olp_sr?ie=UTF8&condition=used&qid=1474636903&sr=1-3

Good luck.

Trademarks and Symbols, by Yasaburo Kuwayama. The one he shows is "Alphabetical Design" which is volume 1. Volume 2 is "symbolical design". It looks like they're pretty hard to find and quite sought after.

If you've got about $3,100 laying around, you can buy both.

http://www.amazon.com/Alphabetical-Designs-Trademarks-Yasaburo-Kuwayama/dp/0442245637/

http://www.amazon.com/Symbolical-Designs-Trademarks-Yasaburo-Kuwayama/dp/0442245645/

Ah, check out the historical data for Amazon - the day that video was posted the book was going for ~$10. Now the video has driven the price to ~$2300. Although I think the most anyone has paid for it is ~$500...

http://camelcamelcamel.com/Alphabetical-Designs-Trademarks-Yasaburo-Kuwayama/product/0442245637

Also, it is a great book. You can trace Draplin's style directly to it. The "video" I mentioned is here: http://www.reddit.com/r/ArtisanVideos/comments/2oso2o/aaron_draplin_takes_on_a_logo_design_challenge/

I think it might be helpful to start from the beginning and learn the principles and hierarchies behind the bells and whistles of Adobe CC.

• The Interaction of Color
  
  
• Grid Systems In Graphic Design
  
  
• The Elements of Typographic Style
  
  
• Trademarks and Symbols
  
  
• The Design Of Everyday Things
  
  Each of these I was instructed to read cover to cover when I first began designing and here I am three years later with an extremely successful design career, large in part due to these readings.
  
  Take the time to do it the right way, and the rest will follow naturally.
  
  

I immediately picked up Symbolical Designs and Alphabetical Designs for around $35 each after Aaron Draplin praised them in his logo design video last week. Unfortunately his recommendation seems to have jacked up existing copies to astronomical prices. If I have time I'll try to scan them for da community once they're delivered.