Examples of innovative books from around the world, mostly designed and published in the late 1990's and early 2000s.

An indispensable guide to book design and production. Includes sections on planning, grids, typography, images, structure, binding, and manufacture.

The author, a prolific maker of experimental art books, explores the possibilities of the book as object and experience. Many of the books discussed are hand-craft art objects, involving use of unorthodox materials, bindings, and structures. Contains a section on the theory of ordering images, which proposes a difference between a "series" and a "sequence."

Hochuli, a Swiss designer and typographer, makes the argument that book design should not be driven by strict ideologies or dogmas, but rather respond to the content and context of the individual book.

Primarily written for photographers who are interested in publishing books of photographs. Illustrated with in-depth case studies,  this very-thorough book explores the photobook as a concepts and an object; how to select and sequence photographs; the marketplace for photobooks; and the design and production process. Colberg makes a strong case for why working with a professiona designer is an important part of the photobook process.