Helvetica is a feature-length independent film about typography, graphic design and global visual culture. It looks at the proliferation of one typeface (which is celebrating its 50th birthday this year) as part of a larger conversation about the way type...
I'm looking forward to the release of Anton Corbijn's film 'Control' about Joy Division, due on these shores in a month or so. (Though I'd like to see a film about Martin Hannett even more than one focusing on...
Stefan Gandl's essential book of silhouetted objects, organised according to an intriguing (yet simple) taxonomy: man-made objects, the natural world and the relation between them. You can of course buy it from Amazon....
Industrial and Industrial Heritage Photography by Haiko Hebig This goes in my 'ideas for record sleeves' pile....