Tiana Vasiljev

Notable Books Contributor / Designer; Bookseller; Retailer / / Beautiful Pages

www.tianavasiljev.com / www.beautifulpages.com.au

Tiana Vasiljev studied graphic design at the Design Centre Enmore (Sydney), graduating with an Advanced Diploma in 2006. She began her design career in 2007 working for Valentine Associates; a multidisciplinary Sydney-based design studio. In 2009, she relocated to London where she continued her graphic design work.

Vasiljev has worked on a range of design projects, including branding, corporate literature, brochures, catalogues, editorial layouts, and websites. Her clients have included the Karl McManus Foundation, the 2011 KMF Lyme Disease Appeal, Christie’s Great Estates, Brookfield Multiplex, Eighteen Percent Photography, The One That Got Away, CMS Electracom, and Strategic Financial Solutions (SFS).

With a special emphasis on typography, attention to detail, a strong conceptual attitude, and a willingness to experiment, she is open to all challenges. Her goal is to create innovative and meaningful design that promotes thought, interaction, and a smile.

In June 2011, after returning to Sydney, Vasiljev launched Beautiful Pages, an online design store selling beautifully printed graphic design related books, magazines, posters, and DVDs. The store was created as an online space where Australian designers (and designers all over the world) could go to be inspired—a creative site that both students and professionals could visit any time of the day and easily purchase products that would fuel their imagination.

Beautiful Pages serves as a reminder to designers about the beauty of real ink on paper, the importance of the printed page, and the pleasures and benefits of owning these beautiful books, magazines and printed pieces.

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Now is Better by Stefan Sagmeister

Now is Better

By Stefan Sagmeister
Publisher: Phaidon Press
Published: October 2023

Combining art, design, history, and quantitative analysis, transforms data sets into stunning artworks that underscore his positive view of human progress, inspiring us to think about the future with much-needed hope.

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Design Emergency: Building a Better Future by Alice Rawsthorn and Paola Antonelli

Design Emergency: Building a Better Future

By Alice Rawsthorn and Paola Antonelli
Publisher: Phaidon Press
Published: May 2022

Rawsthorn and Antonelli tell the stories of the remarkable designers, architects, engineers, artists, scientists, and activists who are at the forefront of positive change worldwide. Focusing on four themes—Technology, Society, Communication, and Ecology—the authors present a unique portrait of how our great creative minds are developing new design solutions to the major challenges of our time, while helping us to benefit from advances in science and technology.

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Why Design Matters: Conversations with the World’s Most Creative People by Debbie Millman

Why Design Matters: Conversations with the World's Most Creative People

By Debbie Millman
Publisher: Harper Design
Published: February 22, 2022

Debbie Millman—author, educator, brand consultant, and host of the widely successful and award-winning podcast “Design Matters”—showcases dozens of her most exciting interviews, bringing together insights and reflections from today’s leading creative minds from across diverse fields.

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Milton Glaser: POP by Steven Heller, Mirko Ilić, and Beth Kleber

Milton Glaser: POP

By Steven Heller, Mirko Ilić, and Beth Kleber
Publisher: The Monacelli Press
Published: March 2023

This collection of work from graphci design legend Milton Glaser’s Pop period features hundreds of examples of the designer’s work that have not been seen since their original publication, demonstrating the graphic revolution that transformed design and popular culture.

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Meet Me by the Fountain: An Inside History of the Mall by Alexandra Lange

Meet Me by the Fountain: An Inside History of the Mall

By Alexandra Lange
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Published: June 2022

Chronicles postwar architects’ and merchants’ invention of the shopping mall, revealing how the design of these marketplaces played an integral role in their cultural ascent. Publishers Weekly writes, “Contending that malls answer ‘the basic human need’ of bringing people together, influential design critic Lange advocates for retrofitting abandoned shopping centers into college campuses, senior housing, and ‘ethnocentric marketplaces’ catering to immigrant communities. Lucid and well researched, this is an insightful study of an overlooked and undervalued architectural form.”

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Die Fläche: Design and Lettering of the Vienna Secession, 1902–1911 (Facsimile Edition) by Diane V. Silverthorne, Dan Reynolds, and Megan Brandow-Faller

Die Fläche: Design and Lettering of the Vienna Secession, 1902–1911 (Facsimile Edition)

By Diane V. Silverthorne, Dan Reynolds, and Megan Brandow-Faller
Publisher: Letterform Archives Books
Published: October 2023

This facsimile edition of Die Fläche, recreates every page of the formative design periodical in full color and at original size, accompanied by essays that contextualize the work, highlighting contributions by pathbreaking women, innovative lettering artists, and key practitioners of the new “surface art,” including Rudolf von Larisch, Alfred Roller, and Wiener Werkstätte founders Koloman Moser and Josef Hoffmann.

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