It’s hard to decide which title to pick from graphic design’s most prolific author. There are several I consider indispensable and this history of avant-garde magazines from 2003 is one of them, a subject close to my heart, and a volume I return to regularly. The book is superbly illustrated and so well put together that it’s easy to take the smooth flow of perfectly sized pictures and the immaculate balance of text and image for granted, without pausing to consider the mastery of page design (by Hans Dieter Reichert) they represent. Heller has a huge amount of ground to cover and he leads the reader through with equally fluent prose.