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Design Your Self: Rethinking the Way You Live, Love, Work, and Play

Design Your Self: Rethinking the Way You Live, Love, Work, and Play

by Karim Rashid

Celebrated industrial designer Karim Rashid explains how to optimize all areas of life, aesthetic and spiritual, in this colorful, beautifully designed book. Design wonderkind Karim Rashid, whose projects range from the Trump Towers apartments to Lacoste sportswear to the ubiquitous Umbra garbage can, prescribes an organizational and style overhaul in Design Your Life. In short, sharp chapters, he tackles... (more)

What Is Graphic Design? (Essential Design Handbooks)

What Is Graphic Design? (Essential Design Handbooks)

by Quentin Newark

The purpose of this book is to explain what graphic design is and how it works. What is Graphic Design? starts by exploring the complex issues that shape design: economics, ethics, technology, theory and developments in other arts. It looks at how design has evolved over the centuries, from its origins in the Renaissance with the development of book printing, to the present day, where it includes areas such as... (more)

Best of Business Card Design 7

The Best of Business Card Design series features an innovative collection of the most current and best work by top designers worldwide. Business card design is a very important and common area for the graphic design business, so it is little wonder that each installment in the series is recognized as a high quality resource that is eagerly anticipated by designers. The Best of Business Card Design 7 is the... (more)

Letterhead + Logo Design 5 (Letterhead & Logo Design)

The fifth volume in the Letterhead and Logo Design series is a remarkable collection of new and innovative letterheads and logos by today's top designers. Each of the designs successfully captures the personality of the businesses while still effectively and clearly communicating their identities. -Includes 300 letterhead and logo designs in a variety of formats: letterheads, envelopes, business cards, logos,... (more)

Things I have learned in my life so far

by Daniel Nettle, Stefan Sagmeister, Nancy Spector

This book began as a list designer Stefan Sagmeister made in his diary under the title Things I have learned in my life so far , which includes statements such as "Worrying solves nothing" and "Trying to look good limits my life." The list reveals something that is profoundly true: Although human beings have been pursuing happiness for countless generations, it is not so easily achieved. And we need constant... (more)

Complete manual of typography

by James Felici

<Testimonials> "The ultimate typographic tool: a concise, beautiful book that pulls together everything you need to produce great typography." --Frank Romano, RIT School of Print Media "Clear and elegant...There's no better or more useful introduction to the whole craft of typography." --Roger Black, Danilo Black, Inc. "All you've always wanted to know about type and typography but never dared to ask. Jim... (more)

Helvetica: Homage to a Typeface

by Lars Mu?ller

Helvetica is not only the preferred typeface of leading professionals, it is also an all-time favourite among the multitude of codes, signals and signs that flavour urban life. This book sings the praises of the honest worker and solo entertainer of typefaces, Helvetica, and of its forgotten creator and all those who have contributed to its unparalleled international march of triumph over the past forty years.... (more)

Before & After

by John McWade

Before and After magazine's focus on clarity and simplicity and its insistence on approaching design not as mere decoration but as an essential form of communication have won it legions of fans. If you're among them, you'll welcome the first book from B and A's founder and publisher. John McWade walks his own talk, bringing you a beautifully clear, cohesive, and elegant primer on page design. You'll learn by... (more)

The Best of Business Card Design 6 (Best of Business Card Design (Hardback))

The Best of Business Card Design 6 (Best of Business Card Design (Hardback))

by Blackcoffee Design Inc

This edition of Rockport's best-selling Best of Business Card Design series features an innovative collection of the most current and best work by top designers worldwide. The "go-to" sourcebook for business card design inspiration, this volume contains no text, aside from design credits, which allows for pages packed with business cards, highlighting front, back, special elements, and materials used. An unrivaled... (more)

Logo Lounge 2 (mini): 2,000 International Identities by Leading Designers

by Bill Gardner, Catharine M. Fishel

Packed with 2,000 logos from world-class designers. This book takes all the logos that were in Rockport PublisheréÆs best-seller, Logo Lounge 2 , and collects them in one small, neat, pictorial handbook for easy reference. There are no lengthy case histories, just logos, logos, and more logos. ItéÆs a fast-paced book featuring one to six logos per page to allow designers to easily shop for ideas. Logos are among... (more)

Visual Creativity

by Mario Pricken

Inspirational ideas for advertising, animation, and digital design from a leading creative director. Mario Pricken's previous book, Creative Advertising , sparked the imaginations of countless advertising, marketing, media, and design professionals. Now Visual Creativity goes one step further. This practical guide is filled with tips and techniques specifically designed to create whole new worlds of... (more)

3D-2D/Designers Republic

by Ole Bouman, Sadar Vuga Arhitekti, Spela Mlakar

Created by the people at The Designers Republic, one of today’s most revered design firms, 3D-2D/Designers Republic explores new ways of communicating architecture. By recreating a three-dimensional building in the form of a printed publication, this innovative book attempts to expand and open up new approaches to presenting and experiencing architectural products, based on the firm’s own products and... (more)

Designing Type

by Karen Cheng

As one of a graphic designer’s most essential tools, typefaces influence the appearance of visual print materials perhaps more than any other component. This essential book explains the processes behind creating and designing type. Author Karen Cheng discusses issues of structure, optical compensation, and legibility, with special emphasis given to the often overlooked relationships between letters and shapes in a... (more)

Quick Solutions for Great Type Combinations

Quick Solutions for Great Type Combinations

by Carol Buchanan

House Industries

by House Industries

House Industries is famous for their impeccable tongue-in-cheek takes on American popular culture, on comic influences such as Ed "Big Daddy" Roth and on modern design classics from Neutra to Charles Eames. Based in Delaware, its members have been producing premier league typefaces and designs for a huge and devoted fan base since 1993. Because their font and design work deftly meld cultural, musical and... (more)

Basics Design Format (Basics Design S.)

by Gavin Ambrose, Paul Harris

Introducing the brand-new, extremely visual BASICS series, which will eventually incorporate 5 titles, each representing a fundamental aspect of graphic design. Format, the first entry, concerns the physical dimensions of a product and the space one has to present the graphic elements of a design: the size of a book, the scale of a poster, the folds in a brochure. This instructive handbook examines in detail... (more)

Exploring Publication Design (Design Exploration Series)

Exploring Publication Design (Design Exploration Series)

by Poppy Evans

Even in a digital age dominated by the Web and DVD's, print media remains a primary means of communication in our culture. Exploring Publication Design tackles the unique challenges encountered in designing books, magazines, newspapers, promotional literature, and the various other types of print publications. Highly regarded author and design educator Poppy Evans identifies the design and communication issues... (more)

This End Up: Original Approaches to Packaging Design

This End Up: Original Approaches to Packaging Design

by Mono Design

"This Way Up" reveals the creative process behind 14 distinctive and original international packaging designs. From bottle labels to household goods packaging or fashion bags, packaging design comes within the remit of all graphic designers. This title focuses on contemporary packaging projects that have stood out from the crowd (essential in this highly competitive field), be they big- or small-budget projects,... (more)

Fresh Ideas in Letterhead and Business Card Design 4

Fresh Ideas in Letterhead and Business Card Design 4

by Gail Deibler Finke, Lisa Buchanan

Dsos1: The User's Manual

by Stefan Gandl, Robert Klanten

With DSOS1 (Designer Shock Operating System 1) Berlin-based collective Designershock explores new interaction opportunities between web and print, successfully defying the fixed format of conventional books. With a dash of daring the manual offers both a comprehensive selection of innovative fonts and vector graphics (see “Büro Destruct”) as well as an assortment of ingenious content to be accessed exclusively... (more)

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