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Letterhead and Logo Design 9

by MINE, Christopher Simmons

This latest edition in the best-selling annual Letterhead and Logo Design series features the most innovative and exciting work in the field from well-known design leaders, new design firms, and cutting-edge artists. From logos to labels, business cards to envelopes, the creative techniques and full-color images portrayed in this broad range of work will inspire new design solutions for age-old challenges that beg... (more)

Letterhead & Logo Design 7

by Sayles Graphic Design

Now available in paperback, the 7th edition of Rockport’s best-selling Letterhead and Logo Design series features the innovative work of talented firms and artists around the world from Lewis Moberly in London to Stoltze Design in Boston to Blok Design in Toronto. The book highlights striking logo and letterhead designs that communicate a firm’s message through bold graphics, unexpected textures, brilliant colors,... (more)

Letterhead & Logo Design 4

This fourth collection of the world's best letterhead and logo design showcases the most elemental--and popular--areas of graphic design today. Each featured letterhead and logo design was selected for its creativity and effectiveness: the volume as a whole presents a wealth of ideas for designers and clients. Designs for letterheads, business cards, envelopes, logos, and related stationary supplies are all... (more)

Dos Logos

by N. Bourquin, Robert Klanten

Almost three years after putting our worldwide bestseller Los Logos together, dgv announces its much-anticipated follow-up. Dos Logos presents extensive examples of contemporary logo design in even greater depth and charts new developments in the field. Done in the same format as the first volume, Dos Logos explores the exceptional visual language and stylistic approaches to logo creation by designers from... (more)

LogoLounge 3: 2,000 International Identities by Leading Designers

LogoLounge 3: 2,000 International Identities by Leading Designers

by Bill Gardner, Catharine M. Fishel

New in Paperback! The third volume in the best-selling LogoLounge series provides 2,000 totally new logos from designers worldwide. This book, like the previous titles in the series, is compiled in association with...

Fresh Ideas in Letterhead and Business Card Design 4

Fresh Ideas in Letterhead and Business Card Design 4

by Gail Deibler Finke, Lisa Buchanan

Best of Brochure Design 6

by Cheryl Dangel Cullen

Rockport’s Best of Brochure Design 6 features a standout collection of the most innovative brochure designs from artists around the world. Including work from top design firms such as Stoltze Design, Sagmeister, Inc., Gee + Chung, and Carbone Smolan Agency, this impressive volume covers the gamut of projects from corporate brochures and annual reports to product and service brochures, and from nonprofit and ... (more)

The Best of Brochure Design 3

Includes more than two hundred examples of well-designed brochures. Credits reveal the paper, printing methods, design firms, and software choices for each brochure. Features sections: corporate, non-profit, self-promotional, institutional and educational brochures.

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)

Best of Brochure Design 9 (Best of Brochure Design)

Best of Brochure Design 9 (Best of Brochure Design)

by Jason Godfrey

Brochure design is a perennial in the world of marketing and graphic design, yet it can be challenging to execute successfully. This collection of the world's best brochure design offers hundreds of ideas, pages of inspiration, and armloads of advice for professional graphic designers and students alike. Using a clean, unfussy presentation, this book is a highly visual collection of ideas for everything from... (more)

Marilyn, a biographyNorman Mailer

Marilyn, a biography

by Norman Mailer

Le Corbusier and the Occult

by Jan Birksted

When Charles-Édouard Jeanneret reinvented himself as Le Corbusier in Paris, he also carefully reinvented the first thirty years of his life by highlighting some events and hiding others. As he explained in a letter: "Le Corbusier is a pseudonym. Le Corbusier creates architecture recklessly. He pursues disinterested ideas; he does not wish to compromise himself.... He is an entity free of the burdens of carnality."... (more)

Baroque and Rococo Pictorial Imagery: The 1758-1760 Hertel Edition of Ripa's Iconologia with 200 Engraved Illustrations

Baroque and Rococo Pictorial Imagery: The 1758-1760 Hertel Edition of Ripa's Iconologia with 200 Engraved Illustrations

by Cesare Ripa

Great 1593 work codified and developed symbolism of baroque and rococo periods. This copyright-free volume reprints 200 plates from rare 18th-century edition, Hertel’s Historiae et Allegoriae, with English translations of the German and Latin captions, and full descriptions, interpretations and analyses of Ripa’s work.

Symbol Sourcebook: An Authoritative Guide to International Graphic Symbols

Symbol Sourcebook: An Authoritative Guide to International Graphic Symbols

by Henry Dreyfuss

The result of years of work, this dictionary of universally used symbol designs is organized into categories by basic symbols, disciplines, color, and graphic form for easy access. This book includes translations of data into 17 languages.

Lingua Universalis: Global Wordless Understanding

Lingua Universalis: Global Wordless Understanding

by Johannes Plass, Mutabor

This book follows up to the success of dgv’s bestseller Lingua Grafica, which has established itself as a leading tool for guiding international designers in their everyday work. The expectations of fans of its predecessor will not be disappointed – Lingua Universalis also features a structured portfolio of the latest logos and icons done by the Mutabor design studio. Lingua Universalis explains the process... (more)

Tunnel in the Sky

by Robert A. Heinlein

A classic novel from the mind of the storyteller who captures the imagination of readers from around the world, and across two generations The final exam for Dr. Matson's Advanced Survival class was meant to be just that: only a test. But something has gone terribly wrong...and now Rod Walker and his fellow students are stranded somewhere unknown in the universe, beyond contact with Earth, at the other end of a... (more)

Lingua Grafica

by Robert Klanten

Visual communication experts and Hamburg-based design studio Mutabor apply their very own, strict visual language to the boundaries of commercial design. Creating logos and icons for customers like adidas or Greenpeace, lingua grafica assembles their best work in a documented, dissected and contextualised collection. With awards from, amongst others, the New York Type Directors Club the agency is also responsible... (more)

The Penguin Dictionary of Symbols (Dictionary, Penguin)

The Penguin Dictionary of Symbols (Dictionary, Penguin)

by Jean Chevalier

A bestseller in France, where it was originally published, this supremely erudite book draws together folkloric, literary, and artistic sources and focuses on the symbolic dimension of every color, number, sound, gesture, expression, or character trait that has benefited from symbolic interpretation.

flatnessisgod

by Ryan McGinness

Art. FLATNESSISGOD presents a thorough exploration of the basic practiceof seeing and consuming the second dimention. The pages contain paintings, basic design studies, image and type experiments, logo developments, layouts, graffiti converted into corporate logos, art haiku, and mistranslated text from Japanese candy. Ryan McGuinness is an artist who has exhibited his work internationally and has been ... (more)

Information Architects

by Richard Saul Wurman, Peter Bradford, Press Graphis

Frankly, I have found most books about graphics in the information age to be riddled with hyperbole, poorly designed, and vastly overpriced. After looking at many of these books, I typically pull out my dog-eared copy of Edward Tufte's Visual Display of Quantitative Information to clear my visual and conceptual palettes. However, Information Architects , edited by Richard Saul Wurman with contributions... (more)

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