Graphic Arts

The Field Guide to Typography explores and explains the myriad typefaces that we see around us in our day-to-day lives, from airplane liveries to computer screens, from billboard hoardings to signage systems. It presents over 120 typefaces - old and new,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780451496713Author Matthew FrederickFormat HardbackPage Count 216Imprint Three Rivers PressPublisher Random House USA Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9784756254276Author Katsuya TeradaFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint Pie International Co., Ltd.Publisher Pie International Co., Ltd.

Tommy Kane is a remarkable artist who has travelled the world extensively, documenting the people and places he has encountered through his unique painting and drawing style. This monograph is a collection of his work spanning the last ten years.About...

For 30 years illy has entrusted its iconic coffee cups to the hand of the protagonists of contemporary art, so that they interpret the white surface, to offer their own customers an experience that involves senses and mind. In these pages it's possible...

Fancy designing your own classic and contemporary movie posters, books and magazine covers?Feel like turning your photographs into works by Turner, Matisse and Magritte?Want to create illustrations in the styles of The Simpsons, steampunk and Victorian...

The bright and insightful guide to birthday colours is back with an all-new cover inspired by the iconic Pantone colour system. Discover every vibrant aspect of your personality with Colorstrology, a fascinating blend of astrology, numerology, and colour...

This is an in-depth primer on the tools and techniques used by top sequential artists. It uses detailed instruction and step-by-step examples to teach key artistic methods. It is based on SCAD's world-famous sequential arts curriculum with examples of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486296982Author Carol Belanger GraftonFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)...

This is one of two books in 'Design in Context', a vital new series that focuses on the needs of contemporary students of graphic design. Meredith Davis draws on her many years' experience teaching graphic design students to explain complex theories with...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956209214Author Richard FurnessFormat HardbackPage Count 279Imprint JDF & Associates LtdPublisher JDF & Associates Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781527271821Author Megan AndersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint STBY LtdPublisher STBY Ltd

With his smooth, warm, ruddy face which radiated light in all directions, Chairman Mao Zedong was a fixture in Chinese propaganda posters produced between the birth of the People's Republic in 1949 and the early 1980s. Chairman Mao, portrayed as a stoic...

From comics icon Stan Lee, creator of the Mighty Marvel Universe and characters such as Spider-Man, Incredible Hulk and the X-Men, comes the ultimate how-to book for aspiring comic book writers. In these pages, aspiring comics writers will learn...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780957511477Author Adrian ShaughnessyFormat HardbackPage Count 432Imprint Unit EditionsPublisher Unit EditionsWeight(grams) 2860g

London is the only city in the world where you could ever find Gilbert and George sharing space with the Gherkin and the Globe while the Great Fire burns and a gin drinker glugs her favorite tipple, and where members of the Bloomsbury Group hail a black...

Discover the complete history of DC Comics' Harley Quinn comic art with this deluxe book. Harley Quinn made her comic book debut in The Batman Adventures #12 and soon became one of the most popular characters in the DC Comics pantheon. From there,...

This stunning book showcases the bold and original work of Royal Designer Tony Meeuwissen. The artist also writes about his life at the drawing board and the inspiration and ideas behind his imagery.From the foreword by Peter Marren:Welcome to this...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781581156638Author Bertrand PellegrinFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Allworth Press,U.S.Publisher Allworth Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 508gDimensions(mm)...

Terrorist groups are no different from other organizations in their use of branding to promote their ideas and to distinguish themselves from groups that share similar aims. The branding they employ may contain complex systems of meaning and emotion; it...

This book is a celebration of over half a century of jewelry design and savoir-faire, creating a book for Tasaki s many fans as it introduces itself to a new and growing audience. One of the venerable names in pearls and gemstones in Asia, Tasaki grew...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956356246Author Danzig BaldaevFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint FUEL PublishingPublisher FUEL PublishingWeight(grams) 490g

This book highlights the relationship between brands, consumers, products and the display environment, by way of examples of story-telling visual displays from some of the world's from some of the world's most glamorous fashion emporia, such as Hermes,...

At the beginning of the decade, America was at war. Patriotism was an integral part of everyday life, with the sentiment mirrored in advertising. As America emerged victorious out of the darkness of World War II in 1945, the economic boom of the era...

The Greek myths are timeless classics, whose scenes and figures have captivated us since ancient times. The gods and heroes of these legends hold up a mirror to the human condition, embodying universal characteristics and emotions, like love, hatred,...

The most comprehensive survey of the work of Maurice Sendak, the most celebrated picture book artist of all time-with previously unpublished archival materials Published in conjunction with the eponymous Sendak retrospective touring museums in the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486257389Author Francesco Maria GuazzoFormat PaperbackPage Count 206Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)...

Good information gives designers a competitive advantage. Understanding the wishes of a client and the needs and preferences of their audience drives innovation. The ability to gather research, analyze findings, and apply them to project goals is as...

A Visual History of Graphic Design - A comprehensive look at hundreds of landmark projects, industry leaders profiles, and illustrated timelines for each decade. History is a complex business. Fortunes boom and bust, empires wax and wane, and...

The lowly placard, a quick and efficient device used to spread news or advertise goods, ascended to the level of a respected art form in the late 1800's in France. The 'art poster' was born at the convergence of new aesthetic movements, technological...

Graffiti writing was born in the streets of Philadelphia in the late 1960s. But it was in New York in the early 1970s that it became a full-fledged urban art, gradually taking over the landscape of the city, from its walls to its subway cars. In these...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062203120Author Stephen ColesFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Harper DesignPublisher Harper DesignWeight(grams) 1098g

Accompanied along the way by John's characteristic wit, and with prints ranging from magazine covers, comics and specialist commissioned pieces, Beyond Watchmen and Judge Dredd presents a tour de force of graphic illustration. This beautifully designed ...

In the vast tapestry of your life, what are the memories and images that stand out? Draw My Life is the story you can create in pictures. Following cues you can illustrate and annotate your best moments, as well as your craziest, happiest, silliest and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789492095817Author Ruben PaterFormat PaperbackPage Count 528Imprint ValizPublisher ValizWeight(grams) 431gDimensions(mm) 185mm * 117mm * 46mm

Keep calm and carry on. In 1939, Britain s Ministry of Information produced this now-ubiquitous reminder to its citizens in the event of widely predicted air attacks. But in the six consecutive years before Germany s surrender to Allied forces, the...

More than a truly brilliant graphic designer, Otl Aicher was a transformative thinker, photographer, typographer, ecologist, philosopher, co-founder and mentor of the renowned Hochschule fuer Gestaltung at Ulm and teacher. On the centenary of his birth,...

Level design connects the player to the game through challenges, experiences, and emotions. This book is an invaluable introduction to the evolving practices of Level Designers across the games industry. The increasingly complex role of the Level...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783967040838Author gestaltenFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint gestaltenPublisher Die Gestalten Verlag

Desperate Times is the brilliant and unfl inching new collection of sketches of contemporary political life by The Times's master of satire, Peter Brookes. Within these pages, the multiple winner of the British Press Awards Cartoonist of the Year...