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A rich, visual retelling of history, international in scope, this book charts the evolution of 'print' into 'graphic design' between 1700 and 1914. It is organized into six chapters, each beginning with a short introductory text before immersing the...

This book is an investigation into the design and history of British magazines over the past 170 years. It identifies turning points and new directions in one of the most sensitive barometers of mass-market design taste, from the advent of two...

The fully updated single-source guide to creating successful packaging designs for consumer products Now in full-color throughout, Packaging Design, Second Edition has been fully updated to secure its place as the most comprehensive resource of...

Discover everything you need to get started with Canva, create a brand, and easily design professional-looking graphics to go from zero to pro in no time Key Features * Organize your business designs using folders and learn to schedule social media...

Coinciding with the new edition of the bestseller Designing Design, Kenya Hara's latest book, Ex-formation, searches for the beginning of design in the unknown. For Kenya Hara, design begins with comprehension of the unknown. In contrast to...

The Graphic Design Reference & Specification Book should always be next to a designer's computer. Completely practical with only the most needed information, this valuable book provides designers with all the little details that can make or break a...

Twenty years in print, The Thames & Hudson Dictionary of Graphic Design and Designers contains around 750 entries offering detailed information on every important graphic designer, movement, agency, practice and publication from 1840 up to the present...

Master the art of computer animation and visual effects production with the latest edition of this cutting-edge guide This remarkable edition of The Art of 3D Computer Animation and Effects offers clear, step-by-step guidelines for the entire process of...

A new edition showing the work of one of the most famous Swiss designers: a comprehensive overview of his oeuvre. This illustrated essay traces the history of one of the leading exponents of "Swiss Graphic Design" in the 1950s and 1960s. Josef Mu ller-...

Ride back in time on the colorful New York City subway line of the 1970s to 1990s; the graffiti years, when subway cars became rolling metal canvases for some of the most notorious and influential graffiti "writers" of all time. Explore the amazing array...

Welcome the most comprehensive visual history on all things surfing. With hundreds of images and essays by today's leading surf journalists, this publication spans photography, fashion, film, art, and music to chart the evolution of surfing culture from...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781616898762Author Sean AdamsFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Princeton Architectural PressPublisher Princeton Architectural Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916457379Author David CabiancaFormat HardbackPage Count 384Imprint Unit EditionsPublisher Unit EditionsWeight(grams) 1010g

"Tate to Tate" is a book like no other you have ever seen. Concertina-bound, it shows a group of people walking east along the South Bank. Brightly coloured, brilliantly drawn by artist Tommy Penton, they are a diverse group, of all races and ages, and...

The book features over 500 of the most iconic graphic designs from the beginnings of mechanical reproduction to the present day. Arranged in chronological order, the designs are accompanied by texts and illustrated with a range of imagery - including...

The latest instalment in the Manufacturing Guides series, this book is targeted at students and professionals who create graphics or packaging for mass production. With some 400 specially commissioned photographs and technical illustrations, it describes...

The Graphic Communication Handbook is a comprehensive and detailed introduction to the theories and practices of the graphics industry. It traces the history and development of graphic design, explores issues that affect the industry, examines its...

Trimming, piercing, slicing, snipping: just a few of the many words that relate to the idea of cutting. In this volume Jean-Charles Trebbi explores the traditional techniques of paper cutting, before examining current manifestations of this art form,...

Type to Image by Marta Cerda Alimbau explores how the celebrated designer blurs the boundaries between typography and illustration. While Cerda's style is strongly eclectic, she believes that the separation of these two disciplines into specialised...

What is the point of graphic design? Is it advertising or is it art? What purpose does it serve in our society and culture? Malcolm Barnard explores how meaning and identity are at the core of every graphic design project and argues that the role and...

New York Mid Century is the story of how the Big Apple emerged as the cultural capital of the postwar world in all fields of creative endeavour - art, architecture, design, music, theatre and dance. It was a period of intense cross-fertilization, as...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789887757214Author Sendpoints Publishing Co., Ltd.Format HardbackPage Count 224Imprint SendpointsPublisher Sendpoints

Max Bill (1908-1994) is primarily associated with the terms "Concrete Art" and "Environmental Design". He was active in nearly every area of art and design, which were universal concepts for him. Furthermore, his theoretical publications have turned him...

Cruz Novillo: Logos provides a comprehensive guide to an important facet of Pepe Cruz Novillo's output, his logo design; and in doing so proves the importance of this body of work, both to Spain and the global design community. This book offers inspiring...

John Alcorn | Evolution By Design is a celebration of the life and work of legendary graphic designer and illustrator, John Alcorn (1935-1992). A never-before released overview of one of the most versatile designers of the 20th century, replete with...

The design sector has expanded rapidly in recent years, and now covers a wide range of specialist disciplines from branding and communications to product, commercial interiors and digital. Yet design firms often lack long-term vision, strategies and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781623718275Author Daoud SarhandiFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Interlink BooksPublisher Interlink Publishing Group, Inc

Just what is it that catches the eye, and why? What's the significance of a broken flowerpot, a pair of identical tables side by side, a garden hose wrapped around an old car wheel? In this collection of photo essays, the famous designer Jasper Morrison...

Jost Hochuli has been working as a freelance graphic designer since 1959. Although book design forms only a small part of his activity, he has become well-known particularly through this work. Besides his book designs, several of his commercial artwork...

Just when you think you've learned all that you could ever know about working in Photoshop, digital artist and photomontage king Steve Caplin comes along with yet another masterful method for creating incredible works of art in Photoshop. This time,...

The Designer Says will resemble a dinner party, with a graphic designer from the eighteenth century sitting next to one practicing today, or two contemporary designers talk to each other, complimenting, competing, disagreeing, Occasionally, a critic will...

Minimalism is not all about simplicity. However, simplicity is at the heart of minimalism. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe's well-known aphorism 'Less is more' clearly illuminated the essential theory of simplicity, of minimalism, and in the last fifty years of...

"The book itself is a diagram of clarification, containing hundreds of examples of work by those who favor the communication of information over style and academic postulation-and those who don't. Many blurbs such as this are written without a thorough...

Inspired by classic kung fu flicks from the 1980s and 1990s, Hong Kong cult illustrator Rex Koo pays tribute to the heroes from his childhood in I KNOW KUNG FU- an artbook that celebrates the much-loved shows and stars that have made Chinese martial arts...

Learn how to create beautiful artwork on your iPad or iPhone. Over 65 expert artists from around the world will show you how they created their original art, from inspiration and conceptualization, to the creation of the final image. Using step-by-step...

Design thinking is the core creative process for any designer; this book explores and explains this apparently mysterious design ability. This new edition is a completely revised, updated and extended version of a classic text. Focusing on what...

Consider this simple conundrum: is it possible to be a bad good designer or a good bad designer for that matter? If the answer is yes then which is preferable and what does this reveal about the relationship between ethics and design practice? Good: An...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781739842406Author John CallowFormat PaperbackPage Count 56Imprint White Lane PressPublisher White Lane Press

Information may be beautiful, but our decisions about the data we choose to represent and how we represent it are never neutral. This insightful history traces how data visualization accompanied modern technologies of war, colonialism and the management...

This groundbreaking new book covers the basic techniques of electric tattooing in an easy-to-follow, step-by-step way. This is the perfect book to accompany the hands-on training the apprentice tattooer receives, and will be a welcomed reference in every...