Graphic Art Design category: 1547 books
by William Rowe
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2014
The stylized geometric forms of Art Deco continue to be extremely popular with today's artists, designers, and craftspeople. In this highly useful archive, William Rowe interprets this streamlined decorative style in his own unique way. The artist's wit and inventiveness pervade a wealth of artfully...
by Tad Crawford
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2016
The fourth edition of this popular guide contains twenty-nine of the most essential business and legal forms to meet the everyday needs of today’s illustrators. Updated throughout, new forms include a promissory note, releases, and an agreement to arbitrate. Each form is accompanied by step-by-step...
Designing for Kids
Creating for Playing, Learning, and Growing
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2018
Designers, especially design students, rarely have access to children or their worlds when creating products, images, experiences and environments for them. Therefore, fine distinctions between age transitions and the day-to-day experiences of children are often overlooked.
Designing for Kids...
by Society of Illustrators
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2012
This latest volume of the Society of Illustrators annual is a gorgeous collection of the year’s best illustrations derived from books, advertising, comics, and un-commissioned illustrations. Designed by D.J. Stout of the prestigious Pentagram Design firm, this massive volume presents not only the...
Il futuro del contemporaneo. Conservazione e restauro del design
The future of the contemporary. Conservation and restoration of design
Language: Italian
Release Date: March 24, 2016
Il volume raccoglie gli atti di Il futuro del Contemporaneo. Conservazione e restauro del Design, primo convegno internazionale in Italia sul tema, organizzato a Napoli dalla Fondazione Plart dal 14 al 15 maggio 2015, nell’ambito del Festival Internazionale di Design. Storici del design, storici...
Character Design from the Ground Up
Make Your Sketches Come to Life
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2014
All stories have characters, and whether its a film, game, book, or comic, all characters need to be designed. Character design has become a distinct discipline in the entertainment industry, and character designers are employed by film and game companies across the globe to bring life to scripts...
The Moderns
Midcentury American Graphic Design
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
In The Moderns, we meet the men and women who invented and shaped Midcentury Modern graphic design in America. The book is made up of generously illustrated profiles, many based on interviews, of more than 60 designers whose magazine, book, and record covers; advertisements and package designs; posters;...
The Design Activist's Handbook
How to Change the World (Or at Least Your Part of It) with Socially Conscious Design
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2012
We Want You!
Will you join the ranks of design activists?
Doing good is too important to think of as work better left to those fictitious "other" designers. People more famous. More talented. More connected. Richer. Younger. Braver. (Insert your own mental roadblock here.) In truth,...
Careers by Design
A Business Guide for Graphic Designers
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2002
Through her work with hundreds of corporations around the world, leading headhunter Roz Goldfarb provides readers a treasure trove of valuable information for thriving in this creatively driven business, including updated hiring criteria, the latest developments in technology, and the marketplace...
Mastering Type
The Essential Guide to Typography for Print and Web Design
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2012
Good Design, Down to the Letter
Packages on store shelves, posters on building walls, pages of a website-all contain information that needs to be communicated. And at the heart of that communication is type: visually interesting, interactive, expressive and captivating. Each letter must come...
by Paul Rand
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2014
One of the seminal texts of graphic design, Paul Rand's Thoughts on Design is now available for the first time since the 1970s. Writing at the height of his career, Rand articulated in his slender volume the pioneering vision that all design should seamlessly integrate form and function. This facsimile...
LogoLounge 9
2,000 International Identities by Leading Designers
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2015
THE NINTH BOOK IN THE LOGOLOUNGE SERIES once again celebrates expert identity work by notable designers and up-and-coming talents from around the world. This edition's far-reaching collection offers inspiration, insight, and an indispensable reference tool for graphic designers and their clients....
by Brian D Miller
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
Above the Fold is a book about the fundamentals of clear graphic communication within the context of Web design. The book has three sections, which follow the cycle of a typical Web project:
PLAN
Section I focuses on the predesign phase of a Web project. From project planning and brief writing...
Color, Facture, Art and Design
Artistic Technique and the Precisions of Human Perception
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2012
Color, Facture, Art and Design seeks to understand art and design from the aspect of materials, construction and the senses. It contends that this element is omitted from art and design theory as a product of the division of labour and alienation as it operates within the realms of theory and art history.It...