Graphic Art category: 1709 books
IdeaSelling
Successfully Pitch Your Creative Ideas to Bosses, Clients & other Decision Makers
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2010
Don't let your creative ideas get picked apart and put down!
If you're like most creative people, chances are high that you've had your share of ideas rejected by clients or decision makers. While we sometimes make the mistake of believing ideas should sell themselves, the fact is that the...
by Christoph Niemann
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
In July 2008, illustrator and designer Christoph Niemann began Abstract City, a visual blog for the New York Times. His posts were inspired by the desire to re-create simple and everyday observations and stories from his own life that everyone could relate to. In Niemann’s hands, mundane experiences...
by Dorothy Abbe
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
There has never been anyone in the design world like William Addison Dwiggins (1880–1956). The first American to call himself a graphic designer, he applied his prodigious talents in the fields of typography, calligraphy, illustration, and even puppeteering—a more fitting title might have been...
You Are Here: NYC
Mapping the Soul of the City
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Maps are magical. Every graphic, like every story, has a point of view, and New York is rife with mapmaking possibilities, thick with mythology, and glutted with history. You Are Here: NYC assembles some two hundred maps charting every inch and facet of the five boroughs, depicting New Yorks of past...
Pioneers of Modern Design
From William Morris to Walter Gropius
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 1991
One of the most widely read books on modern design, Nikolaus Pevsner's landmark work today remains as stimulating as it was when first published in 1936. This expanded edition of Pioneers of Modern Design provides Pevsner's original text along with significant new and updated information, enhancing...
The Art of Setting Stones
& Other Writings from the Japanese Garden
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2002
In Japanese gardens, composition follows from placement of the first stone; all elements and plantings become interconnected. These eight essays on Kyoto gardens similarly begin with keen description and build into richly meditative excursions into art, Buddhism, nature, and science. Landscape architect...
Nimble
Thinking Creatively in the Digital Age
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2015
In graphic design, creative thinking skills are undoubtedly important, but sometimes the importance of critical thinking skills is overlooked.
Nimble will help you discover how to develop a creativity that is strategic and also able to cross platforms, industries or sectors. You'll discover...
Identify
Basic Principles of Identity Design in the Iconic Trademarks of Chermayeff & Geismar
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2011
The NBC peacock. Chase Bank's blue octagon. Mobil Oil's arresting red O. PBS's poetic silhouettes of "Everyman."
Chermayeff & Geismar's visual identities are instantly recognizable by countless millions around the world (one identity--the official logo for the U.S. Bicentennial--even sits on...
by Jim Krause
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2001
Idea Index kick-started a revolution in graphic design books, unique in size, feel-and most important-wealth of ideas. Layout Index is the next step, a compendium of layout idea-generators that will help designers explore multiple possibilities for visual treatments each time they turn the page. The...
Advertising by Design
Generating and Designing Creative Ideas Across Media
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2016
A real-world introduction to advertising design in today's industry
Advertising by Design is the most comprehensive, up-to-date guide to concept generation and design for advertising. Step-by-step instructions and expert discussion guide you through the fundamentals, as you develop the deeper...
The Art and Craft of Printing
"Give me love and work, these two only."
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
William Morris was born in Walthamstow, London on 24th March 1834 he is regarded today as a foremost poet, writer, textile designer, artist and libertarian. Morris began to publish poetry and short stories in 1856 through the Oxford and Cambridge Magazine which he founded with his friends and financed...
by Steve Caplin
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2008
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 engravings?
Then you need...
by Lászlo Roth, George L. Wybenga
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2012
The essential packaging design resource, now with more patterns than ever!
For more than two decades, The Packaging Designer's Book of Patterns has served as an indispensable source of ideas and practical solutions for a wide range of packaging design challenges.
This Fourth Edition...
Art's principles
50 years of hard-learned lessons in building a world-class professional services firm
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
Art's Principles reveals the blueprint behind one of the most successful professional services firms, giving career-minded individuals the tools they need to excel in business. The book covers the essentials of leadership, talent acquisition and operations, while outlining the creative strategies...