The often figurative and narrative artworks featured here employ classical techniques with great skills to create sculpture, illustration, design and painting with the use of spray cans, sharpies and elaborate colour palettes on canvas. With the evolution of new media, artists are also blending these elements with various disciplines in contemporary visual art.
Many of the artists in The Upset enjoy international fame and are represented in prestigious galleries and museums worldwide. The book also introduces a selection of promising talent who are breaking new ground, making it the perfect source book for those interested in fine art and discovering young artists.
Featured artists:
Maike Abetz / Oliver Drescher, Alexone, Grant Barnhart, Gary Baseman, Tilo Baumgartel, Tim Biskup, Mark Bradford, Daniele Buetti, Cailan Burns, Ray Caesar, Miguel Calderon, John Casey, Paul Chatem, The Clayton Brothers, Joe Coleman, John Currin, Brendan Danielsson, Stephan Doitschinoff, Blaise Drummond, Dzine, Ala Ebtekar, Martin Eder, David Ellis, Ron English, Faile, Christian Farner, Rosemarie Fiore, FriendsWithYou, Camille Rose Garcia, Os Gemeos, Michael Genovese, Charles Glaubitz, Benjamin Güdel, Robert Hardgrave, Maya Hayuk, Ryan Heshka, Femke Hiemstra, Cody Hudson, Gisela Insuaste, Rich Jacobs, John John Jesse, Colin Johnson, Mel Kadel, David Kassan, Aya Kato, David Kinsey, Henning Kles, Kozyndan, Susanne Kuehn, Mia Mäkila, Mateo, Elizabeth McGrath, Casey McKee, Jason McLean, Philip Metten, Moki, Brendan Monroe, Heiko Müller, Muntean/Rosenblum, Yoshimoto Nara, Aaron Nather, Anne Faith Nicholls, Jose Parla, Nigel Peake, Raymond Pettibon, Danielle de Picciotto, Anthony Pontius, Pooch, Johan Potma, Jeremy Pruitt, Leopold Rabus, Scott Radke, Rex Ray, Scott Rench, Daniel Richter, Rostarr, Christoph Ruckhaberle, Mark Ryden, Christoph Schmidberger, David Schnell, Sebastian Schrader, Michael Sieben, Michael Slack, Jeff Soto, Fred Stonehouse, David Stoupakis, Swoon, Johannes Tiepelmann, Chris Uphues, Miss Van, Vania | Ivan Zouravliov, Matthias Weischer, Martin Wittfooth and Chet Zar.
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Yale University Press 2008
96 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 9780300140606
13.5 x 21.5 cm English text. Softcover
London-based Graphic Thought Facility (GTF) has emerged as one of today’s most progressive and versatile design firms. Established in 1990, it has a reputation for a non-conformist approach to graphic design. The firm's originality results from its combination of a handmade aesthetic, knowledge of digital technology, and an interest in new materials and production methods.
This handsomely designed and produced catalogue includes photographs and essays that highlight GTF’s most notable projects and commissions, which range from graphic identity to marketing materials to exhibition and catalogue design. Whether providing innovative design materials for the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London,Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre, the Tate Museum, the furniture and interior design store Habitat, or designers such as Ron Arad and Tord Boontje, GTF encourages us to appreciate the visual richness of the world around us. Price: £9.99
Outre Gallery Press 2008
80 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 9780957768475
18.5 x 24 cm English text. Softcover
Angelique Houtkamp is the inspirational Dutch tattoo mademoiselle of the contemporary art world. This fascinating monograph happily traverses her nostalgic, eclectic and beautifully rendered artistic wonderland with a strong focus on her fine art practice. Classic old school tattoo imagery mixes with mythological dreams, anthropomorphised creatures, nautical iconography, and haunting Hollywood romance, by way of Houtkamp's distinctive painterly magic and eye for style. Watercolors and more recent oils glow from these pages. A true celebration of Houtkamp's vision, charms, and talents as a tattoo artist, painter, collector, and personality. Wonderful new art, inspiration galore, and swoon-worthy photos of Houtkamp at work. Includes essays and commentary by Liz McGrath, Sunny Buick, Cindy Hoetner, Gemma Jones, and more. Slim, softbound, color. Price: £11.99
Thames & Hudson 2008
112 pages Colour and B&W reproductions. ISBN 9780500514085
17 x 22 cm English text. Hardcover
Understanding the links between business, brand and consumer have never been more vital. Wally Olins sets out the ground rules for branding success in the 21st century, reflecting huge changes in the branding world.
This is an essential buy for everyone in advertising, marketing and business
• An ultra-simple guide to all one needs to know about brands and branding
• Subdivided into clearly defined sections, with case-study examples and ‘take away’ questions for anyone considering their own branding project.
• Wide spectrum of brands and branding programmes covered: examples include Apple in the US, Mitsubishi in Japan, Repsol in Spain, Daimler in Germany and Lloyd’s in the UK.
• Features over 100 illustrations showing logos, advertisements and other hard-hitting requirements of corporate commerce.
• Essential reading for anyone in advertising, marketing or business, and anyone setting up a company of their own.
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Actar 2009
450 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 9788496954564
17 x 24 cm English text. Softcover
German graphic design has undergone a dramatic metamorphosis in recent years. Young professionals and students have been demonstrating heightened technical skills and strong, individualistic styles.The emerging design generation has broken with cultural and geographical boundaries, entering the international arena and competing with cutting edge design icons worldwide. As the scope and depth of this exciting development has been under recognised, Neuland documents the future of German graphic design by presenting the best work of up-and-coming designers and design studios. This book compiles over 400 pages of exciting ideas, never before seen experiments, self initiated projects and commercial work from Germans working and studying at home and abroad, as well as non-Germans working and studying in Germany.
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Princeton Architectural Press 2009
152 pages Colour and B&W reproductions. ISBN 9781568987729
18 x 21.5 cm English text. Softcover
Graphic Design Theory is organized in three sections: "Creating the Field" traces the evolution of graphic design over the course of the early 1900s, including influential avant-garde ideas of futurism, constructivism, and the Bauhaus; "Building on Success" covers the mid- to late twentieth century and considers the International Style, modernism, and postmodernism; and "Mapping the Future" opens at the end of the last century and includes current discussions on legibility, social responsibility, and new media. Striking color images illustrate each of the movements discussed and demonstrate the ongoing relationship between theory and practice. A brief commentary prefaces each text, providing a cultural and historical framework through which the work can be evaluated. Authors include such influential designers as Herbert Bayer, Lászlo Moholy-Nagy, Karl Gerstner, Katherine McCoy, Michael Rock, Lev Manovich, Ellen Lupton, and Lorraine Wild. Additional features include a timeline, glossary, and bibliography for further reading. A must-have survey for graduate and undergraduate courses in design history, theory, and contemporary issues, Graphic Design Theory invites designers and interested readers of all levels to plunge into the world of design discourse.
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Gestalten 2009
90 pages Colour and B&W reproductions. ISBN 9783899552454
20 x 28 cm English text. Softcover
Vier5 explores the possibilities of creating what they call "new forward-looking images in the field of visual communication". Adamant about developing and applying cutting-edge typography, their unique letterforms have a carefree and often inconsistent form that often looks hand-drawn or have a strong geometric element that is atypical in classic typography. This book presents a collection of photographs, posters and visual identity projects they’ve done for forward thinking clients such as the Museum for Applied Art, Frankfurt, the Center for Contemporary Art, Bretigny as well as the contemporary art exhibition Documenta XII. Price: £18.00
Penguin 2006
143 pages Colour and B&W reproductions. ISBN 9780141025711
11.5 x 17.5 cm English text. softcover
There have been many books written on good business practice. All eminently sensible. All based on logic, common sense and good manners. It is essential if you want to be a supermarket manager. But for those wishing to break new ground, it is not enough. Logic and common sense have a habit of leading us to the same conclusions. If you are going to make your mark on the world you have to start thinking differently. To think differently, you have to think illogically. "Whatever You Think Think The Opposite" looks at life the wrong way in a bid to explain the benefits of making wrong decisions. There have been many books written on good business practice. All eminently sensible. All based on logic, common sense and good manners. It is essential if you want to be a supermarket manager. But for those wishing to break new ground, it is not enough. Logic and common sense have a habit of leading us to the same conclusions. If you are going to make your mark on the world you have to start thinking differently. To think differently, you have to think illogically. "Whatever You Think Think The Opposite" looks at life the wrong way in a bid to explain the benefits of making wrong decisions. Price: £7.99
Pepin Press 2008
320 pages B&W reproductions. ISBN 9789057681240
18 x 22.5 cm English text. Softcover
The Free Font Index contains comprehensive letterproofs of more than 500 fonts from 35 type foundries in 17 countries and interviews with 6 font designers. All fonts contained in the book are included on the accompanying CD and are licensed for personal and commercial use. A number of exceptional fonts have also been included which contain character sets for Central/Eastern European languages, Cyrillic and Greek.
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Haunch of Venison 2008
320 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 9781905620302
15 x 24 cm English text. Softcover
This publication is the second inventory of the works of M/M (Paris) that have appeared in the art world as specific objects, coming from a condensation of different collaborations, where they have been constructed, presented and represented.
M/M (Paris) was formed in 1992 by Michael Amzalag & Matthias Augustyniak, working in the fields of art, music and fashion. This publication is the first inventory of their works that have appeared in the art world as specific objects, coming from a condensation of different collaborations (including Pierre Huyghe, Bjork, Liam Gillick, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Jil Sander).
M/M (Paris) consider the furniture, lighting, posters, wallpaper and design objects as distinct elements in the larger tool-kit they use to create self-reflective situations.
This augmented version (updated with works which have appeared since the first edition in 2006), coincides with their exhibition at the Drawing Center, New York, 2008 titled Just Like An Ant Walking On The Edge Of The Visible.
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AMMO Books 2007
421 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 9780978607654
49 x 34 cm English text. Hardcover
Charley Harper is an American original who created his art from his home studio in Cincinnati, Ohio - until his death on June 10, 2007 at the age of 84. He is beloved for his delightful, graphic and often humorous illustrations of nature, animals, insects and people alike. Charley liked to say, that when he paints a bird, he doesn't count all the feathers in the wings - he just counts the wings. Minimal realism, he called it, and his unique and precise style continues to resonate and inspire his admirers. Charley Harper - An Illustrated Life, showcases his illustrations that appeared from 1950-1975 in the Ford Times magazines, as well as in books such as the beloved "The Giant Golden Book of Biology" in 1961, "Betty Crocker's Dinner for Two" in 1961, and " The Animal Kingdom" in 1968, among many others. His well loved book "Birds and Words", first published in 1974, is considered a classic. Remarkably, however, Charley's work has never before been published in one complete retrospective. Accordingly, this massive volume is the definitive Charley Harper book to have on your bookshelf! Price: £99.95
Gingko Press 2009
208 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 9781584233466
21 x 26 cm English text. Hardcover
The third book in an ongoing series from the seminalj West Coast art & culture magazine, Juxtapoz Art focuses on the art of screen print posters. In the past ten years screen printing has ballooned in popularity and a new class of artists has emerged. These artists stepped away from the pscyhedelic posters of the '60s and developed their own aesthetic - incorporating everything from the hand-drawn type to found objects. Their posters became sought-after collectors items for art and music fans alike. Featured artists include, among others: Jason Munn, Jesse LeDoux, Little Friends of Printmaking, Seripop, Brandy Flower, Aesthetic Apparatus, Nick Butcher, Rocky Grimes.
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Feral House 2008
250 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 9781932595345
16.5 x 25 English text. Softcover
While everyone now enjoys this exploitative genre for its campy kitsch, gloriously bad writing and outlandish misinformation, pulp paperback books were once a transgressive medium with a perversely seductive quality. Dope Menace collects hundreds of fabulously lurid and collectable covers, from xenophobic turn-of-the-centyr tomes about the opium trade to the beatnik glories of reefer smoking to the spaced-out- psychedelic 60s.
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Universe 2009
208 pages Colour and B&W reproductions. ISBN 9780789318817
20 x 25 cm English text. Softcover
From the creator of Paper Pilot and Paper Captain, Paper Astronaut is a beautifully illustrated voyage into deep space, combining stunning archival photographs and colorful technical drawings with expertly designed die-cut models that readers can actually cut out and assemble. Published for the fortieth anniversary of the moon landing in 1969—and introduced by Buzz Aldrin—the book includes histories of twenty feats of aeronautic engineering drawn from half a century of space programs around the world, from Apollo 11 to the Soviet space station Mir and China’s Shenzou 7 capsule, and featuring the most iconic designs of fifty years of space exploration. Each spacecraft is accompanied by amazing stories, fascinating facts and statistics about the universe around them, and mesmerizing photographs of the vessels in space. Sixty-four pages of the book are devoted to finely crafted die-cut paper models of the featured rockets, presented with clear instructions for assembly and helpful advice for deploying your galactic fleet. Price: £16.95
Laurence King 2009
240 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 9781856695824
18.5 x 26 cm English text. Hardcover
A fantastic source of inspiration, the book gives insight into the inner workings and private inspiration of creatives from the world of advertising, design, graphic design, fashion design, art, street art, and illustration. Intimate and often unseen, sketchbooks document the sources of inspiration as well as the journey to final execution. Providing a showcase of ideas, the sketchbooks themselves are complemented by interviews where the artists explain how they use their sketchbooks and how these relate to finished works, giving readers a direct and unmediated insight into the process of research and creation.
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Black Dog Publishing 2008
160 pages Colour and B&W reproductions. ISBN 9781906155483
12.5 x 17.5 cm English text. Softcover
There are times in your life when you find yourself pondering basic general knowledge questions and your gaps in information. So, if you’ve passed through education and still find yourself asking “Where’s your liver?” or “What beats a full house in poker?” and are too embarrassed to ask, this book can help.
Visual Aid provides the answers to the little questions in life in a simple colourful and engaging way. Included are: colour wheels, universal flags, star constellations, correct tablesettings, how reflexology works, the Italian wine regions, how to tie a knot, how to use chopsticks, sign language, morse code and many more. This eclectic collection of illustrations and diagrams will get you up to speed on life's basics,
without the need for extensive reading—or even your utmost attention. In a small, handy format this accessible guide is perfect for anyone with an interest in visual stimuli or a thirst for general knowledge. Price: £7.95
176 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 9783899552478
24 x 28 cm English text. Softcover
Naïve documents the extraordinary renaissance of Classic Modernism, from the 1940s to 1960s, in contemporary graphic design. This compilation introduces a new wave of young designers who are rediscovering the stylistic elements reminiscent of classic graphic design such as silkscreen printing, classical typography, hand lettering, woodcutting and folk art and integrating them into their work. Inspired by 20th Century American legends such as Saul Bass, Charley Harper and Alexander Girard, the burgeoning designers and their work showcased this in this book are inspiring, ranging from illustrations, poster art, editorials, book covers and record sleeves to stationary and textiles.
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AVA Publishing 2005
176 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 9782940373345
16 x 23 cm English text
Layout is the arrangement of the elements of design in relation to the space that it occupies according to an overall design scheme. It could also be called the management of form and space. The objective of layout is to present the visual and textural elements that are to be communicated in a manner that enables the reader to receive it with the minimum of effort. With good layout, a reader can be navigated through quite complex information in both print and electronic media.
The second title in the Basics Design series Layout addresses the practical and aesthetic considerations of the job in hand such as where and how the content will be viewed, regardless of whether the final format is a magazine, website, television graphic or bottle of bubble bath. How the content will be used is also discussed. The use of a grid, for example, allows quick and accurate placement of items and ensures a consistent visual identity from page to page, or item to item across a range of products. This book will prove indispensable for anyone wanting to acquire a thorough knowledge of the building blocks of creative design. Price: £17.95
BIS 2009
160 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 9789063692070
12 x 17 cm English text. Hardcover
The world of fashion and design is inundated with a seemingly endless list of rules. Think of “Less is More,” “Form Follows Function,” “Keep it Simple,” “Dress Your Age,” and the list goes on and on. They’re familiar sayings that some designers consider to be valuable words of wisdom, which serve as a guiding line and source of inspiration. To others, these rules are mere restrictions: design dogmas and fashion formulae that need to be bended, twisted or broken altogether.
Rules tend to have a life of their own: over time their meaning changes or the rule is adopted by a whole new group of followers. Take, for instance, the classic “Form Follows Function.” It started out life as an architecture guideline but has crept its way into other creative fields. This evolution is reflected in this book by the chronologically placed quotes that accompany each rule and that are courtesy of designers, architects, fashion designers, typographers and other creatives. All rules are also accompanied by an image that either negates or supports the rule. Our aim is not to list all the rules that you need to adhere to. Nor do we take sides in the whole rules debate. Granted, creativity knows no bounds and therefore it seems rather ridiculous to restrict that creativity by sticking to a couple of age-old rules. However, in some cases the rules seems more like the basic principles that every designer should love, honor and obey.
Whichever side of the fence you yourself are sitting on in the rules debate, you’re bound to find this book a source of inspiration, comfort, joy or just good old fun.
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320 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 9783899552461
21 x 27 cm English text. Softcover
We Make Magazines explores magazine culture and celebrates the energy and visual dynamite that can be found outside the publishing mainstream. Edited by passionate magazine connoisseurs, it features exclusive interviews with international experts and illustrates the diverse topics that are fundamental to magazine publishing. While showcasing more than 100 independent magazines from 30 countries around the globe with stunning spreads and layouts, it also includes a directory to over 700 of the most cutting-edge independent magazines. We Make Magazines is an essential read for everyone with a passion for print.
DGV 2008
256 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 9783899552171
24 x 30 cm English text. Hardcover
More and more information is being visualised. Diagrams, data and information graphics are utilised wherever increasingly complex elements are present, whether it is in magazines, non-fiction books or business reports, packages or exhibition designs.
Data Flow presents an abundant range of possibilities in visualising data and information. Today, diagrams are being applied beyond their classical fields of use. In addition to archetypical diagrams such as pie charts and histograms, there are manifold types of diagrams developed for use in distinct cases and categories. These range from chart-like diagrams such as bar, plot, line diagrams and spider charts, graph-based diagrams including line, matrix, process flow, and molecular diagrams to extremely complex three-dimensional diagrams.
The more concrete the variables, the more aesthetically elaborate the graphics – sometimes reaching the point of art – the more abstract, the simpler the readability. The abundant examples in Data Flow showcase the various methodologies behind information design with solutions concerning complexity, simplification, readability and the (over)production of information. In addition to the examples shown, the book features explanatory text.
On 256 pages, Data Flow introduces a comprehensive selection of innovatively designed diagrams. This up-to-date survey provides inspiration and concrete solutions for designers, and at the same time unlocks a new field of visual codes.
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AVA 2008
192 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 9782940373826
20 x 23 cm English text. Softcover
The Fundamentals of Graphic Design offers a unique overview of a challenging and dynamic profession.
This book examines the familiar aspects of the graphic design process, such as art directing, copyright issues and web design, as well as the broader implications of graphic design, including social responsibility, its role in art and its future.
The Fundamentals of Graphic Design is an ideal guide for anyone starting out or seeking a role in the world of graphic design.
Key features
Includes a manual of key design principles and a guide to art directing.
Suitable for foundation students and undergraduates.
Over 200 colour images stimulate and enhance learning.
Readership: Introductory
Design students and professional designers wanting to refresh their knowledge of the fundamental key elements of creative design.
General market appeal for anyone getting into graphic design – the book will provide the reader with the basic tools.
Thames & Hudson 2007
272 pages Colour and B&W reproductions. ISBN 9780500513620
22 x 30 cm English text. Hardcover
Here is privileged access to the sketchbooks of some of the world’s leading street and graffiti artists. These are very private spaces, often reserved for a handful of friends.
The book showcases an incredible diversity of working methods, innovative approaches and personal fixations, typographic explorations, alter egos, storyboards, mythological creatures, anatomical studies, architectural drawings and extreme doodling.
Over 65 artists worldwide are represented, including Banksy (UK), A. J. Purdy (USA), Eroné (France), Joska (Germany), Microbo (Italy), Laguna (Spain), Bfree (Holland), Ekta (Sweden), Neb (Belgium) and Zbiok (Poland). They work across different media, including illustration, painting, design and animation, but graffiti and street art are common links between many of them.
240 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 9783899552201
24 x 28 cm English text. Hardcover
Graphic designers are approaching type design in a refreshingly new manner and creating typography beyond the classical typeset. Playful Type demonstrates how these designers are creating a dynamic range of playful, illustrative and hand-made typography with the aide of a multitude of different techniques. From manual lettering, calligraphy and collage to manipulative time exposures of photographs and even ice blocks, the cutting-edge examples collected in this inspiring book indicate current developments in type design.
RRP £35.00
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Lars Muller Publishers 2008
160 pages Colour and B&W reproductions. ISBN 9783037781210
21 x 28 pages English text. Hardcover
Designed in 1957, the Helvetica font is an icon of Swiss graphic design, which was a model of sober, functional communication throughout the world in the 1950s and 60s. The balanced and neutral appearance of Helvetica forgoes a high degree of expressivity – a quality for which it is both criticized and admired. This polarization has helped to gain it unparalleled notoriety. Helvetica is far and away the most widely used of all typefaces; according to a survey by the Berliner Fontshop-Archiv, it tops the list of the hundred best fonts of all time. This publication retraces Helvetica’s fifty-year history, compares it to the well-known sans serif fonts of the twentieth century, and examines the phenomenon of its unparalleled spread. Numerous illustrations show a multitude of ways the font has been used in five decades from a wide variety of fields – from signal design to party flyers. With contributions by Axel Langer and Indra Kupferschmid
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Fuel 2008
208 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 9780955862014
15 x 22 cm English text. Softcover
This collection symbolises the golden age of British football programmes. A spirit of innocence is reflected in these designs, with their colourful graphics and often quirky illustrations.
Compiled by Bob Stanley and Paul Kelly, it features every English league member from 1945 to the dawn of the Premiership, with a selection of non-league clubs, and other programmes from significant matches such as the 1966 World Cup Final.
Match Day includes an introductory essay by the distinguished football journalist Brian Glanville, who traces the origins of the club programme.
Featuring over 450 programmes from the beautiful game
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AVA Academia 2009
184 pages Colour and B&W reproductions. ISBN 9782940373994
16 x 23 cm English text. Softcover
Basics Typography: Virtual Typography addresses a fundamentally new way of typographical communication. The book explores the visual interpretation of verbal language and reveals how virtual typography can help in the presentation of words, and avoid misinterpretation, by including type in an image.
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Adelita 2008
224 pages Colour and B&W reproductions. ISBN 9780955201738
23 x 28 cm English text. Hardcover
“Barney Bubbles is the missing link between pop and culture.”
Peter Saville
Barney Bubbles was a giant of graphic design whose prodigious output is revered by musicians, artists, fellow designers and music and pop culture fans.
Bubbles' body of work included early posters for the Rolling Stones, brand and product design for Sir Terence Conran, layouts for underground magazines OZ and Friends and collaborations with many bands and performers, from counter-culture collective Hawkwind to new wave stars Elvis Costello, Ian Dury, Nick Lowe, Graham Parker, The Damned and Billy Bragg.
Bubbles links the colourful underground optimism of the 60s to the sardonic and manipulative art which accompanied punk’s explosion, and influenced a generation of design talent including Neville Brody, Malcolm Garrett and Peter Saville.
The lavishly illustrated Reasons To Be Cheerful contains hundreds of images and many full-colour plates.
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112 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 9781856695930
19 x 23 cm English text. Hardcover plus free DVD
International street artists are currently conquering the art market, with auction houses, collectors and galleries demanding top prices for their work. This book and DVD package features interviews with key artists including Banksy, Futura, Ramm:ell:zee, Os Gemeos, Invader, Barnstormers, WK Interact, Zevs, Blek le Rat, Andre, Noki and Eine. Graffiti-inspired street art pioneers Futura, Ramm:ell:zee and Blek le Rat discuss their own work, how street art was born out of the days of subway train graffiti, spraypainting and tagging, and how the new movement of street artists are doing things differently. Filmed in New York, London, Paris, Sao Paulo and Tokyo, the accompanying documentary shows the artists at work: Zevs practising his 'Visual Kidnappings' of advertising billboards, Blek le Rat sticking up outsized stencils, Os Gemeos painting their lyrical, folklore-inspired murals; and Invader putting up his unique mosaic wall tile images.
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216 pages ISBN 9781856695688
17 x 24.5 cm English text. Softcover
Creating effective copywriting is of vital importance in today’s design and communication industries. This book explores the challenges of commercial writing, providing the tools to become a confident and versatile copywriter. Leading copywriting talents from both the UK and the US are interviewed, major campaigns covering all areas of the industry are illustrated in colour and examined in depth, and exercises and tips aid in developing writing, editing, and presentation skills.
AA Publications 2007
168 pages Colour and B&W reproductions. ISBN 9781902902623
15 x 21 cm English text. Softcover
For this publication nineteen international graphic designers have provided three contributions: a representative example of past work, and an 'inquiry' into architectural subjects serving as the foundation for a series of newly commissioned prints. this new work aims to re-examine the increasingly overlapping practices of graphic design and architecture and in so doing hopes to compile a selective genealogy of the architectural canon as seen through the field of contemporary graphic design.
As a separately bound supplement Forms of Inquiry Reading Room contains a selection of publications guest-curated by a group of editors, publishers and designers. Contributions include independent scholarly publications, books, 'zines and other printed matter that exemplify graphically driven modes of inquiry, with a particular emphasis on those that investigate the connections between design and architecture.
This title accompanied an exhibition at the Architectural Association in October 2007 and has since been shown in Utrecht, Belgium and Valence, France. Contributors to the exhibition and book include Åbäke, Julia Born, de Valence, Dexter Sinister, Paul Elliman, Experimental Jetset, James Goggin, Will Holder, Hudson-Powell, Jürg Lehni, Karel Martens & David Bennewith, Metahaven, Mevis en Van Deursen, John Morgan, Radim Pesko, Project Projects, Manuel Raeder, Emmet Byrne, Alex Dearmond & Jon Sueda, and Michael Worthington.
RRP £22.00
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Laurence King 2007
208 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 1856695107
21.5 x 28 cm English text. Softcover
There is currently an enormous wealth of materials and of print manufacturing processes available to designers. These opportunities are rarely fully explored, whether from a lack of knowledge, or from a belief that they will be too costly, to complicated, or too time consuming. Materials, Process, Print explores these diverse possibilities, providing insights into how they can be stretched, skewed and subverted to produce original results.
In depth analysis of specific materials and of key print and manufacturing processes is combined with a series of case studies showing innovative practice from major international studios at the cutting edge of design. Functioning as a handbook for reference and a highly illustrated source of ideas and creative solutions, this book suggests fresh approaches and new ways of thinking for designers working in graphic design and packaging, and will also be of interest to product designers and anyone who commissions design in these fields.
RRP £25.00
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176 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 9782940373772
Basics Design: Grids aims to introduce the basic principles of grid usage in graphic design as practised by contemporary designers. Although these design principles have a long history, methods have been refined, improved and complemented many times, and this process continues today, as new technology creates new media contexts.
The book is not intended to be a prescriptive guide to setting up and using grids. Instead it looks at the principles behind grid usage to give the reader the ability to tackle a wide variety of graphic design problems. The book’s main message is that a static and repetitive approach to grid use does not result in effective and creative designs. By developing a clear understanding of the many facets of the grid, order can be delivered to a design but also ample opportunities for expression and creativity.
The book also includes case studies juxtaposed with key creative ‘basics’. Contemporary work is supported by concise descriptions, technical expansions and diagrammatic visualisations, enabling the reader to fully understand the work being discussed.
Guides students through the principles of grid usage.
Covers all facets of the grid from basics, types and elements through to usage and the web.
Fully illustrated featuring contemporary work and case studies.
Index Books 2008
222 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 9789889822903
20.5 x 26.5 cm English text. Softcvover
Entitled Stereographics, with reference to the geometric term ‘stereography’ (art of picturing 3-D solid bodies on a 2-D plane), the tomb reveals how graphics makes its mark on the 3D realm through 4 inspiring case studies explaining each step with insights into problem-solving, plus a diverse collection of works from over 60 design units worldwide.
Rotovision 2008
208 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 9782888930365
23 x 29 cm English text. Softcover
Maps and charts are needed by both businesses and society in order to make complicated information and data comprehensible. The art of mapping has therefore become one of the core graphic design practices. However, very little literature exists on this subject and the few books available fail to address all the issues involved.
Mapping Graphic Navigational Systems offers a comprehensive study of all areas of cartography from nautical charts to subway systems, from websites to calendars. This guide reveals the visual language of location, direction, spatial and structural relationships which are central to the information design discipline. Featuring in-depth essays as well as inspiring visuals and case studies, this book will be welcomed by professional information designers and design students everywhere. This revised edition offers a timely update to the subject, and features brand-new material. Price: £22.50
Laurence King 2005
160 pages B&W reproductions. ISBN 1856694100
19 x 23 cm English text. Softcover
17.95
Graphic designers constantly complain that there is no career manual to guide them through the profession. Now, design consultant and writer Adrian Shaughnessy draws on the wealth of his experience to provide just such a handbook. Aimed at the independent-minded, it addresses the concerns of young designers who want to earn a living by doing expressive and meaningful work but want to avoid becoming a hired drone working on soulless projects. It offers straight-talking advice on how to establish your design career and practical suggestions - that you won’t have been taught at college - for running a successful business. Within each chapter there is inspirational guidance from a range of international designers who cite their personal mistakes and experiences as well as a chapter of one-on-one interviews with 10 leading designers including Neville Brody and John Warwicker. Price: £17.95
DGV 2009
208 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 9783899552324
Manifesting creative visions into material objects and spaces is one of the most prominent developments in contemporary design today. Tangible documents how designers are using the stylistic means of graphic design to implement their ideas spatially to create three-dimensional designs, objects and orchestrated spaces. The examples in this book show the unprecedented use of materials and innovative ideas – graphics morph into spatial sculptures, the intangible is made visual through handmade craftsmanship, physical experiences, visual environments and staged spatial installations such as art installations, interiors and architecture as well as urban interventions. Tangible continues the exploration of its trailblazing predecessor Tactile.
352 pages Colour and B&W reproductions. ISBN 185669528 X
19 x 24.5 cm English text. Softcover
"The next time you are tempted to design a logo, take a look at this book. Chances are, it has already been done. By raising the bar, this wonderful resource will make better designers of all of us." Michael Bierut of Pentagram Design
The logo bible, this book provides graphic designers with an indispensable reference source for contemporary logo design. More than 1300 logos are grouped according to their focal form, symbol and graphic associations into 75 categories such as crosses, stars, crowns, animals, people, handwritten, illustrative type, etc. To emphasize the visual form of the logos, they are shown predominantly in black and white. Highlight logos are shown in colour.
By sorting a vast, international array of current logotypes ranging from those of small, design-led businesses to global brands in this way, the book offers design consultancies a ready resource to draw upon in the research phase of identity projects. Logos are also indexed alphabetically by name of company/designer and by industrial sector, making it easy to piece together a picture of the state of the identity art in any clients marketplace.
Packed with examples of contemporary logos, grouped according to their visual form
With jacket that folds out into a reference poster
A must for every graphic designer/agency
Black Dog Publishing 2009
208 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 9781906155605
21 x 21 cm English text. Softcover
Paper: Tear, Fold, Rip, Crease, Cut shines a light on the beautiful world of paper art, fashion and design. From the traditional art of origami and paper cutting through to contemporary experiments in conceptual paper installations and modular folding, Paper celebrates one of the world’s oldest and most widely used materials in all its visual glory, providing an analogue remedy to the digital world.
Paper profiles over fifty artists and designers who work with the medium, from the vast sculpted installations of Mia Pearlman and the delicate paper incisions of Noriko Ambe, to the light-hearted illustrations of Robert Ryan and the forward-thinking furniture design of Tokujin Yoshioka. Also included is an informative history of the material and its role as an art form, from the ancient process of paper manufacture in Ancient China to the most recent technological advances.
With a foreword by leading paper artist Richard Sweeney, and essays by origami expert Hatori Koshiro, Paper: Tear, Fold, Rip, Crease, Cut is an elegant and insightful look at the sumptuous world of paper today.
RRP £24.95
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Mark Batty 2009
144 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 9780979966699
In the late 1980s skateboarding began to gain notoriety, growing from a Southern California hobby born out of surfing to a nationwide trend, which developed into a visual style. While the bottoms of skateboards have always been adorned with graphics, back then only a handful of skateboard manufacturers existed. Today, vast amounts of visuals are created for skateboards, with more than 40 major brands in the market. Because of how the sport has grown, however, many of these graphics are used for only a season, and then are forgotten about until now. From spreads of full-board designs to detailed crops of patterns and graphics, New Skateboard Graphics features the best, most innovative work going on today. More than just illustrations, however, interviews with designers and creators of major brands, like Joe Castrucci of Habitat and Jamie Thomas of Zero, will help elucidate this colorful phenomenon. An indispensable source for skateboarders and graphic designers alike, New Skateboard Graphics answers the question: Why devote so much time and energy to a design that will inevitably be worn away from use?
Victionary 2008
272 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 9789889822989
21 x 25.5 cm English text. Softcover
Pattern has always been a star in the creative world. From Andy Warhol to Mark Rothko, Emilio Pucci to Hanna Werning, creatives always use pattern to inject new energy into their works. The same pattern can be used on fashion, product, interior and installation and still ooze a different feel. In Simply Pattern, pattern takes centre stage. Featuring creatives such as Japanese graphic designer TAKORA Kimiyoshi Futoria, Swedish wallpaper maker Lisa Bengtsson and Parisian design studio 5.5 designers, the book aptly demonstrates that pattern is omnipresent when you open up your eyes. Sometimes seeing is believing. Price: £27.50
368 pages Colour and B&W reproductions. ISBN 9789057681226
15 x 30 cm Chinese, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish text. Softcover
The Web Design Index has become the industry standard for tracking innovations in web design. The sites featured in this series are selected from those nominated on the webdesignindex.org website, from the portfolios of designers who have recently received web awards and from the work of new designers who have received recognition for innovative design. The selection process focuses not only on visual design but also on functionality and the innovative use of new technologies.
The use of animation and movies to enliven websites continues to be a trend in web design. This has also lead to a change in how we bring you the Web Design Index. The enclosed CD-ROM now contains more than just images of the featured web pages. Sites containing movies and animated features have been captured to ensure that the CD is as true to the programmers’s design as possible. This book and CD will be a functional archive long after the sites themselves go offline.
Since its first edition in the year 2000, the annual Web Design Index has developed into one of the most important publications in its field. Year after year, it gives an accurate overview of the state of the art in web design. Every Web Design Index contains 1002 outstanding web pages. With each web page, the URL is indicated, as well as the names of those involved in the design and programming. Selection for the Web Design Index is based on design quality, innovation, and effectiveness, and the books offer examples of all conceivable forms and styles.
296 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 9783899552447
Airside is one of UK’s leading creative practices. Their potent formula of combining experimental methods, meticulous application and a playful approach to graphic design, illustration, moving images and real world interaction has earned them an international reputation with a client list to follow. This book tells the story of Airside’s evolution in the words of its founders, staff and clients and showcases the work created for a wide range of commercial clients and self initiate projects – from companies such as Coca-Cola, MasterCard, Greenpeace, MTV, Panasonic and Sony to the Pet Shop Boys, The Beatles and Lemon Jelly. It brings their dynamic spectrum of work in one place for the first time and at the same time, provides a case study in how to set up a design company.
Taschen 2009
192 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 9783836504966
14 x 19.5 cm English/French/German text. Softcover
This addition to our popular Web Design series focuses on very carefully crafted navigation systems, where usability and narrative are taken in consideration in the development of the website. Featuring over 90 projects from more than 20 countries, as well as case studies on outstanding work by the world’s leading studios such as Fahrenheit, Clusta, and Sequence, this collection illustrates the ingenious solutions to one of the most difficult and important aspects of web design. Price: £5.99
Selfridges 2008
184 pages Colour and B&W reproductions. ISBN 9780955707001
320 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 9783836510011
15.5 x 21.5 cm English/French/German text. Hardcover
This book features an amusing collection of signs from around the world. Divided into chapters by type (animals, man, stop, danger, weapons, transport, children, toilets, work, "no!", etc.), the signs demonstrate how different cultures portray the icons with which we are all so familiar. The diverse selection of photographs is accompanied by texts describing the cultural and social significance of signs. You may even learn things from this book that could save your life the next time you travel! Price: £7.99
Laurence King 2006
344 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 1856694674
19.5 x 25 cm English text. Softcover
A bible of contemporary illustration, this is a comprehensive survey of new and exciting work from across the globe that will appeal to experts and newcomers alike.
Compiled by award-winning designer Angus Hyland, The Picture Book presents a broad spectrum of styles, techniques and subject matter representative of current trends and innovations to create a stunning compendium of work. Each artist/'/s work is accompanied by a self-portrait and a short, illuminating profile exploring their inspirations and their approach both to illustration and to their career.
Taschen 2008
192 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 9783836504980
Following up on the success of Web Design: Portfolios, this volume features the Internet's best examples of artists, design studios, photographers, designers, and corporations that use Flash to showcase their creations. What once existed only in printed form is increasingly being featured online via dynamic, animated Flash-powered sites. Flashfolios contains a selection of such websites developed exclusively using Flash, demonstrating the sophistication and range of interactive web design today. Price: £5.99
568 pages Colour and B&W reproductions. ISBN 9783899552225
24 x 19 cm English/German text. Hardcover
Los Logos 4 is the latest addition to Gestalten‘s line of books on contemporary logo design. This compendium provides an authoritative overview of current developments and advances in logo design, one of the most prestigious of creative disciplines which represent the essential visual identity of brands, companies and their philosophies.
At 568 pages, Los Logos 4 is the largest volume to date, showcasing a collection of contemporary logo design by bourgeoning design talent and once again offering an essential resource for all designers. This state-of-the-art visual encyclopaedia provides a quality selection of over 5,000 examples of stylistic approaches by designers from around the globe. Fully indexed and structured thematically, the book draws connections between the applications and the fields for which they were intended.
Abrams 2008
15 unbound signatures in a die-cut slipcase ISBN 9780810995291
17.5 x 24 cm English text. Softcover
This book began as a list designer Stefan Sagmeister made in his diary under the title Things I have learned in my life so far, which includes statements such as “Worrying solves nothing” and “Trying to look good limits my life.” The list reveals something that is profoundly true: Although human beings have been pursuing happiness for countless generations, it is not so easily achieved. And we need constant reminders to keep us on the right path.
With the support of his clients, Sagmeister transformed these sentences into typographic works, from billboards in France to sign-toting inflatable monkeys on the streets of Scotland. Accompanied by essays from design historian Steven Heller, Guggenheim chief curator Nancy Spector, and UK psychologist Daniel Nettle, as well as Sagmeister’s own words, the series is revealed as a complex blend of personal revelation, art, and design—an eclectic mix of visual audacity and sound advice.
This special package from acclaimed graphic designer Stefan Sagmeister consists of a slipcase containing 15 unbound signatures – the cover of the book changes depending on how they are sequenced. Price: £19.95
384 pages Colour and B&W reproductions. ISBN 9780500513989
24 x 33 cm English text. Hardcover
Few have left a deeper impression on the world of typography than Jan Tschichold (1902-74), one of the most outstanding and influential designers of the 20th century. Not only was he was a master in his field, but he wrote a number of highly influential books and became instrumental in promoting the modernist design strategy called the New Typography. This substantial volume covers Tschichold's life and career, placing the designer's vision firmly in the rich cultural and historical context of his era. Tschichold embraced avant-garde ideas from movements such as the Bauhaus and De Stijl and made them accessible to working designers and printers, stressing clarity in communication, with form and function going hand in hand.The contributing writers discuss the designer's major influences and the highlights of his varied career, including his seminal poster designs, his groundbreaking work with Penguin Books, and his creation of the classic typeface Sabon. Lavish illustrations - archive photographs, many published here for the first time, as well as copious examples of Tschichold's work - accompany the text, confirming that Tschichold's heritage lives on in the digital age, and proving that he is amongst the greatest typographic designers ever.
RRP £39.95
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Birkhauser 2008
208 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 9783764387716
21 x 28.5 cm English text. Hardcover
Three D - Graphic Spaces highlights a current trend in international graphic design: more and more visual designers are staging their compositions as three-dimensional scenarios, in order to turn them into posters, magazine covers, web sites, and animated films. The result is a host of suggestive new pictorial worlds that range from playfully arranged still lifes to room-filling installations. Edited by Gerrit Terstiege, editor-in-chief of the European design magazine "form", and designed by the prizewinning German studio Pixelgarten, this book offers an inspiring look at the various modeling techniques and means of expression involved.
RRP £34.50
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Ilex 2008
160 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 9781905814404
31 x 31 cm English text. Hardcover
A stunningly designed review and celebration of the greatest album cover designs from the 50s to the 70s, Roger Deanâs innovative volume was first published in 1977. The original, and still the best, it sold over 250,000 copies in its first year and heralded six further volumes and a host of imitations. This new edition retains the lavish 12â format to show off the covers in all their life-size glory, and maintains the superbly themed pictorial compositions of each double-page spread. Edited and compiled by Roger with Storm Thorgerson (one half of the Hipgnosis design team celebrated for its album cover work with Pink Floyd), the Album Cover Album features over 600 sleeves in full colour, and showcases the astonishing diversity and excellence of design that the medium produced in its first three decades. The appeal of the original package lay in its juxtaposition of familiar icons of rock design with fascinating surveys of lesser-known genres of album cover art. If anything, time has served to increase this appeal, as the classics have cemented their place in our visual vocabulary, while the more obscure titles have only increased in curiosity value. The whole package is updated with a revised design treatment, fresh typography, and a new foreword. The result is both a retro collectible that will intrigue music lovers and an essential reference work for a new generation of artists and designers.
AVA 2006
176 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 9782940373420
Presentation is everything in graphic design and printing and finishing techniques can be used to add value to a design by embellishing it with a range of different visual and tactile qualities. Ultimately, printing and finishing processes unite the different elements of a design in a coherent manner allowing it to achieve its intended purpose.
Basics Design: Print & Finish provides an introduction to a variety of printing techniques, such as letterpress, litho, computer-to-plate and thermography, as well as a range of finishing techniques, including varnishing, embossing, debossing and fore-edge printing.
Basics Design: Print & Finish is printed on a series of seven different paper stocks - including coated, uncoated, coloured, woodfree and matt - allowing the reader to see the results that can be achieved from creative stock selection. It also demonstrates advanced printing techniques via the use of three special colours to show how metallic, fluorescent and pastel inks can be used to great effect
Princeton Architectural Press 2008
224 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 9781568987880
22 x 30.5 cm English text. Hardcover
Eatock is endlessly inventive but he also has an eye and an ear for absurd detail and juxtaposition. He spreads that delight: the book is stuffed with pictures others have sent him, all exploring the same vein of urban incident. His artworks are here too, beautiful abstract colour fields that turn out to be the result of a grid of felt-tips left to bleed into a pile of paper over hours. This book will make you smile and perhaps even change the way you see the city - no longer a dead grey background but an endless series of tiny moments of delight.
Financial Times
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Bloomsbury 2008
38 pages ISBN 9780747595793
14 x 18 cm Hardcover
An ABC work of art novelty book
From A to Z an astoundingly beautiful and creative novelty book. The alphabet has never been so beautiful.
‘If the pop-up words in ABC 3D can’t make learning fun, nothing can’ Sunday Times Style magazine
Sunday Times Style magazine Price: £9.99
160 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 9783899552232
24 x 32 cm English text. Hardcover
The Russian-born artist Vania Zouravliov creates surreally haunting illustrations. In artworks that often depict beautiful women involved in macabre or erotic scenes, Vania’s intense emotional style evokes a nostalgia rooted in the artist’s Russian background. Drawn in painstaking detail, they capture a mixture of innocence, brutality, beauty and decay. His resulting drawings are elaborately composed and demonstrate the technical brilliance of an old master. The first monograph on the artist’s work, this publication presents the expansive scope of an exceptional young talent.
Laurence King 2008
192 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 9781856695992
21.5 x 27.5 cm English text. Softcover
Creating effective, eye-catching designs and layouts is a matter of both inspiration and practical know-how. Graphic Design Essentials is the ultimate guide to great design for aspiring designers. Written by a leading teacher and practitioner, the book integrates clear explanations of the concepts behind great design with instruction in the use of the core software packages - Photoshop, Illustrator, and Indesign . It is written especially to help beginners learn the essentials of graphic design quickly and to reflect the fact that the creative process needs to involve a thorough integration of design principles with software capabilities. Illustrations and analyses of classic designs sit alongside step-by-step introductions to the design and software skills necessary to achieve powerful results. The book follows a clear formula of design concepts, examples, analysis, software skills and projects. This encourages both successful development of design fundamentals and the capability to produce graphic designs.
University of California Press 2008
276 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 9780520257849
18 x 25.5 cm English text. Softcover
Comics! Cartoons! Anime! Manga! Graphic novels! Video games! This vibrant and engaging book, catalog to a landmark exhibition, celebrates the variety and growing significance of visual pop culture. Stunningly illustrated with eye-popping art, KRAZY! investigates the uniqueness of these forms while considering the ways they interconnect. Curated by many of the artists who first brought these forms to the public's attention, this volume features commentary and interviews with Maus author Art Spiegelman, SimCity creator Will Wright, and Canadian comic book author and illustrator Seth, along with Tim Johnson (codirector of Antz and Over the Hedge), Kiyoshi Kusumi (a global authority on manga), and media theory critic Toshiya Ueno. This pathbreaking volume crosses boundaries between the printed arts, films, and video games and analyzes the reciprocal influences between fields, highlighting the best of each. The energy and intensity of the images leap off every page, and the full experience of the exhibit itself comes alive in behind-the-scenes commentary by the contributors. KRAZY! is a dizzying introduction to the art forms that will dominate the new century. Price: £24.95
192 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 1856694690
23.5 x 29 cm English text. Softcover
Printed brochures, catalogues and /'/multi-page/'/ documents form the bedrock of many graphic designers/'/ daily practice. Most printed literature is disposable: today/'/s hot communication document is tomorrow/'/s landfill. But the best brochures, catalogues and documents have a permanence and organic completeness that has become important in the ephemeral, and increasingly electronic, world of instant communications.
This book features the best of contemporary printed literature. It offers a critical survey of current graphic design, showing work by leading practitioners from the USA, Europe and Japan. Arranged in a designer-by-designer format and accompanied by interviews with some of the designers responsible for the featured work, this book offers a complete and informative picture of this popular subject.
544 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 9783822840351
20 x 25 cm English/French/German text. Softcover
Comprised of 20 countries located in North, South, and Central America as well as the Caribbean Islands, Latin America is populated by over 500 million people. From Argentina to Mexico, all Latin American countries are Spanish-speaking with the exception of Portuguese-speaking Brazil. Latin America has been producing a very unique form of graphic expression for decades and this historical publication brings together the best examples from the 20th century as well as today. The book begins with an extensive historical essay about the region's contribution to design, featuring the development of graphic design in the region from 1900 to current times, while the main body of the book features A to Z entries of almost 200 designers and design offices that have built up and continue to champion the Latin design identity. Finally, a handy index facilitates access to key information in the book, such as designers' names, countries, publications, educational institutions, and famous events.
JRP| Ringier 2008
244 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 9783905829549
17 x 23 cm English text. Hardcover
The work presented in this book is an organic gathering, collected over the last 14 years from both Work in Progress and Self Service magazine, a deliberate yet subjective journey into the very essence of Ezra Petronio and Suzanne Koller’s undiluted stylistic world. The selection of work wasn’t a conscious search for an absolute or quintessential representation, but ultimately about the importance of their creative experience.
'This book is about representing a personal and intimate creative process, that usually happens behind the scenes. It was through these productive dialogues in which very often meaning and medium were questioned, when individual perception was juxtaposed with conventional patterns and habits of vision, that their creative inspiration was triggered, enabling us to produce our most personal and meaningful work. Taken out of context, the work is presented here from different perspectives and points of view. Printed campaigns as well as the same images uncropped – as seen through the lens of the photographers – unpublished images, design, research, or prototypes are opposed to finalized projects as seen in the public arena, such as on billboards or store windows. (Ezra Petronio and Suzanne Koller)
Gavin Ambrose & Paul Harris
AVA 2005
176 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 9782940373314
Basics Design: Colour, the fifth book in the Basics Design series, explores the use of colour in graphic design from two different directions. First the book explores in depth what colours mean, their inherent associations and their cultural connotations. Building on this information the book then tackles how to control colour in a design in order to achieve a desired effect or fulfil a specific brief.
Colour, the book argues, is the most immediate form of non-verbal communication. Humans naturally react to colour as we have evolved with a certain innate understanding of it. Colour is used to represent thoughts and emotions in a way that no other element of design can. As such, colour is an important facet of contemporary design.
Starting with the basic principles of colour – how light works, colour wheels, colour combinations and harmonies – the book builds on these principles and explains how the designer, or design student, can accurately and intentionally control colour.
Fully illustrated with examples from contemporary designers that push the envelope of colour in design, Basics Design: Colour constitutes a comprehensive discussion of the effective use of colour in graphic design.
Small-format book that is easy to carry around so can be referred to effortlessly.
Highly visual throughout with informative text and lucid, unique design scheme.
In-depth exploration of the meaning of colour and how to best utilise it to achieve the desired effect.
240 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 9784894446403
21 x 29.5 cm English/Japanese text. Softcover
As the third title following “CAP Magazine Designers’ Collective” and “The Secret Sense of Japanese Magazine Design,” Mr. Yasushi Fujimoto, the head of CAP selected 10 magazines, 4 Japanese and 6 international, and inteviewed the art directors. The art directors are: Christophe Brunnnquell, Work in Progress, Yorgo Tloupas, Jop Van Bennekom, MM, David Carson, Tadanori Yokoo, Heikichi Harata,Gento Matsumoto,Kazunari Hattori. Price: £28.00
Lars Muller 2008
467 pages Colour and B&W reproductions. ISBN 9783037781050
17.5 x 24.5 cm English text. Hardcover
Representing a new generation of designers in Japan, Kenya Hara (born 1958) pays tribute to his mentors, using long overlooked Japanese icons and images in much of his work. In “Designing Design”, he impresses upon the reader the importance of “emptiness” in both the visual and philosophical traditions of Japan, and its application to design, made visible by means of numerous examples from his own work: Hara for instance designed the opening and closing ceremony programs for the Nagano Winter Olympic Games 1998. In 2001, he enrolled as a board member for the Japanese label MUJI and has considerably moulded the identity of this successful corporation as communication and design advisor ever since. Kenya Hara, alongside Naoto Fukasawa one of the leading design personalities in Japan, has also called attention to himself with exhibitions such as “Re- Design: The Daily Products of the 21st Century” of 2000.
RRP £29.90
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192 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 9783899552065
Despite their rich tradition of calligraphy, the Arab World and Persia are not known for their contemporary graphic design, illustration and typography. Especially now, it’s worth taking a look at the region’s creativity. Young designers are just beginning to chart their own compelling course between local visual convention and a modern, international style.
Arabesque investigates the creative potential of the Arab World and Iran. This book features examples of recent innovative and groundbreaking design work that is inspired by the richness of the region’s visual culture.
Given the important role of calligraphy in the Middle East, Arabesque focuses on typography. The book presents a wide range of modern Arabic fonts and typefaces; these are accompanied by a rich selection of applications. Further examples of design and graffiti serve as powerful demonstrations of how text can be used illustratively. This work is particularly relevant to those now creating street art and poster design.
Arabesque also features graphic design, logos and illustration by young designers and activists from Egypt, Iran, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Lebanon, which is complemented by selected projects by Western designers, who are strongly influenced by Arab culture. Regardless of the location and ancestry of their creators, all of the examples included in Arabesque combine modern design with the traditional, letter-based canon of Arab forms in striking ways.
Supplemental texts describe the environments in which the featured designers and artists work. Arabesque also includes a CD-ROM with the Arabic inspired Latin typeface Talib created by the book's editors Ben Wittner and Sascha Thoma.
RRP £33.00
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272 pages colour reproductions. ISBN 9783899552096
There is more unhindered experimentation with the printed book now than ever before. Fully Booked is a collection of current cover art and book design that strikes a crucial balance between sophisticated visual and content design on the one hand, and the market’s demand for availability, legibility and durability on the other. In addition, the book presents a choice selection of artist books that push the boundaries of conventional book design. Fully Booked also reveals developments in today’s graphic design and is an inspirational resource for creators and book lovers.
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224 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 9781856695695
16.5 x 22 cm English text. Hardcover
In recent years, postcards have become so much more than a tacky holiday greeting. Graphic designers, illustrators and advertisers are seizing the postcard and repurposing it with quirky new designs that give a new twist to a classic format. Postcard is a showcase of exciting postcard designs and postcard-related projects, including handmade artworks, limited-edition sets and books, commercial promo cards, high-tech postcards and interactive online projects that successfully link the virtual with the physical world. Designed and compiled by international design studio FL@33, the book features more than 100 artists, illustrators, photographers, designers and studios/collectives from around the world, with emerging talents sitting alongside established artists. The book includes a collector’s set of 20 specially commissioned postcards from some of the biggest names in the business.
FL@33 is a multi-media visual communication studio based in London, with projects published in numerous international magazines, newspapers and books and extensively featured online.
400 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 9780500514160
22 x 24.5 cm English text. Hardcover
Almost overnight the digital revolution has turned the rules of branding on their head. What matters now is not size, but attitude: flexible, agile, transparent in actions, global in mindset. The campaigns in this book enable small companies to think big – and force big companies to act small.
This new guide to success in the contemporary communications age illustrates and defines a new set of rules for brand behaviour in the digital age – showcased in 150 of the most innovative recent campaigns.
Packed with vital content and analysis:
• 17 fundamental groundrules for everyone in advertising, communications and business
• Defines a new set of rules for brand behaviour in the digital age, detailing 17 mantras for success
• Features many seminal campaigns and analyses their success, including Cadbury’s ‘Drumming Gorilla’ and Tate’s ‘Your Collection’
Phaidon 2008
240 pages Colour and B&W reproductions. ISBN 0714848468
25 x 29 cm English text. Hardcover
Iron Fists: Branding the 20th-Century Totalitarian State is the first illustrated survey of the propaganda art, graphics, and artifacts created by the totalitarian governments of Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, the USSR, and Communist China. The iconography produced by these regimes is universally recognized as their “brands”: the swastika and aggressive typography of Hitler’s Germany, Mussolini’s streamlined Futurist posters and stylish Black Shirt uniforms, the stolid Social Realism of Stalin’s USSR, and Mao’s Little Red Book and kitschy ceramic figurines from the Cultural Revolution.
Written by the eminent designer and design historian Steven Heller, who has long collected two- and three-dimensional examples from this period, Iron Fists focuses on graphic materials such as typefaces, logos, posters, advertisements, children’s books, flags, and medals. As Heller explains, Mussolini fancied himself an art director and the Nazis had a sophisticated graphic program, featuring Hitler as "logo," that is remarkably similar to modern corporate identity systems. Heller also explores the meaning of color systems (each dictatorship had a distinctive palette), the development of regime-specific typefaces, and even the slogans used to both rally and terrorize the populace. Delving into the history of once-innocent antecedents in heraldry, color symbolism, and sacred and secular symbols, he demonstrates how these elements were put to disturbingly effective use in selling the totalitarian message.
DGV 2007
208 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN: 9783899552003
Tactile shows how graphic design is moving into three-dimensional objects and products. The innovative examples documented in the book demonstrate how designers are developing and implementing their ideas spatially from the very outset of a project. Tactile proves that spatial innovation in graphic design is not limited to personal work or artistic endeavours, but is being sought out more and more often by commercial clients, for example, in store design.
AVA Publishing 2008
192 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 9782940373635
22 x 30 cm English text. Softcover
The Production Manual teaches all aspects of getting a job to production. A very practical ‘hands-on’ guide; all the areas that fall under the remit of graphic design are covered including exhibition, packaging, signage, plate making, resolution and printing techniques.
Viction Design Workshop 2007
248 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 9789889822934
21 x 26 cm English text. Softcover
Getting more boredom from the computer-dominated design world, we always crave for new ways and trends of illustration. Appealing to the curious in all of us, our latest released title Illustration • Play will give you an insight into that! The title reveals the very different signature skills and unique styles of various illustration techniques and experiments, such as paper cutting, stitchery, hand knit, fabric piecing, origami, patchwork, etc. With exclusive interviews, lets’ spread the pages and understand more about diverse yet distinct perspective of each featured artists in a total number of 23 from around the globe!
CONTRIBUTORS: Eleanor Bowley, Louisa Bufardeci, Peter Callesen, Genevieve Dionne, Miles Donovan, Stephanie Dotson, Catalina Estrada, AJ Fosik, Melvin Galapon, Steven Harrington, Jenny Hart, Caroline Hwang, Aya Kakeda, Johanna Lundberg, Carolina Melis, Sandrine Pelletier, Robert Ryan, Richard Saja, Vicky Scott, Lisa Solomon, Megan Whitmarsh, Megan Wilson, Ian Wright
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Pepin Press 2007
528 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 9789057681110
17 x 22.5 cm English text. Softcover with CD-ROM
Would you like an overview of the state of the art in web design in a specific field? Web Design Index by Content provides exactly that: every year, 500 new designs are selected and grouped in more than 20 categories, such as architecture, art, fashion, food, IT, music, photography, product catalogues, etc.
Two pages from each site are included: an opening page and a page representative of the nature of the site. The accompanying CD-ROM allows you to view the designs on screen and to access the entire sites online.
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448 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 0714848557
Area_2 is the second volume in the graphics version of Phaidon's award-winning series of curated compendiums, which includes Cream, Fresh Cream, Blink, 10x10, 10x10_2, and Spoon. Covering all manifestations of printed graphics created by the world's most visionary designers, Area_2 presents the posters, books, magazines, typography, packaging, and ephemera that has influenced visual culture over the past five years.
272 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 9783899552102
The job description of graphic designers has changed. Classical graphic design is now being influenced by various design principles from the areas of typography, illustration, art and installation.
Exciting work is currently being produced that is not necessarily created by graphic designers, but by independent spirits who work in interdisciplinary ways with a variety of skills. This new generation of talent is developing a visual vocabulary that is refreshingly off-key and inventing their own original design language.
Lemon Poppy Seed is a compilation of work by these young, international artists. Their styles defy current trends and classifications and are all the more brilliant for doing so. The 272-page book takes readers on a whirlwind creative journey that proves that these newcomers are a creative force to be reckoned with.
Lemon Poppy Seed is the perfect source for those who want to see the organic development of new artistic terrain before the mainstream attempts to erect shopping centres upon it.
RRP £25.99
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Migros Museum, Zurich / JRP|Ringier 2007
272 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 9783905701661
Peter Saville Estate traces the development of designer, artist and cultural observer Peter Saville, from his groundbreaking work for Factory Records in the late 1970s, through to his most recent explorations of art and design’s role in the highly commodified, visually hyper-literate early 21st century. Taking Saville’s 2005 exhibition at the Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst Zürich as its starting point, the book features essays by Michael Bracewell and Heike Munder, alongside personal responses to Saville’s work from artists Slater Bradley, Liam Gillick, Steven Gontarski, Thomas Grünfeld, Robert Longo, Sarah Morris, Oliver Payne and Nick Relph, Sean Snyder, Wolfgang Tillmans, Kelley Walker and T.J Wilcox.
Peter Saville Estate is not a conventional account of Saville’s professional practice, but collects together work, reference material and ephemera from his archive to form an illuminating and highly personal topography of the life and working methods of one of the most influential designers of the last 30 years.
480 pages Colour reprodcutions. ISBN 9783822830161
Following the success of Illustration Now!, this installment presents a completely new selection of 150 illustrators from all around the world. Whereas the first volume brought together a fascinating mix of star illustrators and brand new faces that together formed the face of illustration around the world, Illustration Now! 2 is even more exciting, featuring illustrators from 25 countries, with styles ranging from cutting edge to traditional. Also included is a dialog between design specialist Steven Heller and German illustrator Christoph Niemann about illustration’s role in the world today. This book is perfect not only for creative professionals and illustration students, but also artists and anyone with an appreciation for visual language.
120 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 9780810970892
18.5 x 26.5 cm English text. Hardcover
Graffiti artists in Paris, much like in New York and Los Angeles, have transformed urban spaces—sidewalks, metro stations, staircases, abandoned buildings—into showrooms that exhibit their work in all of its many mediums, from a proliferation of stickers to cleverly applied stencils to giant murals. In Graffiti Paris, Fabienne Grévy takes readers on a tour of Paris’s street art, and also discusses the variety of unique sources that inspire the artists, including the cave paintings at Lascaux, nineteenth-century Japanese blockprints, and comics. Price: £9.99
248 pages Colour reproductions, ISBN 9781568987026
20.5 x 23 cm English text. Softcover
How do designers get ideas? Many spend their time searching for clever combinations of forms, fonts, and colors inside the design annuals and monographs of other designers' work. For those looking to challenge the cut-and-paste mentality there are few resources that are both informative and inspirational. In Graphic Design: The New Basics, Ellen Lupton, best-selling author of such books as Thinking with Type and Design It Yourself, and design educator Jennifer Cole Phillips refocus design instruction on the study of the fundamentals of form in a critical, rigorous way informed by contemporary media, theory, and software systems.
Through visual demonstrations and concise commentary, The New Basics shows students and professionals how to build interest and complexity around simple relationships between formal elements of two-dimensional design such as point, line, plane, scale, hierarchy, layers, and transparency. The New Basics explains the key concepts of visual language that inform any work of design–from a logo or letterhead to a complex web site. It takes a fresh approach to design instruction by emphasizing visually intensive, form-based thinking in a manner that is in tune with the latest developments in contemporary media, theory, art, and technology. Colorful, compact, and clearly written, The New Basics is the new indispensable resource for anyone seeking a smart, inspiring introduction to graphic design and destined to become the standard reference work in design education.
RRP £20.00
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SEA 2007
264 pages Colour reproductions ISBN 9780955389818
18 x 23 cm English text. Hardcover Price: £25.00
Museum of Modern Art, New York 2008
192 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 9780870707322
30 x 30 .5 cm English text. Softcover
Like the major exhibition it accompanies, Design and the Elastic Mind focuses on the ability of designers to grasp momentous advances in technology, science and human behavior and convert those changes into objects and systems that people can understand and use. Included projects range from nanodevices to vehicles, appliances to interfaces and building facades, pragmatic solutions for everyday use to provocative ideas meant to influence our future choices. Essays by design experts and a nanophysicist explore the dynamic relationship between design and science.
272 pages Colour and B&W reproductions. ISBN 1856694755
21.5 x 28 cm English text. Hardcover
Originating in Russia, Germany, and The Netherlands in the 1920s, Modernist graphic design and typography found a firm foothold in Switzerland. By the 1950s, Switzerland had developed a uniquely clear graphic language, evident not just in posters but in pharmaceutical labelling, tourist brochures, train tickets, timetables, passports and bank notes. Abroad, 'Neue Grafik' or 'Swiss' style, as it became known, was admired for its formal discipline. Images and text were organized into geometrical grids used together with sans-serif typefaces such as Helvetica and Univers. These chief components of the Swiss style spread across the world and their influence is still seen today. "Swiss Graphic Design" gives a rich and fascinating account of this key period in graphic design history, setting the stylistic developments into the social and cultural context of the times. Price: £35.00
192 pages Colour and B&W reproductions. ISBN
1856694682
A visual guide to the best in contemporary typographic design, this book features examples and usages of modern typography from around the world. Covering a wide variety of applications, from design to print - magazines, books, brochures, posters, etc - to signage systems and screen-based typography, the book gives an insight into the current trends and directions of modern typography and provides a rich source of inspiration for design students and established designers alike. An introductory essay by David Jury discusses the role of change in typographic design in the last two centuries. The book is then divided into four showcase sections that illustrate key areas of typography today. Contributors include Antoine et Manuel, Eggars Diaper, Emigre, Hort, M/M, Meta Design, Norm, North, Projekt Triangle, RGB, Stefan Sagmeister, Stiletto NYC and Surface.
Designed by Roger Fawcett-Tang
JRP | Ringier 2007
390 pages Colour and B&W reproductions. ISBN 9783905770902
21 x 30 cm English/French text. Hardcover
The publication recounts and documents, somewhat in the style of a history book, the principle steps, achievements, and teaching principles which have led the Ecole cantonale d’art de Lausanne from the position of a regional school to that which it occupies today. This success story is, of course, that of its director Pierre Keller, but also that of a team, the range and diversity of which we discover here, alongside that of their students, the work of some of whom is probably not unknown to the reader.
First recognized in the domain of graphic design and photography, the ECAL is today renowned for its industrial design projects and the commissions that it frequently realizes in collaboration with museums, companies such as Swatch, Christofle, Swarovski, Nestlé, and Coca-Cola, or exhibitions and publications.
Numerous personalities from the world of culture and creation have contributed to this lavishly illustrated publication, which reveals some of the recipes for success of the school and its students.
Gingko 2007
272 pages Colour reproductions ISBN 9789889822880
20.5 x 22 cm English text. Softcover
Graphic design has slipped into all perspectives and coherent with all aspects of design areas such as industrial design, interior design, and most commonly and noticeably- fashion design.
In “Fashion Unfolding”, we attempt to reveal the power of graphic design in fashion brand label and examine how these designs alter our fashion sense and influence our choices of purchase. This book will be a source of inspiration and a good reference for fashion/graphics designers, students, and all creative individuals. Price: £25.00
240 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN ISBN 1856695050
Pattern is back, and what better way to celebrate its revival than with a cool compendium of the best pattern design from around the globe? This exciting new book showcases some of the most innovative pattern designs around, including graphics, textiles, fashion, furnishings, ceramics, tiles, wallpaper and stationery. While many of the designers featured work commercially, others are independent designer-makers whose work is cutting-edge even though, or perhaps because, they dont follow conventional techniques or disciplined structures. Designers include Hanna Werning, Skuirtgun, Delaware, Timorous Beasties, Jessie Whipple and Lena Corwin. Natural, figurative, funky, abstract, pixel-based, graphic or retro patterns are all featured in this inspiring visual feast of the best work to emerge in the last five years.
RRP £15.99
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256 pages (bound in felt with a DVD in a lit-edge acrylic case) Colour reproductions. ISBN 1856695093
With its pioneering vision, onedotzero champions new forms of moving image, and this book celebrates the next generation of creators who are accelerating the medium into the 21st century, following the success of the first Motion Blur. It features 27 international filmmakers who are exploring the evolving possibilities of motion graphics, broadcast design, digital film effects and animation. Their work is illustrated by screen grabs, storyboards and sketches, and the groundbreaking nature of their work is highlighted in exclusive interviews and short texts accompanying every production.
Paul Stolper 2008
64 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 9780955215452
22.5 x 30 cm English text. Hardcover
Preface by Gavin Turk
Interview with Mel Gooding
RRP £18.95
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Thames and Hudson 2008
224 Pages Colour and B&W reproductions. ISBN 9780500238479
21.5 x 24 cm English Text. Hardcover
More than one hundred lithographs, etchings, woodcuts and linocuts are featured, ranging from radical geometric abstractions to forceful impressions of the first fully mechanized war and colourful Jazz Age images of sporting events.
Highlighting works by thirteen artists, it focuses in particular on the well-known dynamic imagery of C. R. W. Nevinson, Paul Nash, Edward Wadsworth and David Bomberg (early followers of Italian Futurism and British Vorticism) and also the works of Claude Flight, Sybil Andrews, Cyril Power and Lill Tschudi.
Clifford S. Ackley's introduction takes stock of the art historical movement and is followed by lively discussions of the prints, an overview of the history and technique of the modern linocut, and short biographies of the artists.
Fuel 2007
192 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 9780955006173
12.5 x 20.5 cm English text. Hardcover
This is a portrait of the Russian street told through it’s public notices. They are pasted on everything – still or moving – notes for missing persons, love letters, political statements, job offers, complaints, and warnings. Their authors are the country’s underclass made visible.
The folklorist and lexicographer Alexei Plutser-Sarno, has collected these street notices for over twenty years. Published here for the first time, his collection tells an alternative story of recent Russian culture.
Designed as part of the acclaimed Russian series of books, and printed on an unusual mix of white and brown craft paper. A moving and vital contribution to the documentation of vernacular graphics.
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340 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN: 9783899551914
Since we published Illusive, our first collection of contemporary illustration from around the world, the demand for work in this medium has continued to grow – and with it its range of application and forms of expression. This positive development is confirmed by the exciting work of international illustrators that we have seen since its publication, and it was thus a logical step to present the best of these new works in Illusive 2. The book features an impressive variety of illustration styles and new design approaches that have become more differentiated and complex in comparison to the spontaneous-looking scribbles of years past.
400 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 9783866540149
18 x 23 cm English/French/German/Italian/Spanish text. Hardcover
Thanks to thriving style and culture industry coupled with a unique art and design- school environment, European capitals from Amsterdam to Zagreb are currently a hotbed of small eclectic graphic studios and teams of designers. There is a desire to create independent practices and an aspiration to cross borders, all the while retaining a specific national flavour. This book shows a short profile of 46 young European Graphic Designers each introduced with examples of their best designs and a short characteristic. An index with contact information of the Designers is enclosed. Price: £17.95
304 pages Colour and B&W reproductions. ISBN 9783899551990
In 2005, dgv published the instant bestseller Neubau Welt, an encyclopedia of over twelve hundred pictograms of everyday objects by Stefan Gandl. Two years after its release dgv is proud to announce Neubau Modul, the newest project by the Neubau Team.
Neubau Modul gives designers a wide variety of patterns to use in their daily work. Previously, when designers needed patterned surfaces for their graphics, backgrounds, textures, wallpapers or moving images, they had to create them by hand. It was a time consuming process. Now, with Neubau Modul, designers have a practical tool that gives them access to the over 2,000 editable and infinitely repeatable patterns that the Neubau Team headed by Stefan Gandl and Christoph Grünberger have developed in three years work.
As with Neubau Welt, all of the work shown in the book Neubau Modul can also be found as Adobe Illustrator and bitmap files on an included DVD that can be used on any platform. The DVD also contains the entire digital collection of patterns as a practical Swatch Library, enabling designers to immediately put them to use in any project in Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator. The Swatch Library makes it especially easy for designers to combine and edit the examples and to create new, completely scalable patterns within seconds.
As an added bonus, the DVD contains a headline font designed by Neubau.
The book also provides the user with an analogue instrument for making the best selection of patterns as efficiently as possible. With the included Modulmeter one can test combinations of patterns directly on the page.
Neubau Modul is a practical tool that makes designers’ every day work a bit easier. It is helpful in creating applications for a wide variety of disciplines that include illustration and architecture as well as web, communication, motion and textile design.
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Black Dog Publishing 2006
144 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 9781904772613
19 x 25 cm English text. Softcover
Making Stuff is an eclectic craft book for the new millennium. It is a testament to a trend that is only going to get bigger. Whether you are a seasoned crafter looking for new ideas or a novice who still doesn’t know how to cast on, this book is for you.
The twenty-first century has seen an explosion in all kinds of crafting. The rise and rise of knitting as a cool pastime has led to circles and clubs springing up everywhere from New York to Notting Hill and alternative craft fairs are fast becoming a weekend institution as ever more people are reclaiming these age old hobbies and asserting their individuality through ‘making stuff’.
Utilising both traditional craft materials and thrifty finds Making Stuff gathers together over 50 projects from established members of the craft scene that will undoubtedly inspire you to get your craft on. A section at the beginning lays out the basic skills you need to make something out of nothing: knitting, sewing, crochet, felting and appliqué. The book simultaneously rejects and embraces these traditionally old-fashioned activities, whilst the skills remain the same the results have a modern edge: an eclectic mix of the useful, the hip, the beautiful and the downright weird.
Projects include:
Knit an i-Pod cover
Fashion a purse from your old school-ties
Stitch one piece of fabric into a stylish smock-dress
Turn an old jumper into a cuddly toy
Make a notebook out of record covers
Fold beautiful origami fairy-lights
Knit unwanted t-shirts into a bathmat or weave a placemat
As well as a plethora of ingenious ways to customise your clothes, make your own jewellery, decorate your home, recycle your old possessions and fashion baby clothes and toys for the children in your life.
Abrams 2007
160 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 9780810994379
23.5 x 22 cm English text. Hardcover
In the last fifteen years, a tremendously vibrant youth culture movement has emerged made up of DIY artists and creators, who are descended from and inspired by the 1970s to 80s underground movements of punk, hip-hop, and skateboarding. These predecessors set the foundation for the current movement - which in the broadest sense can be called "street culture" - with their ability to work outside of the traditional fine art establishment through their own network of independent newspapers, magazines, books, music, film and galleries. Today's renegade artists blur the lines between graffiti, graphic design, folk art and stoned doodling. From street walls to T-shirts, sneakers and toys, the work of these artists are instantly recognizable and are defining today's aesthetic.In "The Revisionairies", the editors of "Tokion", a magazine at the helm of discovering and covering new talent, gather all of these artists in one book. It is organized into three sections: graphic arts, folk art and psychedelia, and includes introductory bios and interviews with artists such as Shepherd Fairey, Geoff McFetridge, Ryan McGuinness, Swoon and many more. Price: £14.95
Princeton Architectural Press 2007
256 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 9781568986265
20.5 x 25.5 cm English text. Softcover
In this digital age of computer-generated graphics and typography, it's refreshing to find typographers who still believe in working by hand. No longer relegated to designer's sketchbooks, hand-drawn type has emerged from the underground as a dynamic vehicle for visual communication—from magazine, book, and album covers to movie credits and NFL advertisements. As the practice and appreciation of hand-drawn type grows, it's time to celebrate the work of those typographers whose every letterform is a work of art.
Hand Job collects groundbreaking work from fifty of today's most talented typographers who draw by hand. Graphic designer and hand typographer Michael Perry selects work representing the full spectrum of design methods and styles. Each hand-drawn work is entirely shaped by the artist's unique process—every one a carefully executed composition enhanced by unplanned "accidents" of line, color, and craft. Hand Job also includes photographs of found type, artists studios, and the tools that help make typography come to life. Whether you are looking to invigorate your design work or are just in need of a little offbeat inspiration, Hand Job will have you reaching for your favorite pen.
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336 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 9783899551860
Supersonic presents over 300 striking pages of today’s best-designed music products with a focus on Independent and Alternative Rock as well as Electronica. In addition to abundant visuals, the book features portraits of selected designers and companies, who are creating outstanding work in these musical fields. With its stunning images from today’s most exciting music, Supersonic is a source of inspiration for all music insiders, graphic artists creating music packaging and anyone interested in cutting-edge visuals.
Agile Rabbit Editions 2007
368 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 9789057681059
15 x 30 cm English text. Softcover
The increasingly common use of fast-speed Internet connections over the past few years has considerably increased designers’ possibilities to use advanced capabilities, including larger image files. Furthermore, it is clear that web design is reaching its maturity: whereas in the past many designers were hesitant to make the change from print to web, many designers now primarily work in web design.
The results of these developments can be seen in this year’s edition of our best-selling Web Design Index: as ever, the most accurate overview of the state of art in web design.
The Pepin Press/Agile Rabbit Editions web design indexes are international best-sellers, with about a quarter of a million copies sold worldwide. Price: £14.99
Rizzoli 2007
208 pages Colour and B&W reproductions. ISBN 9780847829446
20.5 x 29 cm English text. Softcover
The Black Panther Party for Self Defense, formed in the aftermath of the assassination of Malcolm X in 1965, remains one of the most controversial movements of the 20th-century. Founded by the charismatic Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale, the party sounded a defiant cry for an end to the institutionalized subjugation of African Americans. The Black Panther newspaper was founded to articulate the party's message and artist Emory Douglas became the paper's art director and later the party's Minister of Culture.Douglas's artistic talents and experience proved a powerful combination: his striking collages of photographs and his own drawings combined to create some of the era's most iconic images, like that of Newton with his signature beret and large gun set against a background of a blood-red star, which could be found blanketing neighborhoods during the 12 years the paper existed.This landmark book brings together a remarkable lineup of party insiders who detail the crafting of the party's visual identity.
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192 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 9783899551945
If one can identify any trend in today’s diverse design, it would be the new flirtation with geometrical forms and solid colours. The book that documents this development is accordingly called NeoGeo.
Basic forms such as circles, squares and triangles are being increasingly used in creative work. One sees crystalline structures, diamonds, rhombi, patterns and grid-like frames. Elements influenced by the psychedelic and OpArt of the 1960s and 70s are being combined with the acid colours of the late 80s.
NeoGeo makes clear that this current abstract work is not a nostalgic phenomenon; rather, it borrows from illustration, collage, typography and computer art to create a whole new visual language.
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DGV 2006
508 pages Colour and B&W reproductions. ISBN 9783899551587
Logo design is one of the most crucial and challenging tasks in graphic design. Seemingly simple, The Logo becomes the indispensable face of companies and conveys the identity and philosophy of brands.
Los Logos and Dos Logos documented this unceasing evolution. Expanding on the previous editions, Tres Logos demonstrates how influences from illustration and street art have become increasingly evident in logo design inspiring ornamental patterns with logos replacing the abstract tag. Additionally, companies are becoming more daring and exploiting their logos to identify their brand with a certain style and appeal.
Fully indexed and structured thematically, the book draws connections between the applications and the field for which it was intended. Like its predecessors, Tres Logos explores the exceptional visual language and stylistic approaches to logo creation by designers around the globe, exhibiting thousands of examples and simultaneously providing information about the “makers’” personal approach.
Tres Logos is a state of the art visual encyclopedia on the current state and evolution of Logo Design.
128 pages with free badges!! Colour reproductions. ISBN 1856694174
20 x 20 cm English text. Hardcover
Badges, buttons and pins have been around for over a century. Today they/'/re everywhere: on lapels and bags all over the world and in the sketchbooks and on the screens of some of the hottest graphic designers, artists and illustrators. A badge can be a cheap and easy way to display political or cultural affiliations or it can simply be a fashion accessory. Cheap to produce and easy to make at home, the humble badge is the new T-shirt. A guide to the best and most beautiful badges being produced right now be they graphic, textual or plain illustrative this book explores the rich variety of uses of the badge since the year 2000 whether it be promotion, revenue-raising or simply decorative. It will appeal to graphic designers, illustrators, fashion designers, artists, music lovers and badge enthusiasts of all ages.
192 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 9783899551853
24 x 28 cm English/German text. Hardcover
Non-Format is a London-based design studio comprised of the Norwegian Kjell Ekhorn and the Brit Jon Forss. This creative team has built a formidable international reputation with exceptional graphic design and illustrations that are strikingly innovative and fresh yet have a timelessness that goes beyond fleeting style trends.
The monograph Non-Format presents the full spectrum of their work, which ranges from delicate drawings for album covers to riveting advertisements for Coke and Nike as well as pristine graphic design for publications such as Varoom or the UK music magazine The Wire.
In addition to their best project work for clients from the music, fashion and advertising industries as well as for culture and the arts, Non-Format also contains original work that was created exclusively for the book.
352 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 1856695263
22 x 22 cm English text. Softcover
Scanning the world for the best new graphic design talent, Mike Dorrian and Liz Farrelly have collated the work of 100 new designers, from So Paulo to Tokyo, Melbourne to Los Angeles, into a book that will both inspire and impress. The book focuses on practitioners still in the first decade of their career, either working alone or teamed up into small companies, showcasing projects, aesthetics and methodologies which push boundaries and redefine working practices. As well as pinpointing the best new talent worldwide, this visually stunning survey provides a showcase of cutting-edge imagery for a student and professional audience. Thanks to affordable technology and up-for-it, media-savvy clients, a huge number of designers set themselves up in their own studios, straight from college. The kind of work that results is often fast, furious, rule-breaking and inspirational. These designers are also characterized by their love of their locale, along with nomadic tendencies and a small is beautiful attitude.
128 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 9781568986982
16.5 x 23 cm English text. Softcover
The New York Chapter of AIGA's Fresh Dialogue series brings together emerging designers in annual panel discussions and provides them with a forum to talk about their work, thoughts, and ideas. Fresh Dialogue 7: Making Magazines presents three young publishing gurus who are reinventing how magazines are made. They've thrown off the templates and formulas of traditional publishing in favor of new and innovative approaches to magazine making. Representing the next generation of publishing kingpins, the book features Tod Lippy, creator of the luscious biannual arts publication Esopus; Lisa Farjam, the force behind Middle-East culture magazine Bidoun; and master storyteller David Haskell, editor-in-chief of Topic magazine. The moderator is magazine industry mover, shaker, and supreme tastemaker James Truman.
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224 pages Colour and B&W reproductions. ISBN 9628650483
In the 21st Century packaging counts at least as much as the product within. In a fiercely competitive commercial world where products clammer for attention the consumer has become incredibly discerning about how a product is presented. Marketers know that people pay not only for the product, but for the packaging as well. It's a Matter of Packaging is number 4 in Amatterofdesign'sTM brilliant new series and it is an elite array of the hottest contemporary packaging designs from all around the globe. It covers everything from the product itself to whatever encases it, including bags and boxes of all shapes and materials. Categories covered include cosmetics, food and beverages, CD albums, fashion, furniture, seasonal items, and more.
Index Books 2007
350 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 9788496309678
17 x 22 cm English text. Softcover
Do you have a flood of business cards in your drawers or wallet? Have ever you ended up throwing them away? What made you do that? Could it be because they are no good and look dull? Ever tried to think of what it really says about the refered person or company?
Here comes 'Nice to meet you' offering a great number of design solutions from an international perspective, showing how each solution is perfectly adapted for a particular person or company, and offers an excellent source of inspiration for all design industries and creative individuals.
The design of a business card is not an easy task, although it is often regarded as simple. It needs to bring out the image and the message that the person or the company wants to portray. It works as a tool of communication, just like an advertisement. If it functions well, it should be able to connect you with the others. It may be due to the colour, the proportion between type and graphics or the material used that attracts people. All of these could be the reason to stop the receiver throwing away your card and holding on to it. So what is it that we need to pay attention to during the design process and how does it work? This book will provide the answer.
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Index Book 2007
300 pages Colour and B&W reproductions. ISBN 9788496309777
20 x 27 cm English text. Flexicover
Zoom In Zoom Out presents designs from artists the world over, herein broken down and presented according to three core components and provisions—Format, Concept, and Visual. In so doing, it aspires to not only showcase the skill and versatility of the best modern-day designers, but also, to examine the very building blocks of this wholly creative field, by both it’s expansive and restrictive elements. This volume contains dozens more examples from the three categories, all sharing the same ends, though the means will vary. Whether packaging, promotion, editorial, book or product design, where must this design’s energies be focused? By the communication of concept, the attraction of visual, or the appreciation of format; The possibilities are endless.
Gingko Press 2007
240 Pages Colour and B&W reproductions. ISBN 9789063691448
23 x 30 cm English text. Hardcover
This book displays the thirty projects that have been developed since the founding of the label Do and also launches another seventy new ideas for products, marketing, design and communication that are based on the Do principle. Do is the ever-changing label initiated by KesselsKramer 10 years ago. While most labels offer satisfaction coupled with a complete, pre-defined function, the user of a Do product must actively assist in the working of a product. In this book the creators of Do not only look back but also point the way forward once more by giving suggestions for new Do projects in collaboration with numerous prominent creative minds. In a forty-page essay the principles of Do are analysed and related to branding strategies of major labels like Virgin, Easy, Body Shop and Benneton.
208 pages Colour and B&W reproductions. ISBN 9781856694896
17.5 x 23.5 cm English text. Softcover
In this collection of essays about visual culture, Rick Poynor directs a critical eye at brands, billboards, magazines, architecture, tattoos and trends in cosmetic surgery. A key target is the pervasiveness of sexual imagery in the market place and the media's symbiotic relationship with porn. Poynor shows how commerce exploits the blurring of art and advertising, and paints a vivid, not always comfortable picture of where 21st century design culture is heading. Poynor interviews architect Rem Koolhaas, satirical illustrator Paul Davis, and maverick graphic designer and performance artist Elliott Earls. He revisits the early, 'new wave' work of Peter Saville and Malcolm Garrett and tracks the unstoppable rise of Stefan Sagmeister. Reports from emerging design territories in central Europe and Australia examine how rapidly growing economies deal with design's potential. "Designing Pornotopia" challenges the climate of mediocrity that dominates much of our commercial environment, highlights alternatives and considers the way forward. Price: £17.95
Merrell 2006
72 pages B&W reproductions. ISBN 9781858943558
13.5 x 21 cm English text. Hardcover
A humorous and incisive analysis of the basic tenets of typography and how to turn them on their heads, this book will appeal to the conformist and the non-conformist in everyone – not just the newcomer to design. One side of this sharp-witted, cleverly designed guide presents the ten main rules, or ‘commandments’, of type design, addressing such aspects of typographic doctrine as legibility, alignment and capitalization; the other shows how type can successfully subvert these rules, presenting ‘sacrilegious’ visual alternatives. In support of the commandments Felton includes a list of twelve ‘disciples’, those internationally renowned graphic designers whom he identifies as rule-abiding, including such figures as Eric Gill, Jan Tschichold and Erik Spiekermann. Confronting these are his ‘fallen angels’, including such experimental typographers as David Carson, Jeffery Keedy, Phil Baines and Jonathan Barnbrook.
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528 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 9789057681035
16 x 21 cm English text. Softcover
Web Design Indexes are international bestsellers, with about a quarter million copies sold worldwide. Since its first edition in the year 2000, the annual Web Design Index has developed into one of the most important publications in its field. Year after year, it gives an accurate overview of the state of the art in web design. Every Web Design Index contains 1002 outstanding web pages. With each web page, the URL is indicated, as well as the names of those involved in the design and programming. Selection for the Web Design Index is based on design quality, innovation, and effectiveness, and the books offer examples of all conceivable forms and styles. In addition to the Web Design Indexes, The Pepin Press / Agile Rabbit Editions has started to publish the annual Web Design Index by Content. These volumes feature some 600 sites, arranged by content (qualified by trade, profession, vocation, etc.), covering all conceivable uses of the Web. Of each site, two pages are reproduced in the book: one opening page and one page representative of the nature of the site. Web Design by Content offers a comprehensive and quickly accessible overview of the standard of web design in any particular field.
392 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 9783899551884
17 x 23.,5 cm English text. Softcover
We Love Magazines explores magazines and magazine culture with groundbreaking visuals and editorial contributions from around the world. The book features in-depth analysis of various aspects of magazine creation while, as the title reflects, celebrating with genuine pleasure a medium that continues to entertain, inform and surprise.
We Love Magazines includes essays by international experts on not only practical topics such as the role of a cover and advertising, but also on historical subjects such as an analysis of groundbreaking moments and titles in magazine publishing. The book also contains the most comprehensive directory ever compiled of 1,100 international pop culture magazines and the shops in which to buy them. In addition, readers are introduced to ten pioneering, independent magazines that have created their own chapters for the book. These are: Carl*s Cars (Norway), Coupe (Canada), Frame (The Netherlands), Omagiu (Romania), Rojo (Spain), S-magazine (Denmark), Shift! (Germany), Streets/Fruits/Tune (Japan), thisisamagazine.com (Italy) and Yummy (France)
In keeping with the independent spirit of the magazines featured in the book, We Love Magazines has been published with ten slightly different covers. All have the same title graphic and background photo but feature ten different drawings in blue foil block by Mio Matsumoto. The drawings portray ten different ???readers???, who each represent one of the ten contributing magazines listed above.
The book We Love Magazines was created as an accompaniment to the Colophon2007 magazine symposium, which takes place in Luxembourg on March 9-11, 2007.
160 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 9783899551877
Today’s television is packed with programs featuring crime scene investigation and their ubiquitous scenes of autopsy and forensic medicine. Existential questions about life and death are no longer only addressed on the philosophical level of Hamlet’s famous soliloquy, but in drastic images. Splatter, horror and the Gothic are not only making their comeback in TV or in movies, but are influencing the current style of editorial design, illustration and photography.
Against this background, Black Magic/White Noise presents an unsettlingly fascinating collection of visuals that deal the physical and the psychological as interpreted by contemporary designers from around the world. The book seduces its readers into a conflicted world filled with chillingly beautiful illustration, photography, graphic design, collage, painting and installation. The title’s “black magic” is represented by images of darkness, mystery and horror. Its “white noise” describes the unexpected infiltration of the irrational into broad daylight that can be found in some of the included works and that we have come to know and love from films by Alfred Hitchcock or books by Haruki Murakami.
Not for the fainthearted, Black Magic/White Noise is a potent cocktail of the drastic themes and motifs that are being used and finding widespread acceptance in today’s creative disciplines and design.
160 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 1856694712
25.5 x 23 cm English text. Hardcover
The advent of new software and the blurring of disciplinary boundaries have given rise to an entirely new creative category - motion graphics. Motion By Design is the first combined book and interactive DVD package to present the works of some of the world/'/s leading motion graphic studios. The book showcases new work by over 30 international studios, grouped according to genre: Opening Credits, Commercial/Installation and Web, each introduced by a leading motion graphic designer: Garson Yu, Why Not Associates and Hillman Curtis. A main introduction provides a history of motion graphics and a glossary explains the key terms. The accompanying DVD contains not only full samples and reels of almost all of the featured work, but also an interactive historical timeline tracing the development of motion graphic styles. Most importantly, these impressive works will be presented in their element - in motion.
384 pages Colour and B&W reproductions. ISBN 1856694623
A visual feast of 400 dazzling images, this is a comprehensive survey of the genre over the last century. The book also offers an overview of the development of fashion, as seen through the eyes of the greatest illustrators of the day. Early in the century, fashion illustration reflected new, liberating currents in art and culture, such as the exoticism of the Ballets Russes, while the postwar period saw inspiration from the great Parisian couturiers. After the dominance of the celebrity fashion photographer in the 60s, a new generation of illustrators emerged, embracing the medium of the computer, while many returned to more traditional techniques.
176 pages Colour and B&W reproductions. ISBN 1856694089
21.5 x 27 cm English text. Hardcover
Following the explosion of identity design in the arts and the reinvention of the art gallery/museum as a brand, this book provides a survey of recent and current design work for cultural clients, including galleries, museums, theatres and auditoriums. Thirty international case studies clearly express what good design can do to improve the fortunes and/or image of an institution. The focus is on new identities and their application, as well as smaller design solutions such as gallery guides, promotional programmes (incorporating everything from posters to ad campaigns), exhibition catalogues, branded merchandising, websites, signage systems, temporary exhibition design, renovated environments, new galleries, extensions and completely new buildings. The case studies consider projects large and small - from museums and galleries of international significance, to smaller institutions whose sphere of influence is more local. Each includes comments from the designers and from key stakeholders. Price: £25.00
LE GUN 2006
32 pages B&W reproductions. No ISBN
Decadent. Depraved. Drunken. All ideal words to describe Soho’s infamous bar, The French House, and the mesmerising illustrations of artist Neal Fox.
Fox has decided to infiltrate the louche London drinking den for his latest exhibition and publication, The Aubergine Tongue. His black, white and blue images cram the wall alongside the pub’s regular photos of artistic and literary bar proppers like Francis Bacon. “All the pictures are part of a book I’m working on, where my granddad’s the main character.” Fox explains. His grandfather, John Watson, who died when the artist was four, was a WWII bomber pilot, novelist, former chat show host and publisher – whose life revolved around what Fox calls “London’s square mile of sin”. Price: £7.50
CWC Books 2005
182 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 4766116429
23 x 28 cm English/Japanese text. Softcover
A collection of illustrations by the worlds leading illustrators produced by the CWC Group. The book is edited from the viewpoint of the agents actually in charge of producing artists. Price: £30.00
Victionary 2006
224 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 8496309002
23.5 x 29 cm English text. Hardcover
In this series, we take our audience to discover the relationship in another angle. That is to focus only on illustration and look at how illustration as a tool makes relationship between the designers and the audience. This book showcases the global trends of illustrations from around the world. As a bank of resources, we spotlight on the characteristic of the purpose of how visual impact is transferred through illustrations.
The theme in illustrations is often created as how the illustrators or designers would like to present themselves. Thus, the collection of the illustrations in this book is divided into 5 sections- Dream & Fantasy; Fun & Playful; Gloomy & Mystery; Structural & Complex; and Distinctive & Unique, to uncover the diversity of illustrations and the influence within. Through this book, we hope to strive our readers to distinguish themselves when they create, let their curiosity and imagination be free, imply their feelings to their stories and set out their own world of illustrations and designs. Price: £25.00
Also Dominie 2006
400 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 0646454455
21 x 28 cm English text. Softcover
(sorry trees) is the first book to comprehensively document the work of award-winning graphic designer, Vince Frost. Designed by Frost himself and written with Lakshmi Bhaskaran, the book provides 400 pages of ideas and inspiration, created to be both accessible and entertaining to all.
Presenting a complete overview of the designer’s life and career, the book explains Frost’s philosophy and approach, while individual descriptions reveal the key characteristics of each project. The book includes hundreds of photographs from Frost's personal collection, presented in contrast to design projects. (sorry trees) offers a unique insight into Frost’s daily working practice – from his early days cutting it as a young designer in London to his recent relocation to Sydney, and is peppered with personal, and often amusing anecdotes and insights along the way.
The book also tells the story of Frost’s own life – from how growing up in Canada laid the foundations for Vince’s bold aesthetic and subsequent rise through the London design scene, to the nomadic lifestyle that has seen him live in 44 houses in 40 years. It is this existence that enables Frost to cross traditional boundaries – working on anything from postage stamps to the built environment. His genuine love for his craft ensures his work remains both heartfelt and sincere.
“For me, good design is about ideas – and the difference they can make to a business,” says Frost. “I also wanted to open up the design process to show where those ideas come from and how they are realised.” Ironically titled ,(sorry trees) has been self-published by Frost Design. Price: £29.95
176 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 389955082X
21.5 x 27.5 cm Softcover
25.99
Young Norwegian designers Aslak Gurholt Rønsen and Espen Friberg, who have been collaborating on projects since they met in high school at the age of 16, inhabit Yokoland. Together they create design, illustration and art that are idyllic, humorous and poetic without ever being mawkish some of which has been featured in Hidden Track. Being one of the most inventive design studios of today, Yokoland skillfully blends their Scandinavian approach to design into their work melding elegant humor and human touch, exploring new ways of creating graphic design solutions to stunning effect.
This book takes you on their adventures and features the best of Yokoland’s work containing a range of their as yet relatively unknown work that brings different styles and surprising contrasts in a highly original way. Yokoland’s distinctive design can be aptly summarized by their record label’s company slogan: “We’re so underground that we’re almost in China”. Price: £25.99
96 pages B&W reproductions. ISBN 3899551508
21 x 32 cm Softcover
Following on the success of Brasil Inspired, Disorder in Progress digs deeper into Brazil to present a compelling overview of the diversity and vigor of Brazilian visual culture. Brazil is a country of incomparable cultural diversity and brash contradictions. While Brasil Inspired featured vivid inspirations of Brazil, Disorder in Progress shows the mixed reality and adopts the motto of the national flag “Ordem e Progresso”.
Initiated by Brazilian designer Nando Costa (editor of Brasil Inspired and a key contemporary Brazilian designer) this book compiles original works by both unknown and internationally renowned designers. Violence, hardship and national tensions ranging from bureaucracy to large scale political corruption all conspire to provide a complex raw material. The work showcased in Disorder in Progress is simultaneously exquisite, refined, polished, attractive, elegant, fine, subtle and striking.
Illustrated in black and white in its entirety to contrast with the vibrant, glossy exterior, the book parallels the way Brazil can be characterized – vibrant and colourful on the outside yet dark and complex inside.
Artists featured include: Carlos Bêla, Colletivo Design, Stephan Doitschinoff, Raquel Falkenbach, Linn Olofsdotter, Eduardo Recife, Nando Costa and many more. Price: £15.99
Valiz 2005
360 pages Colour and B&W reproductions. ISBN 9080818577
17 x 23.5 cm English/Dutch text. Softcover
Ten participants in the Dutch Werkplaats Typografie's design program asked an equal number of graphic designers to join forces with them in collaborations destined for the Chaumont Graphic Arts Festival. Each of the different pairs showcases both designers' working methods and the innovative, experimental aesthetic that unites them. Price: £21.50
Princeton Architectural Press 2006
192 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 1568984979
22 x 28 cm English text. Softcover
First ever survey on central subject of American design history. This book contains 200 beautiful full colour images. Famous practitioners are represented from all eras of American design. It covers many great authors including Joyce, Pound, Camus, Roth etc. It has a great cover of its own by "hot designer" John Gall. It makes a great reference album/idea book for the practitioner. "By Its Cover" is a survey of American book cover design, from the inception of the modern book industry at the turn of the 20th century to the present day. It is the first ever comprehensive examination of some of the most beautiful and influential works of American graphic design. "By Its Cover" traces the trajectory of such early masters of illustration as E. McKnight Kauffer, Rockwell Kent, and typographer W.A. Dwiggins. It follows their lead through the modernism of Alvin Lustig, Paul Rand, Roy Kuhlman, Milton Glaser and Seymour Chwast and concludes with contemporary masters such as Barbara de Wilde, Chip Kidd, and Michael Ian Kaye. As the authors write, "Books and their covers are vital, physical manifestations of an evolving American intellectual tradition. The cover is a book's first communication to the reader, a graphic representation not simply of its content, but its moment in history - in the history of American design, in the history of American literature, in the history of American culture. Price: £19.99
Birkhauser 2005
332 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 3764371846
24.5 x 30.5 cm English text. Hardcover
If there is a new language of contemporary design, surely it is pattern. Evocative, hypnotizing, sensual, calming, jarring, soothing patterns cover, conceal, and reveal an astonishing range of emotions and are at home on a chair or lamp as they are on the facades of enormous buildings. Patterns in Design examines this new trend, illustrating it with work by design luminaries like Hella Jongerius, Tord Moontje, Michael Lin, Olaf Nicolai, and Sauebruch and Hutton. Along the journey, the reader will experience an astonishing diversity of colors, shapes, and applications, as well as new technologies like laser engraving and digital milling that promise an even bolder future for patterns.
An indispensable guide for anyone interested in contemporary trends in design, art and architecture. Published in conjunction with Form. Price: £46.00
DGV 2005
304 pages B&W reproductions. ISBN 3899550722
My house, my pool, my wife, my car, my horse, my Learjet, my toys, my trees, my garden, my cockroach. Now it's really all yours.
Neubau Welt is an extensive encyclopedia of well over a thousand editable vector illustrations of everyday objects and obsessions large and small. They were created by designer Stefan Gandl and his Neubau team. Gandl's previous book DSOS1 was also published by dgv and has since become a collectors’ item. All of the objects shown in the book can also be found as editable and highly detailed Macromedia Freehand and Adobe Illlustrator files on an included CD. For the price of the book, readers also buy the exclusive rights to exclusive graphics and three Neubau typefaces (NB55RLS, NBBlatt, NBUrban).
Reminiscent of a digital Letraset, Neubau Welt contains everything any designer could possibly need but couldn't find on Google. Unlike ClipArt, the smorgasbord of objects can be enlarged indefinitely. This also makes them extremely useful for architects and other creatives, who can integrate them into their presentations and visual models. Price: £28.00
Hyphen Press 2005
86 pages B&W reproductions. ISBN 0907259308
12.5 x 21 cm English text. Softcover
Puts forward a theory of how letters and words are written with a pen or other instrument, in any language-script. Price: £15.00
Fuel 2005
208 pages Colour and B&W reproductions. ISBN 0955006112
25.5 x 20.5 cm English text. Hardcover
'Library Music', also known as source music and occasionally mood music, was made for people who needed cheap background music for commercials, animations, low budget adverts and TV programmes. This book is a compilation of cover artworks from some of the most important and rather beautiful library LPs made throughout the 1950s, '60s and '70s. It also includes an exclusive CD of some of the rarer library recordings. Price: £29.95
240 pages Colour and B&W reproductions. ISBN 3899550870
In order to be successful, designers must be able to represent many things creatively; but how can they and should they present themselves in the best light. This book looks at how designers and smaller agencies portray themselves as well as the forms and tools that they use to make a good first impression. Because business cards are the essential foundation of self-presentation, "Introducing" primarily features the most original examples created by designers from around the world. Furthermore the book looks at more specific instruments and design solutions: from office stationery and job application materials to unusual acquisition tools such as packaging and books. These examples are not only introduced through plentiful images, but are also put into context through informative text. This book gives readers inspirational examples of how they can create their own visual identities and how they can customize these identities for use in various work-related materials. "Introducing" is thereby a useful guidebook for all designers, especially those just beginning their careers. Price: £33.00
Rizzoli / Universe 2005
224 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 0847827216
23 x 27 cm English text. Softcover
Ryan McGinness is an international artist who works in a wide variety of mediums. He has been the subject of major exhibitions in galleries and museums around the world, and his work is in the permanent collection of many major institutions. His first book, flatnessisgod was published in 1999 to much critical acclaim. McGinness lives and works in Manhattan, and is represented by Deitch Projects.
Somewhere between an artist’s book and a catalogue, Installationview provides insight into the works and process of artist Ryan McGinness. The book is a dense collection of new paintings, works on paper, installations, sketches and notes, inspiration snapshots, and pieces made specifically for its pages.
“McGinness has developed an expansive vocabulary of eccentric, vaguely familiar symbols drawn from art historical and modern vernacular sources.”—the New York Times
“An unusual marriage of abstraction and representation”—Art News
“For those inclined to debate the line that separates graphic design from fine art, there is no better case study than Ryan McGinness.”—Metropolis
“McGinness is on image overload.”—the Boston Globe
“The 33-year-old’s recent paintings combine colorful icons drawn from mythology, pop culture, and nature”—Departures Price: £25.00
176 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 3899550714
22 x 28 cm English text
Hort, the German word for an after school center for kids, is also one of Europe’s most innovative design studios. True to its name, the Frankfurt-based company is organized around giving both its employees and a network of collaborators the opportunity to have fun, experiment and grow. The resulting work presented in this book is polarizing, relevant and truly inspiring. Best known for their inventive projects for the music industry, the book contains an array of new and classic cover designs including those for acts such as Heaven 17 and labels from Sony to Motor Music. It also presents Hort’s corporate jobs for clients such as EXPN/ESPN, which blend type, illustration and photography to striking new effect. As founder Eike König puts it, “our strength is in creating visual, bold, individual identities. Our work seeks direct contact with the consumer. It’s important for us to trigger a reaction.” This book shows just how successful they are at that. Price: £23.00
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Nieves 2005
16 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 3905714027
11 x 17.5 cm Softcover
Published in occasion of the exhibition "In Celebration of Just Getting By" at colette in Paris
Price: £4.75
32 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 3905714035
16.x 22.5 cm English text. Softcover
New Drawings, Designs and an Essay by Mike Mills
Price: £12.00
16 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 3905714051
19.5 x 25.5 cm Softcover
Published in occasion of the exhibition "All Smiles Have Teeth" at Kemistry Gallery in London Price: £7.99
Lifestyle Space Ltd 2005
240 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 0955096804
16 x 22 cm English text. Softcover
Explores how creative graduates can make the leap from education into employment. Price: £19.50
160 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 3899550889
17 x 24 cm English text. Hardcover
Adhesive tapes have recently been used more and more in design projects. TAPE shows the variety of work being done with this material and takes readers on a delightful journey through the world of sticky creativity. The book features artwork in which tape is used illustratively. Because patterns are a popular theme in design right now, it also presents examples of interiors, fashion, furniture and architecture in which tape is used to create them. The images of the diverse, often humorous artwork and designs are supplemented by texts expounding on adhesive tape’s phenomenal range of application. These include a (not completely) tongue-in-cheek list of 211 uses for duct tape from the USA, the country that invented the saying “God made the world, but it’s held together with duct tape”. TAPE is rounded out with information about the featured artists and designers, who work and have fun with adhesive tapes. Price: £19.00
160 pages Colour and B&W reproductions. ISBN 3899550900
Surfing is the trend sport par excellence. In SURF, Mutabor designer and passionate surfer Steffen Mackert makes this sport tangible for readers. Unlike other titles that have been published on the subject that only concern themselves with technique or biography, this is an illustrative and informative handbook. It presents fundamentals through absorbing graphic design and insightful texts and is structured to give both insiders and newcomers step-by-step access to the sport, culture and aesthetics of surfing. Surf begins on land by introducing the roots of surfing. Up to date explanations of surfer style, equipment and meteorological wisdom follow. The next chapters take place on the beach, where warm-up exercises and safety are addressed. Finally, readers are allowed in the water, where theory is put into practice through competent tips and tricks. It concludes with a short look at professional surfing. The book features a robust high-touch cover that invites readers to take it along on their next surf trip. SURF is, however, not only a handbook for surfers and those interested in hitting the waves. It also gives insight into a sport that has left its mark on today’s aesthetics and has strongly influenced visual developments in areas such as skateboard, snowboard and street culture. Price: £19.99
Pyramyd 2005
120 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 2350170055
15.5 x 16 cm English/French text. Softcover
Dalek started out in Brooklyn’s graffiti scene, and has built a major part of his work around his emblematic Space Monkey characters, who seem to have stepped straight out of a futuristic manga world.
He started by painting walls in Brooklyn in 1994, before applying his paint to a more traditional support – canvas. His experience in 2001 alongside Takashi Murakami, a cult Japanese graphic artist, helped define his graphic way with images: flat blocks of vivid colour but ambiguous figures. His characters, though amusing at first glance, may also be perceived as disturbing hybrid beings with gaping foreheads – images of an urban world whose violence they conjure up.
Dalek lent his Space Monkeys to the Nike Presto campaign in 2002, and in 2003 showed his work at the prestigious MoCA in Washington. In parallel, he’s doing his bit for the soft vinyl popular toy craze by contributing some Space Monkeys; and developing his passion for photography, taking a particular interest in American. Price: £11.00
Pyramyd 2004
120 pages CD-ROM Colour reproductions. ISBN 2910565831
“Stéphane Carricondo, Ned and Jerk are three artists endowed with a rare flair for the ingenious who are driven by the same creative impulses, have an urge to share things with the public, and respect individual freedom of expression. This common vision prompted them in 1990 to found artists’ collective 9eme Concept.” VALÉRIE COUDERC. They conceive art that is interactive, accessible and open to all, and which finds equally strong expression in conventional exhibition venues and in the street, as reflected by their exhibition Sang 9. Their work on event communication campaigns for major brands enables them to nourish their direct bond with the public in sometimes unexpected locations, such as discotheques, beaches, trade fairs and in the window displays of department stores, while developing concepts consistent with their initial artistic policy. The multi-faceted and richly creative output of this contemporary urban collective is showcased in this new title in the design&designer series, which also features a CD-Rom of videos of their exhibitions. Price: £13.50
120 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 2350170047
Michael Johnson, the mischief-maker of British design, is an artist acknowledged not just for his work for johnson banks, the agency he founded in 1985, but also for his involvement in bodies promoting British design.
A Brit and proud of it, Johnson likes to play on the national sense of humour. In his commissions for a variety of government-related enterprises, such as the British Council and Royal Mail, in spite of the constraints imposed by his clients, the sharp wit and the cheek of his executions is unsubdued. He plays on words, and on associations of ideas and expressions, while treading within the bounds of British propriety. Michael Johnson is gradually extending his graphic reach – turning his hand to websites, visual identities and even stamps. He also works for the UK’s Yellow Pages, the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, and, in France, for the Parc de la Villette in Paris, for which he has refreshed the logo and also creates posters and cinema advertising.
To explain his creative approach, he lectures to students around the world, and has written a book, Problem Solved, in which – using exercises with corrected versions – he describes how he executes a project.
He has won the recognition of his peers, receiving two awards from the New York Art Directors’ Club and eight from Design & Art Direction (D&AD) in the UK. And in 2003 he earned the supreme industry accolade, being elected D&AD president. Price: £11.00
176 pages Colour and B&W reproductions. ISBN 2884790640
This further addition to AVA's Basics Design series will follow on from Format and Layout to cover the third fundamental element of graphic design, typography. Typography is the means by which a written idea is given a visual form. The selection of this visual form can dramatically affect the readability of the written idea and a reader's feelings towards it due to the hundreds, if not thousands of typefaces available. Effective use of typography can produce a neutral effect or rouse the passions, symbolise artistic, political or philosophical movements, or even express the personality of a person or organisation. Typefaces vary from clear and distinguishable letterforms that flow easily before the eye and are suitable for extended blocks of text, to more dramatic and eye-catching typefaces that grab attention and are used in newspaper headlines and advertisements. Aimed at both students and practising designers, this book will provide an in-depth exploration of typography and a thorough examination of how it informs other aspects of creative design. Price: £14.95
144 pages Colour and B&W reproductions. ISBN 1856694143
Pictures and Words collects together the most outstanding contemporary examples of pictorial storytelling. Celebrating illustration that stands on its own to tell a story rather than simply accompanying or adorning another medium, the book includes extracts from graphic novels, comic strips and books, as well as single-panel cartoons and drawings. Words are present in the form of character dialogue or narration, or sometimes a story emerges from a series of illustrated panels that contain no text at all. With or without words, this is a highly expressive medium, dealing with a vast range of subjects from political issues to the most complex of human emotions. Comics and graphic novels are currently enjoying huge popularity in mainstream culture. This timely book brings together work by 30 key artists from around the world, including Paul Davis, Benoit Jacques and Andrzej Klimowski. Price: £19.95
Skira 2005
160 pages Colour and B&W reproductions. ISBN 8876242104
Exploring the importance of large gatherings of people and its correlative, the mass medium of poster art, in politics and art between World War I and the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, this book examines the artistic consequences of the triumph of popular sovereignty as a political ideal, years after the French Revolution. Price: £24.00
120 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 291056598X
When creating the visual identity for the Lambert Collection in Avignon, they wanted it to be warmer and more intimate than those of other institutions.
They also illustrate the collections of Christian Lacroix (catalogues, invitations…) as well as producing season posters for the Centre Chorégraphique National de Tours and the Comédie de Clermont theatre; their work for the latter institution is typified by gouache illustrations and typography. For the CCNT they have elected to use a supple and structured style based on ramifications and arborescences as the recurring motif for each season.
They graphic-design exhibition catalogues for the Galerie Yvon Lambert (those for artists Koo Jeong-A and Bertrand Lavier, for instance), and have also carried out editorial projects for the Festival de Cahors, the Pompidou Centre and the Ecole Nationale des Beaux Arts in Paris.
Antoine and Manuel have developed a refined, luxuriant graphic language whose delicate geometry decorates the murals recently produced in the Galeries Lafayette Maison homewares store in Paris. Their current work in the field of furniture design embraces this graphic vocabulary, adding a fresh dimension to their world. Price: £11.00
120 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 2910565823
In this second, all-new version of design&designer012, Ruedi Baur discusses the status of signage, which provides the link between space and visitor, the user of the place. In the course of texts written specially for this book, he deciphers his work by distinguishing the functions of the places to which they apply - complex infrastructure, urban signage, university campuses, tourist sites, etc. Depending on the context, emphasis is placed in typographic characters, pictograms or signage furniture in order to offer the best possible explanation of the space. In his work, a hybrid of graphic design and architecture, aesthetic research and information transmission join forces to help us better navigate all kinds of public space. This book provides a unique perspective on places' identity, and on how information is transmitted via symbols. Price: £11.50
120 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 2910565858
Based in Paris since 1998, this painter and graphic designer sticks up or produces his illustrations in the streets - characters often given a two-colour treatment, deriving from a personal world in which the fruits of his imagination are tinged with humour and derision. Whether carrying out commissions or pursuing his long-standing interest of graffiti, research plays a big role in Akroe's output. He is particularly interested in the links between images and their media, and enjoys playing with the way his creations are interpreted. His work has been exhibited on several occasions - at the Artcore gallery in 2004 as part of the exhibition devoted to the post-graffiti period (Paris), at the Lazy Dog (Akroe vs Sixpack), and at the Musée d'Art Contemporain in Lyon. Price: £11.50
120 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 2350170039
In 1989 Ahn began publishing an underground magazine, Bogoseo/Bogoseo, in which he addresses art and culture. He has also redesigned the Korean alphabet, Hangul, by creating new typographic characters – an achievement that earned him public recognition. In 1991, Ahn did a Korean translation of Typographische Gestaltung, Jan Tschichold’s seminal text on typographic design; and in 2001 he translated Typographie by Emile Ruder. The scope of his commitment extends further still: he was vice-president of ICOGRADA from 1997 to 2001, and president of VIDAK (Visual Information Design Association of Korea) from 1999 to 2001. He teaches at universities around the world, and in 2001 presided over Typojanchi, the typography biennial held in Seoul. In the same year, an exhibition was devoted to him at the prestigious Rodin Gallery in Seoul.
His poetic and mysterious output combines typographic prowess with an aesthetic deeply rooted in Korean culture, yet is also an offshoot of Swiss modernism and Russian Constructivism. Price: £11.00
120 pages CD-ROM Colour reproductions. ISBN 2910565971
Tachdjian, whose roots are in the rock scene, has invented his own, utterly singular graphic idiom, characterised by acid colours, offbeat humour and a luxuriant style.
This comics and typography nut has graphic and artistic affinities with Robert Crumb, Hervé Télémaque, Peter Saul, Jean Dubuffet and Guy Debord, but also taps into many-hued imagery from punk record sleeves, graffiti, and illustrations of every imaginable provenance.
Tachdjian, who likes to describe his work as “graphic design by a sensitive brute” has created a world with a cast of jeering, monstrous characters, rampantly subversive messages and undermined slogans.
In the early 1990s he founded the Radiateur®fontes type library, which now numbers about a hundred typefaces with peculiar names and applications: Chiraquia, inspired by a certain French president, is for telling lies, while Boudini is suited to escapism (if not escapology) and Cosmétique conceals the truth.
Jean-Jacques Tachdjian is currently focusing on editorial design with his publishing house La Chienne, set up in the 1980s: graphic novels, illustrations and comics rub shoulders in a free-spirited and poetic approach that is right on the cutting edge. Price: £12.50
120 pages CD-ROM Colour reproductions. ISBN 291056584X
Etienne Robial is one of the figures to have shaped and transformed visual communication in France. He likes to describe himself as a letter-painter, and has crafted some of the most memorable visual identities and logos of recent decades; after devising the title sequence for TV show "Les Enfants du Rock" in the early 1980s, he invented the concept of on-screen identity - designing the titles, logo and graphic system for Canal+, whose look is today considered an enduring benchmark, recognisable by all. His visual identities and graphic systems are equally in evidence in publishing, the press, audiovisual media and the world of sport. The CD-Rom given away with this book features the most important title sequences he has designed for television channels from M6 to Canal+. Price: £14.50
IdN 2005
176 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN: 9889809729
20 x 27.5cm English text. Softcover with Slipcase
Despite the fact that Japanese graphics have weathered eras of cultural invasions, all Japanese graphics communicate on a common wavelength. Irregardless of its nature and genre, locality and aesthetics, all Japanese creatives are bounded by a specific streamline in artistic preference. This is precisely one of the reasons why Japanese graphics are very unique, thus difficult to imitate. Price: £28.00
Penguin / Allen Lane 2005
256 pages Colour and B&W reproductions. ISBN 0713998393
18 x 22 cm English text. Softcover
Ever since the creation of the first Penguin paperbacks in 1935, their jackets have become a constantly evolving part of Britain's culture and design history. Rich with stunning illustrations and filled with detail of individual titles, designers and even the changing size and shape of the Penguin logo itself, this book shows how covers become design classics. By looking back at seventy years of Penguin paperbacks, Phil Baines charts the development of British publishing, book cover design and the role of artists and designers in creating and defining the Penguin look. Coupling indepth analysis of designers from Jan Tschichold to Romek Marber with a wide-ranging look at the range of series and titles published from early Penguins and Pelicans, to wartime Specials, fiction and reference, this is a distinctive picture of how Penguin has consistently established its identity through its covers, influenced by and influencing the wider development of graphic design and the changing fashions in typography, photography, illustration or printing techniques. Filled with inspiring images, Penguin by Design demonstrates just how difficult it is not to judge a book by its cover. Price: £16.99
Chronicle Books 2005
192 pages Colour and B&W reproductions. ISBN 0811847756
10.5 x 15 cm English text. Hardcover
From IDEO, the global innovation and design firm responsible for such landmark products as Apple's first computer mouse, comes a primer in the observation method that keeps their practice human-centered and ever ingenious. People unconsciously perform ultraordinary actions every day, from throwing a jacket over a chair back to claim the seat, or placing something in the teeth when all hands are full. These "thoughtless acts" reveal the subtle but crucial ways people behave in a world not always perfectly tailored to their needs. Thoughtless Acts? is a collection of dozens of (often humorous) snapshots capturing such fleeting adaptations and minor exploitations. This method of observation demonstrates the kind of common-sense approach that can inspire designers and anyone involved in creative endeavors. Thoughtless Acts? is a privileged peek at how IDEO creates the people-friendly products, services, and spaces for which they are so widely recognized.
Jane Fulton Suri is the worldwide leader of human factors design and research for IDEO. She teaches regularly at Stanford University, UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business, and the California College of the Arts. She lives in Berkeley.
IDEO is a global innovation and design consultancy headquartered in Palo Alto, California, and has designed some of the world's best known products, services, and spaces. Price: £19.99
