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Minimal Graphics
The visual overload of the last decade -- crashing type, unreadable text, in-your-face images -- is being replaced by simple, seamless design with a clean approach. Minimal Graphics offers a striking new collection of international graphic design work that uses the power of simplicity to get messages across. Filled with potent images and offering a wealth of minimal design solutions for color, type, images, packaging, and more -- this authoritative guide underscores the elegance of the "undesigned" approach.
Little Book of Big Packaging Ideas
A volume "packed" with insight and ideas The packaging industry is more competitive every day so creating a new package that is innovative, adds value, and makes a connection with the consumer is a challenge often met with limited success. Dynamic and unusual package designs can really make a statement in overcrowded markets. What makes a package successful? How do designers find the inspiration and execute the designs that really work? This compendium of package design answers all that and more. The content covers inspiration, process, design research, working with clients, planning, and execution of some of the most effective packages on the market today. Insight from top packaging designers worldwide is provided on pages that are packed with images of great designs. Unlike most packaging books, this volume is stuffed with content in a compact, portable, and easy-to-use format
Paper Graphics
Here is a collection of terrific graphic design that begins and ends with paper. A look at the ways paper choice influences an idea and its outcome, this book presents striking examples of work from firms all over the world. Take a new look at the fantastic range of papers available and the qualities that make paper an elegant solution to a variety of design challenges.
Redesigning Identity
Image is king. Ten case studies plus an international showcase of work illustrate how a new visual identity can define a company and communicate its goals to the marketplace. Visual identity is a signature; learn how top firms redesign graphic signatures with success.
LogoLounge 6
Showcases two thousand new logos from designers worldwide and includes portraits of selected design firms.
401 Design Meditations
In need of advice? Just want to sound off? Opening this volume is like grabbing lunch with a fellow designer to commiserate or celebrate. In its pages, noteworthy designers, both past and present, working in fields ranging from graphic design, fashion, architecture, typography, illustration, and industry product design, sound off on every topic, including deadlines, inspiration, competition, rules, respect, education, and handling criticism and life as a creative soul -- all with a certain amount of irreverence. Their thoughts are boiled down into succinct quotable quotes and one-liners that exemplify their character and demonstrate their philosophy on the world. Enjoy reading sound bites from everyone from Frank Gehry, David Carson, and Charles and Ray Eames to Frank Lloyd Wright, Paul Rand, Stefan Sagmeister, and Saul Bass.
401 Design Meditations
In need of advice? Just want to sound off? Opening this volume is like grabbing lunch with a fellow designer to commiserate or celebrate. In its pages, noteworthy designers, both past and present, working in fields ranging from graphic design, fashion, architecture, typography, illustration, and industry product design, sound off on every topic, including deadlines, inspiration, competition, rules, respect, education, and handling criticism and life as a creative soul -- all with a certain amount of irreverence. Their thoughts are boiled down into succinct quotable quotes and one-liners that exemplify their character and demonstrate their philosophy on the world. Enjoy reading sound bites from everyone from Frank Gehry, David Carson, and Charles and Ray Eames to Frank Lloyd Wright, Paul Rand, Stefan Sagmeister, and Saul Bass.
The Power of Paper in Graphic Design
Despite the growth of CD-ROMs, DVDs, and the Internet, printed design is bigger than ever. Only one design element separates digital designs from print: paper. In the world of print, paper choice influences every design project. This collection of paper graphics presents the most striking and effective work from top designers around the world. With designs chosen to provide readers with inspiration, know-how, and fresh ideas, this book boldly illustrates how paper can act as the driving force behind a design. Attention is also given to how paper choice is incorporated into a design-as a means of expressing concept, for its aesthetic qualities, and for its structural properties. Bold, close-up photography spotlights each project, and insightful copy tells how the paper was chosen and why it makes the piece so special.
LogoLounge 4
Now in paperback, this fourth volume in the best-selling LogoLounge series delivers a fresh collection of 2,000 totally new logos from designers worldwide. This book, like the previous titles in the series, is compiled in association with LogoLounge.com, the largest database of logo designs in the world. The first portion of the book delivers insightful articles on high-profile projects created by top international design names, including Pentagram, Siegel+Gale, Jager Di Paola Kemp, Hesse Design, and Interbrand. The second part of the book contains 2,000 logos organized for easy reference by category (typography, people, mythology, nature, sports, etc.), as well as additional articles on recent designs by Gardner Design, Tompert Design, Karl Design, Hybrid Design, Iconologic, and Hugonaut.
Mastering Materials, Bindings, & Finishes
A how-to guide for the finishing touch to a successful design Designers love to incorporate bells and whistles and special features into their designs to make them stand out. Often these special treatments are the element that makes the audience really connect with the design. The challenge is that these special embellishments are usually expensive and getting them right can be extremely difficult. Mastering Materials, Bindings & Finishes provides a complete reference to hundreds of special treatments, with information on how to approach them in reference to your design job, what to consider, the challenges, pitfalls, and the inside scoop from experienced designers who have both successfully and, not so successfully, implemented each of the effects featured.
