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James Mousner Colour Harmony: Packaging ENSelecting the right color palette for any design project, whether personal or commercial, can make all the difference in getting it right. But choosing the right colors for packages in retail environment competing with thousands of other products, it is especially important to hit the right color note. Unfortunately, for most people choosing colors is not an easy process, but with a little bit of science and some…
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Kiki Eldridge Complete Color Harmony Workbook ENThe Complete Color Harmony Workbook takes the essential elements of Rockport’s The Complete Color Harmony and turns them into a hands-on workbook for anyone working with color. This book not only provides the tear-out color swatches and hands-on color advice available in The Complete Color Harmony, but also offers new metallic and fluorescent color inspiration as well as two new palette chapters: “Graphic” and “Pure…
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Ryan Hembree Complete Graphic Designer ENGraphic design is a fast growing industry with thousands of new designers and students joining its ranks every year. The explosion of the graphic design field has resulted in the release of hundreds of new books, with subjects ranging from logo design to web design, design history to design criticism; today there are very few subjects related to the industry that have not been written about in one form or another.…
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Yenna Chan Contemporary Design in Detail: Small Environments ENThe Contemporary Design Details series takes a highly visual look at architectural design details that are more often dealt with in a technical textbook format. The books take readers on a tour of the best details designed by great architects around the world. The series provides a powerful presentation of the most challenging and evolving architectural and design categories.
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Naoki Watanabe Contemporary Fashion Illustration Techniques ENThe primary skill needed by anyone who works in fashion is the ability to convey to clients and the general public alike images of the designs. The impression given to the viewer depends on whether the fashion design drawings are well developed. Contemporary Fashion Illustration Techniques thoroughly describes the basics of fashion illustration, and covers the latest trends such as vivid images, sprightly movement,…
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William Lidwell, Gerry Manacsa Deconstructing Product Design ENThis book deconstructs the design and functional elements and innovations of 100 extremely successful and groundbreaking products. The author profiles them in a succinct bulleted manner, working off the successful format of Universal Principals of Design that it provides consistent types of information in a concise format. Allowing readers to quickly find and understand the workings behind the essential details,…
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Dennis Puhalla Design Elements ENDesign principles never change. They serve as the foundation of the designer's thought process and are the essential tools that define a visual language. With hundreds of fundamental principles for creating successful design compositions, Design Elements: Form & Space establishes a basis for visual organization strategies and serves as a comprehensive manual for graphic designers. Understanding how elements interact…
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Kristin Cullen Design Elements -Typography Fundamentals ENExplore the fundamentals of typography with this practical new guide. An instructional reader rather than historical survey, Design Elements: Typography Fundamentals uses well-founded, guiding principles to teach the language of type and how to use it capably. Designers are left with a solid ground on which to design with type. Limitless potential for meaningful and creative communication exists—this is the field…
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Design for Special Events ENSpecial events either get noticed or fail. Design is the most important factor in which course an event will take. With often a very large investment and high expectations for turnout at the pressure of the design team to create a memorable visual and aesthetic is huge. Modeled on the format and presentation of Business Graphics, this book will feature a vast collection of designs for special events from around…
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Maura Keller, Michelle Taute, Capsule Design Matters ENThe design bar is at an all-time high for those brave enough to participate in the industry. Today's designers must be clear on all the steps necessary to create work that stands out in an increasingly competitive marketplace. Unfortunately, most design books only focus on type, color, and layout issues. The Design Matters series takes a more in-depth approach, allowing designers to learn not only how to create work…
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Design Matters: Packaging 01 ENThe design bar is at an all-time high for those brave enough to participate in the industry. Today’s designers must be clear on all the steps necessary to create work that stands out in an increasingly competitive marketplace. Unfortunately, most design books only focus on type, color, and layout issues. The Design Matters series takes a more in-depth approach, allowing designers to learn not only how to create work…
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Maura Keller Design Matters: Portfolios 01 ENDuring the past few years, portfolio management and self-promotion have taken on a far greater role within a graphic designer's business model. The degree to which they can increase their earned revenue through exceptionally defined, marketing-oriented promotions and portfolio management is paramount. These individuals and agencies now identify their product as cultural tourism and stress the role of their work as…
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Design of Dissent ENWith the world’s economy in a slump, the Middle East’s never ending conflict, and the on-going war on terrorism, there is a heightened awareness in the world community of the many sides of the numerous issues that both directly and indirectly affect our lives. Increasingly, people are feeling powerless and underrepresented because they have no voice. Designers, however, have a voice. They are among the most…
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Design Parts Sourcebook: Rock and Street Culture ENSub-culture graphics are ready-for-use in this book providing imagery which is useful for a variety or art types. Developed by a group of experiences designers from the apparel industry these inspired images are great for printing onto t-shirts and other clothing and accessories, CDs flyers, web pages and even as references for tattoo art. The illustrations are provided as print reference in the pages of the book…
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Design Parts Sourcebook: Romantic ENThis book is a useful and inspirational collection of romantically inspired images to use, modify, and customize for your own art and design projects. The book provides a printed catalog of all the images and the companion CD-ROM provides all the image files in both JPEG and PNG data files for Photoshop and MS Word users. A beautiful collection, this book is a fantastic resource for a wide range of visual artists…
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Richard Poulin Design School: LayoutDesign School: Layout is an instructive guide for students, recent graduates, and self-taught designers. It provides a comprehensive introduction to creating and changing layouts: a crucially important skill that underpins ...
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Design Secrets: Packaging ENProduct packaging design offers designers the opportunity to work with an endless array of new methods and materials, which allows fresh and exciting ideas to come to life. However, designers are constantly being constrained by unimaginative briefs and tight budgets. Design Secrets: Packaging deconstructs 50 packaging projects and explores each project individually and in in-depth. Author Catharine Fishel traces the…
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Design Secrets: Products 2 ENFifty design projects are shown in full detail from concept to completion and all the stages in between for a behind-the-scenes look that uncovers the design process that produced the award winning end results. These products are the winners of the Industrial Designers Society of America’s acclaimed Industrial Design Excellence Award (IDEA). Each project provides text describing the designer’s insights and…
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Design-it-Yourself Graphic Workshop ENDo you want a concise how-to book on graphic design that avoids all the theory and just gets down to the nuts and bolts of getting a project done? Then this book is for you. It includes hundreds of projects for logos, letterheads, businesses cards, and newsletters that even the most design-challenged individual can accomplish easily with impressive results. The templates are here-all you have to do is follow the…
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Design: Paper ENDesign: Paper is the first in a new, informative series of design documentaries which offers the best of design in practice. You'll find a curated collection of approximately 300 exquisite designs, along with detailed essays from designers in the field surrounding the essence of creating designs using paper as the medium. This inspiring book also offers personal and professional insight from the authors—mini…
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Sue Apfelbaum, Juliette Cezzar Designing the Editorial Experience ENIn a world of media that seems to be ever-changing, how do we define a newspaper, magazine or journal? Are we drinking our morning coffee on a Sunday as we sit down and read our newstablet? Look around any doctor's office waiting room and you will find two people reading the same magazine, one holding the paper version, another on their phone. With so many medium options, designers need to evaluate the best formats…
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John Foster Dirty Fingernails ENThe artists featured in Dirty Fingernails, make a concerted effort to do projects that require them to step away from the computer to create one-of-a-kind designs for clients and themselves. They demonstrate that good design doesn’t have to be clean—in fact, the messier the better. From silkscreen prints to collages created from photocopies, to hand-drawn lettering, each designer explains their process and why…
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Timothy Samara Drawing for Graphic Design ENHere is a complete, comprehensive drawing reference for design students and professionals alike who want to implement drawing as a professional tool. In Drawing for Graphic Design, Timothy Samara empowers readers to add drawing to their design vocabulary, featuring case studies of commercial projects from start to finish along with a showcase of real-world projects that integrate drawing as an intrinsic part of…
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Alex Fowkes Drawing Type ENDrawing Type features real-world projects and sketchbooks of well-known type designers, including interviews about their processes. Playful, hand-drawn type can easily be used in a range of disciplines within design and illustration such as packaging, editorial, posters, advertising, online graphics, and signage, and the hand-made aesthetic is more prevalent now than ever. Alex Fowkes will help you to create custom…