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A major survey of the Japanese designers, artisans, manufacturers and technologies that have shaped the world of modern design.

This stunningly illustrated book examines the history of poster design and its relation to the arts and broader culture.

Illustration is applied imagination. But this book is not only about illustration, though it does contain illustrations-lots of them. But there's more. It examines the profession of illustrator, from the vexing subject of money to the question of the right workplace. How do you get commissions? How do you negotiate successfully? What's a fair price...

A wonderful, whimsical journey through the pioneering space-race graphics of the former Soviet Union

A world without plants is a world without life, both literally and figuratively. Besides forming the very basis of human survival on Earth, they are also an important source of creative inspiration, ingenuity, and expression. From scientific explorers like Sir Joseph Banks who travelled across the globe in search of never-seen-before species to imp...

The author explains all the techniques needed for aesthetic journal, and shares her attitudes and life about Journals Readers can easily learn the skills without any prior experience and enjoy their journaling life with more optimistic view.

The book has included infographic designs for different fields, in different creative approaches, and from different parts of the world. It explores the effective way to communicate by combin-ing text, numerals, symbols, pictures and charts, while maintaining the appeal of design.

How do images hold and convey meaning? How do we understand them? What are they trying to say? How do they persuade and influence us? The author writes a complete account analyzing the meaning and construction of images, throughout history to present times, from the point of view of visual rhetoric. From advertising to graphic design, cinema and ar...

Materials have the power to affect human experiences and emotions by helping us build intimate connections with inanimate objects through touch and feel. Whether they are used as a point of reference or the medium of creation itself, they are integral to artists and designers who seek to explore fresh outcomes, experiment with new techniques, and e...

An entertaining and highly original introduction to graphic design, this beautifully designed book uses puzzles and visual challenges to demonstrate how typography, signage, posters and branding work. Through a series of games and activities, including spot the difference, matching games, drawing and dot-to-dot, readers are introduced to concepts a...

A vivid and highly-accessible introduction to typography, exploring the development of such classics as Garamond and Helvetica alongside the onset of digital fonts such as OCR-A and Keedy Sans.

The Bauhaus, the legendary school in Dessau, Germany, transformed architecture and design around the world. This book broke new ground when first published in 1991 by introducing psychoanalysis, geometry, early childhood education, and popular culture into the standard political history of the Bauhaus. 'The ABC's of Triangle, Square, Circle' also i...

This title demonstrates how ideas influenced and defined graphic design, and how those ideas have manifested themselves in objects of design. The 100 entries, arranged broadly in chronological order, range from technical; to stylistic; to objects; and methods.

This completely revised and updated version of Typography Essentials: 100 Design Principles for Working with Type is a hands-on resource, organizing the many complex choices surrounding the effective use of typography.

The Designer's Dictionary of Colour is a guide to working with thirty key colours, their origins and use throughout design history.