Design Matters: An Essential Primer for Today`s Designer
The 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...
Modeled on the format and presentation of Business Graphics, this book features a vast collection of designs for special events from around the globe. Designing for special events such as fundraisers, trade shows, and...
Design Parts Sourcebook: Rock and Street Culture
Developed by a group of experienced 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...
Under the witty and metaphorical guise of a high-end cookbook, the author provides visual “ingredients,” such as grid structures, folios, border devices, type treatments, abstract graphic elements, categorized...
Design-it-Yourself Graphic Workshop
If 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,...
Design Elements Form and Space
Design Elements, Form and Space takes an in-depth look at building grids and layouts based on visual language systems and how images, text, and white space interact on the page. Principles of spatial organization are...
"Design: 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...
Essential Fashion Illustration: Color and Medium
This book features more than 250 illustrations. Practical exercises will guide you through creative activities focused on contemporary fashion illustration. The exercises include suggestions and tips, and are executed...
Experimental Pattern Sourcebook
This collection features 300 designs from the newest generation of pattern designers who are experimenting with new formats to create the most eclectic and inspiring collection of patterns in a single volume. Many...
Fashion Details.1,000 Ideas from Neckline to Waistline, Pockets to Pleats
The details make the difference. Whether it`s the traditional details - cuffs, pockets, darts, etc. - or the myriad alternative details that fashion designers are using today, these eye-catching, trend-setting...
Guides the fashion designer through the design process, from conceiving a garment to marketing it. Linking six central phases in the cycle of fashion - research, editing, design, construction, connection, and...
This book, divided into room types such as lobbies, restaurants, bars, lounges, guest-rooms, spas and sports facilities, showcases an array of some of the most recently built and inventive hotels in the world.
Great design is something that makes you pause and think. That’s because there is a pure concept behind that design. Without a strong concept, design is merely an arrangement of elements within the parameters of a...
New in paperback, this workbook is a methodical yet comprehensive approach to conveying the fundamentals of avant-garde, innovative, information design by examining history, theory, criticism, technology and media,...
Billions of dollars are spent every year on promotions, and for some, the payoff is huge. The key is creating promotions that cut through the clutter to delight, astound, amuse, shock, and touch one s intended...
Inside Outside: Between Architecture and Landscape
"Inside Outside" constructs a framework of interpretation for architecture and landscape architecture in order to disclose relations between them which are normally overlooked. Five operations - reciprocity,...
In light of the recent popularity of movies such as Finding Nemo and Shark Tale as well as aquariums as elements of interior decor, home aquariums have become all the rage. Since there are so many ways you can design...
