Author: Steven Heller
Publisher: Allworth Press
Keywords: dialogues, design
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 1998-09-01
List price: $18.95
ISBN-10: 1581150075
ISBN-13: 9781581150070

This book presents a stimulating survey of the methods and philosophies of 20 artists, designers, authors, and producers on the nature of graphic design and visual communications. Drawing from an extensive library of oral histories and supplemented by several original interviews, this book offers fact and opinion on a wide range of design themes, from the preservation of modernism to intellectual property concerns. Both a contemporary critique and an oral history of design, contributors include such notables as Ellen Lupton, Paul Rand, Art Chantry, Tibor Kalman, Milton Glaser, and many

Author: Steven Heller
Publisher: Allworth Press
Keywords: designer, graphic, education
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2005-11-01
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 1581154313
ISBN-13: 9781581154313

• Anecdotes and insights from graphic-design stars• In association with the School of Visual Arts in New York City• This replaces ISBN 1-880559-99-4Completely updated, this compelling collection of essays, interviews, and course syllabi is the ideal tool to help teachers and students keep up in the rapidly changing field of graphic design. Contributors, including Milton Glaser, Lou Danziger, Jessica Helfand, Paula Scher, Maud Lavin, Armin Vit, and Marty Newmeier, offer original theories and proposals on design education concerns. Personal anecdotes from these stars about their own educat

Author: Steven Heller
Publisher: Jorge Pinto Books Inc.
Keywords: working, biographies, design, information, holmes, nigel
Number of Pages: 140
Published: 2006-02-15
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 097747240X
ISBN-13: 9780977472406

Born 1942 in England M.A. degree in illustration from the Royal College of Art, London, 1966. He worked for Time Magazine from 1978 to 1994 in New York City as Executive Art Director: charts, covers, administration and Graphics Director his work has appeared in important magazines and publications such as American Health; American Lawyer; Amicus Journal; Attaché (USAir magazine); Details; Discover; Business 2.0 (formerly eCompanyNow) (visual columnist); Encyclopaedia Britannica; Esquire; Fortune; GQ; George Magazin; Harper’s; House & Garden; How; IBM Think Magazine; Industry Standar

Author: Steven Heller
Publisher: Allworth Press
Keywords: design, graphic, understanding, continued, literacy
Number of Pages: 280
Published: 1999-10-01
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 1581150350
ISBN-13: 9781581150353

A sequel to its popular forerunner, this edition casts the net even farther in examining the reasons and history behind various objects of design that have had a significant impact on our culture. The objects discussed range from the vintage posters that promoted concerts and fairs during the 1930s to a Rolling Stones CD cover from the 1990s. This volume also investigates larger movements and phenomena, including Norman Rockwell’s effect on Americana, and the Cartoon Network’s hold on children. Like the first volume, this is an eclectic look at how, why, and if graphic design, in t

Author: Steven Heller
Publisher: Allworth Press
Keywords: typographer, education
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2004-05-01
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 1581153481
ISBN-13: 9781581153484

Exploring the methods for teaching and learning typography, this book features more than 40 essays from top experts and educators in typography today. These essays run the gamut from introducing the themes of type and typography to various complex and rare strategies for learning.

Author: Steven Heller
Publisher: Allworth Press
Keywords: entrepreneur, design, education
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2002-04-01
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 1581152213
ISBN-13: 9781581152210

New from the editor of the pioneering EDUCATION OF . . . series, this benchmark collection of fifty essays and interviews provides students and working designers with a firm understanding of the pitfalls and triumphs awaiting the design entrepreneur. Designers recount their motives for setting out on their own and reflect on the degree to which their creative spirit has been satisfied by entrepreneurial freedom–in areas ranging from book, Web site, and home product design to golf course development and entertainment design. Contributors such as Byron Glaser and Sandra Higashi, Eric Zimmerm

Author: Steven Heller
Publisher: Allworth Press
Keywords: designer, education
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2001-09-01
List price: $21.95
ISBN-10: 1581151934
ISBN-13: 9781581151930

Here’s a powerful compass to teaching design in a digital environment! In this guide, more than 50 cutting-edge e-design experts discuss everything educators and students need to know on the road from traditional graphic design to e-design education. Conveniently organized in eight sections, THE EDUCATION OF AN E-DESIGNER includes fourteen proven-successful syllabi covering everything from basic needs courses like web design and digital imaging to more specialized areas of study such as game design and motion graphics. Readers will find professional advice for incorporating digital technolog