Author: Sibley / Peteet Design Austi
Publisher: Rockport Publisher
Keywords: design, card, business
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2009-10-01
List price: $30.00
ISBN-10: 1592535755
ISBN-13: 9781592535750
Best of Business Card Design 8 features an innovative collection of the most current and best work by top designers worldwide. The “go-to” sourcebook for business card design inspiration, this volume contains no text—other than design credits—which provides for pages packed with business cards, showing front, back, and special elements and materials. This unrivaled resource will be sought by professional designers, corporate executives, and in-house marketing departments as an essential identity and branding tool.
Author: Giles Calver
Publisher: RotoVisio
Keywords: design, handbook, essential, packaging
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2003-12-01
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 2880466180
ISBN-13: 9782880466183
This compact-format sourcebook is highly visual, packed with top international packaging designers’ contemporary work, with essays on the surrounding issues. What Is Packaging? lays the foundations and professional guidelines for best practice when designing contemporary packaging. It opens with several short essays which define good packaging design and the issues faced by designers in this field. Design basics such as format, layout and typography are explored within the context of packaging design, taking into account genre-specific elements such as product information, branding, mark
Author: Frederick P. Brooks
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
Keywords: design, scientist, essays, computer
Number of Pages: 448
Published: 2010-04-01
List price: $34.99
ISBN-10: 0201362988
ISBN-13: 9780201362985
Making Sense of Design Effective design is at the heart of everything from software development to engineering to architecture. But what do we really know about the design process? What leads to effective, elegant designs? The Design of Design addresses these questions. These new essays by Fred Brooks contain extraordinary insights for designers in every discipline. Brooks pinpoints constants inherent in all design projects and uncovers processes and patterns likely to lead to excellence. Drawing on conversations with dozens of exceptional designers, as well as his own experiences in several
Author: Edward M. Gomez
Publisher: Rockport Publishers
Keywords: design, graphic, edge, paris, new
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 1999-08
List price: $45.00
ISBN-10: 1564965600
ISBN-13: 9781564965608
The New Design series celebrates some of the finest new graphic design talents each featured city has to offer. This city-by-city tour is the insider’s guide to dozens of design firms that are making an impact on the industry. Selected by designers for designers, the work in these pages reveals what makes graphic design tick in the city of Paris. Fresh, new, and filled with vitality, this is a valuable collection for all design enthusiasts; from advertising and media aficionados, to artists, educators, students, and all those with a strong interest in contemporary graphic design
Author: Quentin Newark
Publisher: RotoVision
Keywords: design, handbooks, essential, graphic
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2002-05-01
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 2880465397
ISBN-13: 9782880465391
The purpose of this book is to explain what graphic design is and how it works.What is Graphic Design? starts by exploring the complex issues that shape design: economics, ethics, technology, theory and developments in other arts. It looks at how design has evolved over the centuries, from its origins in the Renaissance with the development of book printing, to the present day, where it includes areas such as magazines, corporate branding, television titles, film and websites.Quentin Newark breaks design down into its elements, looking at what typography is, how text and pictures combine, and
Author: Ian L. McHarg
Publisher: Wiley
Keywords: design, sustainable, series, wiley, nature
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 1995-02-06
List price: $65.00
ISBN-10: 047111460X
ISBN-13: 9780471114604
With a distinct emphasis on human cooperation and biological partnership in design, the author explores the relationship between the built environment and nature to illustrate how both can be used to their full potential without being detrimental or destructive to each other. Provides a combination of scientific insight and constructive design, and shows how to employ what nature offers to the fullest extent without imposing limitations or design constraints to create a balanced and self-renewing environment.
Author: Laura Slack
Publisher: RotoVision
Keywords: design, handbooks, essential, product
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2006-10-01
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 294036124X
ISBN-13: 9782940361243
This unrivalled handbook is a guide to the world of industrial design, exploring what constitutes successful design, how it works, and how product design creates a market for itself. It explores the multifarious role of product designers, as new technology and materials present new possibilities for both form and function. What is Product Design? looks at issues of longevity and life cycles, multifunctionalism, concept generation and product development, prototyping, naming, and product placement.What is Product Design? is not just an in-depth exploration of successful design, it is also a stu
