Author: Mark Gatter
Publisher: Laurence King
Keywords: print, right, getting
Number of Pages: 172
Published: 2005-04-04
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 1856694216
ISBN-13: 9781856694216

Many graphic designers who have a degree or extensive training have little idea of the requirements of the printing process. Often afraid to admit it, every time they send a job to print they experience a period of nail-biting anxiety because they don’t know how it’s going to turn out. This book gives designers the confidence to do everything necessary to ensure trouble-free, high-quality printing - to calibrate images (colour and black and white); adjust trapping levels in all the major software applications, and mix colours that won’t print as something that is a complete s

Author: Adrian Shaughnessy
Publisher: Laurence King
Keywords: soul, losing, designer, graphic
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 2005-09-01
List price: $50.00
ISBN-10: 1856694100
ISBN-13: 9781856694100

Graphic designers constantly complain that there is no career manual to guide them through the profession. Now, design consultant and writer Adrian Shaughnessy draws on the wealth of his experience to provide just such a handbook. Aimed at the independent-minded, it addresses the concerns of young designers who want to earn a living by doing expressive and meaningful work but want to avoid becoming a hired drone working on soulless projects. It offers straight-talking advice on how to establish your design career and practical suggestions - that you won’t have been taught at college - fo

Author:
Publisher: Laurence King
Keywords: art, world, atlas
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2004-01
List price: $154.95
ISBN-10: 1856693775
ISBN-13: 9781856693776

Combines a survey of world art with maps showing the associations and dissemination of culture across the globe.

Author: Sara Manuelli
Publisher: Laurence King
Keywords: spanish, shopping, design
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 2006-12
List price: $174.80
ISBN-10: 185669450X
ISBN-13: 9781856694506

This work showcases a comprehensive selection of recent retail interiors from around the world. Following a brief introduction, the book is divided into seven themed chapters. As a special feature each chapter begins with an interview with a key figure in the world of retail design, exploring their views on how our changing shopping habits affect retail design.

Author: Thomas Hauffe
Publisher: Laurence King Pub
Keywords: history, concise, design
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 1998
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 1856691349
ISBN-13: 9781856691345

Authors:Beverley Cole, Richard Durack,
Publisher: Laurence King
Keywords: railway, york, england, museum, national, posters, collection
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 2000-01
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 1856690148
ISBN-13: 9781856690140

The National Railway Museum in York has a large and varied collection of railway art and artefacts; this books shows over 200 of the best posters dating from the railways’ heyday prior to nationalization. In this period, renowned poster artists of the calibre of Edward McKnight Kauffer, Tom Purvis and Cassandre were commissioned by the railway groups to promote not only their lines but also the most beautiful and appealing cities and towns in their areas for tourists to visit. The railway companies virtually invented the "package tour", and promoted it intensively not only in the UK but

Author:
Publisher: Laurence King
Keywords: spanish, houses, wood
Number of Pages: 208
Published:
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 1856694550
ISBN-13: 9781856694551