Graphic Communications and Printing Technology

A unique compilation of the best design books of the last 100 years. It covers a huge range of material—historic titles from pioneering type foundries to the best of recent monographs from todays leading studios—and provides an essential insight into the evolution of graphic design in the twentieth century.

This thought-provoking and practical book for graphic designers and students explores creative practice in graphic design. It examines the varied ways of getting from first thought to final product, making the creative process tangible, visible and possible.

New information and new images make this perennial best-seller an even more valuable tool for anyone interested in learning about typography. The fifth edition has been integrated with a convenient website, www.designingwithtype.com, where students and teachers can examine hundreds of design solutions and explore a world of typographic information.

From the basic principles of good design and the specific building blocks of graphic design to research methods and best practice in project management, readers will learn about the wide ranging areas of design, and find out about options for employment that are out there. The book includes chapters on illustrations and photographs, including advice about sourcing images and the vital issues of usage and copyright.

A blueprint for how our world will change in response to the next ten years of rapid technological disruption. The authors probe the science of technological convergence and how it will reinvent every part of our lives, including transportation, retail, advertising, education, health, entertainment, food, and finance.

Shows students and professionals how to build interest and complexity around simple relationships between formal elements of two-dimensional design such as point, line, plane, scale, hierarchy, layers, and transparency.

Offers students, novice designers, and battle-toughened professionals alike an insider's guide to the complexities of current graphic design practice and thinking. It contains all you need to know to survive and prosper in the complex, ever-shifting world of graphic design. Looks at everything from kerning to presenting, from budgeting to dealing with rejection, from annual reports to interface design.

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 and techniques in an engaging and interactive way.

An accessible overview of graphic design in a very browsable format. Its success is owing to a general-to-specific subcategorization based on four main ideas: principles (typography, color, etc.); knowledge (important books, journals, schools, and repositories); representatives (notable designers, firms, and typefaces); and practice (design applied to book and music jackets, posters, products, etc.).

A cost-cutting primer and a sourcebook of ideas for creating first-rate designs on minimal budgets, this book teaches you simple tricks of the trade and reveals innovative and unexpected ways for designers to cut the costs, but not lose on the quality, of their designs.

Trusted resource for graphic designers around the world, combining practical advice with philosophical guidance to help young professionals embark on their careers. This new, expanded edition brings this essential text up to date with new chapters on professional skills, the creative process, and global trends that include social responsibility, ethics, and the rise of digital culture.

In honest and revealing interviews, nineteen designers, including Stefan Sagmeister, Michael Beirut, David Carson, and Milton Glaser, share their approaches, processes, opinions, and thoughts about their work with noted brand designer Debbie Millman.

A practical and comprehensive guide to becoming a hero of the new industrial revolution.

A unique sourcebook featuring forty-six classic typefaces that continue to resonate with today's most influential graphic designers.

This unparalleled handbook explores the formal structures and acceptable variations of type as fundamental disseminators of information. It also uncovers the various ways in which typographers, as well as linguists, psychologists, philosophers, and information designers, have applied studies in this area.

Brings attention to the wonderful work, careers, and contributions of women designers, writers, teachers and entrepreneurs around the world.