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“Area_2″ is the newest volume in Phaidon’s acclaimed “Area” series, and features 100 of the world’s most interesting emerging graphic designers, as chosen by 10 of the most respected figures in the field. Within, more than 1,500 images reveal the talents and trends of contemporary graphic design as it has evolved over the past five years. Each of the book’s 100 four-page sections is devoted to the work of a single designer, and includes a critical essay written by the relevant curator. Featured design ranges from posters to books to typography - and beyond. By gathering together the best work of the most intriguing up-and-coming graphic designers, “Area_2″ promises to be an invaluable resource for students, designers, and anyone interested in the visual trends shaping our culture. Today’s most interesting graphic design is showcased in this comprehensive international survey.
Price: £31.49
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This fantastic volume allows readers to take a peek inside the heads of some of the world’s greatest living designers and learn what it is that drives people to become graphic artists; how they think, how they connect to others, and the special skills they have.”How to Think Like a Great Graphic Designer” is a series of honest, intimate, and revealing interviews with nineteen of the today’s top designers - including Stefan Sagmeister, Michael Beirut, David Carson, and Milton Glaser - in which they share their individual approaches, processes, opinions, and thoughts about their work.
Price: £7.72
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Articulating and demonstrating the epitome in modern design
This is an extraordinarily beautiful book in which scores of works by graphic designers are presented, commended upon and sometimes explained by famed Japanese graphic designer Kenya Hara.
There is no way I can do justice to either the beauty of this book or to the insightful text by Hara or to the range of design displayed. You have to see the book yourself to really appreciate the fact that, of all the gorgeous designs presented within–and there are scores of them–none is more gorgeous than the book itself. I think anybody in the book business might want to take this book in hand and peruse it as an example of what can be done in book design.
Price: £19.20
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The days when ornament was considered anathema to any kind of intellectual progress have long disappeared. While fashion, product and interior designers have spent the last decade embracing ornament in all its forms, architecture has been slow to catch up.
The Function of Ornament is a primer for the digital age, with Foreign Office Architects’ Farshid Moussavi demonstrating how the computer is as fine a form generator as any pattern book.
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Fukasawa is a master of Japanese minimalist design, translating the simple forms and tendency towards minimal decoration of the country’s traditional craftsman into the arena of modern consumer products, most notably for the manufacturer Muji. Often, Fukasaw’s best ideas come from the combination of two or more familiar forms, giving a functional twist to an already basic item, like his ‘Light with a Dish’ that ends the age old problem of where to put your house keys.
After working with IDEO, the designer established his own consultancy in 2003. In recent years he has established the term ‘super normal’, along with Jasper Morrison, to describe unpretentiously designed objects that have achieved a state of quiet perfection.
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Advertising: New Techniques for Visual Seduction
If advertising is to grab people’s attention, it must offer something really extraordinary. This unique compendium is packed with examples of eye-catching advertisements that use optical magic in order to hook the viewer, and to make sure that they give the ad that crucial second glance. Brimming with ideas and inspiration, this handbook of visual seduction will be a must-read for anyone working in advertising or involved in the business of communication.
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Minimum Space Maximum Living, M2
Part of the “Small Spaces” series, this book shows not only residential projects, but also retail and commercial spaces as well. It also features floor plans, drawings and photographs of challenges posed by restricted spaces.
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Pattern and Palette Sourcebook: 2
This hardworking reference book is the second volume in Rockport’s “Pattern and Palette” series. Like the first, it is an invaluable tool for art directors, designers and students working in the fashion, product and graphic design fields, as well as anyone in the business of visual communication. With close to 1000 new patterns, “Pattern and Palette Sourcebook 2″ is a desktop library of colours and patterns that address the professional’s needs in working with harmonies and contrasts. Divided into six unique style sections, the book provides readers with fifteen appropriate colours for each section, which are then incorporated into twenty-five different patterns shown in six or eight colour variations each. This enables readers to see the dramatic effect colours have in design and helps them understand how to use colour effectively. The book also demonstrates ways of creating designs that are distinctly unique from one another and yet hold together in a group. Also included is an interactive CD-ROM that contains the patterns featured, where users can choose patterns, experiment with colours and print out a sample of the patterns for reference.
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The Fundamentals of Digital Design looks at the dominant role that digital design plays in how we create and consume a wealth of different design disciplines, by focusing upon key figures and technological developments across five different areas; graphic design, moving image, sound and image, architecture and digital art.
* Published on: 2006-09
* Number of items: 1
* Binding: Paperback
* 192 pages
Price £13.16
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“Contemporary World Interiors” takes the reader on a global tour of the best and most provocative interior design and architecture projects of the past 25 years, presenting the characteristic traits, influences, and enduring ideas of the contemporary interior. Rather than simply charting passing trends, author Susan Yelavich, a veteran New York-based curator and critic, describes some 450 specific projects by famous designers and promising newcomers alike, in countries as far-ranging as Russia, Israel, Chile, South Korea, and South Africa, as well as more familiar locales in Europe, Japan, and North America. A carefully edited selection of more than 1000 color photographs and plans illustrates the book, all reproduced at a generous format.
* Amazon Sales Rank: #94960 in Books
* Published on: 2007-06-04
* Number of items: 1
* Binding: Hardcover
* 512 pages
Price £29.70
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