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  • Pioneers of Modern Design

    From William Morris to Walter Gropius

    One of the most widely read books on modern design, Nikolaus Pevsner's landmark work today remains as stimulating as it was when first published in 1936. This expanded edition of Pioneers of Modern Design provides Pevsner's original text along with significant new and updated information, enhancing Pevsner's illuminating account of the roots of Modernism. The book now offers many beautiful colour ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Design Paradigms

    Case Histories of Error and Judgment in Engineering

    From ancient Greek temples to twentieth-century towers, engineers have learned more about design from failure than success. The concept of error, according to the author, is central to the design process. As a way of explaining the enduring aspects of engineering design, he relates stories of some of the greatest engineering successes and failures of all time. These case studies, drawn from a wide ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • Design Culture

    An Anthology of Writing from the AIGA Journal of Graphic Design

    Presenting a significant selection of seventy-eight essays, interviews, and symposia from the pioneering AIGA Journal of Graphic Design, Design Culture examines the coming of age of graphic design as a profession and its role in shaping our culture. A diverse group of leading designers, editors, academics, and professionals both within and outside the field offer stimulating views on the impact of ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Careers by Design

    A Business Guide for Graphic Designers

    by Roz Goldfarb ...
    Through her work with hundreds of corporations around the world, leading headhunter Roz Goldfarb provides readers a treasure trove of valuable information for thriving in this creatively driven business, including updated hiring criteria, the latest developments in technology, and the marketplace affecting design careers.Discussion in this revised and expanded third edition includes: jobs, hiring ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Digital Magazine Design

    with Case Studies

    Publishers of contemporary highstreet magazines invest more and more money in developing innovative design for an increasingly designliterate reader. Innovation, however, must always be grounded in the underlying conventions of legibility to ensure loyal readership and economic success. Digital Magazine Design provides detailed descriptions of all the necessary rules of design, and uses these ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Inside the Business of Graphic Design

    60 Leaders Share Their Secrets of Success

    Inside the Business of Graphic Design casts a precise and realistic light on the risks, requirements, and rewards of running a creative and successful design business. Six sections discuss the entire cycle of business ownership, including goal setting, finding the right management style, cooperating with employees, triggering growth, rethinking one's business in the face of major changes, and even ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Citizen Designer

    Perspectives on Design Responsibility

    What does it mean to be a designer in today’s corporate-driven, overbranded global consumer culture? Citizen Designerattempts to answer this question with more than 70 debate-stirring essays and interviews espousing viewpoints ranging from the cultural and the political to the professional and the social. Edited by two prominent advocates of socially responsible design, this innovative reference ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Design Management

    Using Design to Build Brand Value and Corporate Innovation

    Written by a leading authority in the fields of marketing and design, here is first book ever to bring together the theory and practice of design management. In eleven comprehensive chapters, Design Management offers time-tested tools for choosing the right design agency . . . integrating design in the organization . . . creating value and contributing to company performance . . . contributing to ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Teaching Graphic Design

    Course Offerings and Class Projects from the Leading Graduate and Undergraduate Programs

    by Steven Heller ...
    This priceless teaching tool features more than 70 proven-effective programs from the country’s leading graphic design schools. Spanning from traditional, bricks and mortar” approaches to the ever-widening digital frontier of graphic design, these syllabi include detailed introductions, weekly breakdowns, project suggestions, and selected readings, as well as offer valued background material on ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Editing by Design

    For Designers, Art Directors, and Editors--the Classic Guide to Winning Readers

    by Jan V. White ...
    This completely updated edition of an industry classic shows a new generation of editors and designers how to make their publications sing! Readers will find a treasury of practical tips for helping story and design reinforce each other and create powerful pages that are irresistible to readers. Brimming with hundreds of illustrations, Editing by Design presents proven solutions to such design ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • The Real Business of Web Design

    by John Waters ...
    Written by a veteran Web designer, The Real Business of Web Design goes beyond the usual philosophy of simply creating a better customer experience online. Instead, it provides an array of visual design practices and tested business principles for clarifying and simplifying the Web development process and making a Website more customer friendly. Filled with anecdotes from the author’s own ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Graphic Idea Notebook

    A Treasury of Solutions to Visual Problems

    by Jan V. White ...
    This updated edition of the much-heralded classic of page design offers surefire ideas and inspiration to anyone stuck with the task of designing cutting-edge printed material. This book is a collection of more than 2,000 visual "idea generators"-illustrations and line art-that visualize the various abstract problems that page editors encounter. Previous editions of this book (0-8230-2149-1 and 0 ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Design Literacy

    Understanding Graphic Design

    by Steven Heller ...
    This update to the first book to provide explicit case histories of the successful marriage of form and content in graphic design explores more than 125 classic and contemporary works-30 of them brand new-explaining why they are aesthetically significant and how they function as good design. These thought pieces offer a vast taste of the aesthetic, political, historical, and personal issues that ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Japanese Modernisation and Mingei Theory

    Cultural Nationalism and Oriental Orientalism

    by Yuko Kikuchi ...
    Conceptualised in 1920s Japan by Yanagi Sôetsu, the Mingei movement has spread world wide since the 1950s, creating phenomena as diverse as Mingei museums, Mingei connoisseurs and collectors, Mingei shops and Mingei restaurants. The theory, at its core and its adaptation by Bernard Leach, has long been an influential 'Oriental' aesthetic for studio craft artists in the West. But why did Mingei ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • Urban Futures

    Critical Commentaries on shaping Cities

    Edited by Tim Hall, Malcolm Miles ...
    Urban Futures brings together commentaries from a wide range of contemporary disciplines and fields relevant to urban culture, form and society. The book concerns cities in the broadest sense, not just as buildings and spaces, but also as processes and events or sites of occupation, in which meanings are constructed in many ways. The contributors draw on their specialist areas of research to ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Rapid Contextual Design

    A How-to Guide to Key Techniques for User-Centered Design

    Series series Interactive Technologies
    Is it impossible to schedule enough time to include users in your design process? Is it difficult to incorporate elaborate user-centered design techniques into your own standard design practices? Do the resources needed seem overwhelming?This handbook introduces Rapid CD, a fast-paced, adaptive form of Contextual Design. Rapid CD is a hands-on guide for anyone who needs practical guidance on how ... Read more

    $51.99 USD

  • Design History

    A Students' Handbook

    Edited by Hazel Conway ...
    Hazel Conway introduces the student new to the subject to different areas of design history and shows some of the ways in which it can be studied and some of its delights and difficulties. No background knowledge of design history, art or architecture is assumed. ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • How to Be a Graphic Designer without Losing Your Soul

    Published to instant acclaim in 2005, our best selling-áHow to Be a Graphic Designer without Losing Your Soul-áhas become a 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 ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Design Matters: Logos 01

    An Essential Primer for Today's Competitive Market

    Edited by Capsule ...
    Series series Design Matters
    The nuts and bolts of effective logo design.The design bar is at an all time high for those brave enough to participate in the industry. Today's designers must be clear on all the steps necessary to create work that stands out in an increasingly competitive marketplace. Unfortunately, most design books only focus on type, color, and layout issues. The Design Matters series takes a more in-depth ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Understanding Architecture Through Drawing

    by Brian Edwards ...
    This second edition is fully revised and updated and includes new chapters on sustainability, history and archaeology, designing through drawing and drawing in architectural practice. The book introduces design and graphic techniques aimed to help designers increase their understanding of buildings and places through drawing. For many, the camera has replaced the sketchbook, but here the author ... Read more

    $94.99 USD

  • Masters of Design: Logos & Identity

    A Collection of the Most Inspiring Logo Designers in the World

    by Sean Adams ...
    Masters of Design: Logos and Identity profiles twenty well known designers, who are recognized for the particular areas of design in which they’re profiled in the Masters series. The profiles are not only inspirational, but they provide real-world advice and support designers can use in their projects.Through real world examples and illustrations, the authors present the work of the 20 legends ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Design as Art

    by Bruno Munari ...
    Series series Penguin Modern Classics
    How do we see the world around us? The Penguin on Design series includes the works of creative thinkers whose writings on art, design and the media have changed our vision forever.Bruno Munari was among the most inspirational designers of all time, described by Picasso as ‘the new Leonardo’. Munari insisted that design be beautiful, functional and accessible, and this enlightening and highly ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Design Disasters

    Great Designers, Fabulous Failure, and Lessons Learned

    by Steven Heller ...
    The thrill of victory…the agony of defeat. We're not talking about just any failure. Design failure. So public. So humiliating. How do designers who are really, really good (we swear!) turn a disaster into a triumph? Read this book and find out, as dozens of top names reveal the heartbreaking-and sometimes hilarious-mistakes they have made and talk about how they were able to grow from the ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Forms, Folds and Sizes, Second Edition

    All the Details Graphic Designers Need to Know but Can Never Find

    It’s tough to remember all the minute details of packaging standards and conversions when you are a designer juggling varied projects. With Forms, Folds & Sizes – Revised, you can just look them up! Including updated information and new topics, thishandbook provides designers with all the little details that can make or break a design, such as how much space to leave in the gutter when designing ... Read more

    $21.99 USD