Adrian Shaughnessy

"Addresses the concerns of designers who want to earn a living by doing expressive and meaningful work, and who want to avoid becoming hired drones working on soulless projects"--Publisher description.

How to be a Graphic Designer Without Losing Your Soul

Sarah Schrauwen

Tony Brook

This book is the first comprehensive study of corporate identity design manuals, and features 20 examples from the 1960s to early 1980s – the golden era of identity design. The book includes manuals created for institutions and corporations such as NASA, Lufthansa and British Steel

Design & Identity Guidelines

Manuals 1

Graphic designers constantly complain that there is no career manual to guide them through the profession. Design consultant and writer Adrian Shaughnessy draws on a wealth of 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 and avoid becoming a hired drone working on soulless projects. It offers straight-talking advice on how to establish your design career and suggestions - that you wont have been taught at college - for running a successful business. This revised, extended edition includes all-new chapters covering professional skills, the creative process, and global trends, including green issues, ethics and the rise of digital culture. The book contains all-new imagery, and the previous interviews have been replaced with new ones, each focusing on a specific issue of importance to graphic designers.

Without Losing Your Soul

How to Be a Graphic Designer

It's a rare graphic designer who hasn't contemplated setting up his or her own studio. It's part of a designer's DNA to want to own and run a studio. Many do, while others spend a lifetime wondering if they should. But where does the ambitious designer go for advice and guidance? Who better than the founders of some of the best design studios in the world? Tony Brook and Adrian Shaughnessy conduct penetrating interviews with a group of visionary graphic designers who have formed and run landmark international design studios. In a series of candid and revealing interviews, manyof the leading figures in contemporary graphic design reveal the secrets behind creating a vibrant studio culture.

The Secret Life of a Graphic Design Studio

Studio Culture

This definitive, chronological visual record spans Paula?s early days in the music industry as an art director with CBS and Atlantic records; the launch of her first studio, Koppel & Scher; and her 25-year engagement with Pentagram. 0The monograph is also a visual record of contemporary New York?s urban fabric, indelibly transformed by the designer?s innovative approach to environmental graphics and identity design: from MoMA to Charter Schools; from the High Line to Shake Shack. 0Her logos for global corporations and cultural institutions have cemented her reputation as a giant of identity design. 0A large section is devoted to the designer?s socially and politically-motivated posters, New York Times Op-Ed illustrations and campaign work. 0The book also provides the most up-to-date look at Paula?s idiosyncratic hand-painted maps, an unusually prolific artistic practice complementing her still-growing graphic legacy.

Works

Paula Scher

Michael Bierut

A User's Manual

Graphic Design

"The majority of the work shown in this book comes from the years 1973 through to 1982. As Lance Wyman explains elsewhere in these pages, he only started to seriously 'log' his daily output when he returned from Mexico to New York in 1973. However, prior to this date, he maintained his diaries on an occasional basis. Pages from his pre-73 diaries are included in this section."--[chapter 1].

Lance Wyman : the visual diaries, 1973-1982 : sketches, notes, photographs & printed ephemera

An A-Z guide for graphic designers who want to make expressive and distinctive work. Offers students, novice designers, and seasonal professionals on insider's guide to the complexities of current graphic design practice and thinking.

How to be a graphic designer, without losing your soul

Graphic Design for Walls, Buildings and Spaces

Super Graphics

"Having published two books celebrating the genius of Herb Lubalin as a graphic designer working in many spheres, this new volume concentrates solely on Lubalin's typography. It comes with new texts, new design, new photography, and lots of previously unpublished material - and with a price tag that makes it accessible to a wide audience."--Provided by publisher.

Typographer

Herb Lubalin

Herb Lubalin  American Graphic Designer  1918—81

TwoPoints.Net

Erik Brandt

Claudia Klat

Yves Peters

Non-Format

Type Plus

Essays 1995-2013

Scratching the Surface

This book features the best of contemporary printed literature. It offers a critical survey of current graphic design, showing work by leading practitioners from the USA, Europe and Japan. Arranged in a designer-bydesigner format and accompanied by interviews with some of the designers responsible for the featured work, this book offers a complete and informative picture of this popular subject.

Contemporary Brochures, Catalogues & Documents

Look at This

American Graphic Designer, 1918-81

Tony Brook (arhitekt.)

Supernew Supergraphics is a collection of the best architectural, environmental and interior graphic design. This all-new book shows how the current generation of designers and architects are blasting typography and graphic forms across walls - even landscapes. It shows how they are distorting space and warping entire buildings with colour, typographic messages and abstract shapes.

Supernew Supergraphics

"The Archive Series is a bibliographic celebration of graphic design archives and collections. The first title in the new series is devoted to the design of postage stamps. Sourced from the collections of stamp design experts Iain Follett and Blair Thomson, the book celebrates the brilliance of postage stamp design from around the world."--Provided by publisher.

The Miniature Beauty of Postage Stamps : from the Collection of Iain Follett and Blair Thomson

Graphic Stamps

Neville Brody

A follow-up to two highly successful monographs on the work of one of the most important designers of his generation, showcasing projects completed since the mid-1990s. Neville Brody defined the look of the 1980s music scene as art director of The Face. Since then, Brody consistently proved that he is one of most innovative and shape-shifting graphic designers of the era. While his second monograph was published in 1994, over the last almost three decades Brody has produced a new body of editorial, typographic, information, and interface design of unparalleled boldness and sophistication for global clients that include Samsung, Shiseido, Coca-Cola, the UK’s Channel 4, and Dom Perignon. The Graphic Language of Neville Brody 3 brings this work together in thematic sections that address the key fields of his vibrant design projects, including typographic experimentation, information graphics, cultural subversion, and design systems. Richly illustrated, each project is explored in detail, revealing the work that defined Brody’s recent career across six chapters, from major brands to magazine editorials and features, showing how his design language has evolved since the 1990s. Creating a new generation of fans, this volume shares Brody’s design genius at a time when the originality of work from the 1980s and 1990s across many creative disciplines is finding a new audience. This inspirational volume is essential reading for anyone interested in the evolution of graphic design over the past three decades.

The Graphic Language of Neville Brody 3

Contains covers of design magazines, journals and periodicals covering many topics – graphic design, typography, architecture, interiors, print, theory and history. " ... they are brilliant specimens of innovative visual design."--Publisher's web site.

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