Catharine Fishel

60 Leaders Share Their Secrets of Success

Inside the Business of Graphic Design

Share the insights of today's most legendary graphic designers as they speak about the best-kept secrets (and failures) of their business lives.

In need of advice? Just want to sound off? Opening this volume is like grabbing lunch with a fellow designer to commiserate or celebrate. In its pages, noteworthy designers, both past and present, working in fields ranging from graphic design, fashion, architecture, typography, illustration, and industry product design, sound off on every topic, including deadlines, inspiration, competition, rules, respect, education, and handling criticism and life as a creative soul -- all with a certain amount of irreverence. Their thoughts are boiled down into succinct quotable quotes and one-liners that exemplify their character and demonstrate their philosophy on the world. Enjoy reading sound bites from everyone from Frank Gehry, David Carson, and Charles and Ray Eames to Frank Lloyd Wright, Paul Rand, Stefan Sagmeister, and Saul Bass.

Wisdom, Insights, and Intriguing Thoughts from 150 Leading Designers

401 Design Meditations

GRAPHIC DESIGN. The book is packed full of best practice, practical business tips, and professional and creative strategies from successful freelancers, case studies, alongside industry reference resources, to inform aspiring freelance designers of their options. This book explores the different design fields open to freelancers, covering all genres of graphic design, including, branding, corporate identity, publishing, information design, and how each area is best approached from a freelance standpoint.This book supplies answers to the fundamental questions. Also included will be hints and tips about how to manage work flow and creative resources, such as software, imagery, and type, so as to ensure the best possible compatibility with the broadest client base.

Don't Start Work Without it

The Freelance Design Handbook

Bill Gardner

Now in paperback, this fourth volume in the best-selling LogoLounge series delivers a fresh collection of 2,000 totally new logos from designers worldwide. This book, like the previous titles in the series, is compiled in association with LogoLounge.com, the largest database of logo designs in the world. The first portion of the book delivers insightful articles on high-profile projects created by top international design names, including Pentagram, Siegel+Gale, Jager Di Paola Kemp, Hesse Design, and Interbrand. The second part of the book contains 2,000 logos organized for easy reference by category (typography, people, mythology, nature, sports, etc.), as well as additional articles on recent designs by Gardner Design, Tompert Design, Karl Design, Hybrid Design, Iconologic, and Hugonaut.

2000 International Identities by Leading Designers

LogoLounge 4

Stacey King Gordon

A volume "packed" with insight and ideas The packaging industry is more competitive every day so creating a new package that is innovative, adds value, and makes a connection with the consumer is a challenge often met with limited success. Dynamic and unusual package designs can really make a statement in overcrowded markets. What makes a package successful? How do designers find the inspiration and execute the designs that really work? This compendium of package design answers all that and more. The content covers inspiration, process, design research, working with clients, planning, and execution of some of the most effective packages on the market today. Insight from top packaging designers worldwide is provided on pages that are packed with images of great designs. Unlike most packaging books, this volume is stuffed with content in a compact, portable, and easy-to-use format

Little Book of Big Packaging Ideas

Bill Gardener

Features 2,000 logos and provides fresh inspiration to anyone looking to direct the design of their own identity. A searchable database of more than 36,000 logos by keyword is available by subscription on the popular website, www.logolounge.com, launched in 2002 by author Bill Gardner. If you don't have a subscription but would still like to see the best logos on the site created by top designers who often maintain low profiles, then the new paperback edition of LogoLounge 2 is for you. Recent noteworthy projects that are claiming the public spotlight are profiled in this book. It covers identities created for various industries such as airlines, networks, dot-coms, banks, and fashion, as well as lesser-known boutique projects in which the designer's name is larger than the client's. The first portion of the book profiles ten top designers and spotlights their biggest, newest campaigns. A handful of their smaller projects are also featured, including some that have never before been seen. The second half of the book contains almost 2,000 logos organized by logo design (typography, people, mythology, nature, sports, etc.)

2,000 International Identities by Leading Designers

LogoLounge 2

Examining a wide range of successful campaigns for food, clothes, toys, and entertainment for children, Fishel provides unique insights into what makes for successful marketing from both the professional view of a designer and from the expert perspective of a kid. 200 color images.

Marketing Design that Speaks to Kids

Designing for Children

The third in the seven-volume LogoLounge Master Library series, Shapes & Symbols is a collection of 3,000 shape- and symbol-based designs gathered from LogoLounge.com, the largest online collection of logos in the world. In addition, top designers, including Steff Geissbuhler, Jerry Kuyper, and Hans Hulsbosch, share their insights on the values, traditions, and future of shape- and symbol-based logo designs. â€”Shapes are generally logos that are more concept-oriented. It is a category that is rich with history, culture, and present-day opportunity. â€”Symbols are logos that are based on pictorial representations of concept: a heart, a star, or a cross, to name a few. In large part, their meaning is drawn from the specific base symbol. The LogoLounge Master Library series forms the deepest, densest, most highly focused collection of logos organized by category ever. It is organized with the busy, motivated designer in mind. You can turn to exactly what you need, time after timeâ€”a must-have resource for any serious logo designer.

3,000 Shapes and Symbols Logos

LogoLounge Master Library, Volume 3

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 whether to stay with the business or move on. Whether you dream of setting up a small studio, or whether you've been on your own for years, this provocative guide is an important source of success strategies for every graphics professional.

A collection of 3,000 original logos, collected and selected by the renowned LogoLounge.com website, this collection provides an endless resource of ideas and inspiration for graphic designers. Organized thematically with the broader focus of Shapes and Symbols, the collection features logos that cover all categories of logo design, including typographic, illustrative, pattern-driven, and photographic.

Logos define, distinguish, and disseminate a company’s core message. It is no wonder that creating successful marks takes a well conceived strategy and a skilled hand. This book, the sixth in the series, once again celebrates the brilliant work top designers around the world have created for clients both large and small. This diverse collection offers a wealth of inspiration and insights for graphic designers and their clients. Created by Bill Gardner, president of leading design firm Gardner Design, the LogoLounge website (www.logolounge.com) showcases the work of the world’s top designers as well as up-and-coming new talent. The book presents the site’s best designs of the past year as judged by an elite group of name-brand designers. The first portion of the book profiles ten top designers and spotlights their biggest, newest campaigns. A handful of their smaller projects are also featured in this section along with unused logos that have never before been seen. The second half of the book contains almost 2,000 logos organized by visual categories. LogoLounge 6 features the work of superstar artists and firms such as Stefan Sagmeister, Landor, Saffron, Jessica Hische, and MetaDesign. With 2,000 logos from every corner of the earth, this visually compelling volume is the go-to resource for inspiration from the best in the field.

LogoLounge 6

Helping graphic designers find professional and spiritual support in the ever-demanding struggle to stay creative and profitable, this book reveals how some of today's most successful and intriguing designers keep growing as artists and as people with the power to affect public attitudes. Topics addressed include how to keep track of one's vision, the meaning of success, what sustains designers spiritually, and how to embrace change and stay fluid. Also provided is priceless peer advice on strategic issues such setting a goal for one's company, growing or shrinking a business, and promoting one's uniqueness.

Catharine Fishel

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