Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: Designers often look to the past to inform their work. In Stencil Type, design gurus Steven Heller and Louise Fili explore the variety and influence of the world s most ubiquitous typographic style, which dates to prehistoric times and has been used on a range of surfaces from street signs, buildings, and bridges to packaging and posters. This expansive sourcebook presents hundreds of…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 257 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 640) Аннотация: Picture this: The biggest players in the highly competitive field of illustration. Culled from our Illustration Now series is this selection of today's most successful and important illustrators from around the globe. In his introduction, Steven Heller fleshes out the challenging process of narrowing down a field of 600 illustrators to a selection of the 100 most significant. The final cut,…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: Classic modern design never goes out of style: it is merely retired or subtly adapted to its given place and time. Having surveyed handwritten, new vintage, and new ornamental tendencies in type and lettering, graphic-design guru Steven Heller now turns his encyclopedic gaze on Modernism. New Modernist Type reveals how a graphic language of simplicity and economy has impacted contemporary design.…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: Selected by the world's most knowledgeable and well-connected graphic design commentator, Steven Heller, this survey gets into the minds of designers who create typefaces, word-images and logos through their private sketchbooks. Arranged by designer, it reveals how nearly 120 of the world's leading designers and typographers continually strive to find new and exciting ways of communicating…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 095 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 216) Аннотация: New in the 100 Ideas that Changed... series, this book demonstrates how ideas influenced and defined graphic design, and how those ideas have manifested themselves in objects of design. The 100 entries, arranged broadly in chronological order, range from technical (overprinting, rub-on designs, split fountain); to stylistic (swashes on caps, loud typography, and white space); to objects (dust…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: From cartoons to graphic novels, from humor to superheroes, comics are the world 's most popular form of illustration. And, as in all forms of illustration, artists and designers experiment with visual ideas, image-and-word play, narrative sequencing, and stylistic flourishes through sketching. What we rarely see is the creative thinking the doodling that leads to fully formed visual ideas and…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: This revolutionary guide is not only the first to look at how typography in design creates a call to action, but it also explores type and image as language. Stop, Think, Go, Do is packed with arresting imagery from around the world that influences human behavior. Page after page, you'll find innovative messages that advocate, advise caution, educate, entertain, express, inform, play, and…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: Seen in everything from wedding invitations and birth announcements to IOUs, menus, and diplomas, script typefaces impart elegance and sophistication to a broad variety of texts. Scripts never go out of style, and the hundreds of inventive examples here are sure to inspire today 's designers. Derived from handwriting, these are typefaces that are stylized to suggest, imply, or symbolize certain…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 900 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 766) Аннотация: This is a unique survey of photography from its origins until now. From a delivery boy to one of the most important industrialists in American history, George Eastman's career developed in a particularly American way. The founder of Kodak died in 1932, and left his house to the University of Rochester. Since 1949 the site has operated as an international museum of photography and film, and today…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: I Heart Design is a collection of favorite designs as selected by 80 prominent graphic designers, typographers, teachers, scholars, writers and design impresarios. Designers have preferences, like modern over postmodern, serif over sans serif, decorative over minimal. But designers could not be engaged in design practice if they did not love design. The reasons for such a charged emotion varies…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: Design School Confidential is a richly illustrated, unprecedented anthology of over 50 of the most challenging class projects from design schools around the world. The projects range from basic typography to social responsibility. From printed matter to environmental extravaganzas, students are challenged to push the limits of form and content. How do students learn to solve design problems? How…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 131 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 223) Аннотация: This provocative survey reveals how four of the most destructive dictatorships of the 20th century — Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, Soviet Russia and Communist China — used graphic design to sell their messages. Explores each regime's distinctive strategies for seducing public opinion and infiltrating people's lives, in media ranging from logos, flags, typefaces and posters to children's books and…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: The impact of more than one hundred years of aesthetics, form, and content on developments in graphic communications. This unique history of design, documenting over a century of creative brilliance, has now been brought into the twenty-first century. Showcasing the most influential designs and designers from 1900 to the present, this outstanding collection illustrates how the best ideas…