Graphis Annual Reports 2014-2016 For Platinum Award winners, see the cover. Gold winners include Emerson, Wajdowicz Studios, emerystudio, Brand Union, Costello Communications, Design Ranch, Gensler, Gottschalk+Ash Int’l, h george design, inc., Nesandy + Schwartz, and Squires & Company, among many others. Thousands of Annual Report designs are available in our online archive. This year, Graphis awarded nearly 300 winners. Platinum and Gold winners each receive full-page presentations of their w...
"The ultimate illustrated guide to more than 100 icons of international design from the everyday to the avant-garde, from the Barcelona chair and the Ekco radio to the Citroën DS and the iPad."--P. [4] of cover.
Celebrate the history of design with this stunning visual guide What makes a truly good design? This comprehensive reference guide explores the evolution of design through the key designers, manufacturers, objects and the movements they inspired - from the Arts and Craft movement to the digital age.Design is all around us, from the chairs we use at work, to the crockery we eat on and the cars we drive. The pages of this book are packed with fabulous images of objects, technology, prints, buildi...
Undesign
Undesign brings together leading artists, designers and theorists working at the intersection of art and design. The text focuses on design practices, and conceptual approaches, which challenge the traditional notion that design should emphasise its utility over aesthetic or other non-functional considerations. This publication brings to light emerging practices that consider the social, political and aesthetic potential of "undesigning" our complex designed world. In documenting these new devel...
This extravagant volume is the magnum opus of today’s most celebrated interiors photographer. One of François Halard’s first assignments, to photograph Yves Saint Laurent’s legendary Paris apartment when he was in his early twenties, cemented his reputation as one of the most original eyes of our era. His unique photographic sensibility—old-world elegant and bohemian, accessible and personal—is instantly recognizable. Thirty years later, Halard still captures our imagination with his breathtakin...
Journal Your Life's Journey
by Blank Book Billionaire and Journal Your Life's Journey
The Splendor of St. Petersburg
by Thierry Morel and Elizaveta Renne
An unprecedented tour of the most stunning and architecturally significant palatial homes of Russia's nobility, many not previously photographed and inaccessible to visitors. This luxurious presentation takes the reader on a breathtaking tour through the most magnificent mansions in St. Petersburg, Russia, built by the prerevolutionary aristocracy. Palaces of St. Petersburg reflects the unparalleled access and meticulous research of the authors, showcasing private residences that are unsurpass...
Clients the world over turn to graphic designers to help them create standout brochures. Each brochure is critical, and landing a contract is highly competitive, so it is not surprising that designers are always searching for inspiration to execute a brochure with perfection.This paperback version of RockportAEs best-selling Best of Brochure Design series delivers on its promises. The Best of Brochure Design 7 features an extraordinary collection of work from top designers around the world, incl...
The Impact Plan is a detailed decision-making framework that guides students and creative professionals to quickly assess the future impact of their creative projects. While formulated with designers in mind, the method elaborated within this book will help professionals cycle through potential contexts and project influences in order to determine the impact in an economic, social, and even humanitarian way. Moving through the fundamentals of strategic decision-making and impact...
This comprehensive book provides a global perspective on the properties and powers of furniture. Programs in the visual arts - art, architecture, interior design - are all facing the challenge of providing students with information from around the world. History of Furniture: A Global View covers the major historical movements in furniture design from prehistoric periods through to contemporary design, including those regions that traditional history books ignore or underserve such as Africa and...
Jasper Morrison's name is not associated with spectacular consumer design products. Instead, he has chosen to align himself from the start with an approach that designers often return to after careers spent otherwise: simple and durable forms that remain functional and true to their materials, and retain an unmistakable and exciting modern formal language. His success in the European design landscape over the past decade is without parallel, perhaps because his first furniture and interior desig...
Winners of the international Graphis Logo/Letterhead Awards Logos and Letterheads are the visual captivity of every brand. There is so much more than just choosing beautiful fonts: it's a vital component of user interface design. Good Logo/Letterhead will establish a strong visual hierarchy, provide a graphic balance to the website, and set the product's overall tone. This book is essential for all those who wish to create promotional material and advertising. With this they can learn how to t...
Designing for Privacy and Related Needs
by Julie Stewart-Pollack and Rosemary M. Menconi
This timely book provides a synthesis of research, theory, and practical application to explore and examine the concept of privacy as both a universal human need and a function of interior design responsibility. While intended for intermediate and advanced design students, Designing for Privacy and Related Needs is useful for a variety of theory and applications courses and presents information about technology in a straightforward manner. Privacy needs and solutions are examined for residential...
The Story of Design, by world-renowned design writers Charlotte and Peter Fiell, is a must-have read for all design students and practitioners and for anyone interested in how our man-made world has been moulded and improved. This is a beautifully illustrated and accessibly written history of the development and evolution of design. A fascinating multi-stranded account that is truly comprehensive in its scope, it introduces the styles, movements, theories, materials, processes, technologies, l...
The New Munsell Student Color Set
by Associate Professor and Chair Ronald Reed
Now with brand new, easy to use perforated color chip technology, The New Munsell Student Color Set, 6th Edition, is a complete learning package that offers opportunities for experimenting with color effects using paint, paper, and computers. A full-color interactive and experimental guidebook for understanding color in all its dimensions, it includes a full suite of interactive color charts with corresponding color chips, along with a textbook, all designed to facilitate hands-on learning of co...