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$62.01


2D: Visual Basics for Designers features a concept-based approach that explores the fundamental elements, principles, and applications of two-dimensional design for print and screen-based media. This striking new book covers 2D applications in a variety of visual communications-from graphic design and advertising design to environmental design and illustration. Building a strong foundation in two-dimensional design, 2D: Visual Basics for Designers not only provides readers with essential content; it also teaches the conceptual and analytical skills designers must have to think visually, critically, and creatively.

$29.5


"Graphic Design, Referenced" is a comprehensive, visual index of graphic design terms, historic figures, landmark design projects, technological innovations, other miscellaneous inclusions, and more. It gathers a comprehensive and inclusive range of this information and presents it in a visually laden and engagingly written reference index. From Caslon to Carson, from Gutenberg to Greiman, from Lascaux to letterpress, and from Postmodernism to pixel (among other entries), this index provides all the necessary information that designers need in order to work efficiently...not to mention survive a design conversation with peers.

$16


For designers working in every medium, layout is arguable the most basic, and most important, element. Effective layout is essential to communication and enables the end user to not only be drawn in with an innovative design but to digest information easily.<P>Making and Breaking the Grid is a comprehensive layout design workshop that assumes that in order to effectively break the rules of grid-based design, one must first understand those rules and see them applies to real-world projects. <P>Text reveals top designersAE work in process and rationale. Projects with similar characteristics are linked through a simple notational system that encourages exploration and comparison of structure ideas. Also included are historical overviews that summarize the development of layout concepts, both grid-based and non-grid based, in modern design practice.

$51.5


A large number of exciting contemporary nightspots in cities like London, New York, Amsterdam, Rome, Lisbon, Tokyo are highlighted in this book. In most cases the designers have made extra photo shootings in the clubs with and without party crowds. The book features some twenty portraits of distinguished and selected design firms from all over the world. Their spectacular designs for bars, nightclubs, discos and dance clubs are presented, revealing the wide spectrum of creativity. A ten-page profile is dedicated to each design firm and full business details are included. The graphic design is by the well-known Dutch studio Staat Amsterdam. Among the firms featured are: Concrete, Amsterdam Ronald Hooft, Amsterdam Binc, Amsterdam Plajer/Franz, Berlin Mack and Partner, Frankfurt Geomim, Istanbul Mueller Kneer, London Stephen Macdonald Assoc., London Turbo 2000, Copenhagen Bushe Assoc.

$15.5


This massive book of Soviet propaganda posters, many rare and never before published, is at once a revealing historical document and a sublime example of graphic art at its best. Dating from 1917 to the beginning of the Cold War, the posters in this book feature the work of such major Russian ground-breaking avant-garde designers as El Lissitzky and Alexander Rodchenko as well as extraordinary works by anonymous artists. Presented in full color, the 250 posters gathered here range in themes from warnings about the dangers of alcohol abuse and the creeping Nazi menace to illustrations of utopian harmony and the Soviet industrial machine. A brief illustrated introduction offers a chronological overview of the period that produced such eloquent art, which has long been a major source of inspiration to artists and designers.