Visual Storytelling

  • Inspiring a New Visual Language
  • Author: R. Klanten, S. Ehmann, F. Schulze
  • Book category: Graphic Design

  • Visual storytelling uses graphic design, infographics, illustration, and photography to convey information in the most elegant, entertaining, and informative way. Today, the creative scope of existing visual storytelling techniques is being expanded to meet the [...]

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Visual storytelling uses graphic design, infographics, illustration, and photography to convey information in the most elegant, entertaining, and informative way. Today, the creative scope of existing visual storytelling techniques is being expanded to meet the formidable challenge of extracting valuable news, surprising findings, and relevant stories from a daily flood of data head on. Visual Storytelling is the first book to focus solely on contemporary and experimental manifestations of visual forms that can be classified as such. The rich selection of cutting-edge examples featured here is put into context with text features by Andrew Losowsky and interviews with experts including the New York Times, Francesco Franchi, and Golden Section Graphics.

More and more data is being collected. We can access ever more information at any time and from any place. The fundamental challenge now is how to extract the most valuable news, the most surprising findings, and the most relevant stories from the flood of information that is available to us.

A new generation of designers, illustrators, data journalists, and graphic editors is addressing this challenge head on. They are expanding the creative scope of existing techniques in visual storytelling—using graphic design, infographics, illustration, and photography to convey information in the most elegant, entertaining, and informative way. The main idea behind visual storytelling is to take familiar image contexts and use them in a new way. By penetrating meaning and creating associations, abstract correlations can be visualized in a manner that is both easy to understand and aesthetically innovative. Today, visual storytelling is being used intensively in newspapers, magazines, websites, advertising, business reports, and museums.

Visual Storytelling is the first book to focus solely on contemporary and experimental manifestations of visual forms that can be classified as such. The rich selection of cutting-edge examples featured here is put into context with an introduction and text features by magazine expert Andrew Losowsky as well as interviews with the New York Times, Francesco Franchi, Density Design, Carl Kleiner, Antoine Corbineau, Golden Section Graphics, Les Graphiquants, and Peter Grundy. The inspiring, insightful, interactive, and entertaining work and texts collected in Visual Storytelling reveal how the contextualization of information is pushing the envelope of today’s design and aesthetics.

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Editors: R. Klanten, S. Ehmann, F. Schulze
Publisher: Gestalten
Year: 2011
Language: English
Format: 24 × 30 cm
Features: 256 pages, full color, hardcover
ISBN 978-3-89955-375-8

Type Navigator

  • The Independent Foundries Handbook
  • Author: Jan Middendorp, TwoPoints.Net
  • Book category: Typography

  • The rapidly expanding online market for digital typefaces is exciting and diverse. With new fonts and type foundries launching on an almost daily basis, it has been difficult to keep track of notable developments—until now. [...]

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The rapidly expanding online market for digital typefaces is exciting and diverse. With new fonts and type foundries launching on an almost daily basis, it has been difficult to keep track of notable developments—until now. Type Navigator is a useful current handbook of modern fonts, independent foundries, and innovative type designers that provides an overview of today’s vast market. This comprehensive publication offers a valuable overview of international sources for quality fonts. In addition to concise profiles of type foundries and recent typefaces, Type Navigator features inspirational visual examples of fonts in use. A free digital collection of 100 typeface variations from 20 choice foundries accompanies the 320-page book.

In the past, there were only a few specialists worldwide who worked intensively with typography. Since the introduction of digital fonts and their dissemination via the internet, typography has gained a new significance. More and more designers are creating fonts for a variety of applications. Simultaneously, more and more of these designers are founding type foundries to sell their fonts themselves. Supply and demand in this area have been growing considerably for years. The expanding market for typography is exciting and diverse, but it has been difficult to keep track of notable developments––until now.

Type Navigator is a comprehensive handbook of the best independent sources for quality fonts. Structured and indexed according to practical criteria, it offers not only a valuable overview, but also possibilities for effective targeted searches. Whether a reader is in need of a specific type of font, is looking for fonts by a select designer, from a certain country, or even just wants to compare prices, Type Navigator will provide the necessary information.

In addition to abundant examples of fonts as well as concrete applications for typefaces and alphabets, this essential compendium features concise profiles of type foundries and designers. Select interviews with managers of type foundries show how their creative visions are influencing the characteristics of their font libraries.

Type Navigator is a valuable reference for agencies, designers, consultants, and customers who are looking for an overview of the modern typefaces currently available and the innovative people and companies behind them.

A free digital collection of 100 typeface variations from 20 choice foundries accompanies the 320-page book.

Type Navigator is edited by typography expert Jan Middendorp as well as the former Hort designer Martin Lorenz and his wife Lupi Asensio, who currently work together as TwoPoints.Net.

Editors: Jan Middendorp, TwoPoints.Net
Publisher: Gestalten
Year: 2011
Language: English
Format: 24 × 30 cm
Features: 320 pages, full color, hardcover, incl. CD-ROM with 100 typefaces from 20 foundries
ISBN 978-3-89955-377-2

Typography Sketchbooks

  • Author: Steven Heller, Talarico Lita
  • Book category: Typography

  • Typography is an obsession for most designers. It’s at the heart of all visual communication and is one of the purest forms of design, one that can always be improved and refined. Typography Sketchbooks gets [...]

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Typography is an obsession for most designers. It’s at the heart of all visual communication and is one of the purest forms of design, one that can always be improved and refined. Typography Sketchbooks gets into the minds of designers who create typefaces, word images and logos through their private sketchbooks. The result of these wide-ranging typographic musings provide fascinating insights into the expressive quality of letters and words. Aimed at all those who use type, whether by hand or on-screen, this pleasing compendium stresses the importance of good typography at a time when reading habits are changing and celebrates a craft that has endured for centuries.

Typography Sketchbooks includes work by Ivan Chermayeff, Carlos Segura, Milton Glaser, Maira Kalman, Bob Aufuldish, Matthew Carter, Javier Mariscal and Patrick Thomas, Erik Spiekermann, Peter Bilak and Enkeling, and Jean-Baptiste Levee.

Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
Edited by: Steven Heller, Talarico Lita
Language: English
Format: 18,5×34,4 cm
Features: 368 pages, 350 color illustrations, 186 b/w illustrations
ISBN: 9781616890377

Behind the Zines

  • Self-Publishing Culture
  • Author: Robert Klanten, Adeline Mollard, Matthias Huebner
  • Book category: Magazine

  • Twenty-volume folios will never make a revolution. It’s the little pocket pamphlets that are to be feared. (Voltaire)
    Social networks are dominating today‘s headlines, but they are not the only platforms that are radically changing the [...]

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Twenty-volume folios will never make a revolution. It’s the little pocket pamphlets that are to be feared. (Voltaire)

Social networks are dominating today‘s headlines, but they are not the only platforms that are radically changing the way we communicate. Creatives such as designers, photographers, artists, researchers, and poets are disseminating information about themselves and their favorite subjects not via predefined media such as Twitter or blogs, but through printed or other self-published projects—so-called zines. Those who publish zines are mostly interested in sole authorship, namely that all components including text, images, layout, typography, production, and distribution are firmly in the hands of one person or a small group. At their best, the results convey a compelling and consistent atmosphere and push against the established creative grain in just the right way. They provoke with surprising and non-linear food for thought. In short, zines are advancing the evolution of today‘s media.

With a cutting-edge selection of international examples, Behind the Zines introduces the broad range of zines that exists today. These include zines that function as a new kind of project-oriented portfolio to showcase a self-profile or document an exhibit. While some act as (pseudo) scientific treatises to call the reader‘s attention to a specific topic, others serve as playrooms for creatives to run riot and express themselves and communicate with each other in a space that is free from editorial restrictions.

The book examines the key factors that distinguish various zines. It introduces projects in which the printing process significantly influences aesthetics or in which limited distribution to a small, clearly defined target audience becomes part of the overall concept.

Behind the Zines not only documents outstanding work, but also shows how the self-image of those who make zines impacts the scene as a whole. Through interviews with people involved in zine production and distribution, the book sheds light on various strategies for this evolving media form.

Publisher: Gestalten
Edited by: R. Klanten, A. Mollard, M. Huebner
Language: English
Format: 24 x 28 cm
Features: 240 pages, full color, softcover
ISBN: 978-3-89955-336-9

Function, Restraint, and Subversion in Typography

  • Author: J. Namdev Hardisty
  • Book category: Graphic Design / Typography

  • The beauty of contemporary graphic design is that dozens of movements emerge and re-emerge from view. Yet, too often we are left with only the vague impression that something is going on. To [...]

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The beauty of contemporary graphic design is that dozens of movements emerge and re-emerge from view. Yet, too often we are left with only the vague impression that something is going on. To appreciate what that might be requires us to slow down, ignore superficial trends, and take a more in-depth look. This is the approach taken by Function, Restraint, and Subversion in Typography, a survey of minimalist and brutalist typography in contemporary graphic design. This international collection documents the work of more than twenty-four graphic designers who engage in an aggressively simple typography. Lavishly illustrated with commentary by author J. Namdev Hardisty, the book explores the innovative posters, books, signage, and other forms of print design by such well-known designers as Daniel Eatock, Experimental Jetset, Spin, the Walker Art Center’s design studio, as well as those just beginning to make a mark on the design world, including MGMT., Project Projects, SEA, Xavier Encinas, Manuel Raeder, YES, and more.

About the Author
Namdev Hardisty is the founder, with Kimberlee Whaley, of The MVA, through which he has worked on print, web, and signage projects for a variety of clients, including Intermedia Arts, Minneapolis College of Art & Design, The Weisman Art Museum, and Analog Clothing. Namdev’s work is featured in Over & Over: A Catalog of Hand-drawn Patterns and Hand Job: A Catalogue of Type, both published by Princeton Architectural Press. He is also the author and designer of New Skateboard Graphics (2009). He received his BFA in Graphic Design from Minneapolis College of Art and Design in 2003.

Author: J. Namdev Hardisty
Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
Year: 2011
Language: English
Format: 20,3 x 25,4 cm
Features: 256 pages, 390 color illustrations, 20 b/w illustrations
ISBN 9781568989662

Hyperactivitypography from A to Z

  • Author: Studio 3
  • Book category: Typography

  • Who knew that a publication that looks like an attractively designed children’s book could take such a revealing look at the demanding topic of typography. The colorful pages of Hyperactivitypography from A to [...]

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Who knew that a publication that looks like an attractively designed children’s book could take such a revealing look at the demanding topic of typography. The colorful pages of Hyperactivitypography from A to Z present a simple and fun, yet amazingly clever how-to that celebrates typography in all its complexity.

The book introduces common typography terms and trivia through charming illustrations, personal explanations, fun-filled activities and practical exercises. Hyperactivitypography from A to Z is an accessible workbook for beginners to learn the ropes of typography while having fun but also for typography experts to test their skills and take away new insights into the ramifications of typography and how it helps to convey information.

This book has been created by Studio 3, an in-school design agency at the Graphic Design Department of Westerdals School of Communication in Oslo. More info here www.hyperactivitypography.com

Authors: Studio 3
Publisher: Gestalten
Year: 2010
Language: English
Format: 16 x 21 cm
Features: 192, full color, hardcover
ISBN 978-3-89955-327-7

Eight:48 #4

  • The Future Issue
  • Author: Counter-Print
  • Book category: Magazine

  • Eight:48’s fourth issue, ‘The Future Issue’, focusses on new design companies and illustration collectives that have sprung up over the last two – three years. These studios include Six, Always with Honor, Design Studio, Steven [...]

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Eight:48’s fourth issue, ‘The Future Issue’, focusses on new design companies and illustration collectives that have sprung up over the last two – three years. These studios include Six, Always with Honor, Design Studio, Steven Bonner and many more. The issue features a forward from Mike Radcliffe, of Represent, containing advice for designers in 2011, as well as articles on promoting yourself when you leave college, the perils of working from home and viewpoints on the future of design from 11 young, creative outfits.

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Language: English
Year: 2011
Format: 289 x 400 mm
Features: 40 pages

Turning Pages

  • Editorial Design for Print Media
  • Author: R. Klanten, S. Ehmann
  • Book category: Editorial / Graphic Design

  • The media industry is in upheaval. New magazines, daily newspapers, and books are being developed, classics are being redesigned, and the interplay between the printed and digital realms is being tested. Against this background, Turning [...]

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The media industry is in upheaval. New magazines, daily newspapers, and books are being developed, classics are being redesigned, and the interplay between the printed and digital realms is being tested. Against this background, Turning Pages is a perceptive survey of the state-of-the-art magazines, books, and newspapers that are redefining print media today as well as an inspirational forecast of future developments. The book introduces relevant solutions for a print landscape that has been and continues to be changed indelibly by economic challenges and our shifting media preferences. It examines the creative approaches and working methods of designers who are at the forefront of evolving print media in our digital age.

Renowned editorial designers not only present their magazine, book, and newspaper projects in striking images, but also comment on the stages of their publication’s conceptualization, design, and production. Thus, the book gives readers a step-by-step overview of the editorial process as well as valuable perspectives on how different designers are meeting the challenges of creating outstanding print products for today and the years to come.

Turning Pages begins with an introduction by respected magazine expert Andrew Losowsky, who has also contributed texts that explore the essentials of the editorial process. It features interviews and statements from leading and upcoming editorial design talent including Carine Collin, Francesco Franchi, Javier Errea, Kircherburkhardt, Ludovic Balland, Mike Meiré and Omar Sosa. The book examines how magazines such as Apartamento, Domus, Graphic, IL, Monocle and Volt are pushing the envelope of what is state-of-the-art in today’s print products; how books have become the hotbed for new editorial concepts and design; and how the New York Times, Piepaper, Stuttgarter Zeitung, The Incidental and others are reinventing news on paper for our digital age.
Its unique mix of visual examples, insightful descriptions, and reports based on personal experiences make Turning Pages a compelling reference for anyone currently working as a designer or in the media industry.

Editors: R. Klanten, S. Ehmann
Publisher: Gestalten
Year: 2010
Language: English
Format: 24 × 30 cm
Features: 272 Pages, full color, hardcover
ISBN 978-3-89955-314-7

The Tender Spot

  • The Graphic Design of Mario Lombardo
  • Author: Mario Lombardo
  • Book category: Graphic Design / Monograph

  • The Tender Spot is the first comprehensive monograph of renowned German graphic designer Mario Lombardo. His characteristic talent for melding emotional intensity with an intelligent design approach makes Lombardo’s work simultaneously some of the most [...]

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The Tender Spot is the first comprehensive monograph of renowned German graphic designer Mario Lombardo. His characteristic talent for melding emotional intensity with an intelligent design approach makes Lombardo’s work simultaneously some of the most significant being produced today and timeless.
Lombardo’s particular strength lies in his ability to playfully transcend the boundaries of individual styles and creative disciplines. He actively includes clients such as K-Swiss, Sony Music, Red Bull, and Audi in the design process to develop sophisticated results with which they can identify. His approach, which successfully melds masterful classical graphic design with experimental concepts, is already influencing a new generation of designers.
Mario Lombardo has won numerous awards and has defined innovative magazines such as Liebling and Spex. In 2008, he was honored as Germany’s Visual Leader for the complete body of his work by the Lead Academy.
The Tender Spot features Lombardo’s multifaceted repertoire of graphic design that was produced between 2000 and 2010 in the cultural context of music, fashion, photography, architecture, and contemporary art. The 256-page documentation of a variety of projects is supplemented by personal work, which is published here for the first time.
Mario Lombardo was born in Rosario, Argentina and grew up in Aachen, Germany. From 2001 through 2005 he was the art director of the music and pop culture magazine Spex. In 2004, he founded his design office BUREAU Mario Lombardo in Cologne. Today, Lombardo lives and works in Berlin.

Authors: Mario Lombardo
Credits: Texts by: Marie-Sophie Müller, Till Schröder
Publisher: Gestalten
Year: 2010
Language: English
Format: 19.5 × 27 cm
Features: 256 Pages, full color, hardcover
ISBN 978-3-89955-319-2

Thinking with Type

  • A Critical Guide for Designers, Writers, Editors, & Students
  • Author: Ellen Lupton
  • Book category: Graphic Design / Typography

  • Princeton Architectural Press all time best selling book is now available in a revised and expanded second edition. Thinking with Type is the definitive guide to using typography in visual communication, from the printed page [...]

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Princeton Architectural Press all time best selling book is now available in a revised and expanded second edition. Thinking with Type is the definitive guide to using typography in visual communication, from the printed page to the computer screen. This revised edition includes forty-eight pages of new content, including the latest information on style sheets for print and the web, the use of ornaments and captions, lining and non-lining numerals, the use of small caps and enlarged capitals, as well as information on captions, font licensing, mixing typefaces, and hand lettering. Throughout the book, visual examples show how to be inventive within systems of typographic form—what the rules are and how to break them. Thinking with Type is a type book for everyone: designers, writers, editors, students, and anyone else who works with words. More info and additional material related to this book here: www.thinkingwithtype.com

Authors: Ellen Lupton
Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
Year: 2010 (Second expanded edition)
Language: English
Format: 17.8 x 21.6 cm
Features: 224 pages, paperback, 100 color illustrations
ISBN 9781568989693

How to Be a Graphic Designer without Losing Your Soul

  • Author: Adrian Shaughnessy
  • Book category: Graphic Design

  • Published to instant acclaim in 2005, “How to Be a Graphic Designer without Losing Your Soul” has become a trusted resource for graphic designers around the world, combining practical advice with philosophical guidance to help [...]

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Published to instant acclaim in 2005, “How to Be a Graphic Designer without Losing Your Soul” has become a trusted resource for graphic designers around the world, combining practical advice with philosophical guidance to help young professionals embark on their careers. This new, expanded edition brings this essential text up to date with new chapters on professional skills, the creative process, and global trends that include social responsibility, ethics, and the rise of digital culture. How to Be a Graphic Designer offers clear, concise guidance along with focused, no-nonsense strategies for setting up, running, and promoting a studio; finding work; and collaborating with clients. The book also includes inspiring new interviews with leading designers, including Jonathan Barnbrook, Sara De Bondt, Stephen Doyle, Ben Drury, Paul Sahre, Dmitri Siegel, Sophie Thomas, and Magnus Vol Mathiassen.

Authors: Adrian Shaughnessy
Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
Year: 2010
Language: English
Format: 19.1 x 22.9 cm
Features: 176 pages, paperback, 20 b/w illustrations
ISBN 9781568989839

Eight:48 #2

  • What’s the Big Idea?
  • Author: Counter-Print
  • Book category: Magazine

  • The second issue of Counter-Print’s newspaper, Eight:48, centers around the theme of ideas and inspiration.
    Titled, What’s the Big Idea?, it is forwarded by Roger Fawcett-Tang and contains original articles from Bruno Maag and Jonathan Turner. [...]

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The second issue of Counter-Print’s newspaper, Eight:48, centers around the theme of ideas and inspiration.
Titled, What’s the Big Idea?, it is forwarded by Roger Fawcett-Tang and contains original articles from Bruno Maag and Jonathan Turner. It also contains ten interviews with leading designers, illustrators and photographers.
They are Corey Holms, Build, Eskimo Square, Mr Bingo, Melvin Galapon, Troika, Jamie Portch, Luke Lucas and Tim Johannis.

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Language: English
Year: 2010
Format: 285 x 390 mm
Features: 40 pages, 4 colour throughout

Eight:48 #1

  • Print is dead?
  • Author: Counter-Print
  • Book category: Magazine

  • Eight:48 is a new paper for the creative community. In a tabloid format, each issue will focus on a different topic of debate, relevant to the current creative scene. Ten leading designers, illustrators and product [...]

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Eight:48 is a new paper for the creative community. In a tabloid format, each issue will focus on a different topic of debate, relevant to the current creative scene. Ten leading designers, illustrators and product designers have been asked their opinion on the ‘future of print’ in the first issue and have the opportunity to showcase their work and talk about their influences. Issue 01 is forwarded by Steven Heller and contains original articles from Dan Rolfe Johnson and James Pallister.

The contributors for issue 01 are Julien Vallee, Mat Cook, Anthony Burrill, HelloVon, Jason Tozer, Face 37, Robert Hanson, La Boca, Supermundane and MillerGoodman.

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Language: English
Year: 2010
Format: 285 x 390 mm
Features: 40 pages, 4 colour throughout

U&lc Vol 9.1 March 1982

  • Upper & lower case magazine
  • Book category: Magazine

  • U&lc magazine (Upper & lower case) was a defining voice in graphic design between 1970 and 1999. It was in some ways a lifestyle magazine for the desgin community providing a fascinating intersection of popular [...]

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U&lc magazine (Upper & lower case) was a defining voice in graphic design between 1970 and 1999. It was in some ways a lifestyle magazine for the desgin community providing a fascinating intersection of popular cultural and graphic design in the last quarter of the 20th century. The list of editorial contributors to U&lc is long, and many prominent designers worked on designing entire issues. Their best work is showcased in this book through the reproduction of selected covers, stories and illustrations from the nearly 120 quarterly issues that were published. Counter-Print currently has 10 issues of U&lc available to purchase.

Designer: Herb Lubalin
Year: 1982
Language: Dutch
Format: 280 x 380 mm
Features: 80 pages

Slanted #10

  • Heavy Metal. Lovers.
  • Author: Slanted
  • Book category: Magazine

  • In “Heavy Metal. Lovers.” we look into blackletter fonts and their modern applications. Slanted presents the innovative work of Invisible Creature (Seattle), historic type-treasures from the archives of Linotype (Bad Homburg) and Klingspor Museum (Offenbach), [...]

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In “Heavy Metal. Lovers.” we look into blackletter fonts and their modern applications. Slanted presents the innovative work of Invisible Creature (Seattle), historic type-treasures from the archives of Linotype (Bad Homburg) and Klingspor Museum (Offenbach), the photo documentation “True Norwegian Black Metal” from Peter Beste (New York) etc. …
The sections “Fontlabels, Fonts & Families,” “Fontnames Illustrated” and “Typolyrics” introduce contemporary blackletter fonts and designers from all over the world (e.g. Aeronaut/Georg Herold-Wildfellner, SAR-Lupe/David Millhouse, Adso/Bruno Bernard), followed by interviews with Alejandro Paul, Bernard Stein, Alex Trochut and Christophe Szpajdel and an interesting type essay by Horst Wöhrle.
Furthermore Slanted Magazine introduces numerous (blackletter) projects of professionals and students (Jeremy Hall, schmitz & wiesner, s=eee etc.).
The chapter introduction pages are decorated with Hubert Jocham’s headline-font “NeoThorn S10,” exclusively created for this issue in two styles. Our readers can get the beta-version of this brand new typeface for free. Furthermore Hubert Jocham created the text typeface “NeoText S10” which will be available at type foundry Volcano Type (www.volcano-type.de).

This issue completes our 4-part-poster-series and forms now the 4-word-sentence ”Porn 4 Type Lovers.”, a quote from Ivo Gabrowitsch (FontShop International) about Slanted.

Language: Deutsch, English
Release: Spring 2010
Format: 21 x 27 cm
Features: 164 pages

NEWWORK #4

  • Author: NEWWORK
  • Book category: Magazine

  • NEWWORK magazine is a large-format arts publication for Connoisseur of fresh ideas. Designed and published biannually by studio NEWWORK, each issue features new work from a wide range of artists and creators in the worlds [...]

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NEWWORK magazine is a large-format arts publication for Connoisseur of fresh ideas. Designed and published biannually by studio NEWWORK, each issue features new work from a wide range of artists and creators in the worlds of fine art, design, high fashion, culture, and politics. From art directors to business leaders, design students to curators, NEWWORK’s contributors are united in their passion to push the boundaries of their disciplines. Among the magazine’s special features are bold, custom-designed typefaces and a twist on the traditional newspaper format, offering a stimulating juxtaposition of striking design and everyday simplicity. Since pages can be separated, each layout can be hung on the wall as an individual art piece.

The fourth issue of NEWWORK MAGAZINE finds a range of artists and designers harnessing the power of contrast in its various forms to bring dimension, meaning and mystery to their work. Witness the juicy juxtaposition of graphic and narrative elements in the iconic imagery of photographer Albert Watson. Observe the synergy of classic Swiss restraint and unbridled post-modern play in the typographic design of Wolfgang Weingart and the kinetic interplay of geometric and organic forms in the poster design of Bruno Monguzzi. From the one-two punch of high contrast black-and-white forms in the photography of Julian Abram Wainwright and the drawings of Robert Longo, to the poetic tension between two and three dimensions in Werner Jeker’s enigmatic collages, this issue profiles artists who use dynamic dualisms to yield complex and elegant visual solutions.

Format: 32″ x 21.5″
Features: 120 pages / softcover
Language: English

Data Flow 2

  • Visualizing Information in Graphic Design
  • Author: R. Klanten, N. Bourquin, S. Ehmann, T. Tissot
  • Book category: Graphic Design

  • International interest in the sophisticated and aesthetic visualization of complex information made Data Flow a bestseller. Today, more and more graphic designers, advertising agencies, motion designers, and artists work in this area. New techniques and [...]

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International interest in the sophisticated and aesthetic visualization of complex information made Data Flow a bestseller. Today, more and more graphic designers, advertising agencies, motion designers, and artists work in this area. New techniques and forms of expression are being developed. Consequently, the demand for information on this topic has grown enormously.

Data Flow 2 expands the definition of contemporary information graphics. The book features new possibilities for diagrams, maps, and charts. It investigates the visual and intuitive presentation of processes, data, and information. Concrete examples of research and art projects as well as commercial work illuminate how techniques such as simplification, abstraction, metaphor, and dramatization function. The book also includes interviews with experts such as The New York Times’s Steve Duenes, Infosthetics’s Andrew Vande Moere, Visualcomplexity’s Manuel Lima, ART+COM’s Joachim Sauter, and passionate cartographer Menno-Jan Kraak as well as text features by Johannes Schardt about the challenges in creating effective information graphics and about the relationship between complexity, clarity, content, and innovation.

Offering practical advice, background information, case studies, and inspiration, Data Flow 2 is a valuable reference for anyone working with or interested in information graphics.

Because designers the world over work with the visualization of information, Data Flow 2 is available in English, French, Spanish, and German editions.

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Authors: R. Klanten, N. Bourquin, S. Ehmann, T. Tissot
Publisher: Gestalten
European Release: February 2010
International Release: March 2010
Language: English
Format: 24 x 30 cm
Features: 272 pages, full color, hardcover
ISBN: 978-3-89955-278-2

Herb Lubalin

  • Art director, graphic designer and typographer
  • Book category: Typography

  • Herbert Lubalin (1918 – May 24, 1981) was a prominent American graphic designer. He collaborated with Ralph Ginzburg on three of Ginzburg’s magazines: Eros, Fact, and Avant Garde, and was responsible for the creative visual [...]

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Herbert Lubalin (1918 – May 24, 1981) was a prominent American graphic designer. He collaborated with Ralph Ginzburg on three of Ginzburg’s magazines: Eros, Fact, and Avant Garde, and was responsible for the creative visual beauty of these publications. He designed the typeface, ITC Avant Garde, for the last of these; this distinctive font could be described as a post-modern interpretation of art deco, and its influence can be seen in many logos created in the 1990s and 2000s.

Authors: Gertrude Snyder & Alan Peckolick
Year: 1985
Format: 23 x 30 cm
Features: 184 pages

Elephant #1

  • The Art & Visual Culture Magazine
  • Author: Elephant
  • Book category: Magazine

  • Recently released by the makers of Frame, the first issue of Elephant magazine is a new great and important publication which every designer should not miss. Focusing on art, visual culture, design and fashion Elephant [...]

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Recently released by the makers of Frame, the first issue of Elephant magazine is a new great and important publication which every designer should not miss. Focusing on art, visual culture, design and fashion Elephant features the new trends, city guides and innovation with a selection of great articles and interviews with the most famous directors and artists from the world of design.
The magazine is divided into five parts: meetings, research, studio visits, economies and cities.

PART 1: MEETINGS & CLASHES

Saville Meets Art
Über art director Peter Saville talks about the difference between art and design. Is there any?
Gutiérrez Meets New Magazines
Ex-Pentagram partner and founder of seminal magazine Matador, Fernando Gutiérrez tells us how to make a (legendary) magazine.

PART 2: RESEARCH

Sticks In The Mind: The New Collage Movement
Forget photoshop, collage is where distinctive ideas are now coming from. Featuring up-tothe-minute work by Craig Atkinson, Emmanuel Polanco, Serge Bloch, Sviatchenko, Sara Fanelli, and Rico Motohashi.
Make Popcorn Online: Art & The Internet
Dutch/Brazilian artist Rafael Rozendaal tells us how to make popcorn pop on a web page, or how to make (and sell) art on the internet. Is a domain name a piece of art?
Universal Everything
How can one create a whole new visual and cultural universe out of a garden shed (though a nice one)?
Wheels & Buttons: How Bikes Are Changing Fashion
We explore how bicycles are influencing fashion, creating new styles and cuts that adapt themselves to riding in cities.
Hell Yes: Text, Type, Painting & All
How text art is growing more ambitious and on your face. Featuring work by Chris Tosic, Liz Collini, Mike Perry and more.
Fire & Ice
We feature a new wave of designers that are taking Nordic fashion into very different shores. Work by Won Hundred, Carin Wester, Henrik Vibskov, Hope, Whyred, and Julia Hederus.

PART 3: STUDIO VISITS

Boris Hoppek’s naughty notebooks.
Robert Nicol’s romantic landscapes.
Misaki Kawai’s wild mixture of painting & illustration.
Gianpaolo Pagni’s illustrations.

PART 4: CREATE YOU R OWN ECONOMY

How To Start A Publishing Company
Adrian Shaughnessy (founder of Intro, designer and author) and Tony Brook (Spin) talk about Unit Editions, their new publishing venture.

PART 5: DESTINATIONS

Things To Do In Sao Paulo When You Are Not Dead
With every issue Elephant will explore a different city. In issue 1, Elephant lands in São Paulo.
Tuca Vieira
São Paulo’s Spiderman.
São Paulo Showcase
Artwork by Bruno 9li, Herbert Baglione, Bruna Canepa, Felipe Cretella, Bruno Dicolla, Julio Dui, Carlo Giovani, Pedro Inoue, Mario Niveo, Paula Ordonhes, Wagner Pinto, Andres Sandoval, Sesper and Ana Starling.

Language: English
Release: Winter 2009/10
Features: 205 pages

Pioneers of Modern Typography

  • Author: Herbert Spencer
  • Book category: Typography

  • “Nothing could be more useful than this book to focus on all the brilliant personalities that contributed to the creation of a new language in typography… This book is a must for students of design, [...]

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“Nothing could be more useful than this book to focus on all the brilliant personalities that contributed to the creation of a new language in typography… This book is a must for students of design, as it is for us professionals to evaluate the origins of modern typography before we take the next step.”
– Massimo Vignelli

In this essential reference, Herbert Spencer shows how new concepts in graphic design in the early decades of the twentieth century had their roots in the artistic movements of the time in painting, poetry, and architecture. Spencer examines the “heroic” period of modern design and typography, the beginning of which he traces to the publication in Le Figaro of the Italian artist Manetti’s Futurist manifesto. He discusses the work of such “pioneers” as El Lissitzky, Alexander Rodchenko, and Laszlo Moholy-Nagy. He examines the artistic background of the new concepts in graphic design, and traces the influences of futurism, Dadaism, de Stijl, suprematism, constructivism, and the Bauhaus. His text is profusely illustrated with examples of the new typography, shown in genres that range from posters and magazine covers to Apollinaire’s “figurative poetry.” This revised edition, which follows the revised and redesigned edition of 1983, includes a foreword by design critic Rick Poyner that discusses the important contributions to the history of graphic design made by Herbert Spencer.

Authors: Herbert Spencer
Publisher: The MIT Press; Revised edition (March 1, 2004)
Year: 1969
Language: English
Format: 220 x 305 mm
Features: 160 pages Binding Casebound Book with Dust Jacket

Kunst + Design

  • Author: Wim Crouwel
  • Book category: Graphic Design

  • Wim Crouwel received the Stankowski prize for his vast body of work. The Stankowski prize is not a “money” prize but a travelling exhibition accompagnied by a large catalogue of which this is the catalogue. [...]

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Wim Crouwel received the Stankowski prize for his vast body of work. The Stankowski prize is not a “money” prize but a travelling exhibition accompagnied by a large catalogue of which this is the catalogue. Highly recommended and very important.

Authors: Wim Crouwel
Publisher: Edition Cantz
Year: 1991
Language: German
Format: 210 x 265 mm
Features: 95 pages

Dynamic Identities in Cultural and Public Contexts

  • Author: Ulrike Felsing, Design2context
  • Book category: Corporate identity

  • This publication studies methods for creating flexible looks for public and cultural institutions. The classic logos normally used by companies are the result of a unique process of compression and abstraction. By contrast, flexible looks [...]

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This publication studies methods for creating flexible looks for public and cultural institutions. The classic logos normally used by companies are the result of a unique process of compression and abstraction. By contrast, flexible looks do not conceal their diverse components of identity in a logo, forming instead a complex family of symbols from them. In the combination of a basic logo and a family of symbols, the look is in a position to represent the fundamentals (the philosophy of the institution, its program) and the specifics (e.g., temporary exhibitions and events). The author describes the effect and potential of looks and offers the criteria that distinguish fully developed, dynamic looks. Case studies of famous designers such as Karl Gerstner and Ruedi Baur enhance the analysis.

Authors: Ulrike Felsing, Design2context
Design: Ilka Flora, Ulrike Felsing
Publisher: Lars Müller Publishers
Year: 2010
Language: English
Format: 16.5 × 24 cm
Features: 256 pages, 200 illustrations, softcover
ISBN: ISBN 978-3-03778-163-0 (English) / ISBN 978-3-03778-162-3 (German)

Slanted #9

  • Stencil. Type.

  • Author: Slanted
  • Book category: Magazine

  • In “Stencil. Type.” we look into stencil fonts and their modern applications to produce evidence that this type features special and often misjudjed aesthetics.
    Slanted presents the innovative work of Gavillet & Rust and their fontlabel [...]

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In “Stencil. Type.” we look into stencil fonts and their modern applications to produce evidence that this type features special and often misjudjed aesthetics.
Slanted presents the innovative work of Gavillet & Rust and their fontlabel Optimo (Geneva), the large format paintings of Christopher Wool (New York), an impressive photo series of Francois Fleruy (Paris) and many more. The sections “Fontlabels, Fonts & Families”, “Fontnames Illustrated” and “Typolyrics” introduce contemporary fonts and designers from all over the world, followed by interviews with John Boardley, Kouga Hirano and Chip Kidd and an interesting type essay by Hannes von Döhren.

Furthermore Slanted Magazine introduces numerous stencil-works of professionals and students (Hauser, Schwarz, Mind Design, Ko Sliggers, Autobahn, etc.).

The chapter introduction pages are decorated with Hubert Jocham’s headline-font “NeoParts S9”, exclusively created for this issue. Our readers can get this brand new typeface for free. As the previous issue #8, the cover is wrapped with a poster – the third one of a series of four. By end of the series, the aligned posters will create a sentence. “PORN” was the first word, followed then by “4” – “TYPE” is now the third part of the puzzle.

Language: Deutsch, English
Release: Winter 2009/10
Format: 21 x 27 cm
Features: 164 pages, softcover

Less and More

  • The Design Ethos of Dieter Rams
  • Author: Klaus Klemp, Keiko Ueki-Polet
  • Book category: Design

  • In the more than 40 years that he spent working at Braun, Dieter Rams established himself as one of the most influential designers of the twentieth century. His elegantly clear visual language not only defined [...]

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In the more than 40 years that he spent working at Braun, Dieter Rams established himself as one of the most influential designers of the twentieth century. His elegantly clear visual language not only defined product design for decades, but also our fundamental understanding of what design is and what it can and should do.
Dieter Rams created ten rules of design more than twenty years ago. Sometimes referred to as “the ten commandments,” they are just as relevant today: Good design is innovative. Good design makes a product useful. Good design is aesthetic. Good design helps a product to be understood. Good design is unobtrusive. Good design is honest. Good design is durable. Good design is consistent to the last detail. Good design is environmentally friendly. Good design is as little design as possible.
Less and More elucidates the design philosophy of Dieter Rams. The book contains images of hundreds of Rams’s products as well as his sketches and models – from Braun stereo systems and electric shavers to the chairs and shelving systems that he created for Vitsœ and his own company sdr+. In addition to the rich visual presentation of his designs, the book contains new texts by international design experts that explain how the work was created, describe its timeless quality, and put it into current context. In this way, the work of Dieter Rams is given a contemporary reevaluation that is especially useful in light of the rediscovery of functionalism and rationalism in today’s design. Less and More shows us the possibilities that design opens for both the manufacturer and the consumer as a means of making our lives better through attractive, functional solutions that also save resources.
Less and More is edited by Professor Klaus Klemp and Keiko Ueki-Polet. One of the world’s leading experts in the field of product design, Klemp has been acquainted with Dieter Rams for many years and is an authority on his work. Ueki-Polet is one of Japan’s most renowned design curators. She is well acquainted with design developments in both Asia and the Western world and works at the Suntory Museum in Osaka.

Authors: Klaus Klemp, Keiko Ueki-Polet
Publisher: Gestalten
Year: December 2009
Language: bilingual German/English
Format: 19 × 23 cm
Features: 808 pages, full color, PVC cover, in slipcase
ISBN: 978-3-89955-277-5

Official Graphic Art in Switzerland

  • Author: Hans Peter Schudi
  • Book category: Graphic Design

  • Out-of-print and somewhat uncommon this book is a seminal catalogue of swiss design with over 250 examples of the Swiss International Style which derived from the idea that “abstract structure is the vehicle for communication,” [...]

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Out-of-print and somewhat uncommon this book is a seminal catalogue of swiss design with over 250 examples of the Swiss International Style which derived from the idea that “abstract structure is the vehicle for communication,” according to alumnus Kenneth Hiebert. “It relies on an analysis that rigorously questions and accounts for all parts of a message.
The act of searching for an appropriate structure forces the designer to make the most basic inquiry about a message, to isolate its primary essence from considerations of surface style.”
Hiebert wrote “The Swiss school is concerned that design be more than a frivolous cluttering of the environment.” A must have for any discerning modernist.

Authors: Hans Peter Schudi
Publisher: ABC Verlag
Year: 1964
Language: German, French and English
Format: 10.25 x 10 inch
Features: 250 color and b/w reproductions
ISBN: 90-5662-114-9

Benno Wissing

  • Grafische & ruimtelijk ontwerpen
  • Author: Paul Hefting
  • Book category: Graphic Design

  • Benno Wissing was a painter, graphic designer, architect, industrial designer and one of the founders of Total Design. This is a catalogue of an exhibition at the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam in 1999.
    Wissing worked [...]

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Benno Wissing was a painter, graphic designer, architect, industrial designer and one of the founders of Total Design. This is a catalogue of an exhibition at the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam in 1999.
Wissing worked at Total Design until the beginning of the 1970s and was responsible for a number of thought- provoking designs for names such as PAM, HV, Holland Festival, Makro, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen and ‘Airworld’, the signposting system still used at Schiphol Airport today. After leaving Total Design in 1980 he accepted a professorial position at the Rhode School of Design in the United States.

Authors: Paul Hefting
Publisher: NAi Publishers
Year: 1999
Language: Dutch
Format: 22 x 29 cm
Features: 200 color and b/w reproductions
ISBN: 90-5662-114-9

Regular

  • Graphic Design Today
  • Author: R. Klanten, S. Ehmann, A. Mollard
  • Book category: Graphic Design

  • Graphic design as a formal discipline is in constant flux. In recent years, its productive relationship with adjoining disciplines such as illustration and graphic-inspired three-dimensional installation art have further escalated the development of the discipline. [...]

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Graphic design as a formal discipline is in constant flux. In recent years, its productive relationship with adjoining disciplines such as illustration and graphic-inspired three-dimensional installation art have further escalated the development of the discipline. This evolution has in turn raised the bar for cutting-edge graphic design.
Regular examines and documents the current state of graphic design, identifying the most visionary young designers at the top of their game with examples of their progressive manifestations in the printed form. Wide-ranging in nature: from poster design, book and magazine editorial design as well as typography, the projects showcased in this book are characteristically underlined by a Neo-Conservatist and Deconstructivist approach. Many of the designers included in the book intentionally manipulate and distort traditional rules and ideas with a playful and experimental verve.
Regular presents this new generation of creative excellence from countries such as Switzerland, Germany and the Netherlands, synonymous with a minimalist tradition and precision of detail from France, Great Britain and the USA. Through abundant visuals and illuminating texts accompanying each featured project, and a preface by François Rappo, renowned typographer and teacher at ECAL Ecole cantonale d’art de Lausanne), this expansive volume provides an in-depth look at the state-of-the-art of contemporary graphic design.

Authors: R. Klanten, S. Ehmann, A. Mollard
Publisher: Gestalten
Year: 2009
Language: English
Format: 24 x 30 cm
Features: 288 pages, full colour, hardcover
ISBN: 978-3-89955-253-9

Select H

  • Selected H. Graphic Design from Spain.
  • Author: Index Book
  • Book category: Graphic Design

  • Clad in white, this year’s Select H sticks to its 3-volume format introduced in its last edition, dividing the book in three blocks: Graphic Design, New Media (DVD inclusive) and Schools.
    Its daring, innovative design, outlined [...]

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Clad in white, this year’s Select H sticks to its 3-volume format introduced in its last edition, dividing the book in three blocks: Graphic Design, New Media (DVD inclusive) and Schools.
Its daring, innovative design, outlined from its very first issue, Select A, offers a format which is smaller than usual, to emphasize its thickness, while every project featured is presented on a double-page spread.
Select is considered a book of reference in the world of Graphic Design and an essential guide for keeping up-to-date with Spanish creativity, year after year.
Contributors to Select H’s selectors team have been: Alberto Salván, Diego Feijóo, Enric Batlle, Astrid Stavro, Xose Teiga, Marga Castaño, Tavo Ponce, Gonzalo Zaragoza, Raquel Pelta, Marina Vilageliu y Hernán Ordoñez.

Author: Index Book
Publisher: Index Book
Year: 2009
Language: English / Spanish
Format: 14,5 x 21 cm
Features: 734 pages, hardcover
ISBN: 978-84-92643-22-6
3 volumes + DVD inclusive with all the files of the New Media selection

Slanted #8

  • 2d3d.4 - Typography / Design - Issue 08
  • Author: Slanted
  • Book category: Magazine / Typography

  • “2d3d” deals with a step-up of dimensions – from linearity to space – and everything in between. More than ever Slanted Magazine even crosses geographical borders, presenting works from Edhv (Eindhoven), Klein Dytham architecture (Tokyo), [...]

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“2d3d” deals with a step-up of dimensions – from linearity to space – and everything in between. More than ever Slanted Magazine even crosses geographical borders, presenting works from Edhv (Eindhoven), Klein Dytham architecture (Tokyo), Pixelgarten (Frankfurt), Maxime Buechi (Lausanne), Ina Saltz (New York), Erwin K. Bauer (Vienna), Sangho Park (Stuttgart) and many others. The sections “Fontlabels, Fonts & Families”, “Fontnames Illustrated” and “Typolyrics” introduce contemporary fonts and designers from all over the world, followed by interviews with Sabrina Tibourtine, Christoph Dunst, Sipho Mabona, Gemma O’Brien and Mr. David Carson.
Besides a portrait of »Buchstabenmuseum Berlin«, the Slanted Magazine introduces numerous 2d3d-works of professionals and students (Ebon Heath, Yulia Brodskaya, pleaseletmedesign, MWM Graphics, etc.).
The chapter introduction pages are decorated with Hubert Jocham’s headline-font “NeoDepth S8”, exclusively created for this issue.

Language: Deutsch, English
Release: Summer 2009
Format: 21 x 27 cm
Features: 196 pages, softcover

A homage to Typography

  • Typography...the very essence of graphic design..
  • Author: Pedro Guitton
  • Book category: Typography

  • A Homage to Typography contains 100 fonts and their applications, designed by top typographers. It covers typography in a wide variety of media, including examples ranging from publishing and corporate identity to product design and [...]

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A Homage to Typography contains 100 fonts and their applications, designed by top typographers. It covers typography in a wide variety of media, including examples ranging from publishing and corporate identity to product design and signage. Includes a CD with 57 free fonts.

Author: Pedro Guitton
Publisher: Index Book
Year: 2009
Language: English
Format: 18 x 24 cm
Features: 348 pages, hardcover with jacket
ISBN: 978-84-92643-07-3
CD included with free fonts

Xtreme and Graphix Italian Brochure

  • Brochures with graphic impact
  • Author: RED Publishing
  • Book category: Graphic Design

  • A portfolio of high standard projects chosen either from a graphic design impact, or because of their stuff or size. These are the features that physically correspond with the two reading orders of this book: [...]

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A portfolio of high standard projects chosen either from a graphic design impact, or because of their stuff or size. These are the features that physically correspond with the two reading orders of this book: one side shows brochures and folders with a high graphic impact (Graphic Brochures), while the other one shows examples of experimental and innovative projects (Xtreme Brochures).
A display window of the best italian creativity, a best seller in the whole world.

Publisher: RED Publishing
Language: English / Italian
Format: 30 x 24 cm
Features: 200 pages, full colour, hardcover
ISBN: 9 78-88-88492-08-7

Boxed and Labelled

  • New Approaches to Packaging Design
  • Author: R. Klanten, S. Ehmann
  • Book category: Packaging

  • Packaging is the face and visual identity of a product and can also be the crucial determining factor in the buying decision when a product is lined up on a crowded store shelf. As consumer [...]

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Packaging is the face and visual identity of a product and can also be the crucial determining factor in the buying decision when a product is lined up on a crowded store shelf. As consumer tastes become more complex and culturally diverse, packaging increasingly requires a visual and graphic language that targets aesthetics as well as the needs of the discerning twenty-first-century shopper. Boxed and Labelled is a comprehensive overview of the most intelligent, innovative, playful and attractive examples of current packaging design.
The broad spectrum of packaging is illustrated through an extensive selection of products characterised by cutting-edge graphic design, sassy illustrations, striking typography, careful use of colour as well as unique materials. The examples in the book run the gamut from jam jars, chocolate wrappers, wine labels, champagne bottles and perfume flacons to sneaker boxes and shopping bags. The book also highlights extraordinary projects that have a unique approach to functionality, surplus value and sustainability, in addition to stimulating concepts that amount to pure seduction.
This book demonstrates the diverse solutions designers have found to deal with many different themes such as creating approachability through a whimsical and lighthearted appearance and material surfaces or promoting value and trustworthiness or conveying a handmade feeling to an artisanal product with a sophisticated, refined and purposeful look. All of the featured examples deliver their own unique brand values and experiences and set them apart in the competitive marketplace. Boxed and Labelled offers exciting solutions and presents state-of-the-art packaging design today.

Authors: R. Klanten, S. Ehmann
Publisher: Gestalten
Year: 2009
Language: English
Format: 24 x 28 cm
Features: 288 pages, full colour, hardcover
ISBN: 978-3-89955-252-2

Papercraft

  • Design and Art with Paper
  • Author: R. Klanten, S. Ehmann, B. Meyer
  • Book category: Design

  • Paper is arguably the most important material of our civilisation and has continued to serve as a medium for documenting information and ideas. Today, paper is enjoying something of a renaissance among young artists and [...]

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Paper is arguably the most important material of our civilisation and has continued to serve as a medium for documenting information and ideas. Today, paper is enjoying something of a renaissance among young artists and designers worldwide as an experimental material for design. There is also an insatiable concurrent trend for designing three-dimensional handcrafted objects as documented in the books Tangible, Tactile and Hidden Track.
Papercraft is an extensive and timely survey of innovative art and design work crafted from paper. It explores the astounding possibilities of paper craft in all shapes and sizes – some are playful, whimsical and quick to produce while others are far more intricate and created in painstaking detail. From the most basic techniques including cutting, folding, gluing and collage to the use of cutting-edge technology like embossing and laser cutting, paper and cardboard-crafted works are reaching new artistic heights.
The book gathers the most extraordinary creations from small objects and figures to large-scale art installations and urban interventions as well as three-dimensional graphic sculptures from a vast spectrum of artistic disciplines ranging from character design, urban art, fine art, graphic design, illustration, fashion, animation and film. Adding even more value, this illustrated book also includes a DVD with printable templates for creating your own paper characters and toys as well as a curated selection of the best stop-motion animations.
This book provides a comprehensive insight into the enormous creative potential of this multifaceted material and reveals how paper is firing up the imaginations of today’s designers and artists.

Authors: R. Klanten, S. Ehmann, B. Meyer
Publisher: Gestalten
Year: 2009
Language: English
Format: 24 x 30 cm
Features: 256 pages, full colour, hardcover +DVD
ISBN: 978-3-89955-251-5

Short’N'Strong

  • Taste the real Italian corporate identity
  • Author: RED Publishing
  • Book category: Corporate identity

  • After the experimentations of the 90s, world design for visual communication has come to a great cultural maturity, going beyond its mere aesthetic role. The same has happened to Italian graphic design: based on a [...]

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After the experimentations of the 90s, world design for visual communication has come to a great cultural maturity, going beyond its mere aesthetic role. The same has happened to Italian graphic design: based on a long artistic tradition, it has been deeply influenced by this global evolution. And yet worldwide, in the collective imagination the Italian design is still mainly associated to industry and fashion, whereas Italian creativity goes far beyond. Actually, as this book shows, the design of “bel Paese” has gained a considerable importance at international level, without giving up its unique style, which is recognizable in the formal essentiality, in the elegant chromatic associations, in the masterly usage of typeface.This goal has been reached also thanks to Italian companies, who have become increasingly aware of the importance of visual identity, of corporate culture and of the value a brand has in today’s highly competitive market.

Publisher: RED Publishing
Language: English
Format: 20 x 28,5 cm
Features: 318 pages, full colour, hardcover
ISBN: 978-88-88492-10-0

Logomania Mini

  • Freshly made | Lifting
  • Author: RED Publishing
  • Book category: Logo design

  • Logomania Mini presents an important selection of the greatest examples of Italian logos and signs. This little book brings together a big collection of more than 600 different logos and icons, from commercial businesses, fashion, [...]

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Logomania Mini presents an important selection of the greatest examples of Italian logos and signs. This little book brings together a big collection of more than 600 different logos and icons, from commercial businesses, fashion, music and media and much more.
A vasty variety of corporate logos with unique colour and shape, elegant and excellent typography combined with the company name in beautiful examples of logo design. The second part of Logomania presents practical examples of logo application: merchandising, packaging, visual graphics, restaurants, industrial design, vehicles, fashion and promotional flyers and posters.

Publisher: RED Publishing
Language: English / Italian / Spanish / French / Deutsch
Format: 13,3 x 19 cm
Features: 238 pages, full colour, hardcover
ISBN: 9788888492124