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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Counter-Print
Counter-Objects
Eight:48

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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Counter-Objects
Eight:48

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

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  • 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