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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

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

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

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

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

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

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