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Product DescriptionDesigners and others who work with type and graphics will find this guide to be both enjoyable and useful. It explores the essence of graphic communication, explains how graphics function as a language, and suggests innovative ways for designers to combine words and pictures…. More >>

Type and Image: The Language of Graphic Design

Product DescriptionBased on the popular “Design Issues” column in Communication Arts, this anthology of brilliantly-conceived mind-teasers explores how design communicates with, rubs itself against, and sometimes stumbles around the “real” world. Here are some of the column’s most intriguing and provocative selections, taken from an unorthodox mix of over 20 contributors. Covering a range of subjects from designing a corporate identity to the philosophical dimensions of art, this guid… More >>

Design Issues: How Graphic Design Informs Society

Product DescriptionEdited by Lars Muller. 7.5 x 10.5 in. 415 illustrations… More >>

Josef Muller-Brockmann: Pioneer of Swiss Graphic Design

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Product DescriptionInspirational work combined with practical advice.In the world of print, paper choice influences every design project, and designers often complain about the lack of genuinely good reference material for projects requiring a strong design input. Choosing and Using Paper for Great Graphic Design fills this gap. Case studies detail how the paper was chosen, the innovative treatments applied (folding, binding, cutting, embossing, printing, etc), and why they mak… More >>

Choosing and Using Paper for Great Graphic Design

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Product DescriptionThe Designer’s Guide to Marketing and Pricing answers all of the common questions asked by creatives every day. This nuts and bolts guide to running a creative services business teaches readers how to create a smart marketing plan–along with small actionable steps to take to reach their financial goals. From learning which marketing tools are most effective and how to use them to discovering how to establish contact with potential clients, this book is the must-hav… More >>

The Designer’s Guide To Marketing And Pricing: How To Win Clients And What To Charge Them

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Product DescriptionThere is a major disconnect between the life of a design student and the transition to being a design professional. To demystify the transition, we share the failures, successes, and surprises during our years in college and progression into the field: the creative process, monetary problems, internships, interviews, mistakes, and personal relationships. We include the work from our first design class to our most current client work, along with side stories and inte… More >>

Never Sleep: Graduating to Graphic Design

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Product DescriptionA practical and inspirational resource book of templates.The Packaging Templates Sourcebook presents a stunning showcase of 140 new, innovative and classic packaging and paper engineering ideas across a variety of areas. Accompanying each project is a detailed template, which shows the reader how to copy, fold and construct each project from material that is widely available. The book will provide a source of inspiration for graphic and packaging designers, b… More >>

The Packaging and Design Templates Sourcebook

Product DescriptionThis inspiring and extensively illustrated book offers practical advice for those seeking to understand the principles and process of good design. Award-winning graphic designer and teacher Kenneth J. Hiebert interweaves theory and concrete, creative activity to show how inventive graphic design arises from diverse stimulus sources, how to avoid the cliche forms of obvious computer-generated design, and how design can become an exciting personal process. …. More >>

Graphic Design Sources

Product DescriptionThe latest installment in Rockport’s Graphic Design America series is sure to top the previous two best-selling volumes. Like its predecessors, Graphic Design America 3 profiles more than 35 of the graphic designers and graphic design firms in the United States. The work being produced in America is wonderful, varied, and influential around the globe, which is the reason for the success of the first two books. Each profile will feature a wide selection of the design… More >>

Graphic Design America 3: Portfolios from the Best and Brightest Design Firms from Across the U.S.

Product DescriptionGraphic Design History traces the social and cultural role of visual communication from prehistory to the present, connecting what designers do every day to a history of innovative graphic forms and effects.