Rockport Publishers
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Design/Paper is the first in a new, informative series of design documentaries which offers the best of design in practice. You'll find a curated collection of approximately 300 exquisite designs, along with detailed essays from designers in the field surrounding the essence of creating designs using paper as the medium. This inspiring book also offers personal and professional insight from the authors - mini-workshops that dissect several projects featured in the book relating to materials, craft, and construction.

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A collection of usable artwork for designers and artists featuring 100 thematic illustrations in popular categories to use freely and to manipulate or enhance and supplement their own work. The original artwork and the popular themes are perfect for non designers and amateur artists who want professional looking artwork but cannot create the artwork themselves. This book offers modern and unique illustrations in themes that are current for today's artists. It is the perfect book for artists, crafters, designers, and laypeople wanting imagery for cards, t shirts, journals arts, posters, advertisements, party decorations, and more.

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This is the first book to combine an authoritative history of the Star Trek franchise - including all six television series and eleven feature films - with anecdotes about the show from those who helped shape it from the outside in: the fans. Star Trek expert Robert Greenberger covers everything from show creator Gene Roddenberry's initial plans for a series combining science-fiction and Western elements, the premiere of the original series in 1966, its cancellation, the franchise's return in an animated series, and its subsequent history on television and film, up to expectations for the 2013 J.J. Abrams film. Along the way, Greenberger analyzes Star Trek 's unique cultural impact and tremendous cult following, including the famous (and first ever) save-the-show mail campaign. But this isn't a sugarcoated history; this book chronicles the missteps as well as the achievements of Roddenberry and others behind the franchise. Approximately two dozen sidebars provide personal experiences of dedicated Trekkies who influenced or became a part of the franchise. Star Trek fandom is unparalleled in the effects it has had on the franchise itself. The book is illustrated with a large collection of photographs of memorabilia, many of which have never been seen before in print.

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This revolutionary guide is not only the first to look at how typography in design creates a call to action, but it also explores type and image as language. Stop, Think, Go, Do is packed with arresting imagery from around the world that influences human behavior. Page after page, you'll find innovative messages that advocate, advise caution, educate, entertain, express, inform, play, and transform.

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This book will offer designers a vast collection of inspiring and innovative graphic works from the world of music. The main emphasis will be on music graphics including album/CD covers and inside spreads, packaging, posters, and other sales materials from the past decade.Music makes the world go 'round, and great album designs generate sales for the record companies that back the artists. By showing diverse album graphics from the last decade, designers get a glimpse into what can make or break album sales and just how risky the content can be before it goes too far. Many designers hope to break into the music business by way of design, and this collection will offer insight and inspiration for those venturing in. This book will be a compendium of all types of graphically appealing album art, covering all kinds of music and music developers.

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The best-selling Letterhead and Logo Design now compiles the most creative and inspiring work in the field in a stunning collection featuring the best of the past four volumes. From well-known design leaders, new design firms, and cutting-edge artists, this collection includes everything identity, from logos to labels, business cards to envelopes, and the creative techniques and full-color images portrayed in this broad range of work will inspire new design solutions for age-old challenges that beg for a fresh approach. This book is an invaluable resource for both design firms and their clients who are looking for inspiration and ideas that grab the viewer’s attention and create a lasting impression.

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Deconstructs 140 diverse promotions in a format that is succinct and immediate. Its projects are culled from designers worldwide and feature a range of companies and industries.

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In light of the recent popularity of movies such as Finding Nemo and Shark Tale as well as aquariums as elements of interior decor, home aquariums have become all the rage. Since there are so many ways you can design an aquarium today, a little guidance is definitely needed. Inspired Aquariums is a key tool to use while searching for ideas to help inspire your own home-aquarium design. This complete handbook acts as both an inspirational and factual guide. It shows you the most compatible choices in aquatic creatures, plants, lighting and more for your chosen setup. The exquisite photography of professionally designed aquariums is perfect for preparing you to create perhaps the most innovative aquarium yet.

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Designers are always looking to give their work the creative edge required to get noticed in a sea of marketing and promotion. To achieve this, they must be market savvy, innovative, and possess up-to-date production know-how. The Little Book of Big Promotions is packed with content that offers creative inspiration. It offers hundreds of design ideas, insight into the creative process and execution, and the tools and information needed to make the right production decisions. Project details are highlighted and descriptive text dissects the essential design elements that make each promotion unique and effective. This book will enable seasoned professionals and less-experienced designers to choose the right options for their job, budget, ability, and the market they are trying to reach.

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Logo Design Workbook focuses on creating powerful logo designs and answers the question, "What makes a logo work"? In the first half of this book, authors Sean Adams and Noreen Morioka walk readers step-by-step through the entire logo-development process. Topics include developing a concept that communicates the right message and is appropriate for both the client and the market; defining how the client's long-term goals might affect the look and needs of the mark; choosing colors and typefaces; avoiding common mistakes; and deciphering why some logos are successful whereas others are not. The second half of the book comprises in-depth case studies on logos designed for various industries. Each case study explores the design brief, the relationship with the client, the time frame, and the results.

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SPD’s Solid Gold: 40 Years of Award-Winning Magazine Design celebrates the most outstanding, innovative, and lasting achievements in editorial design published in the last 40 years. It is an aesthetic hall of fame and essential reference tool for graphic designers, artists, editors, photographers, and students. SPD’s Solid Gold showcases only the most inspired visions in contemporary publication design history–the gold winners of the last 40 years chosen by some of the most respected professionals in the business. This book is a tome of the most legendary design, style, and vision of our ephemeral magazine pages. The Society of Publication Designers is the only organization that specifically addresses the concerns of trade, corporate, institutional, newspaper, and consumer editorial art directors. The SPD encourages artistic excellence by annually judging the thousands of design professionals in the United States and abroad. The Society is based in New York City.

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Hotel owners and designers recognize that the range of style options now available to appeal to hotel customers is not only endless but that creativity and distinction in this area of the hotel business is essential to success. Everyday, hotel owners give more and more freedom to today's most recognized architects and designers to create looks that are unique and make a personal statement about the hotel’s clientel. This book, divided into room types such as lobbies, restaurants, bars, lounges, guest rooms, spas and sports facilities, showcases an array of some of the most recently built and inventive hotels in the world. More than 400 international hotels are featured.

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This is a replete, typography and logo collection, reflecting today’s urban aesthetic. The collection is a tour de force, brimming with individuality and selected from thousands of entries submitted from hundreds of designers worldwide. The content is divided into categories, including typographic, icons, and illustrations, and further classified into categories, like Hip-Hop, Neo-Baroque, kanji, kana, psychedelic, 60s to 70s, corporate, erotic, and other distinct groups. This book features more than 1,000 works and is not only an idea source book, but also is comprehensive in its coverage of typography and design fonts. - Designers featured are from 18 different countries including, Japan, USA, Sweden, Hungary, Germany, Turkey, UK, Austria, Italy, Denmark, Switzerland, Hong Kong, The Netherlands, Ireland, France. Lebanon, Brazil, and Russia - Contains chapter written by Art Director Hitoshi Nagasawa, tracing the development of modern typography and design from the Bauhaus in the 1920s to today

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This title features an innovative collection of the most current and best work by top designers worldwide. The 'go-to' sourcebook for business card design inspiration, this volume contains pages packed with business cards, showing front, back, and special elements and materials. This unrivaled resource is sought by professional designers, corporate executives, and in-house marketing departments as an essential identity and branding tool.

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The best-selling Letterhead and Logo Design now compiles the most creative and inspiring work in the field in a stunning collection featuring the best of the past four volumes. From well-known design leaders, new design firms, and cutting-edge artists, this collection includes everything identity, from logos to labels, business cards to envelopes, and the creative techniques and full-color images portrayed in this broad range of work will inspire new design solutions for age-old challenges that beg for a fresh approach. This book is an invaluable resource for both design firms and their clients who are looking for inspiration and ideas that grab the viewer's attention and create a lasting impression.

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Under the witty and metaphorical guise of a high-end cookbook, the author will provide visual 'ingredients', such as grid structures, folios, border devices, type treatments, abstract graphic elements, and so on, categorized stylistically and functionally. These ingredients will be shown in use through a 'recipe' format to accomplish 'strategies' such as movement, rhythm, organization, contrast, metaphor, etc. Ingredients will be coded and cross-referenced among categories for mix and match purposes in demonstrating varied alternate combinations to achieve different approaches to strategies.

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Great design is something that makes you pause and think. That's because there is a pure concept behind that design. Without a strong concept, design is merely an arrangement of elements within the parameters of a given format, resulting in design that is purely decorative. Void of the inspiration that makes design transcendent, the audience is left disengaged and intellectually/emotionally indifferent. Stanley Hainsworth, a designer who is known for design built on strong concepts, takes readers on an unprecedented visual journey through the minds of today's best design thinkers via interviews and project case studies, exploring and revealing the sources of the concepts behind the projects. This book is a visual and informational feast.

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New in paperback, this workbook is a methodical yet comprehensive approach to conveying the fundamentals of avant-garde, innovative, information design by examining history, theory, criticism, technology and media, process, method, and practice. Opening with a very brief history followed by an instructive breakdown of the discipline, readers get an intimate understanding of the complexities of crafting information design to effectively improve communication both functionally and aesthetically. The back half of the book contains a wide range of case studies from design firms around the world so designers can see the techniques previously outlined in the first half of the book. The author also critiques and explains why the design is successful in terms of formal quality (Aesthetics) and function (How does it improve communication?).

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Covers the fundamental areas of the graphic design business. This work tackles the often perplexing job of nailing down a layout that works. It illuminates the category of layout, communicating specifically what it takes to design with excellence; and also addresses the how and why of the creative process - the very heart of design.

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This latest edition in the best-selling annual Letterhead and Logo Design series will feature the most innovative and exciting work in the field from well-known design leaders, new design firms, and cutting-edge artists. From logos to labels, business cards to envelopes, the creative techniques and full-color images portrayed in this broad range of work will inspire new design solutions for age-old challenges that beg for a fresh approach.