1,000 Details in Fashion Page 5
A comprehensive catalog for fashion illustrators and students.
September 2011 $40.00 ÂŁ14.99 $21.99 CAN
September 2011
1,000 Details in Fashion Macarena San Martin
ISBN: 978-1-59253-716-7 $40.00 US £27.50 UK $44.00 CAN
384 pages, PB 1000 color photos All rights available excluding Spain & South America Design/Fashion Ct. Qty. 6
9 x 11.5 in 229 x 292 mm
All good designers are aware that thee details make the difference. This collection explores both the traditional—cuffs, pockets, darts, etc.—and the more alternative details that fashion designers use to make their designs stand out on the runway and on the street.
1,000 Details in Fashion
September 2011
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Sketchbook Page 6
New in Paperback
A highly-personal exploration of the thought processes, preoccupations, and problem-solving strategies of influential graphic designers.
September 2011 $25.00 ÂŁ16.99 $28.00 CAN
Sketchbook
September 2011
Conceptual Drawings from the World’s Most Influential Designers Timothy O’Donnell ISBN: 978-1-59253-734-1 (HC 978-1-59253-521-7) $25.00 US £16.99 UK $28.00 CAN 9 x 11 in
192 pages, PB 300 color photos 48,000 words All rights available Design/General Ct. Qty. 10
229 x 279 mm
New in paperback, this book explores influential designers’ sketchbooks as a truer reflection of a designer’s thought processes, preoccupations, and problem-solving strategies than can be had by simply viewing finished projects. Highly personal and idiosyncratic, sketchbooks offer an arena for unstructured exploration, a space free from all budgetary and client constraints. Visually arresting objects in their own right, this book aims to elevate sketches from mere ephemera to important documents where the reader can glean valuable insight into the creative process, and apply it to their own practices.
Sketchbook
September 2011
Letterhead & Logo Design 12 Page 7
The newest most innovative designs for logos and letterheads.
September 2011 $45.00 ÂŁ30.00 $49.99 CAN
Letterhead and Logo Design 12 Oxide Design Co.
ISBN: 978-1-59253-717-4 $45.00 US ÂŁ30.00 UK $49.99 CAN
September 2011
240 pages, HC 350 color photos All rights available Design/Graphic Arts/Branding & Logo Design Ct. Qty. 6
9 x 11 in 229 x 279 mm
Oxide Design, Co. has collected and curated this latest collection of stunning letterheads and logos for Letterhead and Logo Design 12. From logos to labels, business cards to envelopes, the creative techniques and full-color images portrayed in this broad range of work inspires new design solutions for age-old challenges that beg for a fresh approach. This invaluable resource contains hundreds of inspirational logos and letterheads that will leave a lasting impression that both designers and their clients will refer to again and again.
Letterhead & Logo Design 12
September 2011
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365 Habits of Successful Graphic Designers Page 8
Create good habits—by first learning what they are—with an uncensored insider view of graphic design.
September 2011 $40.00 £ 27.50 $44.00 CAN
September 2011
365 Habits of Successful Graphic Designers Insider Secrets from Top Designers on Working Smart and Staying Creative
Laurel Saville, Plazm, and Steve Gordon Jr. ISBN: 978-1-59253-737-2 $40.00 US ÂŁ27.50 UK $44.00 CAN
448 pages, PB 900 color photos 100,000 Words All rights available Design/Graphic Arts/General Ct. Qty. 6
8 x 10 in 203 x 254 mm
Opening this volume is like grabbing lunch with a fellow designer to commiserate, celebrate and learn. Good habits are found throughout the design process, from good self promotion, to working with the client, to achieving the desired results. 365 Habits of Successful Graphic Designers reveals solutions from a wide range of freelance designers whose years of experience have helped them find the most creative and successful solutions for their clients’ design needs. This book also focuses on daily habits that inspire these designers to stay creative and business strategies to be successful when working on your own.
365 Habits of Successful Graphic Designers
September 2011
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Inside the World of Board Graphics Page 9
A stunning collection of board graphics and the insights into their creation.
September 2011 $35.00 ÂŁ25.00 $39.00 CAN
Inside the World of Board Graphics
September 2011
Skate, Surf, Snow Robynne Raye and Michael Strassburger ISBN: 978-1-59253-718-1 $35.00 US ÂŁ25.00 UK $39.00 CAN
224 pages, Paper Over Board 300 color photos 30,000 Words All rights available Design/Graphic Arts/General Ct. Qty. 10
9 x 11 in 229 x 279 mm
Inside the World of Board Graphics takes an in-depth, comprehensive look at the global nature and cultural influence of Surf/Skate/Snow board art and design. International design luminaries Art Chantry, Katrin Olina, and James Victore are placed along side industry super stars Terry Fitzgerald, Martin Worthington, Yoshihiko Kushimoto, and Rich Harbour (who has been shaping and designing surfboards since 1959). The book includes dozens of interviews and profiles from the people currently creating board art and design: Aaron Draplin, Emil Kozak, Morning Breath, Anthony Yankovic, Haroshi, and Hannah Stouffer to name a few.
Inside the World of Board Graphics
September 2011
Logolounge 5 Page 10
New in Paperback
2,000 never-before published logo designs by top graphic designers.
October 2011 $ 30.00 ÂŁ 20.00 $ 33.00 CAN
LogoLounge 5
October 2011
2,000 International Identities by Leading Designers
Bill Gardner and Catharine Fishel ISBN: 978-1-59253-735-8 $30.00 US ÂŁ20.00 UK $33.00 CAN 9 x 11 in 229 x 279 mm
192 pages, PB 2200 color photos 2,000 Words All rights available Design/Graphic Arts/Branding & Logo Design Ct. Qty. 10
The fifth volume in the best-selling LogoLounge series brings together an exciting collection of 2,000 totally new logos from designers worldwide submitted to LogoLounge.com, the largest collection of logo designs in the world. The front of the book contains an inspiring series of articles, featuring top-notch design work from such world design leaders as Lippincott, Felix Sockwell, Fragile, Cato Purnell, Chermayeff & Geismar, Mattson Creative, Moving Brands, Origin Communications, and Hulsbosch. The second part of the book contains 2,000 logos logically organized by category (typography, crests, people, mythology, nature, sports, and so on), plus additional articles on the latest work by Interbrand, Design Ranch, Von Glitschka, Landor and more.
Logolounge 5
October 2011
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Design Matters Page 11
The nuts and bolts of effective brochure, logo, packaging, and portfolio design.
October 2011 $ 40.00 ÂŁ 27.50 $ 44.00 CAN
October 2011
Design Matters An Essential Primer for Today’s Designer Capsule, Michelle Taute, and Maura Keller ISBN: 978-1-59253-738-9 $40.00 US £27.50 UK $44.00 CAN 8 x 10 in 203 x 254 mm
448 pages, PB 900 color photos 127,000 Words All rights available Design/Graphic Arts/Advertising Ct. Qty. 6
This compilation features the best of the Design Matters series, indispensable guides to design, in one handy volume. Design Matters focuses on developing, creating and implementing brochure designs, logo designs, packaging, and portfolios. The compendium includes all the essential information needed to execute strong designs in concert with beautiful and well-crafted examples, so that designers can successfully hit the mark every time.
Design Matters
October 2011 $ 40.00 ÂŁ 27.50 $ 44.00 CAN
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Deconstructing Product Design Page 12
New in Paperback
Never look at these everyday objects the same way again.
October 2011 $ 25.00 ÂŁ 16.99 $ 28.00 CAN
Deconstructing Product Design
October 2011
Exploring the Form, Function, Usability, Sustainability, and Commercial Success of 100 Amazing Products
William Lidwell and Gerry Manacsa ISBN: 978-1-59253-739-6 $25.00 US ÂŁ16.99 UK $28.00 CAN
240 pages, PB 100 color photos 45,000 Words All rights available Design/Product Ct. Qty. 10
8.5 x 10 in 216 x 254 mm
What makes a product successful? How it looks? The way it functions? Its ease of use? Or do factors like price and marketing dominate? In a quest to find answers to these questions, Deconstructing Product Design engages readers in a process of critically analyzing a diverse collection of 100 innovative products, from well-known classics to contemporary objects of desire. The goal is to support critical thinking about design, facilitate discovery of patterns of success (and failure) across products, and enable readers to apply lessons learned to their own design work. Experts from multiple design disciplines contribute commentary. Continue the deconstruction at www.deconstructingproductdesign.com.
Deconstructing Product Design
New in Paperback
October 2011
The Best of News Design 32 Page 13
The latest edition of Rockport’s highly popular series.
November 2011 $ 60.00 ÂŁ 40.00 $ 65.00
The Best of News Design 32nd Edition The Society for News Design ISBN: 978-1-59253-751-8 $60.00 US £40.00 UK $65.00 CAN 9 x 12 in 229 x 305 mm
November 2011
272 pages, HC 800 color photos 10,000 Words All rights available Design/Graphic Arts/Commercial & Corporate Ct. Qty. 6
The Best of News Design 32nd Edition, the latest edition in Rockport’s highly respected series, presents the winning entries from the Society for News Design’s 2011 competition. Featuring work selected by a panel of judges from more than 14,000 international publication entries, this inspirational volume sets the bar for excellence in journalistic design. Bold, full-color layouts feature the best-of-the-best in news, features, portfolios, visuals, and more, and each entry is accompanied by insightful commentary on the elements that made the piece a standout winner. Every industry professional aspires to one day see his or her work in this book.
The Best of News Design 32
November 2011
Visual Language for Designers Page 14
New in Paperback
Learn how to effectively and accurately communicate with images.
November 2011 $ 25.00 ÂŁ 16.99 $ 28.00 CAN
Visual Language for Designers
November 2011
Principles for Creating Graphics that People Understand
Connie Malamed ISBN: 978-1-59253-741-9 $25.00 US £16.99 UK $28.00 CAN 9 x 11 in 229 x 279 mm
240 pages, PB 300 color photos 40,000 Words All rights available Design/Graphic Arts/General Ct. Qty. 10
Within every picture is a hidden language that conveys a message, whether it is intended or not. This language is based on the ways people perceive and process visual information. By understanding visual language as the interface between a graphic and a viewer, designers and illustrators can learn to inform with accuracy and power. In a time of unprecedented competition for audience attention and with an increasing demand for complex graphics, Visual Language for Designers explains how to achieve quick and effective communications. It presents ways to design for the strengths of our innate mental capacities and to compensate for our cognitive limitations. Includes:—How to organize graphics for quick perception—How to direct the eyes to essential information—How to use visual shorthand for efficient communication—How to make abstract ideas concrete—How to best express visual complexity—How to charge a graphic with energy and emotion
Visual Language for Designers
New in Paperback
November 2011
Typography Essentials Page 15
New in Paperback
100 type guidelines and rules for guaranteed graphic design success.
November 2011 $ 25.00 ÂŁ 16.99 $ 28.00 CAN
Typography Essentials
November 2011
100 Design Principles for Working with Type
Ina Saltz ISBN: 978-1-59253-740-2 $25.00 US £16.99 UK $28.00 CAN
208 pages, PB 300 color photos 35,000 Words All rights available Design/Graphic Arts/Typography Ct. Qty. 10
8.5 x 10 in 216 x 254 mm
Typography Essentials is a practical, hands-on resource to distill, organize, and compartmentalize—but not to oversimplify—the many complex issues surrounding the effective us of typography. It is for designers of every medium in which type plays a major role.A deep understanding of letterforms and knowledge of the effective use of letterforms can only be obtained with constant observation and experimentation; it evolves over a lifetime of design practice and study. This book is intended to advance the progress of designers seeking to deepen their typographic expertise; it is organized and designed to make the process enjoyable and entertaining, as well as instructional. This book is divided into four easy-to-use sections: The Letter, The Word, The Paragraph, and The Page. Each of the 100 principles has an explanation and examples representing the principle in action.
Typography Essentials
New in Paperback
November 2011
Design School Confidential Page 16
New in Paperback
Authored by Steven Heller and Lita Talarico, authorities on design education.
November 2011 $ 25.00 ÂŁ 16.99 $ 28.00 CAN
Design School Confidential
November 2011
Extraordinary Class Projects from International Design Schools
Steven Heller and Lita Talarico ISBN: 978-1-59253-759-4 $25.00 US ÂŁ16.99 UK $28.00 CAN
224 pages, PB 300 color photos 40,000 Words All rights available Design/Reference Ct. Qty. 10
6.75 x 10 in 171 x 254 mm Design School Confidential is a richly illustrated, unprecedented anthology of over 50 of the most challenging class projects from design schools around the world. The projects range from basic typography to social responsibility. From printed matter to environmental extravaganzas, students are challenged to push the limits of form and content. How do students learn to solve design problems? How do cultural differences impact the way design is taught? What do design students want from their class assignments? What do design teachers hope to impart? The answers can be found in this impressive compendium of choice projects from the likes of the University of Art and Design, Helsinki, Finland; Fabrica, Bologna Academy of Fine Arts, Italy; Arts Academy of Split, Croatia; School of Visual Arts, New York, United States; Berlin University
Design School Confidential
New in Paperback
November 2011
Graphic Design, Referenced Page 17
New in Paperback
January 2012 $ 35.00 ÂŁ 25.00 $ 39.00 CAN
Graphic Design, Referenced
January 2012
A Visual Guide to the Language, Applications, and History of Graphic Design
Armin Vit and Bryony Gomez-Palacio ISBN: 978-1-59253-742-6 $35.00 US £25.00 UK $39.00 CAN
400 pages, PB 1000 color photos 115,000 Words All rights available Design/General Ct. Qty. 10
8.5 x 10 in 216 x 254 mm Graphic Design, Referenced is a visual and informational guide to the most commonly referenced terms, historical moments, landmark projects, and influential practitioners in the field of graphic design. With more than 2,000 design projects illustrating more than 400 entries, it provides an intense overview of the varied elements that make up the graphic design profession through a unique set of chapters: “principles” defines the basic foundation of what constitutes graphic design; “knowledge” explores the most influential sources through which we learn about graphic; “representatives” gathers the most prominent designers who have steered the course of graphic design in one way or another; and “practice” highlights some of the most iconic work produced that serve as examples of best practices and illustrate its potential lasting legacy.
Graphic Design, Referenced
New in Paperback
January 2012 $ 35.00 ÂŁ 25.00 $ 39.00 CAN
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46th Publication Design Annual Page 18
The authoritative celebration of the publication design community.
January 2012 $ 60.00 ÂŁ 40.00 $ 65.00 CAN
46th Publication Design Annual/SPD 46 Society of Publication Designers
ISBN: 978-1-59253-750-1 $60.00 US £40.00 UK $65.00 CAN
January 2012
336 pages, Paper Over Board 1000 color photos All rights available Design/Graphic Arts/Commercial & Corporate Ct. Qty. 6
9 x 12 in 229 x 305 mm
The best visual design work is about emotion as much as appearance. Powerful, brilliant pictures—presented in just the right layout—can make us experience a whole range of emotions, from fear to attraction, anger to happiness. The Society of Publication Designers’ (SPD) annual competition seeks the very best in editorial design work. Judged by a worldwide panel of top designers, the 46th edition of Rockport’s best-selling SPD series celebrates the journalists, editorial directors, photographers, and other talented individuals who brought events of the year 2010 to our doorsteps and computer screens. Stunning full-page layouts present everything from products to people, and objects to events, in ways that make each palpable and unforgettable. Featuring work published in a wide range of mediums and created by journalistic, design, and publishing talent from around the world.
46th Publication Design Annual
January 2012
The Graphic Designers Studio Companion Page 19
A visual reference for graphic designers looking for new ideas, starting points, and strategies for their next projects.
January 2012 $ 25.00 ÂŁ 16.99 $ 28.00 CAN
Graphic Designer’s Studio companion
January 2012
Visual Ingredients, Techniques, and Layout Strategies for Graphic Designers
Timothy Samara ISBN: 978-1-59253-743-3 $25.00 US £16.99 UK $28.00 CAN 8 x 10 in 203 x 254 mm
248 pages, PB 1500 color photos 30,000 Words All rights available Design/Graphic Arts/Commercial & Corporate Ct. Qty. 10
A good designer, like a good chef, is aware not only of how each ingredient is similar or different, but also which delivers one message in contrast to another, which will combine to create experiences that are harmonious or jarring, financial, medical, or industrial. By comparing the designer to a chef, author Timothy Samara, walks readers through the ingredients, tools, and techniques it takes to create successful design recipes. This book is broken into easy-to-follow sections, including basic design techniques, graphic ingredients, and projects recipes. The Graphic Ingredients section is categorized into four groups: Pictorial Staples, Chromatic Flavors, Typographic Confections, and Spatial Presentations. Once the basic design techniques and ingredients are established, the author demonstrates how to concoct delectable design recipes. The Graphic Designer’s Studio Companion is an inspirational resource that all graphic designers should keep by their workspace for handy reference.
The Graphic Designers Studio Companion
January 2012