DESIGNS FOR MUSIC shows a selection of CDs, concert posters and other music-related work designed by 25 artists from around the world. As with the first volume, there is a focus on work in which disciplines like graphic design, illustration and lettering overlap.

The book contains interviews with a number of artists - such as Rian Hughes (Device), Jorge Alderete, Invisible Creature and Andersen M Studio - about their work and their relation with music. This book includes a free sampler (Audio)CD with several tracks of music by the designers featured in the book or the musicians for whom they have designed work.

Every designer has a favorite typeface. More than a vehicle to transport words onto a page, a typeface can express taste, style, opinion, and attitude. Using a selection of high-quality graphic design work for books, promotional materials, signage and more, each book in the "I Love Type" series highlights a single typeface and its prevalence in the design community. This narrow focus lends itself to an in-depth study of each typeface - how the same font can be altered to create different moods and generate an entirely original effect.

One of the most used sans serif typefaces, Futura is synonymous with efficiency and modernity, with its clean, even strokes, geometric shapes and lack of decorative flourishes. Created in the 1920s, it shows the influence of German Bauhaus, and has inspired an army of geometric typefaces in the years since its inception. Futura's iconic status and simplicity have inspired the designers in this text to push for innovation.

Every designer has a favorite typeface. More than a vehicle to transport words onto a page, a typeface can express taste, style, opinion, and attitude. The typeface a designer uses - and how he has manipulated it - reveals the personality and aesthetic of the designer himself. First designed by Herb Lubalin as a logo, not a typeface, Avant Garde has had a tumultous history. Once a representation of innovation and singularity, its popularity in the 1970s has given it a distinctly retro connotation in modern times. Its complex ligatures, particularly the distinctive dramatically-slanted A, are a challenge for any designer to master.

On the trail of success of the first volume, this second edition of “Brochure Parade” explores and celebrates the all Italian talent and creativity of immagining and creating “stories”, which developed in the best brochures we have selected among the numerous that we received.

Ett måste för alla bildälskare!

Illustration kommunicerar det ord inte kan uttrycka eller kameran fånga. Detta är ett färgsprakande uppslagsverk fullt av samtida illustrationer från 228 svenska illustratörer. En perfekt presentbok!

"Designing with One and Two Colors" is the first book of its kind to illustrate how colour (and budget) restraints can inform some of the most inventive designs in the marketplace today. From business cards to brochures, magazine layouts to book covers, this comprehensive volume features select work from the world's top graphic design studios and artists. Perfect for anyone interested in creating visually striking design from limited source material, "Designing with One and Two Colors" will inspire artists to see beyond the four-colour world and embrace the vibrant aesthetic of a two-colour palette.

Facsimil av Marshall McLuhans klassiker från 1969!

In the same year that Wyndham Lewis published Self Condemned, Marshall McLuhan took inspiration from Lewiss journal BLAST and produced COUNTERBLAST, intended, like Self Condemned, to shake the city of Toronto out of its smugness and complacency.

Michiel Schwarz and Joost Elffers' Sustainism Is the New Modernism declares the dawn of a new cultural era, as we transition from modernity to sustainity- towards a world that is more connected, more localist, more digital and more sustainable. As the authors of this clear-eyed manifesto argue, "sustainism marks a shift not only in thinking and doing but in collective perception--of how we live, do business, feed ourselves, design, travel and communicate, as much as how we deal with nature." In the twentieth century, whether we knew it or not, our world was shaped by modernist values, from the design of our cities to our homes, technologies and our conceptions of progress. Sustainism recasts our relationship to all of these things, binding ecological issues to a larger picture of our world. Through a series of graphically dynamic aphorisms, quotes and symbols designed for worldwide use by businesses, individuals and institutions, to signal support for sustainism, Michiel Schwarz and Joost Elffers show how the movement is already reshaping global culture, technology, food and media. With this concise manifesto, they launch the term sustainism into the public consciousness. The sustainist era has begun.

Michiel Schwarz is a Dutch independent cultural thinker, innovator and producer, now working from Berkeley, California. Originally trained as a sociologist of technology, he has initiated projects on global issues, the future of design, technology and media. His publications include The Technological Culture and Speed: Visions of an Accelerated Age.

Joost Elffers is a designer, "symbol maker" and creative producer of award-winning and innovative books such as 48 Laws of Power, Play With Your Food and Tangram: The Ancient Chinese Shapes Game.

Songwriters and musicians convey complex emotions through their music, and graphic designers and artists are then faced with the challenge to create complimentary graphics to go with them. Arguably as important as book covers in communicating the vibe of the content, record and CD covers, tour posters, stickers and fan club accessories can transcend mere packaging and become timeless cultural ephemera.

Focusing on contemporary designs from today's most exciting underground and indie music, pop, country, jazz, R&B, Hip Hop, alternative rock and electronica, Musikraphics provides and amazing selection of designs ranging from pure graphics to artists photography, sticker, collage and silk screened art and innovative packaging for vinyl records and mp3s. Sure to inspire graphic artists designing music related packaging and music insiders alike.

A Tasty Collection of the Best Logos from Around the Globe

A veteran designer, Peleg Top founded Top Design and grew it to be one of Los Angeles' most notable and sought after design firms specializing in cause related work. For nearly two decades, Peleg and his creative team worked with all sizes of cause-related organizations from small grass roots nonprofits to corporate giants. Some of his more prominent clients included Toyota, The National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (The Grammy's), Steven Spielberg's Shoah Foundation, AIDS Healthcare Foundation, City of Hope Cancer Center and Tiger Woods Foundation. Drawing on his many years as an agency owner, Peleg is currently a professional mentor specializing in helping creative entrepreneurs across the country grow their businesses, become better leaders and live spiritually fulfilling lives. Peleg is the author of Design for Special Events (Rockport Publishers), Letterhead & Logo Design (Rockport Publishers) and The Designer's Guide to Marketing and Pricing (How Books).

A Graphic History of the Seven-Inch Record

Listening to music on vinyl is enjoying a huge resurgence and collecting vinyl is more popular than ever - and not just for the music. Vintage 45s from all music genres are widely sought after by collectors for their unique graphics. Since its birth in 1949, the 45 has provided a creative outlet for graphic designers and artists, who have used the record sleeve as a canvas, as a place to experiment visually and to express the aesthetics and sentiments of the times.

From Spencer Drate and Judith Salavetz, award-winning designers of album art for countless industry legends—including U2, the Ramones, the Velvet Underground, and Joan Jett—comes Five Hundred 45s: the most comprehensive compilation of 45rpm record sleeve graphics available in book form on the market today. A real collector’s item—and at a great price—for classic rock fans, art book collectors, and graphic design aficionados alike.

Five Hundred 45s contains more than 500 examples of striking seven-inch record sleeve design across every genre of music and its great musicians—all reproduced at full size.

Europe's Best Advertising

This book is a unique source of information for all those interested in contemporary European creative trends and is conveniently arranged by product category with creative credits and brief translations where necessary.

Epica Book 23 includes articles by Lewis Blackwell and Mark Tungate, author of Media Monoliths and Adland (Kolan Page), who also contributed the creative synopses.

Inside the Sketchbooks of the World's Great Graphic Designers

This is a treasure trove of design inspiration for professionals, students, or anyone engaged in the visual industries.

Almost all books on design present the finished article. Rarely do we gain an insight into how visual solutions have been reached or the exploration, experimentation, and embryonic ideas behind them.

In this new book from one of the great authorities on graphic design, some 100 of the worlds leading graphic designers open up their private sketchbooks, giving the reader an unparalleled insight into their creative development, design philosophies and visual influences.

Samples range from typographical explorations to fully fledged illustration ideas, from scrappy scribbles and eccentric handwriting to photographic collages.

Contributors include such world-recognized names as Stefan Sagmeister, Christoph Niemann, Sara Fanelli, Christoph Abbrederis, Shogo Ota, Art Spiegelman, Uwe Loesch, Milton Glaser, Michael Bierut, Bruce Mau, Francois Chastanet and Jordi Duro. Graphic is a treasure trove of design inspiration for professionals, students or anyone engaged in the visual industries.

Perfekt presentbok! 100 stycken kylskåpsmagneter medföljer med läckra bokstäver som fotograferats på stan.

Outdoor Types is not just a book but an artwork in itself. The author Simon Jennings takes a unique look at the real world and presents over five hundred found letterforms in a remarkable book.

For anyone interested in visual art and design, this beautifully produced and refreshingly tangible alternative to the digital world is a treasure trove of the typographic delights to be found in our everyday lives.

Jennings has been recording letterforms for over forty years, and the book is his tribute to the anonymous talents of vernacular artists around the world.

This beautiful book presents a colourful collection of observations on visual culture and design, written and illuminated by world-renowned typographic illustrator Marian Bantjes – at once quirky, poignant, astute and funny.

Whether intricately hand-drawn or using precise computer illustration software, her highly ornamental, craftsman-like word-pictures have earned her professional acclaim and a cult following around the world.

Every illustration is new, created for the book, and the content combines graphic art with Marian Bantjes' contemplative but frequently amused observations of the world.

Marian Bantjes started working as a book typesetter in Canada in the mid-1980s, later establishing her own successful firm. She began to develop her inimitable style of typography in 2003.

FREE FONT INDEX 2 contains over 500 fonts from type foundries around the world. A number of the fonts in the book include special character sets such as Central/Eastern European, Cyrillic and Greek. In addition to comprehensive letter proofs of all fonts, the book includes interviews with renowned typeface designers like Donald Beekman, Ray Larabie, and Jakob Fischer (a.k.a. pizza dude).

All fonts contained in the book are included on the accompanying CD, can be used on both Mac and PCs, and are licensed for personal and commercial use.

Celebrating 25 Years in Graphic Design Selections from Emigre magazine #1~#69.

Tracing Emigre’s development from its early bitmap design days in the late 1980s through to the experimental layouts that defined the so called “Legibility Wars” of the late 1990s, to the critical design writing of the early 2000s. Emigre No.70 is a must have book for those who missed out on all the excitement the first time around and for those who have been long time Emigre fans alike. Any graphic design library would be incomplete without it. Featuring interviews with, among others, The Designers Republic, Allen Hori, Rick Valicenti, Vaughan Oliver, Mr. Keedy, Ed Fella, and essays by Lorraine Wild, Anne Burdick, Zuzana Licko, Kenneth FitzGerald, Andrew Blauvelt, Kalle Lasn, Rick Poynor and many more.

The choice of weave, type and thickness of yarn, and pattern have an enormous impact on the final appearance of clothing. A garment made of denim or tweed may have the same cut, but they will each have a very different look and feel from one another. This book and CD-ROM set draws together reproductions of some 250 textile weaves, reproduced (and, where needed, enhanced) in such a way as to make them suitable for sketching, either by hand or digitally. This selection has been made with fashion and textile designers in mind, but, of course, the images are also very suitable as backgrounds for graphic applications and web design.

Graphical symbols for public information.

We all come into contact with symbols, for example when travelling, shopping or visiting libraries and hospitals. Properly designed, the symbols are readily understandable and make life easier for us. Because pictorial symbols – graphical symbols – are so widespread in public places, it is important, as a matter of democracy and human rights, that everyone should be able to understand them.

“Graphical Symbols for Many More” is a national development and standardisation project aimed at making public symbols more uniform and more serviceable in keeping with the concept of Design for All. Graphical symbols must serve everyone’s purposes. The objective is a Swedish standard laying guidelines and policy for the design and use of graph-ical symbols. This book contains the competition entries, presented by category, Medical centre, Library, Travel centre, Source separation, Playground, Evacuation meeting point and Internet café. The winning entry, the nominated entries and the honourable mention are presented in their entirety.

For over fifty years, the Type Directors Club has encouraged the worldwide graphic arts community to achieve excellence in typography through its annual international competitions.

Typography 29 is the only annual devoted exclusively to typography and presents the finest work in this field for the year 2008. Selected from approximately 2300 international submissions to the annual Type Directors Club competition, the winning designs are models of excellence and innovation in the use of type design, encompassing a wide range of categories, including books, magazines, corporate identities, logotypes, stationery, annual reports, video and web graphics, and posters.