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.

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.

Stickerbomb Letters features an extensive assortment of cool and quirky font and typography designs. Including both alphabets on their own and type slogans, the stickers are fun for everyone to play with, and to use to create their own words from individual letters. This collectable, fully-peelable sticker book is filled with an amazing collection of over 500 stickers created by artists, illustrators and graffiti writers from around the world. Selected artists include: Chato, Dabs, Darbotz, Helen Mycroft, Jo Contino, Niark1, Redy, Remi Rough, TuTu indo and the Yok.

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.

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.

På 350 sidor visas ingående olika annonser och sammanhang där typsnitt från FontFont har använts. Intervjuer och intressanta fakta från olika typsnitts-designers. En inspirationskälla och ett litet uppslagsverk i praktisk, modern typsnittsdesign och typografi.

Detta är den prisbelönta och oumbärliga guiden för alla som studerar eller jobbar med grafisk produktion. Allt som är värt att veta om den grafiska produktionsprocessen finns samlat mellan två pärmar!

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