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The Map as Art
The Map as Art: Contemporary Artists Explore Cartography Maps can be simple tools, comfortable in their familiar form. Or they can lead to different destinations: places turned upside down or inside out, territories riddled with marks understood only by their maker, realms connected more to the interior mind than to the exterior world. These are [...]
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Reinventing the Wheel
As inventive as instructive, information wheels-or volvelles-have been used since the fourteenth century to measure, record, predict, and calculate everything form time and space to military history and recipes. In this fascinating book, designer and critic Jessica Helfand offers and in-depth look at these unique artifacts, which are not only clever and amusing-where else could [...]
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New Packaging Design
Packaging is everywhere. Through boxes, bottles and bags, we make our products and services desirable in the global marketplace and celebrate our design capability, innovation and cultural diversity. Traditionally a means of preserving, protecting and promoting the products it contains, the rise of environmental issues and globalization mean that today’s packaging designers must do more [...]
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New Typographic Design
As printing and design technologies have evolved over the past decade, so too have designers’ approaches to type design and typography. Today’s innovative designers have overturned established rules about type, turning letters into images and using typefaces in increasingly experimental ways. New Typographic Design covers a wide variety of applications from design for print–ranging from [...] |
Production for Graphic Designers
Computer technology has completely revolutionised the work of graphic designers, printers and print production professionals. To keep pace with the far-reaching changes, Production for Graphic Designers is set firmly in the digital age. This revised fourth edition embraces all the new and emerging technologies in graphics and print production, comprehensively explaining the prepress and printing [...]
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Red Star Over Russia: A Visual History of the Soviet Union
The Russian Revolution instigated some of the most startling advances in the fields of art, photography and graphic design seen in the twentieth century; their impact on the development of modernism was immeasurable and is still felt today. Through an amazing array of material including posters, photographs, paintings, magazine covers, book jackets, advertisements, pamphlets and [...]
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Tate Artist Timeline
Sara Fanelli’s timeline runs along the concourse walls of level 3 and 5 at Tate Modern, providing a glance at the highlights of twentieth-century art.But art history is shifting and changeable. Forgotten artists are rediscovered, while others, even fairly solid reputations, can fade from view. The handwriting, by Sara Fanelli, is designed to reflect the [...]
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Selected works from Drawing Show
After a long hibernation, the DRAWING SHOW peeks its head out from the dark cave of the stock draws, rubs the sleeps from its eyes and stretches its limbs in anticipation of another showing. Met with an overwhelmingly positive response at David Krut Projects, Johannesburg, the DRAWING SHOW has made its way to Cape Town. [...]
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WIN Skill Set 1 – Graphic Design28th February 2009 by Administrator
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Area 2-100 Graphic Designers 10 Curators
Area 2 is the definitive resource on contemporary graphic design. For this book, ten of the world’s foremost design practitioners and critics each selected ten influential contemporary designers, and one design classic-a work that, years after its creation, continues to shape the way these leader think about their craft, whereas this book’s predecessor, area, focused [...]
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