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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Author: Janice Kirkpatrick, English, NonArt, Softcover, 285x235mm, full colour, 102pp, ISBN: 97818566961385,
Price: (ZA)R 425

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 [...]

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Author: Roger Fawcett-Tang, English, Art General, Softcover, 192pp, 285x235mm, ISBN: 978 0300117752,
Price: (ZA)R 420

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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Author: Alan Pipes, English, Art General, Sofcover, 278x215mm, 272pg, full colour, ISBN: 9781856694582,
Price: (ZA)R 380.00

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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Author: David King, English, Art General, Hardcover, 290x245mm, 352pp, 550 full colour, black and white, ISBN: 9781854376862,
Price: (ZA)R 550.00

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 dynamic [...]

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Author: Sara Fanelli, English, Art General,
Price: (ZA)R 130.00

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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3 COPIES Skill Set 1 UP FOR GRABS - to enter the readers’ competition in the Design Indaba magazine please leave a comment below.

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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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Author: Julias Hasting, English, Art General, Hardcover, 295 x 255mm, 444pp, B&W and colour illustrations, ISBN: 978 0714848556,
Price: (ZA)R 800.00

Computer technology has completely revolutionized the work of graphic designers, printers, and print production professionals.

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Author: Alan Pipes, English, Art General, Softcover, 278 x 215mm,, ISBN: 978 1856694582,
Price: (ZA)R 380.00

The field of graphic design has grown significantly in recent years and Graphic Design: A New History makes an important critical contribution to the subject, taking into account new scholarship.  For at least two centuries graphic design and typography have been embedded in the fabric of European and American society. Graphic designers have been an [...]

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Author: Stephen F Eskilson, English, Softcover, 290 x 220mm, 475pp, Colour, B&W Illustrations, ISBN: 978 1856695114,
Price: (ZA)R 505.00