A style sourcebook with 1000’s of retro design ideas and palettes for graphic designers to use and be inspired by. attached FREE DVD with 1000s of vector graphics, patterns, textures and palettes for a PC & Mac Grant Friedman 200mm x 200mm / 8’ x 8 *attached FREE DVD 176 pp Oct 09  

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Secrets of Digital Animation sets out to demonstrate and showcase a range of cutting-edge work, new techniques, and influential practitioners within all forms of contemporary animation, from anime to flashware, and from animated shorts to machinima, offering creative hints and tips from the genre masters. interested in broadening their skills, an insider’s view of the fast evolving work of animation; showcasing professionals and their

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500 of the Best Logos, Invitations, and GraphicsPeleg Top Modeled on the format and presentation of Business Graphics, this book features a vast collection of designs for special events from around the globe. Designing for special events such as fundraisers, trade shows, and conferences is becoming commonplace for many designers as the need to compete for attendance at these events increases. Peleg Top has spent over 15 years perfecting a unique blend of artistic and business sense which has

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The artists featured in Dirty Fingernails, make a concerted effort to do projects that require them to step away from the computer to create one-of-a-kind designs for clients and themselves. They demonstrate that good design doesn’t have to be clean--in fact, the messier the better. From silkscreen prints to collages created from photocopies, to hand-drawn lettering, each designer explains their

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Following the success of the first volume, Creative Island 2 takes an entirely fresh look at the extraordinary range and quality of design in Britain today, including work from 25 design disciplines – from architecture and engineering to fashion and jewellery; from new media and graphics to theatre and retail design, and many more.     Showing more than 100 recent projects, and also featuring design ideas and visuals of work that is yet to be realized, each one tells the des

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This stunning picture book chronicles one hundred years of classic patterns, featuring designs in a wide variety of styles, art movements and countries of origin to give an overview of surface design from the beginning of the last century to the present day.     The book is full of original patterns from textiles, wallpaper, furniture and ceramics and other decorative designs, drawn from a wide range of sources, including the rarely seen archives of leading manufacturers and priva

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Artists, designers and illustrators are doing it for themselves! Tough times often lead to greater creativity and entrepreneurial spirit. Where once designers might have produced a set of postcards to promote themselves or simply for fun, demand for individual design has led to an explosion of quirky, covetable products for sale via the Internet. Self-initiated projects, such as T-shirts or button designs, are fast becoming businesses in themselves. This book showcases more than 500 of the coole

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2,000 International Identities by Leading Designers 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 Creat

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Font provides a fully integrated visual sourcebook of classic fonts that still resonate with contemporary style for today’s graphic designers. Each font featured in the book is accompanied by the main character set of the principal font along with “typesheet” style examples of the font with specifications. The characteristics of each font, such as vertically stressed oblique serifs or abrupt contrasts, will be highlighted, and the main font will be juxtaposed with other similar

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Unique Elements for Distinctive DesignsGrant Design Collaborative 1000 More Graphic Elements is the follow-up to the extremely successful 1000 Graphic Elements, published in 2004. This edition features 1000 new unique graphic embellishments across all kinds of projects, from books to brochures, invitations to calendars to annual reports. It is often the smallest detail that can turn a project from ordinary to spectacular. Inspiration will be at your fingertips with examples of specialty processe

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The album cover is still a subject of perennial interest amongst graphic designers. Sleeve design remains a popular subject for college theses and many young working designers aspire to design for the music industry. Revealing the state of the art of contemporary music graphics, "Cover Art By:" is packed with over 400 examples of sleeve art. As well as CD and album covers, the insides of CD booklets and the backs of vinyl sleeves are shown. This book opens with an in-depth essay review

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A company’s name, logo, business cards, and work space present a graphic picture of that company. This book features examples of business tools and workplaces found in design offices, advertising agencies, and other creative fields from all over the world.

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The application of diagrams extends beyond its classical field of use today. Data Flow charts this development, introduces the expansive scope of innovatively designed diagrams and presents an abundant range of possibilities in visualising data and information. These range from chart-like diagrams such as bar, plot, line diagrams and spider charts, graph-based diagrams including line, matrix, process flow, and molecular diagrams to extremely complex three-dimensional diagrams. Data Flow is an up

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"This book follows on from Graphic Agitation, published by Phaidon in 1993, to look at a range of social and political graphics from the past decade." "The book begins with a survey of political and social graphics in the 1990s, and looks at how, and why, the nature of protest changed in that decade. In particular it examines the impact of the 'digital age', and the profound effect new technologies have had even on non-digital media. There follows a review of protest graphics fr

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"The Force Unleashed" chronicles the four-year development of the anxiously awaited, action-packed video game. The book reveals innovative game design concept and images, three-dimensional renders, and behind-the-scenes photos

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Celebrates the hallmark of corporate communication with a collection of more than 50 outstanding annual reports. Challenges every designer to creatively and clearly present a company's worth and purpose to shreholders. Each report is photographed in-depth to show specific spreads.

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The sixth edition of Brochures presents more than 200 international Designers, and is specifically designed to illustrate the complete impact of each brochure with close ups

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Interactive Design is the premier print collection of graphic-savvy web design and interactive environments. Created over the last two years, these dynamically digital visuals were selected from more than 100 sites designed by nearly 100 agencies worldwide. Reproduced according to Graphis' unparalleled print standards, the images selected for this annual serve as a reminder that technology and trends are still firmly rooted in the principles of graphic design.

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Creating a brand is nothing. Creating a brand that moves consumers in the deepest recesses of their souls--and their pocketbooks--is everything. Why buy a Honda

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