Design & Decorative Arts book review

Saturday, April 14, 2012

Vintage Type and Graphics: An Eclectic Collection of Typography, Ornament, Letterheads, and Trademarks from 1896 to 1936

Vintage Type and Graphics: An Eclectic Collection of Typography, Ornament, Letterheads, and Trademarks from 1896 to 1936 Review

Vintage Type and Graphics: An Eclectic Collection of Typography, Ornament, Letterheads, and Trademarks from 1896 to 1936 Overview

"Type lovers and history buffs alike will enjoy this gallery of vintage typefaces, ornaments, letterheads and trademarks."—ID Magazine

Exquisite graphic design artifacts comprise this unusual collection culled from the pages of type and typography books dating from 1896 to 1936. Design professionals, students and teachers of graphic design, and anyone with an interest in vintage design will be delighted to ﬁnd rare, never-before-reprinted type specimens, vintage layouts, logos, and decorations that will serve as an inspiration and resource for practicing and aspiring graphic designers. 400 black-and-white illustrations

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Thursday, April 12, 2012

Box Bottle Bag: The World's Best Package Designs from TheDieline.com

Box Bottle Bag: The World's Best Package Designs from TheDieline.com Review

Box Bottle Bag: The World's Best Package Designs from TheDieline.com Overview

Take a look at the very best in packaging design

Every day Andrew Gibbs seeks out and discovers the very best in packaging design for his influential blog, TheDieline.com. Here, he has collected the cream of the crop—plus some additional brand-new projects—in all their full-color glory.

The look, feel and concept of a package is crucial to its sales success, and Box Bottle Bag contains more than 140 projects that have succeeded on many levels. The book is divided into six chapters, each one featuring a certain style of packaging design—Luxe, Bold, Crisp, Charming, Casual, and Nostalgic.

Featured work comes from top-notch firms such as Turner Duckworth, Hatch Design, Interbrand, Hornall Anderson, Duffy & Partners, BBDK, Aesthetic Apparatus and Wolff Olins, Inc. Some of the top-tier clients featured inside include Miller Chill, Coca-Cola, Aveda, Williams-Sonoma, Method, Right Guard, 10 Cane Rum, Harrod's and Starbucks.

The wealth of inspiration found in these pages is priceless. You'll be energized to come up with your own solutions to tricky packaging conundrums in no time.

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Sunday, April 8, 2012

Digital Image Transfer: Creating Art with Your Photography

Digital Image Transfer: Creating Art with Your Photography Review

Digital Image Transfer: Creating Art with Your Photography Overview

Ellen G. Horovitz, an inspiring artist and teacher, guides readers through imaginative photo projects that transform cherished analog and digital images into works of art. Horovitz expands on traditional photo transfer, taking it to an entirely new level using digital software techniques and a wide array of innovative materials and methods, including cocoa powder, Citrasolve, copper, and packing tape. Starting with traditional photos, digital files, and instant photo emulsions, Horovitz fashions 2D and 3D art pieces, showing readers how to use conventional processes and new exploratory techniques-even left-over materials-in the creation of meaningful photo art.

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Saturday, April 7, 2012

The Big Book of New Design Ideas

The Big Book of New Design Ideas Review

The Big Book of New Design Ideas Overview

How do creative people create?Where do they get their ideas?For many, "brainstorm" sessions are a starting point. But huge numbers of creative people go through creative annuals or other books showing large amounts of work by top creative people. (Author David Carter calls this process "solitary brainstorming.") The Big Book of New Design Ideas was created for this specific purpose. Each piece was selected based on its potential to trigger an idea in the mind of the reader. Look at the logo section: you'll see a lot of different techniques there. Suddenly, you see a logo that "triggers" an idea. And that idea may have nothing at all to do with the one you just saw. That's pretty much how this book works. For everybody who uses the works of others to inspire their own ideas, this book is the one that should be on the shelf.

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Thursday, April 5, 2012

Art Deco Patterns & Designs (International Design Library)

Art Deco Patterns & Designs (International Design Library) Review

Art Deco Patterns & Designs (International Design Library) Overview

Art Deco's attraction is as magnetic today as in its earliest appearance in France, showcased eventually at the Exposition des Arts Decoratifs held in Paris in 1925. We may think we know the parameters of this avant-garde design genre, from the superb Chrysler Building to Florida's South Beach architecture to the designs inspired by Cubism and African, Aztec and Mayan art. This book, however, will surprise and delight the reader with its wealth of Art Deco designs, ranging from those that are well-known to many designs drawn from kitchenware, textiles, advertising and other sources researched by Phoebe Ann Erb in magazines, books and ephemera of the period. Their vitality, beauty, sophistication and wit are as fresh today as when first viewed by a captivated public.

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Wednesday, April 4, 2012

100 Ideas that Changed Graphic Design

100 Ideas that Changed Graphic Design Review

100 Ideas that Changed Graphic Design Overview

New in the "100 Ideas that Changed..." series, this book demonstrates how ideas influenced and defined graphic design, and how those ideas have manifested themselves in objects of design. The 100 entries, arranged broadly in chronological order, range from technical (overprinting, rub-on designs, split fountain); to stylistic (swashes on caps, loud typography, and white space); to objects (dust jackets, design handbooks); and, methods (paper cut-outs, pixelation). Written by one of the world's leading authorities on graphic design and lavishly illustrated, the book is both a great source of inspiration and a provocative record of some of the best examples of graphic design from the last hundred years.

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Monday, April 2, 2012

Handmade Graphics: Tools & Techniques Beyond the Mouse

Handmade Graphics: Tools & Techniques Beyond the Mouse Review

Handmade Graphics: Tools & Techniques Beyond the Mouse Overview

Designers will be inspired by the hands-on techniques covered in Handmade Graphics.

From pencils to computers, from scissor to paper, from stencils to printers, a vast array of mark-making tools are explored and illustrated with examples and exercises that stretch the limits of conventional design. Techniques include: pen and ink, markers and spray-paint, toy printing kits, stencils, found images, pin-hole cameras, fax machines and more.

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