Graphic Art Design category: 1547 books
Looking Closer 5
Critical Writings on Graphic Design
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2010
The final installment in this acclaimed series offers astute and controversial discussions on contemporary graphic design from 2001 to 2005. This collection of essays takes stock of the quality and profundity of graphic design writing published in professional and general interest design magazines,...
POP
How Graphic Design Shapes Popular Culture
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2010
Pop culture is often maligned as fleeting, but history shows that sometimes what is pop in one culture has time-honored resonance in later ones. This book is an attempt to show that pop culture, especially as seen through the lenses of design, illustration, satiric and political art (and other things),...
Graphic Design Rants and Raves
Bon Mots on Persuasion, Entertainment, Education, Culture, and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2017
Design is everywhere. Graphic design enters into everything. This is the scope of designer Steven Heller’s latest essay anthology that covers the spectrum of graphic design and related art and culture. Looking at design as practice, language, culture, and power, each of the forty-plus essays is...
by Donald Sparkman
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2010
Expert guidance on selling graphic design, in print and online. Attract today’s savvy design clients! A veteran designer who turned his small business into a multimillion-dollar new-media company shares his strategies for success in this new edition of the acclaimed Selling Graphic and Web Design....
by Alex W. White
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2011
This very popular design book has been wholly revised and expanded to feature a new dimension of inspiring and counterintuitive ideas to thinking about graphic design relationships. The Elements of Graphic Design, Second Edition is now in full color in a larger, 8 x 10-inch trim size, and contains...
by Malcolm Barnard
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
What is the point of graphic design? Is it advertising or is it art? What purpose does it serve in our society and culture? Malcolm Barnard explores how meaning and identity are at the core of every graphic design project and argues that the role and function of graphic design is, and always has been,...
Design Culture
An Anthology of Writing from the AIGA Journal of Graphic Design
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1997
Presenting a significant selection of seventy-eight essays, interviews, and symposia from the pioneering AIGA Journal of Graphic Design, Design Culture examines the coming of age of graphic design as a profession and its role in shaping our culture. A diverse group of leading designers, editors, academics,...
Design Literacy
Understanding Graphic Design
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2014
Author and design expert Steven Heller has revisited and revised the popular classic Design Literacy by revising many of the thoughtful essays from the original and mixing in thirty-two new works. Each essay offers a taste of the aesthetic, political, historical, and personal issues that have engaged...
Graphic Design, Referenced
A Visual Guide to the Language, Applications, and History of Graphic Design
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2009
Graphic Design, Referenced is a visual and informational guide to the most commonly referenced terms, historical moments, landmark projects, and influential practitioners in the field of graphic design. With more than 2,000 design projects illustrating more than 400 entries, it provides an intense...
Teaching Graphic Design
Course Offerings and Class Projects from the Leading Graduate and Undergraduate Programs
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2017
More Than Sixty Course Syllabi That Bring the New Complexity of Graphic Design to Light
All graphic designers teach, yet not all graphic designers are teachers. Teaching is a special skill requiring talent, instinct, passion, and organization. But while talent, instinct, and passion are inherent,...
by Steven Heller
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2019
An Examination of the Practice Through the Years
Teaching the history of graphic design cannot simply be outlined by dates nor confined by places, but is defined by concepts and philosophies, as well as those who made, make, and inspire them. Teaching Graphic Design History is the first collection...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2010
"Provides definitive guidelines on all aspects of the graphic design business."-FYI. * Newly revised and expanded version of an industry classic--5,000 sold! * Up-to-the-minute! Includes web, interactive, and green design, new legislation * Each chapter written by an authority on the subject. Here’s...
Managing Corporate Design
Best Practices for In-House Graphic Design Departments
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2015
Corporations increasingly view graphic design as a core strategic business competency in a highly competitive climate, and they are challenging their in-house designers to supply far more than a service or support function. Their new role is to provide sound solutions to real-world business pressures....
FireSigns
A Semiotic Theory for Graphic Design
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2017
Semiotics concepts from a design perspective, offering the foundation for a coherent theory of graphic design as well as conceptual tools for practicing designers.
Graphic design has been an academic discipline since the post-World War II era, but it has yet to develop a coherent theoretical...