Книги по графическому дизайну

Planet on the page. A visual atlas of our vast, fragile world

Dazzling in scale, diversity and detail, the world never ceases to open our eyes and captivate our curiosity. Ever since the earliest cave paintings, humans have looked at this Earth that is our home and endeavored to understand it.

This expansive visual atlas presents the most exciting, creative and inspiring ways of explaining the world in information graphics. Divided into five chapters, the book covers the environment, technology, economics, society, and culture to reveal some of the Earth’s greatest intricacies in accessible visual form. Featuring more than 280 graphics, reproduced in large scale including seven fold-out spreads, the collection focuses on the 21st century, but also includes historical masterpieces to put our current situation into perspective.

Nigel Holmes introduces the book with an exclusive infographic of his own, while Sandra Rendgen provides an illustrated historical essay to explore how we have studied and interpreted our world over the centuries. With graphics drawn from such sources as Fortune, National Geographic, and The Guardian, this is not only a showcase of outstanding data design, but also a fascinating digest of where and how we live.

VIZZ BIZZ showcases a broad range of cutting-edge creative material where artistic passion and commercial purpose come together in a fusion of dynamic design for the purpose of influencing, convincing - and even shocking - today’s consumer.

The quality productions found here bring the reader a wide range of visual communications with an emphasis on the advertising, retail, and fashion industries. Included are print ads from many product categories, catalogues and direct mail pieces, postcards, guerilla marketing paraphernalia, editorial layouts, and fashion spreads. The visuals showcase styles of illustration, photography techniques, use of props, projected attitudes, common target audiences, graphic design, innovative typography and colour palettes. of dynamic design for the purpose of influencing, convincing - and even shocking -- today’s consumer.

Watercolour painting, the painting with pigments suspended or dissolved in water, is one of the oldest forms of painting. It is also a form of painting that is very suitable for practical applications, as the subtle colours allow for a wide array of uses. Watercolour Patterns contains a collection of some 140 patterns, which were especially made for this edition by Joost van Roojen, who has specialised in watercolours since the 1950s and has gained a fabulous technical mastery of this medium.

Agile Rabbit Editions contain stunning images for use as a graphic resource, or inspiration. All the illustrations are stored in high-resolution format on the enclosed free CD-ROM and are ready to use for professional quality printed media and web page design. The pictures can also be used to produce postcards or to decorate your letters, flyers, etc. They can be imported directly from the CD into most design, image-manipulation, illustration, word-processing and e-mail programs; no installation is required. For most applications, single images can be used free of charge.

Text in Chinese, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Spanish

Weaving, the art of threading yarns into cloth, is one of the oldest ways of creating and decorating fabrics. Woven fabrics range from plain cloth in one colour to highly decorated textiles, such as rugs and tapestries, often with an emphasis on imagery from the natural world. Weaving Patterns contains examples of elaborate weaving decorations, giving an overview of the patterns, borders and elements used in this technique.

Over 1200 dynamic, ethnic, decorative designs, from civilizations over 3000 years, are displayed here and on CD.

Architecture, sculpture, painting, ceramics, mosaics, textiles, bronze, lacquer, leather, manuscripts, glass, metals, and typography were consulted from sources in Egypt, Assyria, Greece, Rome, China, Japan, India, Persia, Arabia, Turkey, Byzantinium, and Europe.

The designs, most shown in beautiful color and exquisite detail, display Ancient, Gothic, Renaissance, and Classic styles.

The accompanying text both describes each civilization and gives the sources for all the images, from their ruins, churches, museums, books, artifacts, and monuments around the world.

This important collection will become a classic reference and source for designers of every type for years to come.

World Graphic Design is the first-ever survey of contemporary graphic design and designers outside the United Kingdom, mainland Europe, North America and Australasia. Organized into four main geographical regions or cultural zones – Africa, the Far East, Latin America and the Middle East – and then alphabetically by country and designer/studio within each zone, it focuses on the work being carried out today within the most popular genres of graphic design: posters, book and album covers, packaging and promotion. As graphic design in the developed world becomes increasingly focused on the same small pantheon of designers and the same canonical approaches, World Graphic Design seeks to expose it to the energy, vitality and diversity of a vast body of work that has long co-existed alongside it, but that has hitherto been all but ignored. It is a deliberate attempt to do for graphic design what has been achieved for world music.

With an informative critical profile and full contact details of each designer and studio, and more than a dozen illustrated examples of their recent output, World Graphic Design is a ground-breaking survey and an essential reference for anyone involved in graphic design worldwide.

Aims to do for world graphic design what has already been achieved for world music
The first publication to showcase the richness and variety of graphic design outside the Western tradition
Includes features on individual designers and studios

This book is an extraordinary pictorial dictionary of musical instruments from around the world, containing over 1500 drawings. Each instrument has been selected to provide a balanced historical overview of musical development: aerophones, idiophones, membranophones, chordophones, mechanical and electrical instruments are all equally represented.

All of the drawings have been created specifically for the details of features such as strings, frets and keys, together with characteristic decorative patterns, have been painstakingly reproduced.

World Musical Instruments will serve both as a source of information and as an object of fascination for: scholars, musicians, artists and designers. The accompanying CD-ROM with high-resolution jpeg illustrations of all the instruments provides the reader with an invaluable resource.

Agile Rabbit Editions contain stunning images for use as a graphic resource, or inspiration. All the illustrations are stored in high-resolution format on the enclosed free CD-ROM and are ready to use for professional quality printed media and web page design. The pictures can also be used to produce postcards, or to decorate your letters, flyers, etc. They can be imported directly from the CD into most design, image-manipulation, illustration, word-processing and e-mail programs; no installation is required. For most applications, single images can be used free of charge.

In this new series we're presenting contemporary graphic design from different parts of the world. Even though during the last decades globalization seems to have resulted in the different cultures and societies moving closer together, and although communication and cultural exchange has increased, many regional designs still retain distinctive characteristics that reflect their origin.
The third volume of the series is dedicated to an entire continent: Asia. The selected designs originate from regions all over the continent, from Israel in the west to Japan in the far east. They represent an enormous diversity of styles, scripts, forms and visual languages. Recurring motivs are floral images and ornaments, while architecture – a dominating element in so many European designs – is almost absent. Nature, faces, script and myth play an important part in many works. It's a fascinating visual journey!

In dieser neuen Buchreihe präsentieren wir zeitgenössisches Grafik-Design aus den verschiedenen Teilen der Welt. Auch wenn sich die verschiedenen Kulturen und Gesellschaften während der letzten Jahrzehnte einander deutlich angenähert haben und der gegenseitige Austausch zugenommen hat, zeugen die grafischen Arbeiten der verschiedenen Länder und Regionen dennoch deutlich von regionalen Eigenheiten, Vorlieben und Interessen. Nicht selten entsteht eine reizvolle Verbindung aus internationalen und regionalen Elementen. Der dritte Band der Reihe widmet sich nun dem Grafikdesign eines ganzen Kontinents: Asien. Und tatsächlich spannen die ausgewählten Entwürfe den weiten Bogen vom Westen des Kontinents (Israel) bis hin zum fernen Osten (Japan). Dazwischen findet sich die ganze Bandbreite der unterschiedlichen Kulturen, Bilderwelten, und nicht zuletzt der unterschiedlichen Schriften. Häufig tauchen Bilder aus der asiatischen Mythologie auf; florale Elemente, Gesichter, Schrift und Ornamentik sind die Dominanten Motive. Dieser Band demonstriert einmal mehr: "Worldwide Graphic Design" ist eine spannende und anregende visuelle Reise um die Welt!

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In this new series we're presenting contemporary graphic design from different parts of the world. Even though during the last decades globalization seems to have resulted in the different cultures and societies moving closer together, and although communication and cultural exchange has increased, many regional designs still retain distinctive characteristics that reflect their origin.

The fourth and latest volume in the series is dedicated to Australia and New Zealand. Thanks to the region's proximity to eastern Asia, the predominantly western imagery which most of these designs are firmly rooted in, is enriched by Asian and exotic elements. This combination leads to some rather unexpected and unorthodox results. Thus, "Down Under" is a collection of designs which appear both familiar and strange at the same time.
As "Down Under" once again demonstrates, the series "Worldwide graphic Design" is an inspiring visual journey around the world!

In dieser neuen Buchreihe präsentieren wir zeitgenössisches Grafik-Design aus den verschiedensten Teilen der Welt. Auch wenn sich die verschiedenen Kulturen und Gesellschaften während der letzten Jahrzehnte einander deutlich angenähert haben und der gegenseitige Austausch zugenommen hat, zeugen die grafischen Arbeiten der einzelnen Länder und Regionen dennoch klar von regionalen Eigenheiten, Vorlieben und Interessen. Nicht selten entsteht eine reizvolle Verbindung aus internationalen und regionalen Elementen. Der neueste Titel der Serie widmet sich den Arbeiten aus Australien und Neuseeland. Dank der geografischen Nähe dieser Länder zu Ostasien sind die ansonsten stark in westlichen Bilderwelten verankerten Arbeiten häufig angereichert durch exotische Elemente. Diese Kombination führte zu einigen unorthodoxen und unerwarteten Resultaten. So ist "Down Under" eine Sammlung von Arbeiten, die häufig vertraut und fremd zulgeich wirken. Und der Band demonstriert einmal mehr: "Worldwide Graphic Design" ist eine spannende und anregende visuelle Reise um die Welt!

In this new series, zeixs presents contemporary graphic design from different parts of the world. The first two volumes are dedicated to Scandinavia and Latin America.

Even though during the last decade's globalization seems to have resulted in the different cultures and societies moving closer together, and even though communication and cultural exchange has increased, many regional designs still retain distinctive characteristics.

Latin America

Not surprisingly, the works from Latin America turn out to be pretty vivid and colourful. There seem to be no inhibitions or restraint – the dominant tones range from buoyant and humorous to downright aggressive and provocative.

Whatever the tone may be, the visual impression is always striking. Apparently, the so-called Latin American lifestyle and climate have left their mark on these designs. This is just another proof that design and art are always influenced by the environment in which they are created.

These particularities have been captured in this compilation of exceptional works from such diverse categories as poster design, advertising, and illustrations.

In this new series, zeixs presents contemporary graphic design from different parts of the world. The first two volumes are dedicated to Scandinavia and Latin America.
Even though during the last decades globalization seems to have resulted in the different cultures and societies moving closer together, and even though communication and cultural exchange has increased, many regional designs still retain distinctive characteristics.

Scandinavia

Not surprisingly, many of the designs from Scandinavia display mainly cold and muted colours. The works exhibit just the kind of aloofness you would expect from northern temper. Compared to the Latin-American designs for instance, they seem rather restrained, but always with an appealing elegance and simplicity. The works display clear and controlled outlines and shapes. Innovation and imagination appear well organized. Most of the designs showcase the sometimes chilly accuracy of the Scandinavian style. This is just another proof that design and art are always influenced by the environment in which they are created.

These particularities have been captured in this compilation of exceptional works from such diverse categories as poster design, advertising, and illustrations.