Книги по дизайну календарей и открыток

Художественные открытки - это произведения искусства в миниатюре. Открытки весьма популярны не только среди людей творческих профессий, их дарят, используют вместо визиток и, конечно, коллекционируют. Каждая открытка выпускается ограниченным тиражом.

Издание "1000 Арткрыток" - коллекция уникальных арт-работ, собранных Патрисией Болтон, главным редактором Cloth Paper Scissors и Quilting Arts Magazine. Некоторые из открыток были выбраны читателями журналов, другие по просьбе автора созданы выдающимися художниками специально для этой книги.

Богатый примерами и иллюстрированный качественными фотографиями каталог - прекрасный исходный материал для создания новых, ярких, креативных, провокационных идей. Открытки, собранные на этих страницах, не только отражают дух времени, но и передают художественный опыт и показывают уникальное видение. Оригинальная, хорошо продуманная композиция и использование различных технологических методов вдохновляет Вас на создание собственных шедевров.

Книга включает:

Раздел, в котором шаг за шагом разбирается процесс создания вашей собственной открытки;

Более 1000 полноцветных фотографий эксклюзивных открыток, собранных Патрисией Болтон, главным редактором Cloth Paper Scissors и Quilting Arts Magazine;

Фантастическую феерию игры с цветом, композицией и материалами.

A collection of greeting cards, personal invitations, and announcement cards that have been either made by hand or produced with the most avant-garde computer-design techniques. Nine seconds is the current estimate of the amount of time that it takes to captivate the eye. In our information-saturated world, in which email has monopolized personal communication, handmade greeting cards, personal invitations, and announcement cards offer an element of exclusive value and a unique charm, bringing together imagination, real texture, and a wide variety of design techniques.

This book focuses on the latest creative card designs produced by innovative design studios and artists throughout the world.  The ideas showcased in its three hundred pages range from handmade cards that elude conventional printing processes to the most avant-garde computer-designed offerings. The book shows the creative processes and techniques used in each project and analyses the key elements of their success. It is a great source of inspiration for those eager to break boundaries and go one step further with their creativity and imagination. 

About the Author:

Marta Serrats is a journalist based in Barcelona. She holds a Journalism degree from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Information and Communication Science Faculty and is specialized in architecture and design issues. She is the press manager of the Official Interior Architects Chamber of Barcelona and the author of several books on architecture, art and design and has lectured on “Design of Interior Space: Private Perimeters”.

A wide-ranging and unique survey of Art Deco architecture and design, told through postcards of the era

Art Deco was one of the most captivating and popular artistic movements of the twentieth century, and its iconic blend of luxury and simplicity still bewitches us today. This volume has an entirely original approach to the subject: it features postcards from the 1920s to 1940s — from nightclubs, hotels, and restaurants to skyscrapers, apartment buildings, and airports — each landmark or interior immortalized in miniature.

Emblems of the era, such as the Chrysler and Empire State buildings, appear, as well as a selection of less well-known fac¸ades and interiors from around the world. The expositions and world fairs that drove the development of the style were often ephemeral displays, and the book captures these structures that are no longer on the map but have left an enduring legacy.

A special pop-out-and-keep facsimile section includes detachable reproductions of some of the most important and beautiful cards. 250 full-color illustrations.

Although familiar with the Art Nouveau and Art Deco periods, most people may never have seen the fabulous and diversified women's fashion postcard sets that were designed by famous European artists and are featured in this book. Alphonse Mucha, Henri Meunier, Umberto Brunelleschi, and Xavier Sager are among the twenty distinguished artists whose work is featured. Take a magical tour through time that explores these artists' romance with fashion illustration. Also, superb unsigned images, information on postcard history, and a section on evaluating the illustrations make this a particularly useful reference. Over 230 gorgeous and colorful images will inspire students of fashion, postcard collectors, and antiques enthusiasts to peruse, study, and enjoy these beautiful images!

Packed with imaginative ideas for making your own cards, picture frames, gifts, invitations, envelopes, etc.

All the design ideas in the book are included on the CD in multiple formats: larger versions for professionals with access to high-end equipment and smaller ones for home use with standard paper sizes (A4 or Letter).

In addition to the cutting and folding templates, the CD contains some 50 decorative patterns and ornaments to embellish your work further.

Step-by-step instructions make it simple and easy to assemble the designs.

Regardless if it's the standard paper card or its digital equivalent, greeting cards are indispensable both in private life and business life. Of course modern greeting cards have little in common with those old flowery-types... or do they? This volume collects an abundance of contemporary designs for greeting cards.Regardless if it's the standard paper card or its digital equivalent, greeting cards are indispensable both in private life and business life. Of course modern greeting cards have little in common with those old flowery-types... or do they? This volume collects an abundance of contemporary designs for greeting cards.

Another wave of euphoric greetings has arrived! A sequel to Nice To Meet You, the first book of the series on visual greeting designs, Nice To Meet You Too encapsulates the new perspectives and values that young designers have brought forward to present identity in today's business card and visual identity designs.

What makes figurative formats speak better than words? How simple artefacts explain what you do? How well could you market yourself while being eco-friendly? What does it take to live up to new expectations? With more than 100 creative talents contributing their self-promotional items and commissioned projects for clients in different professions, this new title gathers a great number of striking 'hellos' that continue to make good impressions in this competitive world.

The Wiener Werkstätte or Vienna Workshops were founded in 1903 by architect Josef Hoffmann and artist Koloman Moser. Beginning in 1907, the Wiener Werkstätte began publishing a numbered series of postcards, which would ultimately exceed 1,000. There were numerous cards designed to celebrate holidays, such as Easter, Christmas, New Year’s, and others. When the fashion department was founded in 1910, costume and accessories became another popular subject depicted in the postcards, along with illustrations of places in Vienna and elsewhere in the Austro-Hungarian Empire and Europe. All of the major designers who worked for the firm were contributors in this medium including Josef Hoffmann, Oskar Kokoschka, Egon Schiele, and Dagobert Peche. Other noteworthy artists who were active in this area include Moriz Jung, Rudolf Kalvach, Mela Koehler, and Maria Likarz, among others. This publication is the first fully illustrated catalogue raisonné on Wiener Werkstätte postcards to appear in English.

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Jules Chéret, and Alphonse Mucha are among the artists whose works appear in these 12 color postcards. Late 19th- and early 20th-century ads from the great age of poster art promote nightclubs, chocolate, soap, and other products and services. Styles range from post-Impressionism to Art Nouveau and early Expressionism.

Each notecard is a Polaroid at its prettiest: dreamy, delicate, instantaneous yet timeless, and best when shared with friends and loved ones.

Indispensable artifacts of our material and virtual culture, calendars help us to organize our increasingly complicated lives within the framework of the passage of time. Save the Date showcases groundbreaking designs for calendars and planners, where aesthetic concerns compete with the temporal to create new and often startling combinations. No longer largely invisible or disposable, the calendars of today demand pride of placement in our homes or workplaces to be followed by a graceful retirement as collectible or covetable objects d art.

A colorful postcard gallery presents a dozen immortal scenes from the works of the English language's greatest playwright. Vignettes include Juliet on the balcony, mad Ophelia wreathed in flowers, and images inspired by A Midsummer Night's Dream, As You Like It, Much Ado About Nothing, and other plays.

Table of Contents for Shakespeare Illustrations Postcards
Charles Robinson, The Songs and Sonnets of William Shakespeare
William Hatherell, Romeo and Juliet
John Simmons, A Midsummer Night's Dream
Charles Folkard, As You Like It
John William Waterhouse, Hamlet
Hugh Thomson, The Merry Wives of Windsor
Norman M. Price, Much Ado About Nothing
Arthur Rackham, King Lear
John Singer Sargent, Macbeth
Frank Schoonover, Macbeth
John William Waterhouse, The Tempest
Edmund Dulac, The Tempest

'Tempus Fugit' offers a visual feast for studios and designers exploring the concept of time. In this book - exquisitely designed by Bildi Grafiks and including an introductory essay on realtime design and sound by Robert Appleton - you will find more than 60 calendars and 50 reflections by designers, showcasing 12 exemplary cases by world design celebrities, including George Tscherny, Paula Scher, John Maeda, Kit Hinrichs, Massimo Vignelli, Ahn Sang Soo and more.

In a time defined by digital interaction, receiving a physical invitation can often feel like receiving a gift - especially when the invitation is as elaborate as those in U R Invited. Far from plain form letters on cardstock, these invitations are embossed, engraved and laser-cut, wrapped around bars of chocolate or records, and contain everything from seeds and masks to rice to be thrown at weddings.

U R Invited beckons readers to join in celebrations all over the world with invitations for fashion events and award ceremonies on show.