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Denim Dudes is a street-style book with a difference.

As well as featuring key players in the global denim business, such as Jason Denham (Denham), François Girbaud, (Marithé + François Girbaud), Adriano Goldschmied (Diesel, 7 For All Mankind) and Kenichi and Kenji Shiotani (Warehouse Japan), it also explores the very best and latest denim styling on the street, from bikers to vintage dealers and store owners. Exclusive photography for the book was shot in Paris, Tokyo, London, New York, LA, Milan, San Francisco, Amsterdam, Stockholm, Barcelona, Melbourne, Gothenburg and Sydney.

This inspirational title will appeal not just to designers and fashion professionals but to a public increasingly obsessed with the world of denim. It offers unrivalled insight into the stylish and sometimes eccentric ‘dudes’ involved in this fascinating and diverse industry.

About the Author:

Amy Leverton is a denim expert who has worked in the industry for ten years, most recently at the leading trend forecasting website, WGSN where she is currently Director of Denim and Youth Culture.

DesignAndDesign.com is a website dedicated to the worldwide community of designers and was created to showcase their latest and most innovative design work. Every day, the homepage features two design pieces, selected from the graphic, packaging and product design submissions received daily from a wide range of international designers. The book of the year shows these 730 fresh, and for the most part unpublished original designs.

The DesignAndDesign.com website is focused on the community of designers worldwide and was created to showcase their latest and most innovative design work. Every day, it features two design pieces, selected from the graphic, packaging and product design submissions received daily from a wide range of international designers. The book of the year shows these 730 fresh, and for the most part unpublished original designs.

Georgian has come to define a period characterized by elegance and refinement, as seen in the work of designers such as Thomas Chippendale, Robert Adam, Thomas Sheraton, and Josiah Wedgwood.

Highlights include exquisitely carved and inlaid Jacobean furniture, including the famous bed of Ware...

Design Basics presents creative and innovative design in an affordable format. This book presents inspiring, contemporary projects—and explore particular aspects of graphic design. With examples of work ranging from brochures to packaging, to self-promotion, this bok is a sure source of inspiration for all graphic designers. In Design Basics the reader will be presented with the inner workings of graphic design while the focus is on layout, type and color.

Color is an integral part of any design solution. Design Elements, Color Fundamentals is an essential resource for designers who want to create memorable design and successfully communicate with their audience. It is the second book in Rockport's Design Elements series, which focuses on the core elements of design.

With this book, designers will:

—Learn how to effectively communicate with color and integrate color with type and image to affect meaning and create order
—See how known pairings and selection methods can be used in real-world projects
—Explore hundreds of visual examples, illustrating how effective color combinations can be applied to any project, across media, and in diverse, cultural, and geographic situations
—Realize the basic tenets of color theory as it is broken down into clear and actionable directives
—Uncover tips and techniques for using color in client-based design work

Discover the basic rules for working with color as well as when it's OK to break the rules with Design Elements, Color Fundamentals!

Explore the fundamentals of typography with this practical new guide. An instructional reader rather than historical survey, Design Elements: Typography Fundamentals uses well-founded, guiding principles to teach the language of type and how to use it capably.

Designers are left with a solid ground on which to design with type. Limitless potential for meaningful and creative communication exists—this is the field guide for the journey!

Design For Interaction by Lisa Baggerman tackles the idea of user experience and interactivity as elements of good interface design.

Design For Music presents a selection of the very best music-related design and illustration being done today: concert posters, album covers, band logos and other work. Included are several interviews with renowned artists – including Rudy VanderLans, Jorge Alderete, Rian Hughes, Invisible Creature and Martin Andersen – about their work and their relationship to music. The theme is complemented by the inclusion of a FREE music CD with 12 tracks by artists featured in the book.

Hundreds of artists and designers expressed support for the Obama candidacy by designing posters and submitting them to designforobama.org for free download. This selection of the very best - curated by Spike Lee and Aaron Perry-Zucker - is a visual document of the most inspirational U.S. presidential campaign in living history.

From its inception, the Barack Obama campaign was destined to make history. Its message of inclusion and empowerment was spread by thousands of volunteers, a grassroots organization of unprecedented size and enthusiasm. Design for Obama built on this spirit with an online forum where artists, designers and supporters could upload their artworks and download others. Shepard Fairey’s social realist "Hope" poster became 2008’s enduring image, inspiring scores of designs that appeared on the streets, at rallies and registration drives, and in homes and offices around the country.

Edited by designforobama.org founder Aaron Perry-Zucker and filmmaker Spike Lee, this collection showcases over 200 of the best pro-Obama posters. Contributors range from prominent graphic and street artists to young up-and-comers. With essays by Spike Lee, Perry-Zucker, and design historian Steven Heller, this outstanding collection serves as a matchless historical document of the widespread visual creativity that helped spur Obama to victory.

Until recently, analysis of the future was left to forecasters and trend experts. Today, however, designers and architects are playing an increasingly important role, creating products and environments that will change the way we live. Design Futures is a thought-provoking exploration of the radical directions that the creative industries are taking. Design expert Bradley Quinn reveals how a new generation of products, materials and surfaces will align design with such areas as artificial intelligence, genetic engineering and nanotechnology, reinventing the spaces in which we live and work, and how we experience the human body. Featuring interviews with renowned designers, architects and trend forecasters – among them Karim Rashid, Toyo Ito and Li Edelkoort – and over 250 illustrations of futuristic products and concepts, this is a unique guide to some of the twenty-first century’s most compelling ideas.

A wide-ranging survey of the visionary products, new materials and revolutionary technologies shaping the future of design

Interviews with today's leading international designers and architects provide a fascinating glimpse of the future

Includes a directory of practitioners at the cutting edge of architecture and design