Книги з графічного дизайну

The constant innovation of modern graphic design and the improvement of people’s aesthetic sensibilities have demanded a higher level of taste and a deeper level of cultural connotation in designs. By presenting the projects from excellent designers and studios around the world, this book invites readers to step into a time machine and get to know the various schools and styles in different historical periods, with the aim to explore the diverse application and visualization of retro elements in modern graphic designs.

Найновіший проект Штефана Загмайстера спонукає до довгострокового мислення та нагадує нам, що багато речей у світі покращуються.

Спочатку задумана у 2020 році, коли світ увійшов до карантину через пандемію, Штефан Саґмейстер створив книгу, яка розглядає стан світу сьогодні, висвітлюючи через зібрані дані, як далеко ми зайшли, і заохочуючи нас думати про те, куди ми можемо піти звідси.

Статистичні дані яскраво оживають, оскільки числа перетворюються на графіки, інкрустовані на картинах дев’ятнадцятого століття, вишиті полотна, лінзоподібні гравюри та розписані вручну склянки для води.

Книга містить передмову психолога та провідного експерта з мови та розуму Стівена Пінкера; есе графічного дизайнера та історика Стівена Хеллера; і розмова між Загмайстером і Гансом Ульріхом Обрістом, куратором і художнім керівником Serpentine Galleries у Лондоні, і припаде до смаку всім читачам, що розуміють візуальне мислення, забезпечуючи позитивну реакцію на бурхливий цикл новин останніх років.

Опубліковано в м’якій обкладинці з клапанами «Зараз краще» міститься у вирізаному футлярі та супроводжується лінзоподібним принтом, розробленим Sagmeister.Now is Better – це інтригуюча та вдумлива візуальна медитація про наше повсякденне життя.

Про авторів:

У 1993 році Стефан Сагмайстер заснував нью-йоркську компанію Sagmeister Inc. і з тих пір розробляв її для таких різноманітних клієнтів, як Музей Гуггенхайма, Rolling Stones і HBO. Його роботи знаходяться в музейних колекціях по всьому світу, включаючи Музей сучасного мистецтва в Нью-Йорку, Музей мистецтв Філадельфії, Художній інститут Чикаго, Музей сучасного мистецтва Сан-Франциско та Музей прикладного мистецтва (MAK) у Відні. Він викладає в аспірантурі Школи візуальних мистецтв у Нью-Йорку.

Стівен Пінкер – професор психології сім’ї Джонстон у Гарвардському університеті та автор багатьох книг про мову, розум і людську природу, зокрема «Мовний інстинкт», «Як працює розум», «Кращі ангели нашої природи» та раціональність.

Hans Ulrich Obrist (нар. 1968, Цюріх, Швейцарія) — художній керівник Serpentine у ​​Лондоні та старший радник LUMA Arles.До цього він був куратором Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris. З моменту свого першого шоу World Soup (The Kitchen Show) у 1991 році він курував понад 350 шоу.

Steven Heller є співголовою програми SVA MFA Design. Він є автором, співавтором та/або редактором 200 книг з дизайну, ілюстрації та візуальної культури. Протягом 33 років він був арт-директором у New York Times для сторінки OpEd і розділу Book Review. Він працював у багатьох журналах, у тому числі The Atlantic, Wired, EYE, Baseline і PRINT, де він писав The Daily Heller онлайн протягом більше десяти років.

The skull is one of the most recognizable symbols of today’s contemporary visual culture. Adorning T-Shirts, badges and rock memorabilia as the ultimate symbol of anarchy and rebellion, the image of the skull has found its way into the vocabulary of urban life.

In response to this cultural phenomenon, The Book of Skulls presents a cool visual guide to the skull, charting its rebirth through music and street fashion to become today’s ultimate anti-establishment icon. From the Grateful Dead to skater punk graffiti, from haute-couture to Damien Hirst, this book is the ultimate collection of iconic and unusual skull motifs.

Packaged in an amazing 'skeleton' binding and drawing together artwork from music, fashion, street art and graphic design, The Book of Skulls is a celebration of one of today’s most iconic cultural symbols.

About the Author:

Faye Dowling is a freelance editor, curator and art buyer specializing in photography, illustration, design, and contemporary visual culture. She has worked for magazines including Dazed & Confused, Varoom, Frieze, Eye, Edit and Pictured.

New in paperback, The Typography Workbook provides an at-a-glance reference book for designers on all aspects of type.

The book is part of Rockport's popular Workbook series of practical and inspirational workbooks that cover all the fundamental areas of the graphic design business. This book presents an abundance of information on type - the cornerstone of graphic design - succinctly and to the point, so that designers can get the information they need quickly and easily.

Whereas many other books on type are either very technical or showcase oriented, this book offers ideas and inspiration through hundreds of real-life projects showing successful, well-crafted usage of type. The book also offers a variety of other content, including choosing fonts, sizes, and colors; incorporating text and illustrations; avoiding common mistakes in text usage; and teaching rules by which to live (and work) by.

About the Author:

Timothy Samara is a graphic designer based in New York City, where he divides his time between teaching, writing, lecturing, and consulting through STIM Visual Communication. His 18-year career in branding and information design has explored projects in print, packaging, environments, user interface design, and animation. He has been a senior art director at Ruder Finn, New York's largest public relations firm, and senior art director at Pettistudio, a small multidisciplinary design firm. Before relocating to Manhattan, he was principal of Physiologic in Syracuse, located in upstate New York. In 1990, he graduated a Trustee Scholar from the Graphic Design program at the University of the Arts, Philadelphia. Mr. Samara is a faculty member at New York's School of Visual Arts, New York University, Purchase College/SUNY, and The New School, and has published six books on design and typography, all through Rockport Publishers: Making and Breaking the Grid; Typography Workbook; Publication Design Workbook; Type Style Finder; Design Elements, Design Evolution, and, most recently, Letterforms, released in September, 2018. Mr. Samara and his partner live in the Williamsburg neighbourhood of Brooklyn.

The beauty of nostalgia: 1924us revives modern brands with analogue craftsmanship.

Step into the world of Christian Watson’s creative studio, 1924us. Favoring historical tools and revisiting old techniques, the graphic designer, photographer, and illustrator applies his vision to anything, from brand and retail design, to tattooing and typography.

His atelier, 1924us revives modern brands with analogue craftsmanship. Persevering the practices and heritage style of the early 1900s, the brand’s work has come to epitomize this new-old aesthetic beyond the digital. Founded in Portland, 1924us has worked for more than 200 companies and also operates a general store.

Venture Onward is the comprehensive monograph of the artist’s work, providing beautiful and nostalgic visuals, which inspires readers to slow down and enjoy that which lasts a lifetime.

About the Author:

1924us is a branding company whose work brings the past into the present, preserving and resurrecting the handmade, heritage style of the 1900s. Founded in 2009, 1924US has worked for more than 200 companies—from small coffee shops to Fortune 500—and now also runs a general store. 1924us founder and creative director, Christian Watson, is an artist, a photographer, and designer.

Пропорція як основний елемент у сфері дизайну широко досліджується та вивчається. Врахування математичних теорій, золотого перерізу та принципів послідовності в дизайні та мистецтві часто допомагає покращити візуальну естетику, а красу вдало використаних пропорцій можна знайти в різноманітних дизайнерських проектах.

Visual Harmony представляє видатну дизайнерську роботу, підкреслюючи добре опрацьовані пропорції, представляючи проекти, які стануть надійними посиланнями для читачів у всьому світі. Він детально розкриває тему з інформацією у формі описового тексту та схем.

Логотипи брендів, візуальна ідентичність, ілюстрації та інші художні твори, представлені в цій книзі, виділяються серед інших завдяки глибокому розумінню дизайнерами пропорцій, що відображає важливість раціонального мислення в творчому світі, що постійно змінюється.

This accessible book demonstrates how ideas influenced and defined graphic design. Lavishly illustrated, it 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. The 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).

About the authors:

Steven Heller is the co-chair of the MFA Design/Designer as Author + Entrepreneur program at the School of Visual Arts, New York. He is the author of more than 180 books on design and popular culture and the recipient of the 2011 Smithsonian National Design Award.

Véronique Vienne has worked at a number of US magazines as art director and is the author of The Art of Doing Nothing and The Art of Imperfection, as well as Something to be Desired. A frequent contributor to Graphis and Metropolis magazines, she lives in Paris.

Often, the small, delightful details make a piece shine, similar to the way unique buttons on a white shirt can give it an entirely new look. This book explores 1,000 of these embellishments available to graphic designers across all kinds of projects, from books to brochures, invitations to menus, CDs to annual reports. Exacting photography, which is accompanied by credits outlining the vendors and materials used, focuses on these details. This book invites designers to literally shop for ideas. Content is organized by type; if you’re in the market for an unusual binding, turn to the bindings section to see a wide collection of fresh ideas. Other topics covered include fasteners, graphics, unique materials, embossing, debossing, specialty inks, type treatments, interesting color usage, add-ons, die cuts, and much more.

Hundreds of attractive royalty-free designs from all periods and styles — from Renaissance and Baroque to Art Deco and Geometric. The virtually inexhaustible supply of dynamic, black-and-white graphic devices includes elegantly rendered miniature flowers and leaves, everyday objects, holiday and abstract motifs, classical designs, and other decorative elements.

A rich resource for all designers and artists looking for inspiration and guidance on colour combinations.

A huge range of combinations is provided, with full readings for both CMYK (for designers working in print) and RGB (for Web-based and other multi-media designers). As an accomplished colour theorist, the author looks at colour combinations through various elements of colour theory, from hues, values and chroma to working with concepts such as simultaneous contrast and perceptual transparency.

The author has also generated an inspirational series of colour palettes taken from photographs of the world around us, depicting landscapes, urban subjects and everyday objects.

The book also contains a selection of work from cutting-edge designers and artists who explain the use of colour in their work and offer exciting new palettes. The colour combinations are rendered as two- and three-colour graphics, stripe studies and more unstructured and complex compositions, all of which showcase the huge variety of effects that can be achieved with colour.

This fascinating book reveals the true magic of colour and is an essential reference book for any designer and artist.

Despite the borders of the USSR being closed to majority of its population, Soviet citizens were among the world’s most frequent flyers. 

This book unfolds the story of Soviet air travel, from early carriers like Deruluft and Dobrolet, to the enigmatic Aeroflot. Organised like an Air Force, with a vast fleet of aircraft and helicopters, Aeroflot was the world’s biggest air carrier of passengers and cargo, responsible for a wider range of duties than any other airline. Aeroflot – Fly Soviet uses beautiful graphic ephemera to illustrate a parallel aviation universe that existed for 70 years, from the very beginning of the USSR through to its demise in 1991.

This book is a tool kit to create new forms. It deals with grid-based design and gives the reader techniques to develop new forms, fonts, logos, and patterns. The concept represents a design process in which individual decisions follow much larger and deeper principles than immediate and spontaneous-intuitive actions.

Using a wide variety of examples, each chapter contains a detailed description of the procedure from form analysis to setting up design rules and their application. Both a workbook and a source of inspiration, this publication provides designers and architects with the tool they need to find analytical forms — analog, algorithm-based, exploratory but never of arbitrary origin.

The procedures described allow an almost infinite number of possibilities. The designer is thus transformed from inventor to interpreter or curator, who assesses individual forms for logos, fonts or patterns on the fly and ensures that the design process is always efficient and goal-oriented.

About the Author:

Christoph Grünberger (*1975) is a German illustrator and designer. He is active in the fields of corporate, interactive and spatial design, with a strong focus on exploring the limits of interaction and desktop applications. Together with Stefan Gandl he is co-author of the book Neubau Modul and collaborated on the exhibition NeubauIsm at gallery MU (Eindhoven/NL) in 2008, which was opened by Wim Crouwel. For the video installation Wutbürger, a co-operation with Andreas Lutz, he received the excellence Award in the Art section at the Japan Media Arts Festival in Toyko in 2015. His works as a freelance designer have been awarded nationally and internationally.

This book presents over 700 Chinese motifs, showcasing 35 outstanding works inspired by Peking Opera, Paper Cutting, Animal Motifs and Auspicious Motifs, etc. Well-known designers were invited to share their design inspiration and experience concerning Chinese motifs to offer an insight into traditional Chinese culture.

This book presents a selection of contemporary graphic design studios, collage artists and artists from other disciplines in whose work design and collage intersect in the most diverse and witty ways. It features projects in which different languages and techniques mix, dialogue with each other, complement each other, sometimes dilute each other and question their respective limits. Through this showcase of design projects and art pieces, and through conversations with their authors, we learn about their unique approaches to the creative process, reflect on ways of understanding their work and investigate the special relationship that design and collage have today.

About the Author:

Jorge Chamorro (Madrid, 1972) ) is an independent graphic designer, collage artist and teacher. After earning a B.A. in Audiovisual Communication from the Complutense University of Madrid (Spain) in 1995, he worked as an art director for ten years in various studios and agencies. Since 2005, he has worked independently on projects for Café Royal Paris, for the famous dancer Yomiko Yoshioka, Greenpeace, Random House and others. He discovered collage in 2006, which has since become for him an irreplaceable art form. He lives and works in Berlin and Madrid.

What constitutes a great on-screen graphic design?

The relationship between fonts, colours, shape and graphic visual effects is essential to achieve a balance between the flow of information and user experience.

This book discusses in detail how to exploit these elements to achieve functionality and elegance for both websites and mobile applications.

Structured in four sections:

 - Colour Scheme,
 - Grids and Layouts,
 - Icon Application,
 - Text and Typography,

Design for Screen offers an excellent selection of around a hundred stunning designs from around the world, as well as interviews with influential designers working today in this field.