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Comic Art Now gathers together the medium’s finest exponents from around the world for the first time in a volume that reveals the sheer diversity and rich talent that abounds in this visually thrilling artform.

The book showcases the crème de la crème of contemporary comic book creators, whether they are established professionals or hot new bucks making waves in the industry. From superlative superheroes to heart-stopping horror, the artwork is divided into today’s most popular comic book genres. This collection takes a rare holistic approach, incorporating everything from small, self-published projects, through independent artists’ work, right up to big established names working for Marvel, DC and Dark Horse.

What qualifies them for inclusion is the quality of their work. Comic Art Now is at the razor’s edge of one of the most important, relevant and misunderstood artforms on the planet.

Latest and greatest. The prestigious annual for creative professionals

Here comes the 2012 edition of the highly-coveted annual from D&AD featuring the year’s best creative work. The D&AD awards panel judges over 20,000 works from design studios, advertising agencies, branding consultancies, film production and photographic agencies, digital media pioneers, and other creative firms from all over the globe. Winners receive the legendary D&AD Yellow Pencil Award - or in the case of exceptional and outstanding work, the rare Black Pencil Award. This review of the winners serves as a one-stop-shop for everything that’s hot in the field. Anyone interested in creativity, communication, design, or advertising cannot possibly be without the D&AD Annual!

Featuring the latest D&AD award-winning work in the fields of:
Art Direction, Book Design, Branding, Digital Advertising, Digital Design, Direct, Film Advertising Crafts, Graphic Design, Illustration, Integrated & Earned Media, Magazine & Newspaper Design, Mobile Marketing, Music Videos, Outdoor Advertising, Packaging Design, Photography, Press Advertising, Product Design, Radio Advertising, Spatial Design, TV & Cinema Advertising, TV & Cinema Communications, Typography, Writing for Advertising and Writing for Design.

D&AD is a nonprofit educational charity that was launched in 1962 by a group of London-based designers and art directors including David Bailey, Terence Donovan and Alan Fletcher, with iconic and legendary professionals on both its judging panels and winners lists. By celebrating creative communication and rewarding its practitioners, D&AD raises standards across the industry. The annual D&AD Awards - the industry's biggest and best - rewards outstanding creativity, originality, technical excellence and innovation in design and advertising.

Featuring the latest D&AD award-winning work in the fields of:Art Direction, Book Design, Branding, Digital Advertising, Digital Design, Direct, Film Advertising Crafts, Graphic Design, Illustration, Integrated & Earned Media, Magazine & Newspaper Design, Mobile Marketing, Music Videos, Outdoor Advertising, Packaging Design, Photography, Press Advertising, Product Design, Radio Advertising, Spatial Design, TV & Cinema Advertising, TV & Cinema Communications, Typography, Writing for Advertising and Writing for Design.

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.

A grid is used to create consistency and visual harmony throughout a multi-page or multi-screen document; it is the invisible structure underlying the design.

As such, choosing and using the right grid is one of the secrets to creating successful, professional-looking work. The Designer’s Toolkit: 500 Grids & Style Sheets is the fast-track way to identifying and employing the best design template for the job – whether you’re designing a newsletter, a sales flyer or a web page. It is a unique book-plus-CD kit.

On the CD you will find 500 page and screen templates in file formats for the most commonly used design applications – Adobe InDesign, Quark XPress, and Dreamweaver. They are all ready-to-use as they stand or can be customised to particular purposes. In the book, you will find all the instructions you need on how to make the best of them, together with expert help and advice on understanding the issues involved in design for either print or screen.

The Designer’s Toolkit: 500 Grids & Style Sheets will help both experienced and novice designers create effective, original and sophisticated designs.

This book revisits some of the most significant projects undertaken by Cases i Associats in the area of newspaper design over the last two years, both in print and in digital format. This volume also includes the personal impressions and opinions of the editors involved in the graphic and editorial revamp of printed and digital media, and their views on some of the most topical issues relating to the current press scene.

200 color illustrations, 60 color and b/w photographs 

200 color illustrations, 60 color and b/w photographs 

Forms on the front line. Architecture and design in the context of WWII

Founded in 1928 as a “living diary” by the great Milanese architect and designer Gio Ponti, domus has been hailed as the world’s most influential architecture and design journal. With style and rigour, it has reported on the major themes and stylistic movements in industrial, interior, product, and structural design.

This fresh reprint of domus’s coverage of the 1940s brings together the most important features from a decade of destruction and reconstruction. Even amid the bombing raids inflicted on Milan, domus continued to publish through much of the war, charting the design zeitgeist, while managing a successive turnover of editors and editors-in-chief during Ponti’s “interregnum” between 1941 and 1948.

The pages from this period record reports and features on modern industrial design and furniture, new prefabricated houses, American academic architecture, the building projects of Carlo Mollino, Gian Luigi Banfi, Franco Albini, and Giuseppe Terragni, as well as the postwar flowering of Organic Design.

domus distilled

 - Seven volumes spanning 1928 to 1999
 - Over 6,000 pages featuring influential projects by the most important designers and architects
 - Original layouts and all covers, with captions providing navigation and context
 - New introductory essays by renowned architects and designers
 - Each edition comes with an appendix featuring texts translated into English, many of which were previously only available in Italian
 - A comprehensive index in each volume listing both designers’ and manufacturers’ names

About the series:

Bibliotheca Universalis — Compact cultural companions celebrating the eclectic TASCHEN universe at an unbeatable, democratic price!

Since we started our work as cultural archaeologists in 1980, TASCHEN has become synonymous with accessible, open-minded publishing. Bibliotheca Universalis brings together more than 100 of our all-time favourite titles in a neat new format so you can curate your own affordable library of art, anthropology, and aphrodisia.

Bookworm’s delight — never bore, always excite!

Hopeful modernism.The optimism and triumphs of the 1950s

Founded in 1928 as a “living diary” by the great Milanese architect and designer Gio Ponti, domus has been hailed as the world’s most influential architecture and design journal. With style and rigour, it has reported on the major themes and stylistic movements in industrial, interior, product, and structural design.

This fresh reprint of domus' 1950s coverage brings together the most important features from an era of post-war optimism. As memories of conflict receded, architecture and design sought new forms, materials, and applications, as well as increasing international dialogue.

Highlights include Le Corbusier’s design of the United Nations Building in New York; the Case Study Houses of Charles and Ray Eames; Richard Neutra in California and Oscar Niemeyer in Brazil, office machines by Olivetti, furniture by Ray and Charles Eames, ceramics and lights by Ettore Sottsass, and the Herman Miller Showroom by Alexander Girard in San Francisco.

About the series:

Bibliotheca Universalis — Compact cultural companions celebrating the eclectic TASCHEN universe at an unbeatable, democratic price!

Since we started our work as cultural archaeologists in 1980, TASCHEN has become synonymous with accessible, open-minded publishing. Bibliotheca Universalis brings together more than 100 of our all-time favourite titles in a neat new format so you can curate your own affordable library of art, anthropology, and aphrodisia.

Bookworm’s delight — never bore, always excite!

Futuristic Thrill. The stars of ’60s pop and experimentation

Founded in 1928 as a “living diary” by the great Milanese architect and designer Gio Ponti, domus has been hailed as the world’s most influential architecture and design journal. With both style and rigor, it has offered consistent coverage of major themes and stylistic movements in product, structure, interior, and industrial design.

In this fresh reprint of all 1960s issues, the magazine documents the daring, practical, and beautiful projects of a decade of futuristic thrill and booming pop culture. Synthetics and plastics hit the stage, leading to radical new design, while conventional notions of elegance give way to fresh exploratory forms.

For work to be featured in the magazine it had to offer function, spatial clarity, intellectual persuasion, relevant originality, and/or grace. Those projects and practitioners that made the grade include the Anti and Radical Design movements, Ray and Charles Eames, Gae Aulenti, Kenzo Tange, Verner Panton, Achille and Pier Giacomo Castiglioni, Ettore Sottsass, Carlo Scarpa, Angelo Mangiarotti, Cesare Maria Casati, and Eero Saarinen.

About the series:

Bibliotheca Universalis — Compact cultural companions celebrating the eclectic TASCHEN universe at an unbeatable, democratic price!

Since we started our work as cultural archaeologists in 1980, TASCHEN has become synonymous with accessible, open-minded publishing. Bibliotheca Universalis brings together more than 100 of our all-time favourite titles in a neat new format so you can curate your own affordable library of art, anthropology, and aphrodisia.

Bookworm’s delight — never bore, always excite!

This book offers an accessible and comprehensive guide to visual journalism today the design of magazines and newspapers for a wide variety of markets. Generously illustrated and including case studies, practical tips, examples of best practice and profiles of individual designers, the book explains the fundamentals of editorial design and layout. It provides an overview of current methods and shows how and why editorial design is its own discipline, differing from other areas of graphic design.

Subjects covered include branding, how to create layouts, handling copy and images, design and production skills and trends in editorial design. With advice and opinions from leading practitioners in the field, the book is a practical reference and learning resource that will teach readers everything they need to know to reach the top of the profession.

Prepress is a broad subject with lots of technical information that can be boring at times so it's a definite bonus when a book comes along that can elegantly describe the banal intricacies of halftone patterns and why they matter to you. This book has it all including sections covering fonts, printer types, digital bits, image resolution, paper types and weights, book bindings and paper folds. Of particular note are the variety of examples images and graphics spread throughout the book to help illustrate the various technologies and processes of printing. The text itself is consistent in tone and quality although occasionally it switches from relatively basic topics like image resolution to more complex issues such as halftone versus stochastic screening. I would recommend this book as a semi-pro level book and not necessarily a "prepress for dummies" tutorial.