Rockport Publishers

This book outlines and demonstrates basic package design guidelines and rules through 100 principles in the areas of research, planning, and execution. This book is a quick reference and primer on package design, and the principles that make design projects successful. Highly visual and appealing to beginning designers, students, and working designers as a resource. The content helps to establish the rules and guides designers in knowing when and where to bend them. Visual examples demonstrate each principle so readers can see the principle at work in applied design.

Fashion isn't art. The latter can just be admired, while the first needs to be sold. How do designers create constant objects of desire? In this book, 100 designers give 1000 tips on what it takes to be a great fashion designer. These tips address a number of issues: flare inspiration, collection concept, the promise of clothing, the use of fabrics, and more. New talents and renowned names provide insights and ideas for both expert and up and coming designers.

Brochure design is a perennial in the world of marketing and graphic design, yet it can be challenging to execute successfully. This collection the 'best of the best' brochure design into one stunning showcase, compiling hundreds of ideas, pages of inspiration, and armloads of advice for professional graphic designers and students alike. Using a clean, unfussy presentation, this book is a highly visual collection of ideas for everything from choosing type to photo treatments, and everything in between. This volume features winning brochures from a wide range of countries and clients, including corporate brochures and annual reports, product and service pieces, and brochures for organizations ranging from education and health care to arts and entertainment. Large, visually compelling photos bring the reader up-close and personal to the best examples of brochure design that he or she is likely to see. This compilation highlights the best brochures from the past four volumes, making it a compelling collection of work from internationally-acclaimed designers.

This book is potentially the first in a new series which will provide the reader with solid techniques and ideas for unique applications, each book covering a popular craft subject area, all presented in a appealing visual package organized into 52 units, which may, but don't need to be explored on a weekly basis. The Lab series offers artists and crafters a new and contemporary format. While the book exposes readers to very hands-on techniques and solid project ideas, the approach is fun and experimental. Readers don't need to work through the book in order. Rather, they can flip around to learn something new or be inspired. The underlying message of the book is to learn and gain expertise through experimentation and play. There is no right or wrong result, yet, the reader gains skills and confidence in their medium to take their work to a new level.

Producing beautiful yet functional and sustainable products is no easy task. With so much competition on the shelf, products must uniquely distinguish themselves and become must-have items for consumers. This inspirational volume features 1000 of the best product designs in recent years, judged by award-winning Ecco Design. Categories include furniture, electronics and appliances, computers, medical equipment, transportation, and much more.

Greetings often provide designer with the chance to truly stretch their creative wings. 1000 More Greetings features examples by designers who are enjoying the luxury of personal expression through creative freedom, without the need to satisfy a client. The 1000 inspirational examples of invitations, announcements, greetings, and self promotions are created using unique materials and expressive treatments. With correspondence for every occasion, this book is a must have resource for designers who are looking for inspiration from an unprecedented collection of work by an international group of designers.

The Best of Newspaper Design 31st Edition, the latest edition in Rockport's highly respected series, presents the winning entries from the Society for News Design's 2010 competition. Featuring work selected by a panel of judges from more than 14,000 international publication entries, this inspirational volume sets the bar for excellence in journalistic design. Bold, full color layouts feature the best of the best in news, features, portfolios, visuals, and more, and each entry is accompanied by insightful commentary on the elements that made the piece a standout winner. Every industry professional aspires to one day see his or her work in this book.

Font provides a fully integrated visual sourcebook of classic fonts that still resonate with contemporary style for today's graphic designers. Each font featured in the book is accompanied by the main character set of the principal font along with typesheet style examples of the font with specifications. The characteristics of each font, such as vertically stressed oblique serifs or abrupt contrasts, will be highlighted, and the main font will be juxtaposed with other similar fonts for easy cross-referencing. Uniquely for a typeface sourcebook, each font is also shown in situ to give a real-life working context. Broken down into specific typographic classifications, this classic collection provides an inspirational resource for graphic designers alongside a fully featured type source, allowing designers to make considered font choices without having to trawl through the vast font libraries on offer from most font vendors.

This new volume presents a vast array of work within the corporate sector-solutions that have helped business clients succeed. This book not only provides hundreds of innovative examples of great design for business, but also examines the critical thinking behind the featured work and addresses the challenges those designers overcame.

»The Design Masters'» series profiles 20-30 current design leaders in each subject category including type, identity/logos, packaging/product design, annual reports/brochures, and publications. Each profile is approximately 8-10 pages showing the designer's best work in the category and discussing why they're so successful in this category. This, the second in the Master's series, features those who have made a name for themselves in the print design world with annual reports, brochures, and catalogs.

Judges in this edition include Emanuela Frigerio, Connie Birdsall, Graham Purnell, Miles Newlyn, Thomas Vasquez, Robert Matza, Kit Paul, and Sharon Werner. This book is packed with logos, logos, and more logos. It's a fast-paced book featuring one to six logos per page to allow designers to easily find ideas. Logos are among the most important elements a designer can create, so it is no surprise that they are always looking for new, fresh ideas. LogoLounge 3 delivers just that.

What is Interior Design aims to serve as an introduction for students, scholars, and practitioners who have an interest in interior design and architecture. This book examines the fundamental characteristics of interior space — the analysis and understanding of existing buildings, the nature and qualities of organising an interior space, and an understanding of the material and surface qualities of found and applied textures. What is Interior Design contextualises current issues around education and practice, examines both historical and contemporary concerns in design, and looks at the work of key practitioners in the field.

This book explores a wide variety of innovative and experimental paint techniques. Chapters cover composition, abstraction, texture, layering, using found objects, encaustic, integrating text, and adding digital imagery.

This wonderful reference book, illustrated with brilliant photographs and explicative plans, showcases more than 30 different projects of contemporary residential remodels conceived by some of the most prestigious architects and designers: from urban houses to country cottages, lofts or apartments, this exquisite selection will show the reader the different alternatives of this distinct and charming discipline.

The book is packed full of best practice, practical business tips, and professional and creative strategies from successful freelancers, case studies, alongside industry reference resources, to inform aspiring freelance designers of their options. This book explores the different design fields open to freelancers, covering all genres of graphic design, including, branding, corporate identity, publishing, information design, and how each area is best approached from a freelance standpoint. This book supplies answers to the following fundamental questions: what resources do you need, and where will you find them? How do you pitch competitively against unknown opposition? How do you set a fee scale, and compile an accurate quote? What can you include on an invoice, and what supplies and services can you charge on? What type of work will you be expected to do? What will each type of client require from you? How do you nurture your own creativity? And, crucially, how can you make money? Also included will be hints and tips about how to manage work flow and creative resources, such as software, imagery, and type, so as to ensure the best possible compatibility with the broadest client base.

This book shows how to shoot big personalities; the challenge being to capture something special and unique from celebrities who spend many of their waking hours in front of a camera or audience. Techniques workshops cover all the practical considerations. Work reflecting all aspects of celebrity and performance photography is showcased, including projects shot in studios, on sets, in theatres, on stage, and on location. Official and unofficial, reportage and staged photographs are featured, including: portraiture and cover shots; lifestyle stories for celebrity magazines; celebrity weddings; celebrity children; film unit stills photography; behind the scenes reportage; dance and opera performance and rehearsal photography; theatre promotional shots; gig photography; band portraits; head-shots; glamour photography; catwalk photography; paparazzi street photography; and, red-carpet/press conference news coverage.Image portfolios, combined with the photographers' comments on what has influenced their lighting styles and technical decisions, introduce readers to the aesthetics of celebrity and performance photography. Photographers' technical breakdowns of the lighting/composition/colour/tone/imaging they have used, and why, gives readers a thorough knowledge of appropriate equipment and techniques. Checklists and tips-and-hints panels pass on hard-won knowledge in a simple form.

This book guides the reader from the basics of digital illustration through to more advanced techniques, with detailed sections on the most commonly-used software programs, including Photoshop, Painter, Illustrator, Flash, Cinema 4D, and 3D Studio. This accessible, yet comprehensive handbook covers all the essential technical considerations of digital illustration, such as file formatting and setting up a document, as well as the creative aspects of working with colors, textures, special effects, and more. The book is packed with inspiring images covering a wide range of different illustration styles, and with its colorful blend of step-by-step tutorials, quick fixes, and bullet-point tips it is the perfect antidote to boring technical manuals.

This book will be a collection (curated by John Foster) of the best hand-crafted design out there from all corners of the globe. This kind of collection will connect with designers on a gut level and it will be the ultimate collection of this type (and era) of work. For those that look to these books for inspiration this will provide that not only for their work in the office but also their personal bursts of creativity. But this book is not limited to designers who work on their own or do jobs on the side. Global corporations have begun to embrace this mode of design to create a more authentic experience for consumers who are bombarded with computer-generated art on a daily basis, so all designers — whether they work in-house at a large company or at a design studio — must get ready for a new more authentic design revolution.

The second half then branches out to fashion illustration using media, such as watercolour, pastels, acrylics, and pencils. Essential Fashion Illustration: Men is both a didactic tool and a base from which fashion illustrators can build their own unique styles.

This book is a delightful showcase of 1000 exciting and contemporary hand-designed greeting cards, with examples that feature a wide array of paper craft techniques, including: paper cutting, paper stencils, stamping, punching, stitchery, monoprints, screenprints, paper piecing, and more.

Whether you are preparing for your first tattoo or your twenty-seventh, you need artwork and designs that are just-right. Tattoo Bible, authored by Superior Tattoo, provides well over 500 pieces of unique flash art. Everything is here, from Hearts to Dragons, tattoo designs that range from traditional to the avant-garde. Tattoo Bible includes flash never before compiled in one single book. While most tattoo books available today concentrate on one specific genre, this book covers many different genres and the ideas are endless. This is not just a book to add to your collection — this is your collection. You can combine different pieces of art from within the book, or just take them as is. The images are represented in range of physical sizes, some are printed two or four per page, the more intricate designs are reproduced as full-page spreads. The categories include Hearts, Dragons, Roses, Skulls, Butterflies, Girls, Crosses, Celestial, Tribal, Back Pieces, and Nautical.Over 500 images that are both striking and very useful to both the tattoo shop, and the tattoo aficionado.

Print and Production Finishes for CD and DVD Packaging delves into the physical packaging for CDs and DVDs, exploring formats, bindings, casings, materials, textures and finishes. From movie to music packaging, the book explores the creative inspiration behind the package, including artwork, typography, materials, printing techniques and formats. It also goes into detail about practical considerations and restrictions, such as record company stipulations and the inclusion of essential materials and budgets. Award-winning work from the last decade is presented, showing how designers have exploited the qualities of CD and DVD packaging to create highly collectible works of art, making it essential reading for anyone with an interest in this exciting area of design.

When mosaic art is combined with environmental awareness, the results are particularly stunning, as non-conventional items such as handles salvaged from broken dressers and broken chips of antique china can be incorporated into unique, environmentally friendly pique assiette mosaic projects. Mosaic — The Art of Reusing features 25 projects that are vivid, vibrant, and inspirational. There are vintage mirrors and dressers; decorative art deco style wall hangings; striking 3D sculptures; and practical home features such as a flight of steps.

This book offers designers a vast collection of inspiring and innovative graphic works from the real world. The main emphasis is on fashion from t-shirt graphics, to sneakers, to baseball caps and more. The book will feature trends as well as graphics that endure the test of time.