Rockport Publishers

The purpose of this book is to encourage graphic designers to communicate more effectively and accurately with images. Using a compilation of imaginative visuals from professional and student artists, the author will elaborate on these principles: organize the visual structure; reduce realism; make the abstract concrete; direct the eye; and, support graphics with text.

The renewed prominence of the poster as both a marketing tool and a display of artistry has led to an explosive renaissance. Curated by John Foster, author of New Masters of Poster Design, this captivating collection of 1,000 Indie Posters captures the cutting edge of poster design work at one of its most important moments in history. Readers will find an inspiring and eclectic collection, spanning from music to the political and everything in-between!

Graffiti and street art used to be a sure sign of a neighborhood's neglect. Even though it is still a countercultural art form, its role has grown: it enlivens public space, provides social commentary, and adds humor and color to the urban and suburban landscape. 1,000 Ideas for Graffiti and Street Art is a showcase of urban art suitable for artists of any medium, designers, and other creative artists looking for urban-style inspiration for their visual work. A visual catalog, it is both a practical, inspirational handbook and a coffee-table conversation piece. Graffiti and street artists — rebellious and non-rebellious alike — will relish the opportunity to have so many ideas for color play, illustration, and wild expressions at their fingertips. Inside you'll find: 1,000 photographs of graffiti and other types of urban art, with captions that feature location (city, state, country) artist name (if known). Artwork sorted into categories such as letterforms, stencils, portraits, murals, nature, tags, throw-ups, pieces, and productions — Urban art glossary, basic aerosol painting and street art techniques, and more.

Now available in paperback, this all star tribute to one of the biggest rock 'n' roll bands ever features glorious concert and behind the scenes photography from top names in rock photography, from their first 1968 show as Led Zeppelin through the 2007 reunion. Also included are more than 200 rare concert posters, backstage passes, tickets, LPs and singles, T shirts, buttons, and more from the United States, UK, Canada, Germany, France, and Japan, all comprising a book as epic as the band it honors. And if that's not enough, top American and English rock journalists from Rolling Stone, Creem, Billboard, cover every Zeppelin LP in depth, while some of rock's top performers reflect on the band's legacy. An appendix features the complete discography.

This book is the fourth book in the Essential series following Layout Essentials, Typography Essentials, and Packaging Essentials. It outlines and demonstrates basic logo and branding design guidelines and rules through 100 principles including the elements of a successful graphic identity, identity programs and brand identity, and all the various strategies and elements involved.

This comprehensive collection illustrates the world of graphic design country by country, featuring the best graphic designers from all over the world. An amazing reference, this book provides insight into how designers from varied backgrounds approach their work, how different cultures associate communication and creativity in different ways, and how we see this reality used, pushed to its limits, and even completely transformed by design. No matter where you are from, this book will leave you with a broadened awareness of your own visual taste and an in depth, contextual understanding of graphic design worldwide.

Current fashion is a complex phenomenon. In a constant state of constant flux, contemporary fashion combines a mix of the different cultural aspects that inform the modern individual. Atlas of Fashion Designers is born out of this proposition, and features a compilation of the most important fashion designers and their work in the past five years, selected from a multi disciplinary perspective that display the heterogeneous mix of today's fashion world. Featured designers all have one trait in common: they were singled out, not only for the quality of their work, but also because they illustrate different perspectives in their approach to fashion. This book includes designers with a wide array of visions, from classical haute couture to those who experiment with developing fields such as anthropology, new textiles, high technology, architecture, art, or recycling. From Ricardo Tiscci, Nicholas Ghesquiere to Sybilla, to artists who are primarily concerned with pure fashion such as Lucy Orta, or to those investigators who concern themselves with innovation in the fields of textile research and technology, such as Issey Miyake or Hussein Chalayan.Atlas of Fashion Designers is a very relevant and useful reference in a hybrid society, which is composed of ever increasing heterogeneous elements. By offering a synthetic, fluid and diverse approach to the subject, the «Atlas» draws a map of the complex world of fashion at present time, and looks forward to what it may be tomorrow.

Feel like you’re buried in clutter? Are you in desperate need of an organizational overhaul? Having trouble finding your first-born underneath all those toys? With The Fast and Furious 5 Step Organizing Solution, you can turn your chaotic casa into a peaceful palace by simply applying this simple, time-saving method throughout your home: Step 1: Plan Step 2: Weed and Sort Step 3: Remove Step 4: Name to Create Boundaries Step 5: Containerize Author and professional organizer Susan C. Pinsky will show you the perfect and most maintainable method for every room and space in your home and how to achieve it in the fastest time possible. She’ll also provide you with tactical strategies and simple solutions for something you never thought possible: keeping it that way! Filled with inspirational and instructional photos—including real-life before and after photos of every room in a typical home—The Fast and Furious Five-Step Organizing Solution will show you what you need to do to achieve the results you only thought possible on television. Your dream home is just five steps away!

The paperback edition of the fourth volume in the best-selling LogoLounge series provides 2,000 logos from designers worldwide. This book, like the previous titles in the series, is compiled in association with LogoLounge.com, a website that was launched by Bill Gardner in 2002. The site is dedicated to logos. Top designers and design firms are handpicked and invited to be foundation members. Foundation and web site members each supply multiple logos to the site. Each LogoLounge book presents thousands of logos that have been added to the site, providing designers with an invaluable source for design inspiration and a resource for design solutions. The first portion of the book profiles 10 top designers recent work in the area of logo design; the second part of the book contains almost 2,000 logos organized by logo design (typography, people, mythology, nature, sports, etc.).

One Show Design, Volume 3 features all of the winners from the 2009 One Show Design competition. With categories including brand and corporate identity, package, environmental and broadcast design from iconic brands like Apple and adidas, this new annual features the best in design from all over the world. The work highlighted in these pages reflects the merging of advertising and marketing communications with design and the impact that design plays in our everyday culture. With full color images, the book also includes lively text from the creatives explaining the inspiration behind each piece.

Art journaling is a vital activity for artists who need a place to experiment, draw, paint, document ideas, and continue an interior dialog. This lush, visual book is a must-have volume for both beginning and experienced art journalers. Each chapter presents crucial, basic information for how to get started, and is layered with in-depth sidebars and activities covering advanced techniques, approaches to working, as well as interviews with well-known journaling artists. The book comes with two beautiful blank journals in a take-along size (made from paper upcycled from the printing process), ready to catch your daily inspirations.

Brochure design is a perennial in the world of marketing and graphic design, yet it can be challenging to execute successfully. This collection of the world's best brochure design offers 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. Rockport's Best of Brochure Design series is a best seller the world over.

Formed in 1973 by brothers Angus and Malcolm Young, AC/DC has become one of the most popular bands in history. This massive new title follows the band from its roots in Sydney, Australia, to its most recent releases and sold out world tours. No stone is left unturned, from the band's formation and early club gigs to its astounding worldwide success. More than 400 illustrations include handbills, posters, backstage passes, and vinyl from around the globe, as well as rare candid and performance photography. Sidebars from top rock scribes examine all studio releases and delve into the guitar gear of the Young brothers. The result is an awesome tribute to the band renowned for a live wire stage show and a sonic attack that have attracted fans from all rock camps.

Ask just about any motorcycle fan, and they'll tell you that Harley Davidson builds the ultimate motorcycle. And the motorcycles housed in Harley Davidson's Archive Collection represent the best of the best. Harley Davidson Archive Collection: Road Bikes tells the story of this amazing company through the incredible motorcycles it builds, selected from the hundreds of motorcycles in the Archive Collection. Portrait quality photography of the book taken by expert lenseman Randy Leffingwell reveals the remarkable journey of America's motorcycle company, from its humble beginnings to its nearly century long dominance of an entire industry.

The mini edition of the fourth volume in the best selling LogoLounge series provides 2,000 logos from designers worldwide. This book, like the previous titles in the series, is compiled in association with LogoLounge.com, a website that was launched by Bill Gardner in 2002. The site is dedicated to logos. Top designers and design firms are hand picked and invited to be foundation members. Foundation and website members each supply multiple logos to the site. Each LogoLounge book presents thousands of logos that have been added to the site, providing designers with an invaluable source for design inspiration and a resource for design solutions. The first portion of the book profiles 10 top designers recent work in the area of logo design; the second part of the book contains almost 2,000 logos organized by logo design (typography, people, mythology, nature, sports, etc.).

Created by one of Japan's most popular artists, this book provides detailed and complete instruction for illustrating fun and appealing characters and elements that celebrate life. The author's special and distinct style is simple, appealing, happy, and cute and offers artists, crafters, and art enthusiasts — with and without experience — the instruction and inspiration to draw in the Japanese character style. This book is for artists and crafters of all skill levels that want to bring their own illustration to their work. It offers both entertaining and fun drawing instruction and techniques along with inspiring and sweet unique-style characters and elements.

Created by one of Japan's most popular artists, this book provides detailed and complete instruction for illustrating fun and appealing characters and elements that celebrate life. The author's special and distinct style is simple, appealing, happy, and cute and offers artists, crafters, and art enthusiasts — with and without experience — the instruction and inspiration to draw in the Japanese character style. This book is for artists and crafters of all skill levels that want to bring their own illustration to their work. It offers both entertaining and fun drawing instruction and techniques along with inspiring and sweet unique-style characters and elements.

Brochure design is a perennial in the world of marketing and graphic design, yet it can be challenging to execute successfully. This collection of the world's best brochure design offers 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. Rockport's Best of Brochure Design series is a best seller the world over. This new in paperback version is much like its predecessors: a stunning collection of work from internationally-acclaimed designers.

This title features an innovative collection of the most current and best work by top designers worldwide. The 'go-to' sourcebook for business card design inspiration, this volume contains pages packed with business cards, showing front, back, and special elements and materials. This unrivaled resource is sought by professional designers, corporate executives, and in-house marketing departments as an essential identity and branding tool.

The best-selling Letterhead and Logo Design now compiles the most creative and inspiring work in the field in a stunning collection featuring the best of the past four volumes. From well-known design leaders, new design firms, and cutting-edge artists, this collection includes everything identity, from logos to labels, business cards to envelopes, and the creative techniques and full-color images portrayed in this broad range of work will inspire new design solutions for age-old challenges that beg for a fresh approach. This book is an invaluable resource for both design firms and their clients who are looking for inspiration and ideas that grab the viewer's attention and create a lasting impression.

Provides a visual catalyst for the creation of packaging designs. This book demonstrates the huge variety of packaging possibilities. It includes photographed finished models. It details the principles of packaging, along with the issues and challenges faced by contemporary packaging designers.

Under the witty and metaphorical guise of a high-end cookbook, the author will provide visual 'ingredients', such as grid structures, folios, border devices, type treatments, abstract graphic elements, and so on, categorized stylistically and functionally. These ingredients will be shown in use through a 'recipe' format to accomplish 'strategies' such as movement, rhythm, organization, contrast, metaphor, etc. Ingredients will be coded and cross-referenced among categories for mix and match purposes in demonstrating varied alternate combinations to achieve different approaches to strategies.

Great design is something that makes you pause and think. That's because there is a pure concept behind that design. Without a strong concept, design is merely an arrangement of elements within the parameters of a given format, resulting in design that is purely decorative. Void of the inspiration that makes design transcendent, the audience is left disengaged and intellectually/emotionally indifferent. Stanley Hainsworth, a designer who is known for design built on strong concepts, takes readers on an unprecedented visual journey through the minds of today's best design thinkers via interviews and project case studies, exploring and revealing the sources of the concepts behind the projects. This book is a visual and informational feast.

New in paperback, this workbook is a methodical yet comprehensive approach to conveying the fundamentals of avant-garde, innovative, information design by examining history, theory, criticism, technology and media, process, method, and practice. Opening with a very brief history followed by an instructive breakdown of the discipline, readers get an intimate understanding of the complexities of crafting information design to effectively improve communication both functionally and aesthetically. The back half of the book contains a wide range of case studies from design firms around the world so designers can see the techniques previously outlined in the first half of the book. The author also critiques and explains why the design is successful in terms of formal quality (Aesthetics) and function (How does it improve communication?).