100 Ideas that Changed Graphic Design is an accessible and compact book which demonstrates how ideas influenced and defined graphic design, with stunning visual examples. 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....

Selling the most delicious vices Vices or virtues: drinking and smoking provided marketers with products to be forged into visual feasts....

In Free Hand: New Typography Sketchbooks, Steven Heller, respected graphic-design commentator, and Lita Talarico, design educator, offer glimpses inside the personal sketchbooks of more than 70 designers and typographers—including Philippe Apeloig, Ed Beguiat, Hoefler & Co., Henrik Kubel, Toshi Omagari, and Francesco Zorzi....

A culinary and graphic travelogue through Europe Jim Heimann’s new book on Menu Design in Europe is a mouthwatering feast for the eyes, featuring hundreds of European menus from the early 19th century to the end of the millennium....

In The Moderns, we meet the men and women who invented and shaped Midcentury Modern graphic design in America. The book is made up of generously illustrated profiles, many based on interviews, of more than 60 designers whose magazine, book, and record......

Until restaurants became commonplace in the late 1800s, printed menus for meals were rare commodities reserved for special occasions. As restaurants proliferated, the menu became more than just a culinary listing: it was an integral part of eating......

100 illustrators to remember Drawn from Taschen\"s Illustration Now! series, this go-to catalog brings together 100 of the most successful and important illustrators around the globe....

This book includes bold, monumental, atmospheric, architectural letters with relief and shadow define great periods of confidence and optimism. Shadows add intrigue and spectacle to otherwise mundane words. And theyre back in style. Drawn from a......

Designers often look to the past to inform their work. In Stencil Type, design gurus Steven Heller and Louise Fili explore the variety and influence of the world’s most ubiquitous typographic style, which dates to prehistoric times and has been used on a range of surfaces from street signs, buildings, and bridges to packaging and posters....

Design, redefined a guide to your career options in one of this century???s most exciting fields Building on the past successes of Becoming a Graphic Designer and Becoming...

Master\"s Thesis from the year 2005 in the subject Art - Computer Art / Graphics / Art in Media, grade: A, School of visual arts (MFA Computer Art), language: English, abstract: What are Artificial Life and Artificial Intelligence and what is the difference between these two topics?...

This book is a highly informative, highly entertaining introduction to what art direction is and what art directors do. Co-written by one of the world\"s leading art directors, it coves the role of art director in numerous environments, including magazines and newspapers, advertising, corporate identity, museums and publishing....