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Visual Dictionaries eBook Series

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  • The Visual Dictionary of Pre-press and Production

    Series series Visual Dictionaries
    The Visual Dictionary of Pre-press & Production is a concise and comprehensive introduction to the world of print and production. Containing textual and visual defintitions for over 250 pre-press and production terms, this book is an invaluable reference tool for all students and practitioners of graphic design, typography, illustration and visual communication subjects. From practical terms such ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The Visual Dictionary of Graphic Design

    Series series Visual Dictionaries
    The Visual Dictionary of Graphic Design is a comprehensive guide to the numerous terms used within graphic design and associated disciplines.Over 250 terms are explained and contextualized, with concise definitions accompanied by illustrations and examples taken from historical and contemporary graphic design.The dictionary covers traditional practice and process terms as well as modern ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

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  • How to Think Like a Great Graphic Designer

    Take a peek inside the heads of some of the world’s greatest living graphic designers. How do they think, how do they connect to others, what special skills do they have? In honest and revealing interviews, nineteen designers, including Stefan Sagmeister, Michael Beirut, David Carson, and Milton Glaser, share their approaches, processes, opinions, and thoughts about their work with noted brand ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Design Disasters

    Great Designers, Fabulous Failure, and Lessons Learned

    by Steven Heller ...
    The thrill of victory…the agony of defeat. We're not talking about just any failure. Design failure. So public. So humiliating. How do designers who are really, really good (we swear!) turn a disaster into a triumph? Read this book and find out, as dozens of top names reveal the heartbreaking-and sometimes hilarious-mistakes they have made and talk about how they were able to grow from the ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Bauhaus

    Design school modernism architecture 20th century

    The Bauhaus movement (meaning the “house of building”) developed in three German cities - it began in Weimar between 1919 and 1925, then continued in Dessau, from 1925 to 1932, and finally ended in 1932-1933 in Berlin. Three leaders presided over the growth of the movement: Walter Gropius, from 1919 to 1928, Hannes Meyer, from 1928 to 1930, and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, from 1930 to 1933. Founded ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Moderns

    Midcentury American Graphic Design

    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 covers; advertisements and package designs; posters; and other projects created the visual aesthetics of postwar modernity. Some were émigrés from ... Read more

    $22.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Design Management

    Managing Design Strategy, Process and Implementation

    by Kathryn Best ...
    Series series Required Reading Range
    Design management (the management of design strategies, processes and projects) is an intricate subject. As the role of design in the world continues to broaden, organisations are increasingly viewing design as being integral to their decision-making processes. Opening with a contextual overview of the subject, Design Management then explores the stages involved in the application of design to ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • Machining for Hobbyists

    Getting Started

    Machining for Hobbyists is for do-it-yourselfers and hobbyists who want to set up or expand a small machine shop in their garage, basement, shed or perhaps in a rented space. With their own shop, hobbyists can build models and undertake other building and maintenance projects that involve using different metals. Working in metal requires skills, knowledge, and equipment that are unlike other ... Read more

    $43.99 USD

  • Art and Design in Photoshop

    How to simulate just about anything from great works of art to urban graffiti

    by Steve Caplin ...
    Fancy designing your own classic and contemporary movie posters, books and magazine covers?Feel like turning your photographs into works by Turner, Matisse and Magritte?Want to create illustrations in the styles of The Simpsons, steampunk and Victorian engravings?Then you need Art and Design in Photoshop.In this unique book, acclaimed master of photomontage and visual trickery Steve Caplin shows ... Read more

    Was $54.99 USD Now $46.99 USD

  • The Design Experience

    The Role of Design and Designers in the Twenty-First Century

    How are we to understand the changing role of design and designers in the new age of consumer experience? Drawing on perspectives from cultural studies, design management, marketing, new product development and communications theory, The Design Experience explores the contexts, practices and roles of designers in today's world, providing an accessible introduction to the key issues reshaping ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Visualizing the Data City

    Social Media as a Source of Knowledge for Urban Planning and Management

    Series series Computer Science (R0)
    This book investigates novel methods and technologies for the collection, analysis and representation of real-time user-generated data at the urban scale in order to explore potential scenarios for more participatory design, planning and management processes. For this purpose, the authors present a set of experiments conducted in collaboration with urban stakeholders at various levels (including ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • Communication Design

    Insights from the Creative Industries

    Series series Required Reading Range
    The success of a piece of communication has always been dependent on the connection between content, form, audience and context – what the message is, who it's aimed at, what it looks like, and how and where it's communicated. In recent years the balance between these elements has shifted.This book bridges the gap between education and emerging practices to provide students and practitioners with ... Read more

    $33.99 USD