1,000 Details in Fashion

September 2011 $40.00 £14.99 $21.99 CAN

A comprehensive catalogfor fashion illustratorsand students.

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ISBN: 978-1-59253-716-7

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1,000 Details in FashionMacarena San Martin

September 2011

All good designers are aware that thee details make the difference. This collection explores both the traditional—cuffs, pockets, darts, etc.—andthe more alternative details that fashion designers use to make their designs stand out on the runway and on the street.

1,000 Details in Fashion

September 2011

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Sketchbook

September 2011 $25.00 £16.99 $28.00 CAN

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A highly-personalexploration of the thoughtprocesses, preoccupations,and problem-solvingstrategies of influentialgraphic designers.

SketchbookConceptual Drawings from the World’s Most Influential Designers

Timothy O’Donnell

September 2011

ISBN: 978-1-59253-734-1(HC 978-1-59253-521-7)$25.00 US

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New in paperback, this book explores influential designers’ sketchbooksas a truer reflection of a designer’s thought processes, preoccupations, and problem-solving strategies than can be had by simply viewing finished projects. Highly personal and idiosyncratic, sketchbooks offer an arena for unstructured exploration, a space free from all budgetary and client constraints. Visually arresting objects in their own right, this book aims to elevate sketches from mere ephemera to important documents where the reader can glean valuable insight into the creative process, and apply it to their own practices.

Sketchbook

September 2011

Letterhead & Logo Design 12

September 2011 $45.00 £30.00 $49.99 CAN

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The newest mostinnovative designs forlogos and letterheads.

Letterhead and Logo Design 12Oxide Design Co.

September 2011

ISBN: 978-1-59253-717-4

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Oxide Design, Co. has collected and curated this latest collection ofstunning letterheads and logos for Letterhead and Logo Design 12.From logos to labels, business cards to envelopes, the creative techniques and full-color images portrayed in this broad range of work inspires new design solutions for age-old challenges that beg for a fresh approach. This invaluable resource contains hundreds of inspirational logos and letterheads that will leave a lasting impression that both designers and their clients will refer to again and again.

Letterhead & Logo Design 12

September 2011

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365 Habits of Successful Graphic Designers

September 2011 $40.00 £ 27.50 $44.00 CAN

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Create good habits—byfirst learning what theyare—with an uncensoredinsider view of graphicdesign.

365 Habits of Successful Graphic DesignersInsider Secrets from Top Designers on Working Smart and Staying Creative

Laurel Saville, Plazm, and Steve Gordon Jr.

September 2011

ISBN: 978-1-59253-737-2

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Opening this volume is like grabbing lunch with a fellow designer to commiserate, celebrate and learn. Good habits are found throughout the design process, from good self promotion, to working with the client, to achieving the desired results. 365 Habits of Successful Graphic Designers reveals solutions from a wide range of freelance designers whose years of experience have helped them find the most creative and successful solutions for their clients’ design needs. This book also focuses on daily habits that inspire these designers to stay creative and business strategies to be successful when working on your own.

365 Habits of Successful Graphic Designers

September 2011

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Inside the World of Board Graphics

September 2011 $35.00 £25.00 $39.00 CAN

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A stunning collectionof board graphics andthe insights into theircreation.

Inside the World of Board GraphicsSkate, Surf, Snow

Robynne Raye and Michael Strassburger

September 2011

ISBN: 978-1-59253-718-1

$35.00 US£25.00 UK$39.00 CAN

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Inside the World of Board Graphics takes an in-depth, comprehensivelook at the global nature and cultural influence of Surf/Skate/Snow board art and design. International design luminaries Art Chantry,Katrin Olina, and James Victore are placed along side industrysuper stars Terry Fitzgerald, Martin Worthington, Yoshihiko Kushimoto,and Rich Harbour (who has been shaping and designing surfboards since 1959). The book includes dozens of interviews and profiles from the people currently creating board art and design: Aaron Draplin,Emil Kozak, Morning Breath, Anthony Yankovic, Haroshi, andHannah Stouffer to name a few.

Inside the World of Board Graphics

September 2011

Logolounge 5

October 2011 $ 30.00 £ 20.00 $ 33.00 CAN

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2,000 never-before published logo designs by top graphic designers.

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LogoLounge 52,000 International Identities by Leading Designers

Bill Gardner and Catharine Fishel

October 2011

ISBN: 978-1-59253-735-8

$30.00 US£20.00 UK$33.00 CAN

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The fifth volume in the best-selling LogoLounge series brings together an exciting collection of 2,000 totally new logos from designers worldwide submitted to LogoLounge.com, the largest collection of logo designs in the world. The front of the book contains an inspiring series of articles, featuring top-notch design work from such world design leaders as Lippincott, Felix Sockwell, Fragile, Cato Purnell, Chermayeff & Geismar, Mattson Creative, Moving Brands, Origin Communications, and Hulsbosch. The second part of the book contains 2,000 logoslogically organized by category (typography, crests, people, mythology, nature, sports, and so on), plus additional articles on the latest work by Interbrand, Design Ranch, Von Glitschka, Landor and more.

Logolounge 5

October 2011

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Design Matters

October 2011 $ 40.00 £ 27.50 $ 44.00 CAN

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The nuts and bolts ofeffective brochure, logo,packaging, and portfoliodesign.

Design MattersAn Essential Primer for Today’s Designer

Capsule, Michelle Taute, and Maura Keller

October 2011

ISBN: 978-1-59253-738-9

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This compilation features the best of the Design Matters series, indispensable guides to design, in one handy volume. Design Matters focuses on developing, creating and implementing brochure designs, logo designs, packaging, and portfolios. The compendium includes all the essential information needed to execute strong designs in concert with beautiful and well-crafted examples, so that designers can successfully hit the markevery time.

Design Matters

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Deconstructing Product Design

October 2011 $ 25.00 £ 16.99 $ 28.00 CAN

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Never look at theseeveryday objects thesame way again.

Deconstructing Product DesignExploring the Form, Function, Usability, Sustainability,and Commercial Success of 100 Amazing Products

William Lidwell and Gerry Manacsa

October 2011

ISBN: 978-1-59253-739-6

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What makes a product successful? How it looks? The way it functions?Its ease of use? Or do factors like price and marketing dominate? In aquest to find answers to these questions, Deconstructing Product Design engages readers in a process of critically analyzing a diverse collection of 100 innovative products, from well-known classics to contemporary objects of desire. The goal is to support critical thinking about design, facilitate discovery of patterns of success (and failure) across products, and enable readers to apply lessons learned to their own design work. Experts from multiple design disciplines contribute commentary. Continue the deconstruction at www.deconstructingproductdesign.com.

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Deconstructing Product Design

October 2011

The Best of News Design 32

November 2011 $ 60.00 £ 40.00 $ 65.00

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The latest edition ofRockport’s highlypopular series.

The Best of News Design 32nd EditionThe Society for News Design

November 2011

ISBN: 978-1-59253-751-8

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The Best of News Design 32nd Edition, the latest edition in Rockport’s highly respected series, presents the winning entries from the Society for News Design’s 2011 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.

The Best of News Design 32

November 2011

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Visual Language for Designers

November 2011 $ 25.00 £ 16.99 $ 28.00 CAN

Learn how to effectivelyand accuratelycommunicate withimages.

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Visual Language for DesignersPrinciples for Creating Graphics that People Understand

Connie Malamed

November 2011

ISBN: 978-1-59253-741-9

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Within every picture is a hidden language that conveys a message,whether it is intended or not. This language is based on the ways peopleperceive and process visual information. By understanding visual languageas the interface between a graphic and a viewer, designers and illustratorscan learn to inform with accuracy and power. In a time of unprecedentedcompetition for audience attention and with an increasing demand forcomplex graphics, Visual Language for Designers explains how toachieve quick and effective communications. It presents ways to designfor the strengths of our innate mental capacities and to compensate forour cognitive limitations. Includes:—How to organize graphics for quickperception—How to direct the eyes to essential information—How touse visual shorthand for efficient communication—How to make abstractideas concrete—How to best express visual complexity—How to charge agraphic with energy and emotion

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Visual Language for Designers

November 2011

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Typography Essentials

November 2011 $ 25.00 £ 16.99 $ 28.00 CAN

100 type guidelines andrules for guaranteedgraphic design success.

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Typography Essentials100 Design Principles for Working with Type

Ina Saltz

November 2011

ISBN: 978-1-59253-740-2

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Typography Essentials is a practical, hands-on resource to distill,organize, and compartmentalize—but not to oversimplify—the manycomplex issues surrounding the effective us of typography. It is fordesigners of every medium in which type plays a major role.A deepunderstanding of letterforms and knowledge of the effective useof letterforms can only be obtained with constant observation andexperimentation; it evolves over a lifetime of design practice and study.This book is intended to advance the progress of designers seeking todeepen their typographic expertise; it is organized and designed to makethe process enjoyable and entertaining, as well as instructional. This bookis divided into four easy-to-use sections: The Letter, The Word, TheParagraph, and The Page. Each of the 100 principles has an explanationand examples representing the principle in action.

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Typography Essentials

November 2011

Design School Confidential

November 2011 $ 25.00 £ 16.99 $ 28.00 CAN

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Authored by StevenHeller and Lita Talarico, authorities on design education.

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Design School ConfidentialExtraordinary Class Projects from International Design Schools

Steven Heller and Lita Talarico

November 2011

ISBN: 978-1-59253-759-4

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Design School Confidential is a richly illustrated, unprecedentedanthology of over 50 of the most challenging class projects from designschools around the world. The projects range from basic typography tosocial responsibility. From printed matter to environmental extravaganzas,students are challenged to push the limits of form and content. How dostudents learn to solve design problems? How do cultural differencesimpact the way design is taught? What do design students want from theirclass assignments? What do design teachers hope to impart? The answers can be found in this impressive compendium of choice projects from the likes of the University of Art and Design, Helsinki, Finland; Fabrica, Bologna Academy of Fine Arts, Italy; Arts Academy of Split, Croatia; School of Visual Arts, New York, United States; Berlin University of the Arts, Germany, and many more.

Design School Confidential

November 2011

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Graphic Design, Referenced

New in Paperback

January 2012 $ 35.00 £ 25.00 $ 39.00 CAN

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Graphic Design, ReferencedA Visual Guide to the Language, Applications,and History of Graphic Design

Armin Vit and Bryony Gomez-Palacio

January 2012

ISBN: 978-1-59253-742-6

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Graphic Design, Referenced is a visual and informational guide to themost commonly referenced terms, historical moments, landmark projects,and influential practitioners in the field of graphic design. With morethan 2,000 design projects illustrating more than 400 entries, it providesan intense overview of the varied elements that make up the graphicdesign profession through a unique set of chapters: “principles” definesthe basic foundation of what constitutes graphic design; “knowledge”explores the most influential sources through which we learn aboutgraphic; “representatives” gathers the most prominent designers who havesteered the course of graphic design in one way or another; and “practice”highlights some of the most iconic work produced that serve as examplesof best practices and illustrate its potential lasting legacy.

Graphic Design, Referenced

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46th Publication Design Annual

January 2012 $ 60.00 £ 40.00 $ 65.00 CAN

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The authoritativecelebration of thepublication designcommunity.

46th Publication Design Annual/SPD 46Society of Publication Designers

January 2012

ISBN: 978-1-59253-750-1

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The best visual design work is about emotion as much as appearance.Powerful, brilliant pictures—presented in just the right layout—canmake us experience a whole range of emotions, from fear to attraction,anger to happiness. The Society of Publication Designers’ (SPD)annual competition seeks the very best in editorial design work. Judgedby a worldwide panel of top designers, the 46th edition of Rockport’sbest-selling SPD series celebrates the journalists, editorial directors,photographers, and other talented individuals who brought events of theyear 2010 to our doorsteps and computer screens. Stunning full-pagelayouts present everything from products to people, and objects to events,in ways that make each palpable and unforgettable. Featuring workpublished in a wide range of mediums and created by journalistic, design,and publishing talent from around the world.

46th Publication Design Annual

January 2012

The Graphic Designers Studio Companion

January 2012 $ 25.00 £ 16.99 $ 28.00 CAN

A visual reference forgraphic designerslooking for new ideas,starting points, andstrategies for their nextprojects.

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Graphic Designer’s Studio companionVisual Ingredients, Techniques, and Layout Strategiesfor Graphic Designers

Timothy Samara

January 2012

ISBN: 978-1-59253-743-3

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A good designer, like a good chef, is aware not only of how eachingredient is similar or different, but also which delivers one message incontrast to another, which will combine to create experiences that areharmonious or jarring, financial, medical, or industrial. By comparingthe designer to a chef, author Timothy Samara, walks readers throughthe ingredients, tools, and techniques it takes to create successful designrecipes. This book is broken into easy-to-follow sections, including basicdesign techniques, graphic ingredients, and projects recipes. The GraphicIngredients section is categorized into four groups: Pictorial Staples,Chromatic Flavors, Typographic Confections, and Spatial Presentations.Once the basic design techniques and ingredients are established, theauthor demonstrates how to concoct delectable design recipes. TheGraphic Designer’s Studio Companion is an inspirational resource thatall graphic designers should keep by their workspace for handy reference.

The Graphic Designers Studio Companion

January 2012