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In need of advice? Just want to sound off? Opening this volume is like grabbing lunch with a fellow designer to commiserate or celebrate and to learn the ins and outs of design. Good habits are found in every part of the design process, from promoting yourself well in order to land the client, to working with that client, to achieving the desired results on press. 365 Habits of Successful Graphic Designers reveals solutions from a wide range of freelance...
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No estaba todo dicho sobre diseño. Lo parece, porque hace tiempo que se encuentra en vía muerta.
Pero el diseño está maduro. Tiene una hoja de servicios ejemplar con cinco siglos de historia y es un pilar fundamental de la cultura visual. Y tiene ante sí una gran perspectiva abierta y apasionante.
El futuro está en la ciencia, la cultura, la educación y la solidaridad para una sociedad que aspira al conocimiento.
La pandemia y la Naturaleza,...
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I Heart Design is a collection of "favorite" designs as selected by 80 prominent graphic designers, typographers, teachers, scholars, writers and design impresarios. Designers have preferences, like modern over postmodern, serif over sans serif, decorative over minimal, but designers could not be engaged in design practice if they did not love design. The reasons for such a charged emotion varies from individual to individual, but there are certain...
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Convertida ya en un clásico en su tema, esta obra de Norberto Chaves provee de los instrumentos teóricos y formaliza los procesos prácticos de la dirección estratégica de programas de identidad corporativa.
Esta nueva edición, revisada y ampliada, sigue siendo una aportación valiosísima a la bibliografía profesional sobre diseño y una saludable clarificación a lo que se debe entender por imagen corporativa. Suministra la visión y los...
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Technology has sent shockwaves of change through the world of commercial art. Digital illustration and design, online portfolio sites, and the proliferation of stock art have radically changed the way that illustrators and graphic designers work. What has not changed, however, is the wealth of illustrators and graphic designers hoping to turn their talent into freelance success. More than ever, artists face questions such as how to get started, how...
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For anyone trying to communicate in a new language, one has to first gain a complete understanding of its fundamentals; the ABC's of that language-definitions, functions, and usage. The Language of Graphic Design provides graphic design students and practitioners with an in-depth understanding of the fundamental elements and principles of their language-graphic design-what they are, why they are important, and how to use them effectively. Organized...
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This comprehensive reference provides a thorough and critical presentation of 100 research methods, synthesis/analysis techniques, and research deliverables for human centered design, delivered in a concise and accessible format perfect for designers, educators, and students. Whether research is already an integral part of a practice or curriculum, or whether it has been unfortunately avoided due to perceived limitations of time, knowledge, or resources,...
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This unique, go-to guide for designers fully details the essential layout and design skills needed to succeed in this competitive industry. With fun and practical application, it offers valuable insight into strategy and business when working in the real world with real clients, starting with basic information on layout principles before delving more deeply into theory and application on a project-by-project basis. Illustrated with real-world assignments...
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Graphic Design Theory is organized in three sections: "Creating the Field" traces the evolution of graphic design over the course of the early 1900s, including influential avant-garde ideas of futurism, constructivism, and the Bauhaus, "Building on Success" covers the mid- to late twentieth century and considers the International Style, modernism, and postmodernism, and "Mapping the Future" opens at the end of the last century and includes current...
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Esquire. Ford Motors. Burton Snowboards. The Obama Administration. While all of these brands are vastly different, they share at least one thing in common: a teeny, little bit of Aaron James Draplin. Draplin is one of the new school of influential graphic designers who combine the power of design, social media, entrepreneurship, and DIY aesthetic to create a successful business and way of life.
Pretty Much Everything is a mid-career survey of work,...
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This priceless teaching tool features more than 70 proven-effective programs from the country's leading graphic design schools. Spanning from traditional, "bricks and mortar" approaches to the ever-widening digital frontier of graphic design, these syllabi include detailed introductions, weekly breakdowns, project suggestions, and selected readings, as well as offer valued background material on the history, social responsibility, and cultural impact...
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Our bestselling introduction to graphic design is now available in a revised and updated edition. In Graphic Design: The New Basics, bestselling author Ellen Lupton (Thinking with Type, Type on Screen) and design educator Jennifer Cole Phillips explain the key concepts of visual language that inform any work of design, from logo or letterhead to a complex website. Through visual demonstrations and concise commentary, students and professionals explore...
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El libro es una recopilación de textos relacionados con diversos problemas sociales en torno al diseño. Enfatiza las distintas dimensiones sociales que atraviesa: crea empatía a partir del enfoque del diseño para todos, permite acortar la brecha de género y muestra los contextos socioculturales que permiten un correcto ejercicio del diseño.
14) Dear Data
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Equal parts mail art, data visualization, and affectionate correspondence, Dear Data celebrates "the infinitesimal, incomplete, imperfect, yet exquisitely human details of life," in the words of Maria Popova (Brain Pickings), who introduces this charming and graphically powerful book. For one year, Giorgia Lupi, an Italian living in New York, and Stefanie Posavec, an American in London, mapped the particulars of their daily lives as a series of hand-drawn...
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Las pinturas callejeras de imágenes bidimensionales que crean efectos ilusorios y se perciben como objetos corpóreos que parecen elevarse en el aire están de moda, sobre todo gracias a Internet. Estas creaciones, que resultan atractivas y curiosas, son fruto de la aplicación de una técnica de geometría proyectiva, explorada desde el Renacimiento y utilizada por grandes maestros de la pintura. La anamorfosis es una técnica geométrica ligada...
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The most famous artistic compilation ever made of the great age of the poster, featuring works by nearly 100 artists, among them Cheret, Toulouse-Lautrec, Bonnard, Mucha, Beardsley, Parrish, Grasset, Penfield, Steinlen, many more. Full color, large format, one poster per page, extensive documentation.
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Cuando leemos imágenes, nuestra mente pone en marcha un proceso completamente distinto al de la lectura de un texto. Para extraer el significado de un mensaje escrito, el cerebro se apoya en el examen secuencial, avanza linealmente y construye el sentido del texto a partir de una suma progresiva de los elementos que lo integran: letras, palabras, frases y párrafos. Para entender una imagen, sin embargo, el cerebro trabaja de un modo muy distinto....
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DON'T use comic sans (except ironically!) but DO worship the classic typefaces like Helvetica and Garamond. Graphic Design Rules is a handy guide for professional graphic designers, students, and laymen who incorporate graphic design into their job or small business. Packed with practical advice, this spirited collection of design dos and don'ts takes readers through 365 rules like knowing when to use a modular grid-and when to throw the grid out...
19) Abstract City
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In July 2008, illustrator and designer Christoph Niemann began Abstract City, a visual blog for the New York Times. His posts were inspired by the desire to re-create simple and everyday observations and stories from his own life that everyone could relate to. In Niemann's hands, mundane experiences such as riding the subway or trying to get a good night's sleep were transformed into delightful flights of visual fancy. The struggle to keep up with...
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What would you do or make if you had an unlimited budget, a visionary client, and complete control? We all dream of high-paying, high-profile jobs and crave for more creativity in our work. Lust is a peek into what is possible when designers are allowed to pursue this dream. Lust is a documentary of unrealized projects and a traveling report of creativity from around the world; a handmade sketchbook zig-zagging across six continents, gathering steam...
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