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Inside the Painter's Studio'Inspiration is for amateurs. The rest of us just show up and get to work.'—Chuck Close Inside an art gallery, it is easy to forget that the paintings there are the end products of a process involving not only creative inspiration, but also plenty of physical and logistical details. It is these 'cruder,' more mundane aspects of a painter's daily routine that motivated Brooklyn artist Joe Fig to embark almost ten years ago on a highly unorthodox, multilayered exploration of the working life of... |
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Typography Workbook: A Real-World Guide to Using Type in Graphic DesignNew in paperback, The Typography Workbook provides an at-a-glance reference book for designers on all aspects of type.The book is part of Rockport's popular Workbook series of practical and inspirational workbooks that cover all the fundamental areas of the graphic design business. This book presents an abundance of information on type - the cornerstone of graphic design - succinctly and to the point, so that designers can get the information they need quickly and easily.Whereas many other books... |
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The Marvel Vault: A Museum-in-a-Book with Rare Collectibles from the World of MarvelThe Marvel Vault brings the Universe to you, sharing the insider's story of Marvel Comics from 1939 to the present. Chock-full of historic and never-before-seen memorabilia (think: early sketches of Sub-Mariner and the Human Torch, Bullpen birthday cards, and a membership certificate for the Merry Marvel Marching Society), this vibrant chronicle contains over 30 plastic-encased archival gems that you can hold in your hand while reading about the artists, writers, and heroes who make up the Marve... |
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Meggs' History of Graphic DesignNow in its Fourth Edition, this unrivaled, seminal work continues its long tradition of providing balanced insight and thorough historical background. Under the new authorial leadership of Alston Purvis, this authoritative book offers more than 450 new images, along with expansive coverage of such topics as Italian, Russian, and Dutch design. It reveals a saga of creative innovators, breakthrough technologies, and important design innovations.... |
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Naive: Modernism and Folklore in Contemporary Graphic DesignNaïve documents the return of classical graphic design reminiscent of the 1940s to 1960s in contemporarygraphic design. The naive is a childlikeness, where it is no longer expected. Friedrich vonSchillerA minimalist design vocabulary is currently being reinvented by a troop of younggraphic designers who are rediscovering the stylistic elements reminiscent ofclassic graphic design such as silkscreen printing, classical typography, handlettering, woodcutting and folk art and integrating them in... |
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Store Front: The Disappearing Face of New YorkThis is a visual tour so saturated with realism you can smell the knishes neatly displayed in the window of the Yonah Schimmel Knish Bakery, a visual tour comprised of hundreds of images of unique 19th and 20th century retail graphics and neon signs still in use and inspiring us to purchase to this very day. But for how long?Are New York City s local merchants a dying breed or an enduring group of diehards hell bent on retaining the traditions of a glorious past? According to Jim and Karla Murra... |
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Sagmeister: Made You LookJust as film, art, music, and literature have the power to move people, Stefan Sagmeister's innovative work shows that graphic design, too, can cut to the emotional quick. His desire is to transform stale thinking, and Sagmeister: Made You Look does just that.Compelling, honest, and intensely personal, Made You Look covers 20 years of Sagmeister's graphic design. With a text by design historian Peter Hall and annotated with Sagmeister's own writing, the book features images from the studio archi... |
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Illusive: Contemporary Illustration Part 3Even more cutting-edge illustration talents scouted from around the world and indexed into the definitivereference for contemporary illustration. Over the past four years, Illusive and Illusive 2 have documented the flourishingdiscipline of illustration and established its expressive, poetic and esteemedvoice in contemporary visual culture. They introduced world-class illustrators ofthe time as well as discovering fresh talent still yet to be found by the mainstream.The third volume of the serie... |
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Papercraft: Design and Art With PaperAn unparalleled collection of groundbreaking creations crafted from paper as a material for innovativeart and design.Paper is arguably the most important material of our civilisation and has continuedto serve as a medium for documenting information and ideas. Today, paper isenjoying something of a renaissance among young artists and designers worldwideas an experimental material for design. There is also an insatiable concurrenttrend for designing three-dimensional handcrafted objects as documen... |
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