Timothy Samara Bücher

Hinter jeder Grafikdesign-Arbeit steht immer ein Prozess der Ideenfindung, Annäherung und Ausarbeitung von Lösungen, eine schrittweise Entstehung und Realisierung einzelner Bausteine. Genau dieserWeg wird in dem vorliegenden Band bis ins Detail beleuchtet: Beginnend bei der Strategie und dem Konzept, über erste Skizzen und Scribbels bis hin zum fertigen Layout und der anschließenden Produktion werden vierzig erfolgreiche Kommunikationslösungen aus allerWelt vorgestellt und somit ein Einblick in die Inspirationsquellen, Arbeitsweisen und Denkansätze Top-Kreativer gegeben. Für alle, die nicht nur Ideen finden, sondern dieWege zur Lösung verstehen möchten, ein unverzichtbarer Titel.

'Typografie ist Umweltschutz der Augen' so brachte es Kurt Weidemann einmal auf den Punkt – und sie zählt sicherlich zu den wesentlichen Gestaltungsfaktoren erfolgreichen Designs. Der Typo-Scout führt zielgerichtet durch die Welt der Schriften, erläutert Kombinationen sowie die richtige Farbwahl und unternimmt einen Streifzug durch die Geschichte der Typographie. Auf der Suche nach der richtigen Schrift wird der Designer nicht zuletzt durch die übersichtliche Gliederung in Zielgruppen, Konzepte, Stimmung und Kontext praxisnah unterstützt.

An essential text on developing form and style in type design. Includes a history of type and gallery of contemporary styles.

Making and Breaking the Grid: A Graphic Design Layout Workshop (Third Edition) is the ultimate resource for designers who want to understand the rules of the grid, so they can get better at breaking them.

Now in Paperback! Publication Design Workbook is packed with information regarding the ins and outs of publication design. The media featured includes magazines, literature systems, newsletters, exhibition catalogs, annual reports, newspapers, and retail catalogs. Both current and historical approaches are provided to give readers a complete background on design style, application, and techniques involved in creating effective publications. Readers will develop a clear understanding of publication design through a comprehensive and accessible workshop-style format. Fundamentals of form and content are included, along with diagrams to further textual understanding. This is the most complete book for designers on applied publication design principles combined with an awe-inspiring collection of the best work from around the world.

This updated version of Rockport's best-selling Design Elements covers all the design fundamentals, from working with grids, color application, typography, and imagery to finally how to put it all together.

For designers working in every medium, layout is arguably the most basic, and most important, element. Effective layout is essential to communication and enables the end user to not only be drawn in with an innovative design but to digest information easily. Making and Breaking the Grid is a comprehensive layout design workshop that assumes that in order to effectively break the rules of grid-based design, one must first understand those rules and see them applied to real-world projects. Basics include composing typographic space, format determination, and sequencing and systemization. Various types of grids a manuscript, column, modular, hierarchical a are also covered. Text reveals top designers' work in process and rationale. Projects with similar characteristics are linked through a simple notational system that encourages exploration and comparison of structure ideas. Each project is shown comprehensively so readers can see its structure revealed over several pages, at a size that allows for inspection of detail. Also included are historical overviews that summarize the development of layout concepts, both grid-based and non-grid based, in modern design practice.

This is a comprehensive manual outlining the broad areas of expertise that graphic designers must master featuring hundreds of tips and examples demonstrating the fundamental skills that contribute to successful design. It is the most compact and lucid handbook available describing basic design principles.

New 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 on type are either very technical or showcase oriented, this book offers ideas and inspiration through hundreds of real-life projects showing successful, well-crafted usage of type. The book also offers a variety of other content, including choosing fonts, sizes, and colors; incorporating text and illustrations; avoiding common mistakes in text usage; and teaching rules by which to live (and work) by.