Product Description: The NBC peacock. Chase Bank's blue octagon. Mobil Oil's arresting red O. PBS's poetic silhouettes of "Everyman." Chermayeff & Geismar's visual identities are instantly recognizable by countless millions around the world (one identity--the official logo for the U...read more

Product Description: Signage and Wayfinding Design is a comprehensive and accessible resource that enables readers to apply a standard, proven design process to large and small projects in an efficient and systematic manner. Environmental graphic design is the development of a systematic, visually cohesive graphic communication system for a given site within the built environment...read more

Product Description: Words have the power to move. In 1962 a modest design studio created its own riff on that statement in the form of a small booklet of typographic brilliance, and changed forever how designers thought about the graphic potential of words...read more

Product Description: If design is about the communication of ideas, what is the starting point for their visual expression? designing:, a major new publication by New York-based Chermayeff & Geismar Inc., explores how one of America’s most respected and influential graphic and exhibition design firms thinks about, and solves, visual problems...read more

Product Description: The Illustrated Voice is the first book to examine and reveal, in great detail, the thinking process behind the creation of conceptual illustrations. Craig Frazier, its author, offers a unique perspective. He has had a 20-year career as an award-winning graphic designer, followed by a 7-year career as an internationally recognized illustrator...read more

Product Description: The NBC peacock, the PBS "everyman," the Chase Bank octagon, and hundreds of other outstanding trademarks have been created by one design firm, Chermayeff & Geismar Inc. Their logos and identity programs for high-profile corporations such as Mobil, Time Warner, Viacom, and Xerox, and for preeminent institutions such as the New York Public Library, Alvin Ailey Dance, the Smithsonian Institution, and the Museum of Modern Art, are instantly recognizable hallmarks of design...read more

Product Description: Stylish and concise, this volume presents the work of six venerable names in modern design history. Featuring more than three hundred examples of their best work, yet still eminently portable, Six Chapters in Design is a charming model of economy...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

An imaginative poem and illustrations combining photography and collage focus on the many holes of the everyday world, from button holes, to cheese holes, to key holes, and extra holes waiting to be discovered. By the author of Quiet, Please.

An easy-to-read text and vibrant collages introduce very young children to fifteen snakes, lizards, and alligators, ranging from the world's largest lizard to the trickster glass snake. By the author of Fishy Facts.

Fifteen birds, some familiar and some exotic--from the eight-foot ostrich to the two-inch hummingbird--make a fact-filled appearance in a simple text and paper-collage illustrations. By the author of Furry Facts.

A simple text and vibrant paper-collage illustrations introduce youngsters to the deep-sea lantern fish, the parrotfish, the goosefish, the electric eel, and eleven other intriguing fish.

Introduces, with simple text and vibrant paper-collage pictures, fifteen fascinating mammals, including a two-toed sloth sleeping, an anteater licking up ants, an aye-aye climbing a tree, and a three-ton rhinoceros chewing leaves.

A brief introduction to the history of Ellis Island includes photographs of exhibits from the immigration museum

Works from France's Musâee National des Arts et Traditions Populaires introduce seventeen shapes and the many ways they can be used and expressed by artists and craftsmen. Each shape is listed in English, French, Spanish, German, and Italian.

Thirteen simple words, including 'house,' 'cat,' and 'boat,' appear in English, French, German, Spanish, and Italian, illustrated by masterworks from five Paris museums.

Turned out by his father for learning nothing but the language of dogs, birds, and frogs, a young man uses these talents to good advantage and eventually is chosen to be Pope.

Lively graphics help young children learn about color and the effects of sunlight, moonlight, and darkness on our perception of colors