Product Description: "Type lovers and history buffs alike will enjoy this gallery of vintage typefaces, ornaments, letterheads and trademarks."—ID Magazine Exquisite graphic design artifacts comprise this unusual collection culled from the pages of type and typography books dating from 1896 to 1936...read more

Product Description:   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...read more

A revision of the bestselling visual guide to becoming a graphic designerBecoming a Graphic Designer provides a comprehensive survey of the graphic design market, including complete coverage of print and electronic media and the evolving digital design disciplines that offer today's most sought-after jobs. Featuring 65 interviews with today's leading designers, this visual guide has more than 600 illustrations and covers everything from education and training, design specialties, and work settings to preparing an effective portfolio and finding a job. The book offers profiles of major industries and key design disciplines, including all-new coverage of careers in exhibition design and illustration.Steven Heller (New York, NY) is Art Director of the New York Times Book Review and cochair of the MFA/Design program at the School of Visual Arts. He is the author of over 80 books on design and popular culture. Teresa Fernandes (Greenwich, CT) is a publications designer and art director.

Product Description: “Pop culture is often maligned as fleeting, but history shows that sometimes what is pop in one culture has time-honored resonance in later ones. This book is an attempt to show that pop culture, especially as seen through the lenses of design, illustration, satiric and political art (and other things), is integral to a broader understanding of who we are and where we are going...read more

Product Description: Detailing one of the most important public graphic design initiatives in recent American history, this collection presents the finalists and medalists from the 2008 Chicago-based worldwide poster competition and exhibition, which was endorsed by the International Council of Graphic Design Associations (ICOGRADA)...read more

Product Description: First published in 1961 and out of print for more than forty years, visual design in -action is the summation of the influential graphic design theories and principles developed by Czech-born designer Ladislav Sutnar. A pioneering modernist in graphic design and typography, Sutnar brought his avant-garde design principles to the United States and became one of the most influential designers of the 1940s and 1950s...read more

Product Description: How motion design is taught in more than 45 leading programs * Detailed syllabi and descriptions of class projects and assignments * Go-to guide for professors and teachers planning their courses * Course plans from School of Visual Arts, Ohio State, Rochester Institute of Technology, many other top schools This definitive study of motion design is essential reading for everyone teaching or studying design...read more

Product Description: "Force[s] even the most sophisticated to rethink and rework their ideas of how images work in the world."--School Library Journal * Traces the history of the swastika, from religious symbol to reviled symbol * More than 175 illustrations * Powerful examination of the impact of one graphic symbol on society This acclaimed examination of the most powerful symbol ever created is now available in paperback...read more

Examines the history of the graphic image, including its beginnings in antiquity, pre-World War II religious and commercial uses, Nazi appropriation, and its place in popular culture as a racist icon. (view table of contents)

Hundreds of amazing, astounding, and obscure examples of old and classic typefaces from around the world are gathered in a definitive resource for choosing and using vintage type for maximum impact.

Product Description: From the author of the bestselling Becoming a Graphic Designer and the editor of Adobe Think Tank comes this clear overview of the field of digital designThis complete guide to the evolving digital design disciplines opens the door to today’s most sought-after job opportunities in Web, video, broadcast, game, and animation design...read more

Product Description: Window shopping In postwar America, everything pointed to a bright, shiny future. Sheer optimism and opulence informed everything from automobile design to architecture, infusing design with larger-than-life planes and curves. Storefront design of the era is particularly indicative of this phenomenon, incarnated here in an extensive collection of hand-illustrated shop window designs from 1938 to 1950...read more

Product Description: An iconic collection of design work presented in fresh and useful format.Designers are conceptual pack rats. They pack as much raw material in their brains as possible and then use that to build their own unique designs. The Anatomy of Design is what, in the butcher business, they call a "side of beef...read more

Product Description: The final installment in this acclaimed series offers astute and controversial discussions on contemporary graphic design from 2001 to 2005.  This collection of essays takes stock of the quality and profundity of graphic design writing published in professional and general interest design magazines, as well as on blogs and Internet journals...read more

An anthology of 150 of the world's most cutting-edge art, fashion, photography, architecture, and design periodicals currently in publication traces the evolution and future of magazines in the digital age, in a visual survey that features essays from such top industry thinkers as Steven Heller, Terry Jones, and Robert Sacks. Original.

Product Description: Teaching Illustration is a must-have for any college-level art instructor. Packed with a wealth of illustration course syllabi from leading art and design schools across the U.S. and Europe, it offers exciting ideas on topics from editorial illustration to animation, books, and the Internet...read more

Product Description: In an age of globalization and connectivity, the idea of "mainstream culture" has become quaint. Websites, magazines, books, and television have all honed in on ever-diversifying subcultures, hoping to carve out niche audiences that grow savvier and more narrowly sliced by the day...read more

Product Description: A chunky, distinctive object of brilliant design in and of itself, Stylepedia is the first handy, cross-referenced desk guide to the kaleidoscope that is modern design. In hundreds of illustrated entries, Heller and Fili, the award-winning authors of Euro Deco and numerous other popular design titles, survey the designers, schools, and movements that comprise the practice today as well as take a fascinating glimpse back at some of the seminal early leaders...read more

Product Description: • Ideal for art students at every level• Illuminating words about creating great images• Published in association with New York’s School of Visual ArtsWhat does it mean to become a photographer in the twenty-first century? This thoughtful collection of essays illuminates the spirit of the people who make the indelible images of our times...read more

Product Description: Steven Heller, destacado profesional en el campo gráfico, completa en "Nigel Holmes: Perfiles de la Comunicación Gráfica" las muchas entrevistas que se han hecho a Holmes en los últimos años. Han aparecido principalmente en revistas especializadas y todas las que conozco revelan la riqueza de ideas del entrevistado y su facilidad para expresarlas no solo con gráficos sino también con palabras...read more

Product Description: "A fun and varied collection of recent posters, books, ads, and other designed pieces that all employ type that is scrawled, scratched, stitched, or otherwise noodled."—Communication ArtsHand-drawn graphics mark a return to the creator's immediacy and craft...read more

Product Description: Born 1942 in England M.A. degree in illustration from the Royal College of Art, London, 1966. He worked for Time Magazine from 1978 to 1994 in New York City as Executive Art Director: charts, covers, administration and Graphics Director his work has appeared in important magazines and publications such as American Health; American Lawyer; Amicus Journal; Attaché (USAir magazine); Details; Discover; Business 2...read more

Product Description: With talented young Japanese players signing to the American Majors, interest in Japanese baseball is at an all-time high. Sayonara Home Run! introduces curious fans to Japan's national pastime through the lens of the country's playfully beautiful baseball cards...read more

Product Description: While it may be true that our annual celebration of love began as a pagan feast of the flesh in third century Rome, that shouldn't stop anyone from enjoying this charming collection of Valentine's Day ephemera. From cards to candy boxes, party favors to ads and more, these classic graphics celebrate the holiday of love during the period of 1900 to the 1960s...read more