Product Description: - An ideal core text for research modules within visual arts degrees with more than 200 vibrant colour illustrations that bring the subject to life. - Twelve inspirational student case studies put the ideas discussed into a real-world context...read more

Product Description: Explains the key terms and theories that underlie design research; examining the importance of audience, communication theory, semiotics and semantics. Features a range of case studies which demonstrate how the use of rigorous research methods can form the basis of effective visual communication and design problem solving, eschewing end product analysis for a discussion of the way research feeds into the design process...read more

Product Description: With global brands like Nike, Adidas and Virgin Cola using illustration in their campaign designs, creatives who can incorporate original illustration in their work have the potential for great commercial success. Experimental illustration equips the professional designer with the tools, both traditional and high-tech to do this...read more

Product Description: Examining graphic design's purest form of expression, the poster, this title looks at a wide range of posters from around the world, by internationally renowned designers, including Stefan Sagmeister, Alain Le Quernec, David Tartakover and Koji Mizutani...read more

Product Description: This is a study of contemporary experimental approaches to layout - the essence of graphic design. At the heart of Experimental Layout is the sheer breadth of the discipline of graphic design, its adjustments and accommodation, the innovators and their idiosyncrasies...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Ian Noble here proposes a fresh analysis of Celine's writing which critically examines and brings together the different parts of this traditional image of Celine. New light is thrown on the place of Celine's novels within the history of the genre and close analysis of a carefully selected cross-section of his novels, drawing on modern critical methods of textual analysis, shows how their use of language and their structure radically question the assumptions of the realist novel in terms of narrative, representation and the identity of the writing subject...read more