Steven Heller et Gail Anderson livrent ici une réjouissante sélection de compositions ludiques dans lesquelles le typographe se fait narrateur. S'inspirant des typo-collages Dada et de l'audace des futuristes, ils montrent comment les lettrages peuvent être utilisés comme forme graphique et pantomime pour exprimer un contenu, comme dans le rugissant « ROARRRRR » du célèbre Paul Rand. Dans les mains de créateurs contemporains, les caractères se changent en visages, animaux, en voitures ou avions.
Virtuellement, tout élément peut être utilisé pour créer de la typographie : la faune, la flore, les aliments, les objets... Une fois commencé, il est impossible de ne pas voir des lettres tout autour de nous. Célébrant un monde de typographie, The Typographic Universe présente plus de 300 exemples de formes de lettrages inhabituels. D'inventions volontaires à partir d'éléments existants, jusqu'à la découverte de formes purement naturelles, cette anthologie ravira tous les férus de capitales et de minuscules.
Nous avons sélectionné dans notre collection Illustration Now! ce panorama des illustrateurs actuels les plus marquants et reconnus, venus du monde entier. Dans son introduction, Steven Heller revient en détail sur l'exercice difficile qu'a été le choix de ces 100 artistes parmi plus de 600 noms. Ce montage final, qui présente des illustrateurs comme Istvan Banyai, Gary Baseman, Seymour Chwast, Paul Davis, Brad Holland, Mirko Ilic, Anita Kunz et Christoph Niemann, offre une vision instantanée du monde de l'illustration contemporaine dans sa diversité et son dynamisme.
Contient:
Un autoportrait de chaque illustrateur et des échantillons de leur travail.
Un portrait de chaque illustrateur par Steven Heller.
Une liste partielle et partiale de leurs expositions et publications.
Des citations des illustrateurs et illustratrices sur leur travail.
Dans cet ouvrage, Steven Heller présente une sélection de plus de 60 carnets de croquis et de travail de typographes et illustrateurs renommés. Parmi eux, Philippe Apeloig, Ed Benguiat, Hoefler Type Foundry, Henrik Kubel, Toshi Omagari et Francesco Zorzi. Pour une vue imprenable sur les coulisses des processus de création de typos, lettrages illustrés et logos.
Cette monographie de petit format rend hommage à un dessinateur américain culte, cofondateur du Push Pin studio avec Milton Glaser, typographe, auteur de caricatures, d'une trentaine de livres pour enfants et de quatre romans graphiques. Il doit sa célébrité à un humour décapant et à sa capacité de produire des jeux de mots visuels d'une éfficacité redoutable en quelques traits.
Merz to Emigré and Beyond is an historical survey of avant-garde cultural and political magazines and newspapers all the way from the early twentieth century to the present day. The book features a unique selection of international publications from Europe and the USA including Merz (1920s), View (1940s), East Village Other (1960s), Punk (1970s), Raw (1980s) and Emigré (1990s).
The design of these magazines, often raucous and undisciplined, was as ground breaking as the ideas they disseminated. Many were linked to controversial artistic, literary and political movements, such as Dada, Surrealism, Modernism, the New Left and Deconstruction. They contain the work of many leading experimental artists and designers of their time - from Kurt Schwitters and El Lissitzky in the 1920s and 30s, to Art Spiegelman and Rudy Vander Lans in the 1980s and 90s.
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. The reasons for such a charged emotion varies from individual to individual, but there are certain commonalities regarding form, function, outcome, and more. Design triggers something in all of us that may be solely aesthetic or decidedly content-driven, but in the final analysis, we are drawn to it through the heart.
This is a treasure trove of design inspiration for professionals, students, or anyone engaged in the visual industries.
Almost all books on design present the finished article. Rarely do we gain an insight into how visual solutions have been reached or the exploration, experimentation, and embryonic ideas behind them.
In this ambitious publication, some one hundred of the world's leading graphic designers and illustrators open up their private sketchbooks to offer a privileged glimpse into their creative process. The result is a visual tour de force.
Samples range from small, discrete typographical explorations to fully fledged illustration ideas, from a few scrappy scribbles and eccentric handwriting to photographic collages and other wacky forms of visual inspiration.
Concise and informative texts by the world authority on graphic design provide invaluable commentary on the artists' creative development, their design philosophies, sketchbooking techniques, and visual influences.
An illustrated history of propaganda art and design from Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, the USSR, and Communist China.
Design School is a richly illustrated, unprecedented anthology of over 50 of the most challenging class projects from design schools around the world. The projects range from basic typography to social responsibility. From printed matter to environmental extravaganzas, students are challenged to push the limits of form and content.
How do students learn to solve design problems? How do cultural differences impact the way design is taught? What do design students want from their class assignments? What do design teachers hope to impart? The answers can be found in this impressive compendium of choice projects from the likes of the University of Art and Design, Helsinki, Finland; Fabrica, Bologna Academy of Fine Arts, Italy; Arts Academy of Split, Croatia; School of Visual Arts, New York, United States; Berlin University of the Arts, Germany, and many more.
This book serves as an introduction to the key elements of good typographic design. Broken into sections covering the fundamentals of typography, the book features inspiring works by acclaimed typographic designers from across the world. Each section illustrates technical points and encourages readers to try out new ideas of their own.