Arts / Design

Analog In, Digital Out: Brendan Dawes on Interaction Design

de Brendan Dawes

Creativity is an innate human impulse, many people believe, something we're born with but too often "grow out of" as adult lives make more and more demands. Fortunately for us, the creative drive continues to...

MARKETS IN FASHION

de Patrik Aspers

Interest in contemporary cultural industries has grown in the past decade, as they take on a greater significance in our increasingly consumer-led society. Focusing on the world of fashion photography, this...

Designing for the Greater Good: The Best of Non-Profit and Cause-Related Marketing and Nonprofit Design

de Peleg Top & Jonathan Cleveland

This first-ever book of its kind, Designing for the Greater Good, features hundreds of illustrated examples of the best nonprofit and cause-related design worldwide, plus 24 inspiring case studies and insights...

The Creative Process Illustrated: How Advertising's Big Ideas Are Born

de W. Glenn Griffin & Deborah Morrison

FINALLY, ANSWERS TO THE QUESTION: HOW ARE BIG IDEAS BORN? Foreword by Sally Hogshead, author of Fascinate: Your 7 Triggers to Persuasion and Captivation

Creative directors, art directors and advertising copywriters...

Typography for the People

de Daniel Bellon & Klaus Bellon

Street + Art = Inspiration

Designers Daniel and Klaus Bellon have been photographing street signage around the world for more than 17 years. This book celebrates their love of typography, and highlights the beauty...

Mission-Critical and Safety-Critical Systems Handbook: Design and Development for Embedded Applications

de Kim Fowler

This handbook provides a consolidated, comprehensive information resource for engineers working with mission and safety critical systems. Principles, regulations, and processes common to all critical design...

Dreaming of Dior: Every Dress Tells a Story

de Charlotte Smith & Grant Cowan

Charlotte Smith had already had more than her fair share of fabulous dresses and adventures. She lived life to the fullest in London, Paris and New York before falling in love with Australia and making it her...

Home Swell Home: Designing Your Dream Pad

de Cynthia Rowley & Ilene Rosenzweig

Sex and the City meets Martha Stewart in this savvy and eclectic interior-design manifesto for high-flying chicks with nesting fantasies from the authors of the bestselling Swell: A Girl's Guide to the Good...

Swell Holiday: Turning Up the Twinkle

de Cynthia Rowley & Ilene Rosenzweig

Every day's a holiday in Swellville. But December is the swellest time of all.

Coauthors of the breakthrough style manuals, Swell: A Girl's Guide to the Good Life and Home Swell Home: Designing Your Dream Pad,...

The Creative Process Illustrated: How Advertising's Big Ideas Are Born

de W. Glenn Griffin & Deborah Morrison

Finally, answers to the question: How are big ideas born?

Creative directors, art directors and advertising copywriters are some of the great artists and thinkers of our time. Considering the scope and power...

Just Design: Socially Conscious Design for Critical Causes

de Christopher Simmons

For many, doing good work that also does good in the world is part of the ethos of design practice. Just Design celebrates and explores this increasingly critical aspect of design by showcasing a diverse collection...

iPad Design Lab - Basic: Storytelling in the Age of the Tablet

de Mario Garcia & Reed Reibstein

iPad Design Lab - Basic is about storytelling in today's world, as more and more people consume information using the iPad and other tablets. This guide is the first to analyze the way that consumers take in...

Identify: Basic Principles of Identity Design in the Iconic Trademarks of Chermayeff & Geismar

de Tom Geismar & Sagi Haviv

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...

Mail Me Art: Going Postal with the World's Best Illustrators and Designers

de Darren Di Lieto

Art on a Journey

It started with an idea Darren Di Lieto had: Challenge illustrators and designers to create works of art on packages, envelopes and postcards - then actually send them to him through the mail....

IdeaSelling: Successfully Pitch Your Creative Ideas to Bosses, Clients & other Decision Makers

de Sam Harrison

Don't let your creative ideas get picked apart and put down!

If you're like most creative people, chances are high that you've had your share of ideas rejected by clients or decision makers. While we sometimes...

Photo Idea Index - Things: Ideas and Inspiration for Creating Professional-Quality Images Using Standard Digital Equipment

de Jim Krause

Discover the things around you through the eye of your camera

Photo Idea Index: Things is a photography book unlike any other. Rather than focusing on the "how to" aspects of digital photography, author Jim Krause...

Mastering Type: The Essential Guide to Typography for Print and Web Design

de Denise Bosler

Good Design, Down to the Letter

Packages on store shelves, posters on building walls, pages of a website—all contain information that needs to be communicated. And at the heart of that communication is type:...

Success By Design: The Essential Business Reference for Designers

de David Sherwin

Want to make your design business a success? Start here.

Fellow Designer,

In your career you may have been like me: Trying to keep projects on the rails and clients happy. Digging through blogs for useful advice....

Archetypes in Branding: A Toolkit for Creatives and Strategists

de Margaret Hartwell & Joshua C. Chen

Archetypes in Branding: A Toolkit for Creatives and Strategists offers a highly participatory approach to brand development. Combined with a companion deck of sixty original archetype cards, this kit will give...

Decoding Design: Understanding and Using Symbols in Visual Communication

de Maggie Macnab

Understand the Significance of Symbols in Your Design Work

Our world is comprised of a handful of very simple patterns that have been a part of human design since the beginning of time and have eternal significance....