An effective signing and graphics system functions not as a separate entity but as an integral part of its environment. This highly illustrated handbook contains practical information needed to create a total signing and graphics system for any environment. It investigates ways to integrate signing into architecture and establishes guidelines for solving aesthetic and functional problems.
Keiichi Tanaami (born 1936) was a protagonist of Japan's postwar avant-garde, and one of the first Japanese artists to successfully blend art and commerce. Including collage, painting, silkscreen prints and animation, this volume constitutes a catalogue raisonné of Tanaami's early work of the 60s and 70s.
This publication brings together approximately 6,000 trademarks, focused on the period 1940–1980, to examine how modernist attitudes and imperatives gave birth to corporate identity.
This book the concept of modularity as a general principle of order in the universe and its application in various fields, including architecture, plastic arts, and music.
Craig explains traditional and modern production techniques and shows designers how to master these new technologies by understanding how they work.
This book collects the work of Saul Bass, who created some of the most compelling images of American postwar visual culture.
This book explores the paradoxical relationship between sound and silence: silence shapes what we hear, yet may never truly exist. Inspired by John Cage’s groundbreaking 4’33” (1952), this book brings together new essays, artworks, scores, and Cage’s own later variations, examining absence, perception, longing, and the limits of silence
In Stedelijk Architecture, which features photos by internationally renowned photographer Iwan Baan as well as floor plans, cross sections and details of the new Stedelijk Museum, architecture critic Hans Ibelings relates the museum’s history from the 1895 inauguration of the old building, designed by architect Adriaan Weissman,
Paul Rand's Thoughts on Design is considered by many to be the definitive manifesto of modern graphic design, articulating his vision that all design should seamlessly integrate form and function.
An extensive collection of work from leading graphic designers - including Grapus, Jacqueline S. Casey, Alan Fletcher, Morteza Momayez, Bruno Monguzzi and more.
A Following the release of the first seven volumes of Top Symbols and Trademarks, the editors returned to the project in 1977 with a series of four yearly annuals, 1977, 1978, 1979/80 & 1981/82. This is volume 9 looking at the year 1978.
Top Symbols & Trademarks of the World was the efforts of Franco Maria Ricci & Corinna Ferrari, and Italian publisher Deco Press. The series, published in 1973 was an unprecedented initiative to catalogue many of the finest examples of trademark design of the time. What marks this series out is both the format and the approach Ricci and Ferrari took. The first volume in the series looks at the United States.
Top Symbols & Trademarks of the World was the efforts of Franco Maria Ricci & Corinna Ferrari, and Italian publisher Deco Press. The series, published in 1973 was an unprecedented initiative to catalogue many of the finest examples of trademark design of the time. What marks this series out is both the format and the approach Ricci and Ferrari took. The second volume in the series looks at Canada.
Top Symbols & Trademarks of the World was the efforts of Franco Maria Ricci & Corinna Ferrari, and Italian publisher Deco Press. The series, published in 1973 was an unprecedented initiative to catalogue many of the finest examples of trademark design of the time. What marks this series out is both the format and the approach Ricci and Ferrari took. The third volume in the series looks at Japan, Spain and Latin America.
Top Symbols & Trademarks of the World was the efforts of Franco Maria Ricci & Corinna Ferrari, and Italian publisher Deco Press. The series, published in 1973 was an unprecedented initiative to catalogue many of the finest examples of trademark design of the time. What marks this series out is both the format and the approach Ricci and Ferrari took. The fourth volume in the series looks at Great Britain, Ireland and Benelux.
Top Symbols & Trademarks of the World was the efforts of Franco Maria Ricci & Corinna Ferrari, and Italian publisher Deco Press. The series, published in 1973 was an unprecedented initiative to catalogue many of the finest examples of trademark design of the time. What marks this series out is both the format and the approach Ricci and Ferrari took. The fourth volume in the series looks at France and Italy.
Top Symbols & Trademarks of the World was the efforts of Franco Maria Ricci & Corinna Ferrari, and Italian publisher Deco Press. The series, published in 1973 was an unprecedented initiative to catalogue many of the finest examples of trademark design of the time. What marks this series out is both the format and the approach Ricci and Ferrari took. The sixth volume in the series looks at Switzerland, West Germany and Austria.
Top Symbols & Trademarks of the World was the efforts of Franco Maria Ricci & Corinna Ferrari, and Italian publisher Deco Press. The series, published in 1973 was an unprecedented initiative to catalogue many of the finest examples of trademark design of the time. What marks this series out is both the format and the approach Ricci and Ferrari took. The sixth volume in the series looks at Scandinavia and Socialist Countries.
Following the release of the first seven volumes in 1973 the editors returned to the project in 1977 with a series of four yearly annuals.
Modern typography, established primarily in Switzerland during the 1950s, flourished as a free and diversified American typography in the 1960s before greatly influenced the Japanese typography. This book examines the history of typography after the war.
This book brings together Coco Capitán's recent notes, still tinged with irony and sometimes accompanied by sketches. Every day, she records her words, moods, questions, and impressions on a variety of surfaces, with an almost compulsive spontaneity. Caught in the moment or crafted as true poems, her aphorisms appear as well on a green-checked napkin as on the pristine page of a notebook.
This book contains research cinto the development of writing and the use of the broad pen by the medieval scribe, the theory and development of manuscript illustration, and the practical importance of lettering.