Kees Dorst
Understanding Design
What does it mean to be a designer and what does it take to be a good designer? Understanding Design stimulates designers to think about what they do, how they do it and why they aim for a certain effect.
Bas Ruyssenaars
European Business Design
The book is organised around twelve business challenges that companies are currently facing in their local and international environments. The solutions relate to many fields of product design, from branding, packaging and graphic design to new media and 3D design. The case studies are from agencies in Scandinavia, Ireland, the UK, the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany and France.
Aaaeloes van Gaalen
Never Use White Type on a Black Background
The world of fashion and design is inundated with a seemingly endless list of rules. Think of “Less is More,” “Form Follows Function,” “Keep it Simple,” “Dress Your Age,” and the list goes on and on. They’re familiar sayings that some designers consider to be valuable words of wisdom, which serve as a guiding line and source of inspiration. To others, these rules are mere restrictions: design dogmas and fashion formulae that need to be bended, twisted or broken altogether.
Marc-A Valli og Richard Brereton
Graphic HA HA
Humour is a powerful tool in visual communication. Graphic 11, or Graphic Ha Ha, will explore the various ways in which images and words can combine (or not combine) to make us chuckle, shrink, shrug, smirk and, occasionally, laugh out loud. Dead-pan, sarcasm, slap-stick, absurd, clever, devious, surreal, hysterical, obscure, twisted, sick, camp, offensive, ridicule...
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