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Japanese Layout Design

Shan ben tu shu

Overwhelming amounts of information are available for readers and consumers in modern times, but how can it be made understandable, and given context and importance? The designers and creatives whose works are featured in Information Made Beautiful address these issues with projects that dont just make data easy to understand, but make it understanding it an appealing experience. Work from over 100 designers and studios features projects for clients such as Wired Italy, the Royal Mail, Money Today, Lionsgate Entertainment, Ronald McDonald House, and the UN, as well as universities, research facilities, and private clients. These pieces range from abstract to hands-on, and break down information ranging from status of female children in India and global water usage to coffee bean maps covering the amount of caffeine consumed in the US and crocheted diagrams of time spent crafting on German public transportation. The bright colors, eye-catching graphics, and specialty typographies of Information Made Beautiful make it easy to understand how designers are translating this new form of visual language to create information that is also inspiration.

Infographic Design

Information Made Beautiful

Japanese Color Matching

Graphic Design Japonais

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Effective visual communication is not an accidental occurrence, but the result of serious intention on the part the designer to balance all aspects of the design. This is often achieved through careful application of proportion based on certain guiding principles long in existence: the golden ratio, or divine proportion, and the Fibonacci sequence. Both mathematical constructs that mirror patterns found throughout nature, from leaves and shells to sunflowers and pinecones. Artists and designers have made use of these principles for centuries to create work with long lasting appeal, from renaissance paintings to modern logos. Following a practical overview, Visual Harmony presents a survey of contemporary graphic design that all exhibits this masterful use of proportion.

Proportion in Graphic Design

Visual Harmony

Despite critics' claims that technology has dealt a death-blow to the centuries old art form of book making, this volume proves that the bound book is indeed alive and well. A comprehensive guide to printed volumes, featuring not only finished projects but also the techniques and materials of book making, as well as definitions of the terminology.

Structure, Material and Technique

Art of the Book

Graphisme japonais

Nothing gives life to a design like color. It has the ability to instantly transform the look and feel of a graphic by appealing to our preferences and emotions. In printing, there are two main color systems that are used in producing color in print, CMYK and PMS. CMYK, or four color process, is a subtractive color model which works by masking colors on a light background. PMS, or Pantone Matching System, is used for producing spot colors accurately. Together they are able to achieve almost any desired effect through complementary systems. This book demystifies their use while providing a breathtaking display of color in print by some of the worlds most talented designers.

CMYK & PMS

Printing Colors in Graphic Design

Meet You at the Cafe presents some of the best cafe brands around the world with an illuminating history of both coffee and coffee shops. Today's cafes are the ultimate multi use facility, part social gathering place, part home office and study hall, they each have unique requirements based on the needs of their clientele. Perhaps first and foremost, a cafe must be a space that reflects customers' tastes and comfort level, but also quality goods and amenities.

Beautiful Coffee Brands & Shops

Meet You at the Cafe

Smart technology is rapidly changing the way we interact with the world through products. The trend for decades now has been towards ever smaller, better designed technology that is more focused on user experience and lifestyle. Most designs are now available in multiple colors or finishes, offer different features between models or are customizable to a customers needs. Smart Product Design looks at the latest innovations in smart home, health and wellbeing, sports and fitness, business, travel and more. Featuring almost 100 products with details and concept sketches as well as interviews with some of todays leading designers on their inspiration, concept design and philosophy, and how they balance aesthetics with functionality.

Smart Product Design

Type designers are fanatical, living, breathing and eating type as they strive to create fonts capable of withstanding the test of time. This new book aims to be the definitive resource for aspiring typographers, with profiles and interviews of ten internationally renowned typeface designers on the state of typography. While they work with different alphabets or characters Roman, Cyrillic and Chinese they share a common bond as they work to improve visual communication. Also included is a showcase of contemporary applications: Typeface in Branding, Artistic Type and The Rhythm of Typeface along with Typeface in the Digital Age and The Commercial Designers Typeface Handbook. Whats your type?

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