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For many, Made in Japan is synonymous with quality the perfect marriage of aesthetic appeal and functionality. The intentions of the designer can be found in the slightest detail, but none are overworked, preferring spare elegance to busy excess. Mixing traditional art and philosophy with contemporary design to create a material and visual culture that blends seamlessly into their lives at home. With this strong national identity and focus on design, it is no wonder their creative output is admired and imitated throughout the world. Made in Japan highlights more than 40 creatives from different fields who exemplify this design character through their work in graphic design and branding, illustration, packaging, fashion, product and spatial design.

Awe-inspiring Graphics from Japan Today

Made in Japan

The business world today is ever-evolving and filled with challenges more complex than they used to be. For a brand to take off or thrive in this digital age, it must find meaningful ways to stand out and resonate when it comes to communicating its core messages or content across multiple platforms. To this end, custom typefaces have become an increasingly common means for forward-thinking brands to establish and further strengthen their visual identities. By expressing its unique personality or supporting a campaign effectively, these typefaces go beyond aesthetics and achieving marketing objectives to build value for the brand over the long term. Type for Type collates some of the best custom typography work around the world that demonstrates both creative and commercial ingenuity, with insights into key processes and techniques to inspire both designers and clients alike.

Custom Typeface Solutions for Modern Visual Identities

Type for Type

With the amount of progress the world has made in attitudes and achievements to-date, the time cannot be more apt than now for a celebration of women in the creative industry today. DESIGN(H)ERS is a stunning showcase of 30 female talents spanning across a variety of design mediums to highlight the diversity that women bring to their respective fields. With insightful interviews revolving around the thoughts and stories of pioneers who have already made their mark, this book serves to inspire and encourage the creatives of the future.

A Celebration of Women in Design Today

Design(h)ers

"I Love ... Regular, Bold, Condensed, Extended and everything in between." shows you a glimpse of the future of typographic design. On the 16th of September 2016, Adobe, Google, Apple and Microsoft announced a new update to the OpenType specification, allowing fonts to be variable. Even though the technology is not yet fully implemented, the idea of variable typographic design seems to be already an unstoppable force in contemporary graphic design. Variable typography allows to use a wide range of styles. It has extreme condensed, extended, light or heavy weights and interpolates everything in between. The designers modify existing typefaces or create new ones. They experiment with any imaginable combinations of styles. Even though the variable font technology might not even be used, the typography of our time is already variable. The question that remains is, will weights such as regular, bold, condensed and extended continue to exists or will fonts be completely variable. This book wants to explore this question and capture the excitingly eclectic world of typography. The golden age of typography is now.

The Future of Type

On the Road to Variable

As much as skills and styles matter when it comes to design, every visual begins with a fundamental element that can be enhanced or expanded into an aesthetically pleasing and meaningful piece of work. Whether they serve as simple points of focus or building blocks for complex patterns, these elements present countless possibilities when combined with purpose and principles like contrast, balance, rhythm, and white space. Going back to basics, DOT, LINE, SHAPE is a comprehensive collection of projects that manifest the three elements in inspiring and ingenious ways to bring unique creative visions to life. No matter how trends or platforms change over time, they serve as timeless components that provide designers and artists around the world with infinite means of expression to make a lasting impact.

The Basic Elements of Design

Dot, Line, Shape

A New Approach to Signage and Wayfinding

You Are Here 2

The world today can be an infinitely better place. With the increasing amount of issues affecting us as a whole in recent years, such as the global health crises, environmental destruction, and socioeconomic disparities, the onus is on each and every one of us to do everything we can for the generations to come. Design has been -- and will always be -- our crucial tool in this regard. Whether it be through campaigns that rally for action, posters that raise awareness, or products that actually change bad habits, designers combine creativity, craft, and compelling visuals to materialize concepts that can effectively transform the way we live. Good by Design collates the best projects and insights to inspire not only those who wish to do good, but also hope for all in a better tomorrow.

Ideas for a Better World

Good by Design

We seek inspiration in nature. The giver of life, it displays complex lines interwoven with each other, comfortable colour palettes, or atmospheres that set distinct moods. Illustration, on the other hand, is a timeless and layered artform that never fails to be striking and full of character. When nature meets illustration, a powerful dynamic is created. Flora & Fauna explores how nature-themed illustration is incorporated into branding and identities. Featuring project types such as branding, packaging, print ads, art pieces and stationary design, groovy plants dominate a diverse mix of illustration-based work made with special production techniques and discrete styles.

Design with a Tribute to Nature

Flora and Fauna

The colourful world of figurines may often be associated with anime fans, movie buffs, and hobbyists, but there is a growing section of graphic designers who are making their mark as creator-collectors. Figure It Out turns the spotlight on the talented creatives who apply their artistry beyond two-dimensional surfaces onto unique collectibles that blur the line between toy and art. Featuring a wide curation of projects, behind-the-scene snippets, interviews as well as insights into the materials and processes involved, it takes a closer look at a rising trend in design and pop culture where the only limit is one's imagination.

Designer Toys and Their Makers

Figure It Out

From scrolls and sheets of papyrus to elaborate and expensive codices to the mass press-printed volumes as we know them today, books have come a long way since writing was first developed. Although digital technology has impacted how we consume information over the last few decades, book design has survived as a means of showcasing creativity and craftsmanship, as books remain important sources of inspiration, knowledge, and entertainment. A Book on Books showcases some of the best book design work from all over the world in celebrating the designers' contributions to preserving reading culture, as they continue to make books eye-catching and exciting to read or own. It also captures the voices of key influencers from publishing, printmaking, book fair organizing, and bookshop-owning standpoints, as they continue to play a crucial role in keeping the book-making industry alive and thriving even in the unknown future.

A Celebration of Book Design Today

A Book on Books

Black and White

Palette Mini Series 01 : Black and White

Transparencies in Design

Palette Mini Series 06 : Transparent

Design Inspired by Folklore and Traditional Craft

New Folk Art

Print Work: Capture the Best Publication and Promotion

Visual Greeting from Business Cards

Nice to Meet You

Integrated Brand Systems in Graphics and Space

BrandLife : Cafes and Coffeehouses

The best-selling PALETTE colour-themed series remains one of the most successful and sought-after references for designers around the world. Its first three editions - Black & White (Vol. 1), Multicolour (Vol. 2) and Gold & Silver (Vol. 3) - form the basis of a classic collection that continues to be relevant and reliable through the variety of compelling concepts and visuals featured; in-demand even though they are no longer in print. In keeping with the ever-changing demands of creative practitioners today without losing the essence of the original series, these three fan favourites will now be re-edited with the latest works, and made more accessible under the PALETTE Mini series, with future releases of editions 04 - 08 to follow. Redesigned rather than reprinted for easier and more efficient reading and collecting, PALETTE Minis will be packed with style and substance like their predecessors; serving as the intriguing, instrumental, and timeless sources of inspiration that they have always been. Colours have the ability to elicit a broad range of emotions and responses; forming a powerful and accessible language that can transcend all sorts of communication barriers. Multicolour (Vol. 2) takes a look at some of the best creative solutions around the world that feature multiple hues to engage viewers and evoke distinct sensations.

Palette Mini Series 02: Multicolour

PALETTE -- viction:ary's best-selling colour-themed series -- has been one of the most sought-after references for designers around the world. In keeping up with the needs of digital-savvy creative practitioners today, the PALETTE mini series was launched at the end of 2019. Each mini edition is a redesigned version of its original with flip-friendly postcard-sized pages for convenience and includes new work for fresh inspiration. Following the first 4 titles under the series (Black & White, Multicolour, Gold & Silver, Neon), PALETTE mini 05: Pastel contains thoughtful design solutions and visual experiments that inspire with the variety of creative ways that the typically soft and soothing colour range can be featured - whether it is used as a single hue, a palette, or juxtaposed with contrasting tones.

New Light-Toned Graphics

Palette Mini 05: Pastel

We all experience a sense of wonder examining the swirl and sheen of mother of pearl or gazing at the chromatic luster on an oil or gasoline spill. These natural visual effects create tremendous color displays through the fluid interaction of surface properties with reflected light. Todays designers are able to mimic these effects like never before, employing both traditional and new, state-of-the-art production techniques. The new volume in the bestselling Palette series examines this extreme iridescence as applied to print, architecture, installations, fashion and more. From matte to glossy, metallic to transparent, the incredible versatility of expression is sure to endure, heralding a new age of holographic representation and innovation.

Holographics in Design

Iridescent

This is a sharp, smart look at the vanguard work in branding across the globe. Here logos, letterheads and correspondence designs effectively capture the aesthetics of the products and entities they represent. The designers behind each of the 97 featured brands convey their clients' corporate identity through stationery with deliberation and concision and demonstrate how ephemeral concepts surrounding a brand can be made concrete utilising as unlikely a toolkit as the office stationary cupboard.

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