"Seven design categories are examined, including work for new clients, good causes, wide open briefs, repeat business, low budget jobs, collaborations, and working to short deadlines. The book compares 'like with like' by lining up seven projects, one from each category, by each of the seven featured designers."--Cover p. [4].

Area_2is the second volume in the graphics version of Phaidon's award-winning series of curated compendiums, which includes Cream, Fresh Cream, Blink, 10x10, 10x10_2, and Spoon. Covering all manifestations of printed graphics created by the world's most visionary designers, Area_2 presents the posters, books, magazines, typography, packaging, and ephemera that has influenced visual culture over the past five years.

"We eat with our eyes. People love to stage and take photos of their food. Driven by Instagram and the advertising industry, bloggers, stylists, and photographers continually invent new ways of presenting food as both delectable and radical. Visual Feast presents work from this growing field. Sharing photos of food has become entrenched in our daily lives. Scintillating captures of coffee. Maps made from vegetables. The aesthetic aftermath of mealtime. These images can be readily found on social media, in magazine editorials, or transformed into infographics. Visual Feast reveals a world where food is a work of art and an edible eccentricity. It is a rich visual journey through nourishment, art form, and creative medium. Food photographers and stylists create innovative images that make mouths water, eyes widen, and nostrils inhale imagined scents. Quenching creative curiosities and satisfying even the keenest of artistic palettes, Visual Feast is a tome of inspiration for foodies, food bloggers, and discerning food stylists." -- Provided by publisher.

Venture behind the scenes of the making of Star Wars, revenge of the Sith.

The Netherlands at the forefront of design! Everybody is a designer! But why? Why do we colour, organize, and form the world around us - and why do we call that a profession? In this book, Thonik, an Amsterdam-based studio led by lauded designers Nikki Gonnissen and Thomas Widdershoven, researches eleven personal reasons why they design - from the need to create impact to a constant search for independence; from the benefits of systems to the urgency of play. Why We Design looks back on twenty-five years of design practice and speculates on the future of graphic design. SELLING POINTS: * Thonik's collection of works from the past 25 years * The Amsterdam-based studio discusses their past, present, and future need to design.

Organized by the Hong Kong Designers Association (HKDA), the HKDA Awards has been the biggest and most important professional design competition in Hong Kong and Asia for the last 34 years. It is a comprehensive, multi-disciplinary design competition for professionals working in the fields of graphics, product design, spatial and new media. The awards originated in Hong Kong in 1975 and are presided over by a judging panel of globally respected design icons. HKDA Awards 07 received more than 1,700 entries from over 30 different countries including Mainland China, Japan, Australia, Malaysia, Singapore, South Korea, Taipei and Hong Kong. Design Awards 09's focus is on how design enhances and affects our quality of life and how it adds value to the business world. This superbly reproduced volume is a must have reference tool for graphic and product designers, illustrators, marketers and creative directors.

A successful visual brand identity is more than a logo and a dynamic palette. While a minimalistic approach ensures a straightforward brand image, the new generation of designers sees greater potential in creating brand identities with original paintings, handmade drawings and collage art. This fresh direction is forging strong and endearing brands, and is especially effective in todays overcrowded market. Illustrative Branding investigates close to 100 firms both large and small from around to the world to look at how designers capitalize on the power of illustration to portray memorable brand stories. Specific case studies highlight sizeable brand campaigns that cover everything from corporate stationary to environmental settings.