Proving that standards-compliant design does not equal dull design, this work uses examples from the landmark CSS Zen Garden site as the foundation for discussions on how to create progressive CSS-based Web sites. It uses the Zen Garden sites as examples of how CSS design techniques and approaches can be applied to specific Web challenges.

A look at the history, meaning, and art of comics and cartooning. Using comics to examine the medium itself, the author takes the form of a cartoon character and explains the structure, meaning, and appeal of comics, and provides a running analysis of comics as art, literature, and communication.

Reveals how common symbols resonate at a gut level. This title helps to discover deconstructions of famous logos and examples of a variety of different designs that use symbols, patterns and shapes to convey greater meaning.

Design Brief.

Contains projects that began as a list that the author found in his diary under the title 'Things I have learned in my life so far'. This collection is part design project, part work of art, part examination of the pursuit of happiness.

This title examines the birth, development and evolution of graphic art from its beginnings in late 19th-century Europe until the Information Age over 100 years later.

Features fifty examples of graphic design. This selection includes various kinds of design work including posters, book and record covers, packages, catalogue covers and many more. Each exhibit is selected based on its ubiquity, thematic import and aesthetic significance.

From Antiquity to the Present. A comprehensive, award-winning study of how visual communication has shaped our perception of the world throughout the ages.

Presents a collection of visual games, doodles, graphic objects, sketches and quotations, and demonstrates how images can often convey meaning more clearly than text. This work explores the potential that words have to become pictures, and that drawings have to convey meanings, as well as a collection of ephemera.

Aims to teach the readers how to use color. This book explores how different light sources affect color rendition, how placement changes colors, how to avoid costly color mistakes, and how to resolve the color problems that confront design professionals.

A guide for students and experienced designers alike. It is illustrated with photographs and diagrams. Featuring examples from various kinds of book, it goes through various aspects of book design. It contains information on styling the text, an extensive glossary defining editorial, design and production terms, and a further reading list.

Inaugurating a series on design, aimed at those in the field of graphic design and students of design, this title presents a critical overview of influential figures in 20th-century international design, from artists such as Alexander Rodchenko to graphic designers such as Paul Rand.

Through images and accessible descriptions, this volume explains the theory behind visual translation; walks the reader through the examples of graphics ranging from signs and logos to advertising, packaging, and events publicity and explains how each image was conceived and why it succeeds.

Explores the issues that shape design such as: economics, ethics, technology, and developments in other arts. This work looks at how graphic design has evolved over the centuries, from the development of book printing in medieval Germany onwards. It also looks at typography, and how the process of reproduction underpins each aspect of design.

In much the way that the CD replaced the album, the poster has waned as a messaging vehicle. The poster has now become a postcard and e-mail blast, leaving many to long for the lost age when posters were not only major promotional vehicles, but also artwork worthy of framing

Covering a range of graphic design, with politically charged anti-commercial work, placed side by side with Nike's ads. This book presents a look at progressive graphic trends - from signage and packaging to branding and web-design.

A guide to the entire process of print production, from early stages of conception and planning, to the technical stages of manufacturing and off press processing. Structured around the graphic print production flow, it includes essential material for various aspects of the process including coverage of computers, chromatics, layouts, and paper.

A guide full of practical hints to help build the confidence of graphics and typography students. Its aim is to bring the reader to the point where they understand the basic principles of typography and to strengthen the designer's eye through informed, direct observation.

Writers are artists of words, and one of their primary tools is the thesaurus. Designers are artists of images and this book offers a way for them to think about and approach the creative process by creating a visual narrative of words and concepts.