Art & Design - Graphic Design, Book & Printing Arts

First published 2008.

An invaluable source for graphic designers and visual gourmets. First published 2008.

First published 2006. Packaging is an essential aspect of retailing any manufactured product. Packages have traditionally served to protect and ship goods securely and inexpensively. This book teaches you how to design inexpensive, yet structurally sound packaging. Because well-designed packaging always strikes a balance between logistics and cost, Out of the Box: Ready-to-Use Structural Packaging will be an invaluable sourcebook for anyone who needs practical designs and ideas for the taking.

First published 2008.

"Basics Illustration: Sequential Images" is Mark Wigans third book in his essential series of handbooks on contemporary illustration. Following Thinking Visually and Text and Image, Wigan identifies sequential image-making as a rich area of original and innovative work, which is leading the resurgence in the art of illustration. The evolving world of illustration is exploding with possibilities as converging technologies and disciplines provide new opportunities and outlets for the visual storyteller. International illustrators, an... read more

Bridges the gap betwen design theory and practice, making abstract concepts of visual communication relevant to the practice of commercial art. Views design as a communication tool, explaining how and why it works, drawing examples from graphic design, product design and fashion. This illustrated textbook is the first to make sense of cultural theory from a graphic design perspective. First published 2006.

Digital Illustration A Masterclass in Creative Imagemaking instructs the reader, through detailed, step by step tutorials, in the skills and techniques used by the masters of digital imagemaking.
With the growth of computer arts, designers are now using Photoshop, Illustrator, and Flash as much as QuarkXPress. These designers are combining handcrafting skills with modern techniques to produce a fresh creative aesthetic. Digital Illustration reveals the secrets of the industry's most successful creatives who transfer traditio... read more

This title offers a rich resource for all designers looking for inspiration and guidance on colour combinations. 2000 colour combinations are provided here with their RGB readings (for web designers) and also the CMYK readings (for designers working in print). It also explains how you can use these readings to create real pigmented paint for those working in textiles. This book is a bridge between digital colour, colour on the web and real pigmented colour. As an accomplished colour theorist, the author looks at colour combinations... read more

Some of New Zealand's most eminent artists have also featured in some of our most significant books, and it's an impressive roll call indeed: Len Lye, Dick Frizzell, Gordon Walters, Hotere, Para Matchitt, Milan Mrkusich, Colin McCahon, Murray Grimsdale, John Drawbridge, Pat Hanly and more. Hamish Thompson's introductory essay to this comprehensive and handsomely designed book gives an overview of the history of book design in 20th century NZ and details the changing styles of cover art. The body of the book focusses on the work ... read more

The links between contemporary design, history and the imagination form the background for this beautiful and unprecedented exploration of Design Art. Addressing works by designers including Jurgen Bey, Tord Boontje, Dunne + Raby and Studio Job, Gareth Williams explores how overtly functional objects - 'designed' objects - can be made to carry meanings and associations, or tell tales. As contemporary design practice, the art market and art itself become more and more integrated, reflecting the merging of art, craft and design, this... read more

A mini, condensed version of the large Art of Rock book featuring 345 pages of poster reproductions.

"The bible of the industry" - Associated Press Woll is currently President of Cross River Publishing Consultants. First publish 1998. This 2nd edition first published September 2002.

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This edition Out of Print - second hand copy. First published 1978.

Sisomo: the future on screen welcomes you to the Screen Age, a world where the screens dominate our public and privates spheres, and the winners are those who can create the most watchable, memorable, and emotionally powerful content on-screen. The media is fragmenting, the mass market is splitting like an Arctic ice shelf. For marketers this presents an unavoidable conundrum as they struggle to define new ways to work. Television, once the shining knight of emotional messaging, is also suffering as networks scramble to retain audi... read more

Filled with inspiring images, Penguin by Design demonstrates just how difficult it is not to judge a book by its cover.

This fully revised edition includes over 10,000 words, expressions and terminology relating to the printing and publishing industry and allied trades. Topics covered are papermaking, ink, printing and binding machinery, bookselling, typesetting, desktop publishing and design, copyright, editing, commissioning, contracts, rights and electronic publishing. Definitions are given in clear, simple English meaning that this dictionary is perfect for anyone wanting comprehensive information at their fingertips. First published 1989; this... read more

This volume features the work of 13 of the top contemporary children's book illustrators working in the UK. Each chapter contains a commentary by the illustrator, introducing their work and explaining how they started to illustrate children's books, and features original artworks by each one.

96pp 246 x 189mm 70 Illustrations, (35 Colour ) Glossary, Bibliog

A must have for anyone involved or interested in the publishing industry. A wide-ranging study of contemporary publishing in Australia, specifically focusing on the period from 1990 onwards. This collection of essays analyses the structure and dynamics of the industry in the context of social, cultural and legal forces. First published 2007