This priceless teaching tool features more than 70 proven-effective programs from the country's leading graphic design schools. Spanning from traditional, "bricks and mortar" approaches to the ever-widening digital frontier of graphic design, these syllabi include detailed introductions, weekly breakdowns, project suggestions, and selected readings, as well as offer valued background material on the history, social responsibility, and cultural impact...

Digital Design Essentials takes a practical, highly accessible approach to creating graphical user interface designs for desktop, mobile, and touch screen devices. Written by an expert in the realm of digital design, this comprehensive, step-by-step guide demonstrates how to apply design principles in a variety of desktops, web pages, mobile devices and other touchscreens. Filled with straightforward strategies in a visual format, it's an essential...

I Heart Design is a collection of "favorite" designs as selected by 80 prominent graphic designers, typographers, teachers, scholars, writers and design impresarios. Designers have preferences, like modern over postmodern, serif over sans serif, decorative over minimal, but designers could not be engaged in design practice if they did not love design. The reasons for such a charged emotion varies from individual to individual, but there are certain...

In July 2008, illustrator and designer Christoph Niemann began Abstract City, a visual blog for the New York Times. His posts were inspired by the desire to re-create simple and everyday observations and stories from his own life that everyone could relate to. In Niemann's hands, mundane experiences such as riding the subway or trying to get a good night's sleep were transformed into delightful flights of visual fancy. The struggle to keep up with...

This is a new volume in Rockport's desktop library of color and pattern. The book provides professional designers with seamless geometric patterns in a variety of color palettes to address the specific design needs of designers, art directors, and students working in textile design, product design, graphic print and website design, and advertising and corporate design.

La fantasía, la invención y la creatividad no son patrimonio de unos pocos iniciados -los artistas-, sino facultades esenciales del ser humano que todos deberíamos comprender. Con la generosidad y la vocación pedagógica que siempre lo caracterizó, Bruno Munari desvela en este ensayo pionero, traducido por primera vez al castellano, algunos de los secretos de estas tres capacidades básicas que hoy englobaríamos bajo la palabra creatividad. La...

Cuando leemos imágenes, nuestra mente pone en marcha un proceso completamente distinto al de la lectura de un texto. Para extraer el significado de un mensaje escrito, el cerebro se apoya en el examen secuencial, avanza linealmente y construye el sentido del texto a partir de una suma progresiva de los elementos que lo integran: letras, palabras, frases y párrafos. Para entender una imagen, sin embargo, el cerebro trabaja de un modo muy distinto....

Este libro recoge tres conversaciones entre el diseñador Milton Glaser y el editor Peter Mayer que fueron publicadas originalmente en inglés en tres libros distintos dedicados a la obra del diseñador. Tres momentos puntuales (1973, 2000 y 2008) a lo largo de un lapso de tiempo dilatado, en los que Glaser y Mayer reflexionan sobre toda una serie de cuestiones que tienen que ver con el diseño y el arte, como trabajo y como parte de la vida. Se...