Kategoria BISAC: Design >> Graphic Arts - General

William Morris's patterns are enduringly popular for their originality and color, and have captured the imagination of countless designers and artists. This coloring book explores the intricate work of William Morris, and allows the reader to invent their own colorways to complete Morris's patterns.

• 45 patterns to color, interspersed by full-color reproductions of the original designs
• Organized into four sections--Nature, Color, Pattern, and Craft--to highlight different aspects of the designs, and the crafts and skills behind them
• Explores Morris's love of...

This book offers a comprehensive and insightful guide to anything and everything that is of practical and emotional use to those looking to break into the creative industry. It will share experiences, ideas, interviews, contacts, hints, advice, criticism, and encouragement. With sections covering education, portfolios, the gap year, placements, jobs/freelancing, working...

Die digitale Revolution ist mit dem Versprechen verknupft, die Selbststandigkeit des einzelnen Nutzers zu starken. Der Aufstieg von kommerziellen Plattformen zur Koordination von Crowdarbeit stellt die Gultigkeit dieses Narrativs jedoch in Frage.

In Crowd-Design analysiert Florian Alexander Schmidt die Entstehungsgeschichte, Funktionsweise und Rhetorik solcher Plattformen. Der Vergleich von historischen Crowd-Diskursen und Visionen der Online-Kollaboration bildet den Ausgangspunkt fur eine kritische Betrachtung aktueller Auspragungen von Crowdarbeit: Der Fokus der Studie...

Where do design principles come from? Are they abstract -rules- established by professionals or do they have roots in human experience? And if we encounter these visual phenomena in our everyday lives, how do designers use them to attract our attention, orient our behavior, and create compelling and memorable communication that stands out among the thousands of messages we confront each day? Today's work in visual communication design shifts emphasis from simply designing objects to designing experiences; to crafting form that acknowledges cognitive and cultural influences on...

Designing Disability traces the emergence of an idea and an ideal - physical access for the disabled - through the evolution of the iconic International Symbol of Access (ISA). The book draws on design history, material culture and recent critical disability studies to examine not only the development of a design icon, but also the cultural history surrounding it.

Infirmity and illness may be seen as part of human experience, but 'disability' is a social construct, a way of thinking about and responding to a natural human condition. Elizabeth Guffey's highly original and...

Think of this book more as a late-night barstool or coffeehouse conversation between two creatives. A creative "pep talk" so-to-speak. And just like any pep talk in life, these pages provide a healthy serving of food-for-thought, as well as a few tips along the way, too.

Whether you are a graphic designer, artist, fashion designer, songwriter or a solo entrepreneur - or even a...