Product Description: Fifty design projects are shown in detail from concept to completion and all the stages in between for a behind-the-scenes look that uncovers the design process that produced the award winning end results. These products are the winners of the Industrial Designers Society of America's acclaimed Industrial Design Excellence Award (IDEA)...read more

Product Description: A vast collection of some of the most varied work from the world's leading designers. It is broken down into three core areas - colour, type and materials.

Product Description: Featuring a high-end collection of the best work by top designers around the world. Cards come from around the world and their production costs are equally as widespread. Some were created on shoestring budgets while others spared no expense, yet all are effective at making that all-important first impression...read more

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Product Description: This unique and visually informative book examines how design elements, themes, and styles from different decades of the 20th century influence and play a part in contemporary design. Each section focuses on a specific era from the past 100 years, studies and presents the icons and design influences of that era, and evaluates the effectiveness of the elements in the work of today's top designers and design firms...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Small Graphics provides hundreds of ideas for making effective design use of even the smallest spaces. See how designers have successfully chosen their graphics and words to maximize impact in tiny places. This book contains more than 200 examples of logos, business cards, hats, premiums, identity systems, direct response marketing, point-of-purchase material, stamps, and packaging...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Examines the significance of the seven basic colors in over forty countries around the world, explaining traditional local meanings and offering advice on following and breaking regional color mores. (view table of contents)

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Product Description: Direct mail or E-mail, creative graphic design is essential to getting a response. The graphic designers featured in this book have created direct-marketing designs that work for their clients and themselves. This new collection features the work of over seventy-five graphic designers and illustrates a wide range of direct-marketing projects, including mailed and electronic promotions for corporate, event, product, self-promotion, and service promotions...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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