Product Description: Focusing on how graphic designers tackle the ordering of number-heavy information, this book shows how the best design minds around grapple with timetables, annual reports, and other data-rich documents. It also surveys highly creative and playful typographic experiments with the more abstract notion of numeric information...read more

Product Description: Print Formats and Finishes is a comprehensive resource on formats, materials and finishes. This book explores the production and manufacturing aspects of a range of products including CD and DVD packaging, bags and labels, brochures, sustainable design products, product packaging, and promotional items...read more

Product Description: Revised Edition! Maps and charts are needed by both businesses and society in order to make complicated information and data comprehensible. The art of mapping has therefore become one of the core graphic design practices. However, very little literature exists on this subject and the few books available fail to address all the issues involved...read more

Print and Production Finishes for Brochures and Catalogs demystifies the production process for graphic designers, enabling them to achieve the best possible work.At some point, every graphic designer is commissioned to design a brochure or catalogue. While other books offer inspiration for design, this book focuses on the materials and finishing techniques needed to create the desired effect for those jobs, exploring their creation from a production and manufacturing point of view. Roger Fawcett-Tang has selected world-class work across all areas, from high fashion to mail order, and reveals the skills and techniques needed to meet any requirement. There's also an illustrated glossary of materials (both standard and innovative) and processes.From producing the latest aspirational publication to making the mundane look desirable, Print and Production Finishes for Brochures and Catalogs is both an indispensable practical guide and a sourcebook for ideas.

Product Description: New Mini Format!Experimental Formats & Packaging examines exciting design problems, such as how to make a book that does not look like a book, and how to create packaging that can be taken into new design dimensions while still fulfilling its essential, functional role...read more

Product Description: Indispensable guide to the future of print and graphic design which showcases the most exciting material innovationsExperimental Formats 2 builds on the success of Experimental Formats, bringing the subject bang up to date. It explores every aspect of designing the printed form, from single page to commercial package...read more

Product Description: Focusing on information design, this guide reveals the visual language of location, direction, spatial and structural relationships which are central to this sector of graphics, exploring "maps" as varied as subway systems and websites to chemical symbols, and the mapping of time...read more

Product Description: A book which shows how contemporary designers push the boundariesExperimental Formats & Packaging examines how exciting design problems, such as how to make a book that does not look like a book, and how packaging can be taken into new design dimensions while still fulfilling its essential functional role...read more