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In the 1970s, mass-produced, cheaply printed science-fiction novels were thriving. The paper was rough, the titles outrageous, and the cover art astounding. Over the course of the decade, a stable of talented painters, comic-book artists, and designers produced thousands of the most eye-catching book covers to ever grace bookstore shelves (or spinner racks). Curiously,(...)
Worlds beyond time: Sci-Fi art of the 1970s
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In the 1970s, mass-produced, cheaply printed science-fiction novels were thriving. The paper was rough, the titles outrageous, and the cover art astounding. Over the course of the decade, a stable of talented painters, comic-book artists, and designers produced thousands of the most eye-catching book covers to ever grace bookstore shelves (or spinner racks). Curiously, the pieces commissioned for these covers often had very little to do with the contents of the books they were selling, but by leaning heavily on psychedelic imagery, far-out landscapes, and trippy surrealism, the art was able to satisfy the same space race–fueled appetite for the big ideas and brave new worlds that sci-fi writers were boldly pushing forward. In Worlds Beyond Time: Sci-Fi Art of the 1970s, Adam Rowe—who has been curating, championing, and resurrecting the best and most obscure art that 1970s sci-fi has to offer on his blog 70s Sci-Fi Art—introduces readers to the biggest names in the genre, including Chris Foss, Peter Elson, Tim White, Jack.
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Emigre no. 64 : rant
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For almost twenty years, and over sixty issues, Émigré has been a sourcebook of ideas, fonts, images, work, products, and even music for an entire generation of designers. But this visual stimulation may have come at a price: are today’s young designers writing passionately enough about what they do? Acting as agent provocateur in Rant, Émigré invites designers, teachers,(...)
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January 2003, Sacramento
Emigre no. 64 : rant
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For almost twenty years, and over sixty issues, Émigré has been a sourcebook of ideas, fonts, images, work, products, and even music for an entire generation of designers. But this visual stimulation may have come at a price: are today’s young designers writing passionately enough about what they do? Acting as agent provocateur in Rant, Émigré invites designers, teachers, and critics including Jeffery Keedy, Rick Valicenti, Shawn Wolfe, Kenneth FitzGerald, Denise Gonzales Crisp, Andrew Blauvelt, and Elliott Earls to challenge today’s young designers to develop a critical attitude toward their own work and the design scene in general. Rant also signals a transition in the format of Émigré, away from its previous incarnation as a magazine/font catalog toward a series of "pocketbooks’ focusing on critical writing about the state of graphic design.
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Organized around themes such as courtship, commerce, travel, sports, and city life, "The games we played" brings together over one hundred eye-catching examples of America's rare and popular board games.
The games we played : the golden age of board and tables games
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Organized around themes such as courtship, commerce, travel, sports, and city life, "The games we played" brings together over one hundred eye-catching examples of America's rare and popular board games.
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With a lively text that entwines graphic and aviation history, this book traces the evolution of these icons of universal design from the kitschy pamphlets created for Pan-Am's Flying Clipper in the 1930s to the simple, plasticized pictograms used on today's jumbo jets. Removed from their seatbacks and gathered together here for the first time, the cards of "Design for(...)
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April 2003, New York
Design for impact : fifty years of airline safety cards
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With a lively text that entwines graphic and aviation history, this book traces the evolution of these icons of universal design from the kitschy pamphlets created for Pan-Am's Flying Clipper in the 1930s to the simple, plasticized pictograms used on today's jumbo jets. Removed from their seatbacks and gathered together here for the first time, the cards of "Design for impact" offer a humorous primer on a most basic - and urgent - form of visual communication.
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In the twenty-first century, the widespread integration of computer technologies has brought text-based information into many facets of everyday life. This has caused an ever-growing interest in typography across many fields of visual communication, where text and letterform play a central role in disseminating social trends and reflecting the spirit of the times.(...)
Graphic Design and Typography
March 2002, London
Arabic typography : a comprehensive sourcebook
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In the twenty-first century, the widespread integration of computer technologies has brought text-based information into many facets of everyday life. This has caused an ever-growing interest in typography across many fields of visual communication, where text and letterform play a central role in disseminating social trends and reflecting the spirit of the times. "Arabic Typography" takes the reader through a comprehensive study of Arabic letterforms, starting with a concise historical overview of their development and styles, and proceeding to the latest design and technological advances. It attempts to establish the foundations for Arabic type-design by drawing lessons from past practices and aesthetic conventions, in order to retain the enduring traits that are of relevance for improvement and innovation in future type-design creations. Going beyond the historical facts to discuss current design issues pertaining to the creation and production of letterforms, it presents Arabic typographic design as an essential communication tool that should marry functionality and legibility to aesthetic delight.
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C'est un voyage d'est en ouest au coeur de la création graphique américaine auquel nous invite Michel Bouvet et son équipe. C'est aussi un parcours historique balisé de trois étapes symboliques : New York, avec Seymour Chwast; Sacramento pour la revue «Emigre», lieu d'expression incontournable des nouveaux courants de la typo graphie contemporaine; San Francisco et Los(...)
East Coast / West Coast : graphistes aux États-Unis
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C'est un voyage d'est en ouest au coeur de la création graphique américaine auquel nous invite Michel Bouvet et son équipe. C'est aussi un parcours historique balisé de trois étapes symboliques : New York, avec Seymour Chwast; Sacramento pour la revue «Emigre», lieu d'expression incontournable des nouveaux courants de la typo graphie contemporaine; San Francisco et Los Angeles où culture latino-américaine et asiatique rencontrent la révolution technologique.
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Designers and advertisers continually have to interpret design briefs, produce new solutions to familiar problems and work to keep their clients’ brands high in the public consciousness. This highly informative guide brings together for the first time discussions and case studies that illustrate the working methods of major advertising and graphic design firms. Each(...)
Problem solved : a primer in design and communication
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Designers and advertisers continually have to interpret design briefs, produce new solutions to familiar problems and work to keep their clients’ brands high in the public consciousness. This highly informative guide brings together for the first time discussions and case studies that illustrate the working methods of major advertising and graphic design firms. Each chapter explores a different theme of ‘problem solving’, and concludes with a case study to illustrate a particular solution in detail. Themes include: producing innovative work, avoiding repetition, standing out in the market place, reinventing a tired brand, communicating essential facts in a culture of information overload, keeping a brand young and trendy, dealing sensitively with propaganda, the use of shock tactics, and word-based advertising in a world over-run with images and sound-bites. Examples featured are taken from classic and contemporary international advertising. Designers and agencies whose work is discussed in the book include Chermayeff and Geismar, Saatchi and Saatchi, BMP, Minale Tattersfield, Derek Birdsall, Niklaus Troxler, Bob Gill, Wieslan Walkuski, Makoto Saito, Paul Fishlock, and Pentagram.
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"Merz to Emigre and Beyond" is a historical survey of avant-garde cultural and political magazines and newspapers from the early twentieth century to the present. The book features a unique selection of international publications from Europe and the U.S.A. including "Merz" (1920's), "View" (1940's), "East Village Other" (1960's), "Punk" (1970's), "Raw" (1980's) and(...)
Merz to Emigre and beyond : avant-garde magazine design of the twentieth century
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"Merz to Emigre and Beyond" is a historical survey of avant-garde cultural and political magazines and newspapers from the early twentieth century to the present. The book features a unique selection of international publications from Europe and the U.S.A. including "Merz" (1920's), "View" (1940's), "East Village Other" (1960's), "Punk" (1970's), "Raw" (1980's) and "Emigre" (1990's). The design of these magazines, often raucous and undisciplined, was as ground-breaking as the ideas they disseminated. Many were linked with controversial art, literary and political movements such as Dada, Surrealism, Modernism, the New Left and Deconstruction. They contain the work of many leading experimental artists and designers of their time from Kurt Schwitters and El Lissitzky in the 1920's and 30's, to Art Spiegelman and Rudy Vanderlans in the 1980's and 90's.
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Donald Brun (1909-1999) was one of the most successful Swiss graphic artists of his days. So why are people sometimes embarrassed when he is mentioned? Brun was the first of a line of designers who thought conceptually and self-confidently within the parameters of the market-place. And thus, at a very high level, he revealed the dubious morality surrounding the "good and(...)
Graphic Design and Typography
February 2002, Zurich
Poster collection 02 : Donald Brun
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Donald Brun (1909-1999) was one of the most successful Swiss graphic artists of his days. So why are people sometimes embarrassed when he is mentioned? Brun was the first of a line of designers who thought conceptually and self-confidently within the parameters of the market-place. And thus, at a very high level, he revealed the dubious morality surrounding the "good and beautiful poster".
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February 2002, Zurich
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La collection « Carnets à jouer » est une série de jeux graphiques conçue par Sophie Cure et Aurélien Farina. Ils abordent des thématiques propres au design graphique en complément du Cahier d’exploration graphique paru en 2022. De l’exercice unique, on passe à la série, à la variation. Ces carnets permettent d’explorer, d’essayer, tester, rater, rater encore pour mieux recommencer.
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January 2024
Carnets à jouer #4 : Alliances
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La collection « Carnets à jouer » est une série de jeux graphiques conçue par Sophie Cure et Aurélien Farina. Ils abordent des thématiques propres au design graphique en complément du Cahier d’exploration graphique paru en 2022. De l’exercice unique, on passe à la série, à la variation. Ces carnets permettent d’explorer, d’essayer, tester, rater, rater encore pour mieux recommencer.
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