Graphic Style is a visual survey of graphic design styles through the ages. First published in 1988, it has become an essential resource for designers and students. With more than 700 illustrations, it is the only wide-ranging history of graphic design to be completely visual, and many readers treas[...]

If you want to know how hypnosis really works (and, no, it has nothing to do with waving of hands or other similar nonsense), you will want to read this book. If you want to know the "magic" behind Ericksonian techniques and Neuro-Linguistic Programming, you have to read this book. From one of the t[...]

This revolutionary book fills a practical and an intellectual void for educators, students, and professionals in the field of illustration. Based on interviews with top illustrators and teachers, the book discusses how professionals acquired their illustration know-how and went on to apply it in the[...]

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 brea[...]

Completely updated, this compelling collection of essays, interviews, and course syllabi is the ideal tool to help teachers and students keep up in the rapidly changing field of graphic design. Contributors, including Milton Glaser, Lou Danziger, Jessica Helfand, Paula Scher, Maud Lavin, Armin Vit, [...]

This new volume in the acclaimed series offers astute and frequently controversial discussions on contemporary graphic design from 2001 to 2005. "Looking Closer 5" is a collection of essays that takes stock of the quality and profundity of graphic design writing published in professional journals, g[...]

For the first time, this incisive and revealing exploration of the meaning, mysteries, and misunderstanding of the most powerful symbol in the history of mankind is available in paperback."The Swastika" explores the symbol's pre-Nazi religious and commercial uses in all of its varied permutations, t[...]

Exquisite graphic design artifacts comprise this unusual collection culled from the pages of type and typography books dating from 1896 to 1936. Design professionals, students and teachers of graphic design, and anyone with an interest in vintage design will be delighted to find rare, never-before-r[...]

"Graphic Style Lab" is a lively and playful approach to discovering different design styles. This guidebook is full of experimental design projects that cover the distinctions between a personal and universal style, historical and contemporary style, one-of-a kind styles. You'll also discover how le[...]

Typography is an obsession for most designers. It's at the heart of all visual communication and is one of the purest forms of design, one that can always be improved and refined. Typography Sketchbooks gets into the minds of designers who create typefaces, word images and logos through their privat[...]

The first-ever compilation of shadow typefaces is now available in paperback. Letters with relief and shadow have long been an effective way to add spectacle or intrigue to otherwise mundane words. Shadow Type presents a broad spectrum of examples--advertising, shop signs, billboards, posters, type-[...]