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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.

A visual guide to the best in contemporary typographic design, this book features examples and usages of modern typography from around the world.

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 su

An examination of the shape and size of the designed page. It reveals how decisions made at this initial stage of the design process have a huge impact on the finished design. Designers can completely alter a concept by changing the format of a page. Today, with so much information being projected through screen in a conventional horizontal format, it is appealing to see shapes that are a bit more unusual and therefore more stimulating. This manual looks at the ways in which contemporary designers are pushing the boundaries in design and in this way are exploring exciting questions such as how to make a book that does not look like a book.

Als Johannes Gutenberg 1455 die letzten Fahnen seiner Bibel prüfte, die er auf der ersten westlichen Druckerpresse mit beweglichen Metalllettern hergestellt hatte, muss er dabei etwas von der Bedeutung seiner Erfindung geahnt haben; aber wie es knapp 550 Jahre später aussehen würde, konnte er sich kaum vorstellen. Heute erscheinen an jedem Tag mehr neue Bücher, als Gutenberg je in seinem ganzen Leben Magazine zu jedem denkbaren Thema und Broschüren für alle möglichen Produkte werden zu Millionen am laufenden Band produziert - die Drucktechnik formte unsere Welt. Dieses Buch zeigt Experimente mit Struktur und Material, mit Form und Funktion. Daraus sind Druckwerke entstanden, die sich schon durch ihre physischen Eigenschaften auszeichnen.

Experimental Packaging is contains what contemporary packaging can achieve while adhering to the strict conventions of being recognizable, informative, immediate, textural, functional and dependable.