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 includes a chapter outlining the basic typographic and detailing rules relating to numbers. Featuring the work of such names as Stefan Sagmeister, Karin von Ompteda, Joost Grootens, Socket Studio, Stapelberg & Fritz, Form, Willi Kunz, Helmut...

Ewing guides aspiring artists through a series of simple, creative projects using a soulful, meditative, and reflective process. Drawing inspiration from poetry, music, literature, and the natural world, she invites experimentation with a variety of sources. Whether you're picking up a paintbrush for the first time or you're an experienced artist, you'll deepen your creative potential through these exercises. -- adapted from back cover

"In this fun, fast-paced introduction to the most iconic designers of our time, author John Clifford takes you on a visual history tour that's packed with the posters, ads, logos, typefaces, covers, and multimedia work that have made these designers great."--Publisher's description.

There has never been a better time to master textures! Knowing how to make your surfaces and textures look real is one of the most challenging aspects of creating art in coloured pencil, even for experienced artists. 101 Textures in Colored Pencil provides artists with step-by-step instructions for drawing a wide variety of the most common textures and surfaces, including sand, water, metals, foliage, wood, fabrics, stone, grass, hair, and many more....

"Editorial Design: Digital and Print is a comprehensive guide to the traditional and digital skills that a designer will need for a future career in visual journalism today -- the design of magazines and newspapers for a wide variety of markets. Generously illustrated, including case studies, practical exercises and tips, and examples of best practice; profiles of individual designers include Mark Porter, Scott Dadich, and Janet Froelich. The book...

"Logotype is the definitive modern collection of logotypes, monograms, and other text-based corporate marks. Featuring more than 1,300 international typographic identities, by around 250 design studios, this is an indispensable handbook for every design studio, providing a valuable resource to draw on in branding and corporate identity projects. Logotype is truly international, and features the world?s outstanding identity designers. Examples are...

While comedy writers are responsible for creating clever scripts, comedic animators have a much more complicated problem to solve: What makes a physical character funny? "Comedy for Animators" breaks down the answer by exploring the techniques of those who have used their bodies to make others laugh. Drawing from traditions such as commedia dell arte, pantomime, Vaudeville, the circus, and silent and modern film, animators will learn not only to create...

The Complete Beginner's Guide to Drawing Animals features dozens of comprehensive drawing lessons designed to teach aspiring artists how to draw a variety of animals, from lifelike pet portraits to zoo and safari animals.

Brush up on perspective, shading, textures, and amaze even yourself when you're able to draw incredible, photorealistic, 3D illustrations! Artists won't believe their eyes as they learn to draw with photorealistic detail. The Art of 3D Drawing shows artists how to transform simple pencil sketches into jaw-dropping, photorealistic masterpieces. Through a variety of step-by-step exercises and demonstrations, pencil artists learn to take their drawing...

"One Zentangle A Day is a beautiful interactive book teaching the principles of Zentangles as well as offering fun, related drawing exercises. Zentangles are a new trend in the drawing and paper arts world. The concept was started by Rick Roberts and Maria Thomas as a way to practice focus and meditation through drawing, by using repetitive lines, marks, circles, and shapes. Each mark is called a "tangle, " and you combine various tangles into patterns...