Arts / Design

The Anatomy of Type

by Stephen Coles

A visual treat for anyone who loves fonts and typographic design.

The Anatomy of Type explores one hundred traditional and modern typefaces in loving detail, with a full spread devoted to each entry. The full...

Airy Plumeflights: A Beginner's Guide to Celtic Script and Design

by Timothy O'Neill

Part One tells the story of Daniel, an apprentice scribe in a ninth-century Celtic monstery and is set against the background of daily life there. He describes being introduced to the ancient arts of cleaning...

Success By Design: The Essential Business Reference for Designers

by David Sherwin

Want to make your design business a success? Start here.

Fellow Designer,

In your career you may have been like me: Trying to keep projects on the rails and clients happy. Digging through blogs for useful advice....

Creating Manga Characters

by Sweatdrop Studios

Manga is an emotive and expressive form of storytelling that has become popular worldwide; vivid and fascinating characters make a large contribution to its appeal. Characters are an essential component of a...

The Great Funk

by Thomas Hine

In the sixties, as the nation anticipated the conquest of space, the defeat of poverty, and an end to injustice at home and abroad, no goal seemed beyond America's reach.  Then the seventies arrived--bringing...

Routledge Handbook of Participatory Design

by Jesper Simonsen & Toni Robertson

Participatory design is about the direct involvement of people in the co-design of the technologies they use. Its central concern is how collaborative design processes can be driven by the participation of the...

How to Cheat in Photoshop CS5: The art of creating realistic photomontages

by Steve Caplin

Fully updated to cover all of the new features in Photoshop CS5, this book is also backwards-compatible and can be used with any version of Photoshop. The accompanying DVD for Mac and PC contains over two and...

Designing Information: Human Factors and Common Sense in Information Design

by Joel Katz

“The book itself is a diagram of clarification, containing hundreds of examples of work by those who favor the communication of information over style and academic postulation—and those who don’t. Many...

101 Design Methods: A Structured Approach for Driving Innovation in Your Organization

by Vijay Kumar

The first step-by-step guidebook for successful innovation planning

Unlike other books on the subject, 101 Design Methods approaches the practice of creating new products, services, and customer experiences as...

A Graphic Design Student's Guide to Freelance: Practice Makes Perfect

by Ben Hannam

A complete guide to freelance graphic design—created specifically for design students

Why wait until you graduate? Freelancing is a great way to jumpstart your career in graphic design. It lets you apply what...

Archetypes in Branding: A Toolkit for Creatives and Strategists

by Joshua C. Chen & Margaret Hartwell

Archetypes in Branding: A Toolkit for Creatives and Strategists offers a highly participatory approach to brand development. Combined with a companion deck of sixty original archetype cards, this kit will give...

Party Masks

by Judy Balchin

Starting with materials as simple as paper plates or readily available mask blanks, this project book provides an engaging variety of designs for mask making. Ideal for masquerades, children's parties, or...

Illustration 101 - Streetwise Tactics for Surviving as a Freelance Illustrator

by Max Scratchmann

Do you yearn to illustrate? Do you dream of being the star of the commercial art world? Then this is the book for you! In this fun-to-read manual you will quickly learn how to land Dream Commissions and wow...

Longer Lasting Products: Alternatives To The Throwaway Society

by Tim Cooper

In this provocative book, the creation of product durability and the design of longer-lasting products emerge as an absolutely vital element in the pursuit of sustainability. Its multi-disciplinary approach...

How to Run a Successful Design Business: The New Professional Practice

by Shan Preddy

Whether you're experienced or just starting out, How to Run a Successful Design Business: The New Professional Practice covers everything owners and managers of design firms need to know.

Design Education: Learning, Teaching and Researching Through Design

by Philippa Lyon

Design Education encapsulates and analyses the research findings facilitated by the UK based Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning through Design. By examining over 40 projects, ranging in focus from...

Creating Innovative Products and Services: The FORTH Innovation Method

by Gijs van Wulfen

Innovation is an important managerial instrument - but many of us struggle with how to approach it. Creating Innovative Products and Services has been written for directors, managers, advisors and innovation...

Premium by Design: How to Understand, Design and Market High End Products

by Marco Bevolo, Alex Gofman & Howard Moskowitz

Premium by Design is a thoroughly researched, well argued and well presented study that identifies how global business leaders have succeeded in achieving margins by design. Thanks to original tools and processes,...

Universal Design: The HUMBLES Method for User-Centred Business

by Francesc Aragall & Jordi Montana

Universal Design offers every organization, whether a provider of services or of products, a clear understanding of the role and value of Design for All/Universal Design. It provides a model for assessing current...

Design for Services

by Anna Meroni & Daniela Sangiorgi

Design for Services explores what service design brings to the table and reflects on why the ideas and practices of service design are resonating with today's design community. The contributors offer a broad...