The Short Story of Film

A Pocket Guide to Key Genres, Films, Techniques and Movements

Ian Haydn Smith

Bookbinding

The Complete Guide to Folding, Sewing & Binding

Franziska Morlok and Miriam Waszelewski

 

Bookbinding is a unique and essential reference guide for designers, explaining industrial bookbinding techniques with a focus on the design and conception of print products. Packed full of insights from the world’s best bookbinders, it contains everything you need to know about folding, stitching and binding to create beautiful books.

Franziska Morlok has worked at Sagmeister inc, Leonardi.Wollein and Fons Hickmann m23 and currently runs her own studio, Rimini Berlin. Miriam Waszelewski is an award winning freelance graphic designer with a focus on editorial design. She is the art director for me.URBAN magazine.

• PLC
• 400 illustrations
• 420 pages
• Size: 240 x 180 mm
• ISBN: 9781786271686
• Published: 23/04/2018

The Logo Design Idea Book

Steve Heller and Gail Anderson

 

Arrows, swashes, swooshes, globes, sunbursts and parallel, vertical and horizontal lines, words, letters, shapes and pictures. Logos are the most ubiquitous and essential of all graphic design devices, representing ideas, beliefs and, of course, things. They primarily identify products, businesses and institutions, but they are also associated, hopefully in a positive way, with the ethos or philosophy of those entities. The 50 logos in this book are examples of good ideas in the service of representation, reputation and identification. 

 

• Paperback
• 128 pages
• 50 illustrations
• Size: 220 x 158 mm
• ISBN: 9781786274120
• Published: 05/08/2019

Imagine the best movie-themed pub quiz you’ve ever been to, but without suffering the hangover the next morning!

From heroic heroines, famous final lines and award-winning directors, to Hollywood’s golden age, memorable movie flops and the film world’s biggest franchises, the book’s over 1,600 questions cover every aspect of the movies. 

Thrown in among the brain-testing questions are a series of visual quizzes and challenges—including an It’s a Wonderful Life spot-the-difference and the world premiere of a Jean-Claude van Damme-themed wordsearch!

Paperback
288 pages
280 illustrations
Size: 234 x 153 mm
Published: 26/08/2019

Limit Yourself
And Unleash Your Creativity

Ralph Burkhardt

Telling yourself you have all the time, all the resources and all the money in the world just kills creativity and self-discipline. Why not try to limit yourself and unleash your creativity! Designer and advertiser Ralph Burkhardt has put together this inspirational pocket book, with a proven method that can help you tap into your creative and business potential and, above all, get results. Replete with quotes, checklists, cool illustrations and encouraging words, this little book packs a punch, revealing the simplest and most effective way to tap into your creative genius and set goals. A great tool to pass around during brainstorming meetings, or to keep handy on your desk at work.

Limit Yourself and Unleash Your Creativity contents:

What, why, who?

ABOUT CREATIVITY

What is creativity?

Everyone can be creative!

The true creative myth

The creative process

Reflect on your creativity

Think inside the box

ABOUT LIMITATIONS

Limitation’ might sound like a bad word

Who needs limitations?

What kind of limitations are there?

What limitations can do for you

What you need to bring

Who’s afraid of the blank page?

The creative trajectory

Why total freedom doesn’t liberate

Creative boundaries

Ready, mindset, go!

01 LIMITATIONS OF TIME

Learn to love deadlines

Make better use of your time

The five-minute time limit

One painting / poster / logo / lettering a day

02 LIMITATIONS OF RESOURCES

How to deal with a limited budget

Improvisation = innovation

Exploration through limitation

03 LIMITATIONS OF DESIGN PRINCIPLES

Refine your colour palette

Limit your typefaces

Why Frank Gehry loves limitations

Music at the limits

04 LIMITATIONS OF A BRIEF

‘ Do whatever you like!’

Discovering the client’s needs

Just don’t do it

What to learn from Dr. Seuss

05 LIMITATIONS OF MEDIUM

What is minimalism?

How to simplify and intensify

Maximum meaning, minimum means!

Embracing technical limitations

Use your digits!

06 LIMITATIONS OF SKILLS

Maintain momentum

Team up with others

Try random limitations

Harness someone else’s creativity

07 LIMITATIONS OF SPACE

Size does matter!

Decide what’s important

Do it ‘Like a Rolling Stone’

The ultimate limitation scale

FINAL THOUGHTS

Take the first step!

What to do with immutable limitations

A generation of demands

Limited to only one world

Credits / Bibliography / Thanks

 

Paperback
128 pages
40 illustrations
Size: 178 x 120 mm
Published: 04/11/2019

Drag: The Complete Story

Simon Doonan

Drag is transformation, communication and, above all, exaggeration, where gender non-conformity is the plat du jour. Drag: The Complete Story observes this increasingly complex world by exploring drag’s journey through the twentieth century.

Corralled into thematic chapters, including glamour drag, art drag, butch drag, black drag, historical drag, comedy drag and popstar drag, this book is the first flamboyant and poignant survey of drag culture. 

Drag: The Complete Story is not just for fabulous queens and drag enthusiasts, but for anyone interested in gender fluidity and the culture surrounding it.

Don’t Get a Job, Make a Job explores strategies for graduates to gain exposure in the creative industries – including design, fashion and advertising

Too often a design or architecture degree is seen as a means to an end (a job in an established practice). But imagine for one moment that there are no employers, no firms to send your CV to, no interviews to be had – what would you do? How would you forge your own path after graduation?

The current economic climate has seen many graduates chasing a finite number of positions. The most ingenious and driven designers have found weird and wonderful ways of making opportunities for themselves, often by applying their skills across the creative disciplines of art, design, architecture and interiors. Knowing what you want from your design career and being able to adapt your strategy to suit is basic and vital – just like in the wild, designers need to evolve.

The book celebrates the various strategies that students and graduates are taking to gain exposure, while also including interviews and inspirational advice from those who are now enjoying success as a result of their creative approach to employment.

Oh Sh*t… What Now?

Honest Advice for New Graphic Designers

So you’ve graduated. What now? Where do you live? Can you afford to live? How can you make money doing design? How do you get a job? Who do you want to work for and are you good enough?

This book is a comprehensive and insightful guide to anything and everything that is of use to those looking to break into the creative industries,sharing experiences, ideas, advice, criticism and encouragement. With sections covering education, portfolios, jobs/freelancing, working process and personal development, this straight-talking, funny and frequently irreverent guide is a must-read for all creative arts students.

Graphic designers constantly complain that there is no career manual to guide them through the profession. Adrian Shaughnessy draws on a wealth of experience to provide just such a handbook. Aimed at the independent-minded, it addresses the concerns of young designers who want to earn a living by doing expressive and meaningful work and avoid becoming a hired drone working on soulless projects. It offers straight-talking advice on how to establish your design career and suggestions – that you won’t have been taught at college – for running a successful business.

This revised edition contains all-new chapters covering professional skills; design thinking; and global trends, including social responsibility, ethics and the rise of digital culture. Also included are interviews with leading designers: Jonathan Barnbrook, Sara De Bondt, Stephen Doyle, Ben Drury, Paul Sahre, Dmitri Siegel, Sophie Thomas and Magnus Voll Mathiassen.