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ICONIC ART: Hidden under the Easy-Off Gold foil lie 100 collectible novel artwork that link to epic moments delighting upon reveal & keep you nostalgic forever. While most posters at best look pretty, they don't engage with its owner, and never personal. Our pioneering interactive concept, breaks new grounds across dimensions and presents a never-seen-before piece of art that talks to you, personalizes per your wish, evolves with you, and makes itself truly yours. In this revelatory book, celebrated designer Craig Oldham answers the common questions raised by graphic design graduates: 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? Sharing his own experiences, as well as ideas, advice and inspiration, this book is as funny and honest as it is practical and useful. 12. Citizen First Designer Second by Rejane Dal Bello In 1959, design legends Ivan Chermayeff and Tom Geismar produced a small booklet about typographic creativity. Six decades on, it remains influential, and this reproduction includes added thoughts by other designers including Michael Carabetta, George Lois, April Greiman, Steve Heller and Kit Hinrichs on its lasting impact. 36. Why Fonts Matter by Sarah Hyndman The two see each other across the void. A fateful connection is made, and an unlikely friendship blooms. Slowly, we learn what led Sam and Vic to the bridge that night. Bonded by their suffering, each privately commits to the impossible task of saving the other.
Geometry is where art and design meet maths, and this instructive book explains how that works in words that non-experts can understand. The book focuses not only on the classic systems of proportioning, such as the golden section and root rectangles but also on less well known proportioning systems such as the Fibonacci Series. Through detailed diagrams, these geometric systems are brought to life, giving an effective insight into the design process.We’re thrilled to announce a first. For the second year in a row, the top spot in our annual Top 100 goes to a previous winner. Readers have once again voted for Honeybee by Craig Silvey as the #1 book, for the second year running. Australian readers have embraced this tender and profoundly moving novel, brimming with vivid characters and luminous words. It’s about two lives forever changed by a chance encounter – one offering hope, the other redemption. Graven Images: The Best of Horror, Fantasy, and Science Fiction Film Art from the Collection Ronald V. Borst The 2023 Top 100 list is a celebration of female authors, and a reminder of how loved Australian authors are. This shift first took place in 2017 and shows no sign of changing. It’s clear there is a desire for Australian stories, which is incredibly exciting. There is a strong culture and thirst for local voices with authors such as Jane Harper, Liane Moriarty, Sally Hepworth and Holly Ringland each featuring multiple titles on the 2023 list. User experience design is, at root, about understanding your users. And so this book gives a useful and comprehensive introduction to foundational psychology, in a way that directly relates to UX design. Written by David Evans, an experimental psychology PhD and senior manager of consumer research at Microsoft, this will help UX designers gain an edge in a super-competitive field. 15. Graphic Design: The New Basics by Ellen Lupton & Jennifer Cole Phillips If this interactive, scratch and reveal poster doesn’t inspire your love for start reading, nothing will.
Traditionally, design books have tended to minimise the contribution of women to the profession, so here's one that starts to right the balance. Women Design profiles a selection of the most dynamic female designers, from architects and product designers to textile artists and digital innovators. These range from pioneers such as Eileen Gray, Lora Lamm and Lella Vignelli to more recent trailblazers including Kazuyo Sejima, Hella Jongerius and Neri Oxman. 26. Can Graphic Design Save Your Life? by Lucienne Roberts Whether you're a design student or an established designer, it's good to challenge yourself now and again to shake things up. This book is a compendium of 13 experimental projects designed to teach conceptual thinking and problem solving to art and design students. Each project is illustrated with multiple visual solutions, provided to inspire creativity and illustrate that there can be multiple solutions to a single problem. 35. Watching Words Move by Ivan Chermayeff and Tom Geismar Also noteworthy is how readers embrace female authors now more than ever. This year, with 10,000 votes, an outstanding 70 books by female authors made the list. Women buy books, women read and it’s now clear that women write most books we read. Another authoritative book about design's past by Jens Muller, The History of Graphic Design delivers exactly what the title promises. Featuring hundreds of landmark projects, industry leaders profiles, and illustrated timelines, this book traces the evolution of the profession from the end of the 19th century to the remains of World War II. 24. Baseline Shift by Briar LevitBorn 1938 in Havana, Cuba, Félix Beltrán, is one of Latin America's most important graphic designers. His works are situated in the tension between abstract geometry and concrete art, and this monograph showcases hundreds of his logos, posters, and book covers. A fascinating and inspiring insight into a great creative mind. 28. Logotype by Michael Evamy Swiss design is referred to a lot in the design community, but how much do you know about it really? This book, designed by the Zurich studio NORM, takes a fresh look at Swiss typography and design over the past hundred years and explains what it all means, with illuminating essays from experts in the field and captivating illustrations. 32. Work Hard & Be Nice to People by Anthony Burrill
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