It’s got a matt-varnished flexicover with big capital letters and two exclamation marks! Everything in it is a different colour! It’s cheaper than a cockroach and bigger than a cow! Yes, it could only be another Taschen graphics round-up. continue
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Animation Now!
on 29 October 2004
The Design Encyclopedia
on 15 October 2004
This is the kind of book that should be sold by weight, not by volume: more significant than the fact that it has 832 pages is that it tops two-and-a-half kilos. continue
Visual Creativity
on 3 September 2004
Mario Pricken’s previous book, Creative Advertising: Ideas and Techniques from the World’s Best Campaigns, has taken its place on all the best art directors’ bookshelves, or at least somewhere in the heap of design students’ portfolios, D&AD trophies and other unidentified crap that languishes under their desks. continue
All Messed Up: Unpredictable Graphics
on 30 April 2004
I happen to be a bit of a fan of creative accidents. The only time I was ever in a recording studio, I improvised exactly what the producer wanted on the first take, which was not recorded, and then failed to reproduce it for the next hour and a half continue
Fashion & Graphics
on 19 March 2004
Back in the mid-’80s, the story goes, fashion photographer Nick Knight was shooting his first campaign for Yohji Yamamoto and, mindful of his own occasional collaborations with budding design legend Peter Saville, asked who would be doing the graphics. ‘I don’t know,’ replied the creative director who’d hired him. ‘What is the graphics?’ continue
Foundations of Art and Design
on 19 February 2004
If computer-based artists, illustrators and publishers are all too often found wanting when it comes to the technicalities of prepress and print, they’re just as often accused of ignorance about the history and conventions of art and design. continue
World Without Words
on 25 July 2003
As MacUser’s Features Editor is often heard to remind errant contributors, a picture may be worth a thousand words but it still needs a two-line caption. continue
Still Bored: Surf/Skate/Snow Graphics
on 25 July 2003
This new(ish) edition of Creative Review’s 1997 survey of board art acknowledges that its once cultish subject has been mainstreamed by half a decade of Larry Clark movies, Jackass and extreme sports cable channels. continue
The International Design Yearbook 2003
on 16 May 2003
Bound in creamy white high-gloss with the title embossed in the cheapest of gold foils, this could be mistaken for a particularly naff wedding album or the gay edition of the Guinness Book of Records. continue
1000 Game Heroes
on 29 November 2002
Another fat and self-explanatory book from Taschen. If you like games, you’ll like this. A bit, anyway. continue
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