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Amazon Best of the Month, March 2008: Many consider Stefan Sagmeister to be our most important living designer, but he reaches beyond design circles in sharing 20 Things I have learned in my life so far, including the fact that "keeping a diary supports personal development." Proving his point, this book grew from a list in his diary during a year-long commercial hiatus. He returned to paid work with greater freedom from clients and himself, and created a series of projects spelling out personal truths--"worrying solves nothing," "trying to look good limits my life," and other simple, meaningful statements. Most are public and interactive (words spelled out on the backs of swimmers in the Hudson River, or displayed by enormous blow-up monkeys lounging around Scotland, or flaming in Singaporean bamboo scaffolding), while others are more private experiments with intriguing materials (sausages, cacti, sperm). All are presented--along with personal anecdotes supporting his assertions and notes on the practicalities of creating each project--in an alluringly interactive format: a "box" of 15 booklets with unique covers that can be switched to transform the look of the case from creepy to lovely. --Mari Malcolm.
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Designers are quick to tell us about their sources of inspiration, but they are much less willing to reveal such critical matters as how to find work, how much they charge, and what to do when a client rejects three weeks of work and refuses to pay the bill. How to be a graphic designer without losing your soul addresses the concerns of young designers who want to earn a living by doing expressive and meaningful work, and who want to avoid becoming hired drones working on soulless projects. Written by a designer for designers, it combines practical advice with philosophical guidance to help young professionals embark on their careers.

How should designers manage the creative process? What's the first step in the successful interpretation of a brief? How do you generate ideas when everything just seems blank? How to be a graphic designer offers clear, concise guidance for these questions, along with focused, no-nonsense strategies for setting up, running, and promoting a studio, finding work, and collaborating with clients.

The book also includes inspiring interviews with ten leading designers, including Rudy VanderLans (Emigre), John Warwicker (Tomato), Neville Brody (Research Studios), and Andy Cruz (House Industries). All told, How to be a graphic designer covers just about every aspect of the profession, and stands as an indispensable guide for any young designer..
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Abstract presents the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation of Columbia University as an open-ended laboratory for research and experimentation through a catalogue of exceptional student work, faculty texts, and images of the events that characterize the atmosphere of the school. It has an introductory text by Dean Mark Wigley and includes work conducted by each of the school's programs: Architecture, Urban Design, Historic Preservation, and Real Estate Development. This newest volume of abstract includes the applied research of the school's laboratories and projects from the design studios of Hernan Diaz Alonso, Karl Chu, Laura Kurgan, Jeffrey Inaba, Steven Holl, Kate Orff, Peter Cook, LOT/EK, David Turnbull, and Reinhold Martin among many others. This edition of Abstract is the fourth designed by Stefan Sagmeister. This encyclopedic volume is conceived of both as a potential organizational model for the school but also a testament to the global distribution of the work included within..
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Abstract presents the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation of Columbia University as an open-ended laboratory for research and experimentation through a catalogue of exceptional student work, faculty texts, and images of the events that characterize the atmosphere of the school. It has an introductory text by Dean Mark Wigley and includes work conducted by each of the school's programs: Architecture, Urban Design, Historic Preservation, and Real Estate Development. This newest volume of abstract includes projects from the design studios of Hernan Diaz Alonso, Karl Chu, Laura Kurgan, Jeffrey Inaba, Laurie Hawkinson, Steven Holl, Qingyun Ma, Greg Lynn, LOT/EK, Jurgen Mayer, and Reinhold Martin among many others. This edition of Abstract is the third designed by Stefan Sagmeister. The uniquely bound signatures of each volume (with separately designed but equally beautiful covers) alludes both to the assemblage of the school and the logic of the actual production of the book itself. Enjoy!.
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Another self-indulgent design monograph (practically everything we have ever designed including the bad stuff) is Stefan Sagmeister's hand-scrawled subtitle for the first book about his work, Made You Look. This, and the book's clear red case and silver-gilded pages, seem contrary to the raw, handwritten style he is known for, already setting us up for a wild and very personal ride through almost the entire corpus of the 39-year-old designer's work. Sagmeister once scratched words into his skin for his own lecture poster at Cranbrook, and this is the book version--sometimes enlightening, sometimes embarrassing, always self-conscious, and ultimately touching. The story is a conversation between Peter Hall's text and Sagmeister's handwritten commentary, a perfect and believable device for an absorbing dialogue. Self-indulgent as Made You Look may be, Sagmeister lays himself open with idealism, irony, and humor, creating one of the most moving books about design. --Juliette Cezzar.
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Talk about sibling ribaldry. Self-professed enfants terribles and brothers Jake and Dinos Chapman enrage some with their art and reduce others to laughter, but no one is neutral about these British provocateurs. The series documented here, including the Sex and Death sculptures and an installation created for this exhibition, present the bad boys at their most scabrous--and beautifully printed. In a counterintuitive titling, Sex shows decomposing bodies swarming with flies and maggots; Deathdepicts blow-up sex dolls engaging in lewd acts. Seriousness of purpose, however, underlies the gut-punching shock, and essays here, as well as drawings and plans never seen before, illuminate the artists' work process. The dolls, for example, are cast in bronze and painted to resemble their original plastic, thus bringing a stolid permanence to a flimsy contemporary commodity..
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Here's where today's hottest music and graphics come together.

Visible Music - CD Jacket Graphics is a brilliant collection of contemporary CD cover art that is distinctive, bold and original, a body of work that illustrates how top designers attack the difficult task of visually interpreting music in the limited space of a CD cover. Here is the ultimate synthesis of graphic elements and music.

The more than 500 examples featured are split into three sections and presented by genre: Techno, House, Soul and Rap; Rock and Popular; World, Jazz and Lounge.

These CD covers stand out from the crowd, from the vibrant simplicity of Beaucoup Fish and Push Upstairs by Underworld to the multifaceted and intriguing execution of Fantastic Spikes through Balloon by Skeleton Key, Visible Music - CD Jacket Graphics is a creative exploration of today's rapidly changing music scene..
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