A source book of visual ideas and strategies for visual communication How to Solve any Creative Brief: An A Z of Ideas explains the key ideas, sources of inspiration and visual techniques that have been used throughout design history. Aimed principally at the student market, the book shows where ideas and inspiration come from and helps unlock the reader s creativity, providing numerous strategies to help solve creative briefs and design problems. Using an upbeat, dynamic and easy-to-understand A Z format, the book reveals techniques that can be exploited to deliver ideas with greater impact, with each entry offering a different starting point. Entries include everything from Intuition and Instinct to Happy Accidents and Hidden Messages, and feature a section explaining how to use the idea or technique, providing readers with an infallible tool kit of inspiration. Including hundreds of inspirational quotes from creative people and packed with greatexamples of advertising campaigns, posters, book and magazine covers, illustrations and editorial images, this indispensable creative primer also includes previously unpublished photographic work.
The book The means by which we find our way: Observations on design looks at how graphic designers and educators navigate both the visual and the printed landscape.
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The book "The means by which we find our way: Observations on design" looks at how graphic designers and educators navigate both the visual and the printed landscape.
By actively learning from this innovative book and CD-ROM, the reader will discover his or her natural visual abilities and learn to think, imagine, and communicate in exciting new ways.
A large number of real-life pictures provide readers with a reference to the guide design, and also show the selection of the placement point and the actual space application to highlight its function.
Here are hundreds of examples of fresh design--posters, record sleeves, t-shirts, flyers and nightclub decor--gathered together for the first time.
Section by section, and discipline by discipline, this handbook gives designers a design palette, an inspirational showcase, and a grounding in practical principles.
Designed to work in any college course, this brief, accessible book is here to help students whether they are creating a poster, a webtext, an animated video, or any other kind of text.
Design: Purpose, Form, and Meaning