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  • The Education of a Design Writer

    From prolific design writers and educators at the SVA/NYC, Steven Heller and Molly Heintz, a compelling collection of essays and interviews for anyone interested in critiquing, explaining, or interpreting designWriting is designing, and writers are designers. Mastering the elements of different writing styles is as important in describing a designed work as an understanding of color, texture, and ... Read more

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  • Growing Up Underground

    A Memoir of Counterculture New York

    by Steven Heller ...
    An entertaining coming-of-age memoir from Steven Heller, award-winning designer, writer, and former senior art director at the New York Times. Featuring 100 color photographs, Growing Up Underground takes readers on a visually inspired look back on being at the center of New York's youth culture in the 1960s and 1970s.Steven Heller's memoir is no chronological trek through the hills and valleys of ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Graphic Design Reader

    by Steven Heller ...
    From the lost art of show-card writing and the tumultuous days of guerrilla magazine publishing to the latest in electronic leaflet design and hot magazine covers, acclaimed graphic designer and author Steven Heller provides dozens of stunning examples of how graphic design has transformed from a subset of pop culture to a cultural driving force on its own. ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • Design Literacy

    Understanding Graphic Design

    by Steven Heller ...
    This update to the first book to provide explicit case histories of the successful marriage of form and content in graphic design explores more than 125 classic and contemporary works-30 of them brand new-explaining why they are aesthetically significant and how they function as good design. These thought pieces offer a vast taste of the aesthetic, political, historical, and personal issues that ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • Design Literacy

    Understanding Graphic Design

    by Steven Heller ...
    Author and design expert Steven Heller has revisited and revised the popular classic Design Literacy by revising many of the thoughtful essays from the original and mixing in thirty-two new works. Each essay offers a taste of the aesthetic, political, historical, and personal issues that have engaged designers from the late nineteenth century to the present-from the ubiquitous (the swastika, ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • The Swastika and Symbols of Hate

    Extremist Iconography Today

    by Steven Heller ...
    “Force[s] even the most sophisticated to rethink and rework their ideas of how images work in the world.” —School Library JournalThis is a classic story, masterfully told, in a new, revised and expanded edition about how one graphic symbol can endure and influence life—for good and evil—for generations and never, even today, be redeemed. A nuanced examination of the most powerful symbol ever ... Read more

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  • Teaching Graphic Design

    Course Offerings and Class Projects from the Leading Graduate and Undergraduate Programs

    by Steven Heller ...
    This priceless teaching tool features more than 70 proven-effective programs from the country’s leading graphic design schools. Spanning from traditional, bricks and mortar” approaches to the ever-widening digital frontier of graphic design, these syllabi include detailed introductions, weekly breakdowns, project suggestions, and selected readings, as well as offer valued background material on ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • Inside the Business of Illustration

    his guide to the ins and outs of today's dynamic illustration business tells budding illustrators everything that their teacher didn't know or their art director didn't tell them. Using an entertaining, running narrative format to look at key concerns every illustrator must face today, this book covers finding one's unique style and establishing a balance between art and commerce; tackling issues ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • POP

    How Graphic Design Shapes Popular Culture

    by Steven Heller ...
    Pop culture is often maligned as fleeting, but history shows that sometimes what is pop in one culture has time-honored resonance in later ones. This book is an attempt to show that pop culture, especially as seen through the lenses of design, illustration, satiric and political art (and other things), is integral to a broader understanding of who we are and where we are going.”-Steven Heller, ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

  • Teaching Graphic Design History

    by Steven Heller ...
    An Examination of the Practice Through the YearsTeaching the history of graphic design cannot simply be outlined by dates nor confined by places, but is defined by concepts and philosophies, as well as those who made, make, and inspire them. Teaching Graphic Design History is the first collection of essays, syllabi, and guides for conveying the heritage of this unique practice, from traditional ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

  • The Graphic Design Idea Book

    Inspiration from 50 Masters

    This book serves as an introduction to the key elements of good design.Broken into sections covering the fundamental elements of design, key works by acclaimed designers serve to illustrate technical points and encourage readers to try out new ideas. Themes covered include narrative, colour, illusion, ornament, simplicity, and wit and humour.The result is an instantly accessible and easy to ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • The Typography Idea Book

    Inspiration from 50 Masters

    The latest in this successful series, this book features around 150 of the most important buildings in the history of world architecture – from the pyramids and Parthenon to some of the most significant works by recent architects.The buildings are organized by type – from places of worship and public buildings to houses – and are divided into nine chapters, each with an informative introduction ... Read more

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