GREAT GRAPHIC DESIGN ON A BUDGET is a cost-cutting primer and a sourcebook of ideas for creating first-rate designs on minimal budgets. It teaches you simple tricks of the trade and reveals innovative and unexpected ways for designers to cut the costs, but not lose on the quality, of their designs. An international showcase of eye-catching and memorable campaigns—all created on tight budgets—shows how successful these ideas and techniques can be. This invaluable manual will provide you with resources for free fonts and art, explain how to maximize print runs, profile inspiring ways of using recycled materials, and demonstrate dynamic alternatives to art. It even offers tips and techniques for achieving professional printing jobs in your studio.

Great Graphic Design on a Budget: How to Do More with Less

Arts & Photography

Witham, Scott

Graphic Design

HOW Books

In today's high-tech, virtual world where things exist, but then again, they don't, people are drawn irresistibly to "touch-friendly" designs. It's little wonder that graphic design that use unusual materials to call out to be touched get noticed and build image like no others. 
Design on nontraditional materials attracts both designers and consumers. The subject fascinates consumers because they recognize that unique materials can be difficult to engineer and incorporate, and thus tactile design nearly always becomes coveted and collectible. Moreover, the designer who can get a consumer to interact with a product, whether it's a brochure or a package, increases the chance of making a memorable connection and, even better yet, a sale.
This book features intriguing projects that incorporate a gamut of "you can't print on that" materials, including pleated, Issey Miyake-type forms and razor thin metal business cards; x-ray film; heat sensitive inks; ceramic tiles; and carpet samples. In short, there are design solutions in this book that use any and everything except plain paper.

Touch This: Graphic Design That Feels

History & Criticism

Rockport Publishers

In today's high-tech, virtual world, where things exist, but then again they don't, people are drawn irresistibly to "touch-friendly" designs. It's little wonder that graphic design using unusual materials that call out to be touched get noticed and build image like no others.
Design on nontraditional materials attracts both designers and consumers. The subject fascinates consumers because they recognize that unique materials can be difficult to engineer and incorporate, and thus tactile design nearly always becomes coveted and collectible. Moreover, the designer who can get a consumer to interact with a product, whether it's a brochure or a package, increases the chance of making a memorable connection and, even better yet, a sale.
This book features intriguing projects that incorporate a gamut of "you can't print on that" materials, including pleated, Issey Miyake type forms and razor-thin metal business cards; X-ray film; heat-sensitive inks; ceramic tiles; and carpet samples. In short, there are design solutions in this book that use any and everything, except plain paper.

Touch This: Graphic Design That Feels Good

Rockport Pub

The nightmare brief for design consultancies around the world is ? what shall we do for Christmas this year? Festive is a collection of the coolest yule solutions. Every year, designers are faced with the need to reinvent ways to charm their clients and thank them for their business while convincing them that they are the best creative resource available. From specially commissioned bottles of vodka to pressed aluminium, from live Christmas trees to completely illuminated building fa?ades, Festive showcases the highest quality examples of design ingenuity and wit. Both humorous and useful, it reveals the thoughts and rationale of the designers whose work is featured, thus making Festive inspirational beyond the Christmas brief.

Festive Graphics: The Art and Design of Self Promotion

Rotovision

Creating Great Graphic Design to a Budget /anglais

Print Formats and Finishes is a comprehensive resource on formats, materials and finishes. This book explores the production and manufacturing aspects of a range of products including CD and DVD packaging, bags and labels, brochures, sustainable design products, product packaging, and promotional items. With succinct text and specially commissioned photos it shows, at one glance, the effects that can be created and the printing and production techniques used to achieve them. Work across all budgets and production/print runs is showcased, revealing the skills and techniques that allow creative solutions that grab audience attention and sell. 
For ideas on everything from mass-mail flyers, unique CD packaging, to customized products and packaging, The Print and Production Finishes Sourcebook is an indispensable ideas sourcebook and practical guide. By analyzing the best in the business, it gives readers a thorough understanding of materials, and of print and production processes that can be applied to any job.

Print Formats and Finishes: The Designer's Illustrated Guide to Brochures, Catalogs, Bags, Labels, Packaging, and Promotion

Knight, Carolyn

DENISON, EDWARD

Gläser, Jessica

LOEWY

Fawcett-Tang, Roger

Reference

Practical explanations of the key production methods.Print and Production Finishes for Promotional Items, the third title in this series, explores the creation of promotional items from a production and manufacturing point of view. 
With succinct text and specially commissioned photos it shows, at one glance, the effects that can be created and the printing and production techniques used to achieve them. Work across all budgets and production/print runs is showcased, revealing the skills and techniques that allow creative solutions that grab the audienceÆs attention.
For ideas on everything from mass-mail flyers, billboard posters, lavish catalogs and calendars, to customized clothing, toys, badges, and bottles, Print and Production Finishes for Promotional Items is an indispensable ideas sourcebook and practical guide. By analyzing the best in the business, it gives readers a thorough understanding of materials, and of print and production processes than can be applied to any job.
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Print and Production Finishes for Promotional Items

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