Supermarket package designs that add color to your daily life. To establish distinctive retail shops, it has become essential to develop a store identity based on clear marketing strategies and concepts. Supermarkets strongly rely on its brand to give it a competitive edge against its many competitors. Some well-known supermarkets have succeeded in branding themselves. Featured here are HEMA, a Dutch supermarket, which achieves this with their own consistent brand image, employing a vivid eye-catching logo. Waitrose in the UK developed their private brand and receives much attention likewise, in the design world and from their customers, for their beautiful package design. Supermarkets that successfully create strong identity and consumer awareness inevitably generate loyalty among their customers. @Supermarket presents a wide variety of package designs for everyday products available at supermarkets, ranging from food and confections to various home products such as detergents, soaps, and daily wares. The designs of the actual shops are discussed as well as various visually stunning items such as shopping bags, carts, leaflets, and posters. The consistency in design of approach contributes to establishing a look that elicits credibility and attracts customers. In addition to showcasing design examples from all over the world, four representative supermarkets, well known for their bold graphic designs, are featured with interviews.

@Supermarket: Package Designs

Arts & Photography

Graphic Design

PIE International

A spectacular source book of designs for working within a very limited space. Business cards serve as indispensable communication tools in many countries around the world. They serve as a reminder of the person who handed it to you, ultimately representing that person and the company they work for. In order to be useful, it is important that a business card conveys all the necessary information such as their name, contact details, and profession. To designers, a business card presents the challenge of expressing originality and creativity within a very small space. This is a challenge that most designers relish. This massive collection of business cards, all rich in ideas and from numerous countries around the world, will encourage these professionals to be innovative in their solutions. The featured works represent a wide range of businesses including graphic designers, photographers, stylists, copywriters, DJs and more.

Smart Designs: Business Cards

A vast collection of colorful, vivid, and picturesque patterns. This book presents remarkable graphic designs using impressive contemporary patterns: flowers, plants, geometric shapes, waves, dots and more. Examples include designs used for shops, promotional tools, advertising, packages, books, CDs and other various products. In addition to the graphic works, this collection also includes shop interior designs in which particular patterns contribute to creating the identity of the space. Patterns in Graphics features tons of pattern examples with the magnified pattern chip for each. This will be a great reference not only for graphic designers but also for textile designers and shop interior designers as well.

Patterns in Graphics: Poster, Package, DM, Shop Tool and More

Nearly 500 sensational illustrations with the taste of manga and anime. Manga, anime, and video games are some of Japan’s modern cultural contributions to the world. Girl, Illustrated is a provocative collection by 100 professional illustrators who rise above the throng in this subculture. It features 500 high-quality works in the manga and anime styles—which have been getting more and more popular all around the world—showing female characters in various enticing poses. This book will be a must-have for manga and anime fans, as well as for professionals in the video gaming industry. It will also be a useful source of information and inspiration, highlighting hot trends for those in the advertising and publishing fields. Featured illustrators are all from Japan, such as mota, Akatsuki Kato, gorobots, redjuice, refeia, Nino, Masakichi and more.

Girl, Illustrated: Japanese Manga, Anime and Video Game Characters

Live in harmony with nature with these earth-friendly designs. With the growing interest in ecology, people all over the world look to Scandinavian countries as the role models for an earth-friendly life. People in Scandinavia respect nature and work at sustainability. It is obvious in designers’ use of leaf and flower motifs, wooden furniture, etc. Shop Image Graphics in Scandinavia features shop interiors and exteriors, as well as examples of identity design. This includes hotels, cafés, restaurants, fashion, and furniture shops and brands.

Shop Image Graphics in Scandinavia

The legendary masterpieces of Hokusai-fifteen volumes in a single chunky book. Hokusai Manga is one of the masterpieces by Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849), a master of Ukiyo-e art, depicting ordinary people s lives, animals, plants, landscapes and human figures, historical and supernatural, even demons and monsters, as if it were a visual encyclopedia, amounting to fifteen volumes. Hokusai Manga turned out to be very popular among every class of people, from feudal lords to the general public, and became a long time best-seller in the Edo period. This book selects pieces from each volume and compiles them into one charming book. The original masterpiece spread throughout Japan and flowed into Europe in the middle of the nineteenth century, where it had a striking impact on artists, including Impressionists Manet, Monet, Degas, and others. The artistic movement Japonisme began in part due to its influence.

Hokusai Manga (Japanese and Japanese Edition)

History & Criticism

As the second volume of Graphic Simplicity, a best-selling PIE BOOKS publication, this collection presents brand-new works which succeed in demonstrating design simplicity.      

More Shinpuru Sutairu

Kishida, Maya

パイ インターナショナル

Oikawa, Saeko

Koma, Hiroko

Nakata, Sanae

Miki, Pamela

Finally published outside of Japan, a rare gem from Kishin Shinoyama, one of the masters of Japanese photography. This dazzling collection of photographs of Japan in the ’60s by Kishin Shinoyama offers a monograph on the artist in addition to an accurate portrayal of a period and setting. About 400 black-and-white and full-color photographs are presented in this volume.

The Sixties by Kishin

SHINOYAMA, Kishin

Individual Artists

The art of growing miniature potted trees. In Japanese culture these graceful creations are often displayed in living rooms as symbols of the beauty of nature. It is a true art form that requires special techniques such as pruning, wiring, fertilizing, and watering. People not only enjoy its visual appearance but also appreciate the effort put into their creation. In the Edo period, bonsai arose as a popular hobby among the people, and it is still a popular pastime for enthusiasts all over the world. Because people of high birth, such as the imperial family, loved bonsai, it has come to be considered more art than simply a hobby. This book is a collection of exquisite photographs of bonsai grouped by month--featuring many seasonal examples of these miniature trees from January to December.

Bonsai

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Kobayashi, Kunio

Gardening & Landscape Design

International Creative Media Award for Books (Award of Excellence: Books EXTRA)This book is a distinctive encyclopedia of Japanese traditional colors. The colors live on in paintings, crafts, textiles, literature and performing arts, playing a profound role in Japanese life and culture.

The Traditional Colors of Japan (Japanese Edition)

Hamada, Nobyoshi

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