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Fanzines have been one of the liveliest forms of self-expression for over 70 years. Their subject matter is as varied as the passions of their creators, ranging across music, comics, typography, animal rights, politics, alternative lifestyles, clip art, thrift shopping, beer drinking ... This book is a high-impact visual presentation of the most interesting fanzines ever produced. From the earliest examples, now incredibly rare, created by sci-fi fans in the 1930s, it takes us on a journey of subcultures through the decades. Superhero comics inspired a flush of zines in the 1950s and 60s. In the 1970s, the diy aesthetic of punk was forged in fanzines such as Sniffin' Glue and Search and Destroy, while the 80s saw a flourishing of political protest zines as well as fanzines devoted to the rave scene and street style. The riot grrrl movement of the 90s gave voice to a defiant new generation of feminists, while the arrival of the internet saw many fanzines make the transition to online.
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.
The remarkable creations of thirty seven world famous designers, from inception to commercial application, all lavishly illustrated. Featuring the work of: Martin Venezky Hamish Muir David Carson Gyöngy Laky Katsuya Ise & Students Diane Gromala Paul Elliman Peter Anderson David Crow Elevator / Summer Powell and Liisa Salonen Pablo A Medina Lucille Tenazas Jonathan Barnbrook Jenny Wilson & Students Sibylle Hagmann Pierre di Sciullo Saki Mafundikwa & Students Michael Worthington Rian Hughes Noriyuki Tanaka Klára Kvízoviá Fumio Tachibana Ales Najbrt Lucinda Hitchcock Susan LaPorte Melle Hammer Stuart Bailey Peter Bil'ak Ahn Sang-Soo Studio Blue Mikon van Gastel Fred Flade Katherine McCoy & Students Nick Bell Nancy Nowacek Zsolt Czakó Elliott Peter Earls
Computer technology has completely revolutionized the work of graphic designers, printers, and print production professionals. To keep pace with these far-reaching changes, Production for Graphic Designers is set firmly in the digital age. This revised fourth edition embraces all the new and emerging technologies in graphics and print production, comprehensibly explaining the prepress and printing processes from traditional letterpress to the latest on-press CtP (computer-to-plate) digital offset and on-demand colour printing. It also covers new workflows and spells out the many acronyms encountered by today's designers. As well as covering print, it provides an authoritative guide to working in digital media, particularly the internet. There are also additional feature spreads on key graphic designers Bruce Mau, Paul Rand, Chris Ware and Pentagram.
"From inception to commercial application, and with lavishly illustrated examples, this book explores the idea of type design by experimentation and how this produces innovations in typography. Treating them as two distinct disciplines, the book first deals with the design of typefaces, and secondly with the use of type in layouts. This is an essential book for professionals, students, academics and anyone who is interested in typography, graphic design, visual culture and design history."--BOOK JACKET.
This collection of essays, written by designers and tecahers of design, strikes a balance between the theoretical approaches of the academics and the realistic considerations of the professionals.
In this book you will find the covers of design magazines, journals and periodicals of all kinds. They cover many topics - graphic design, typography, architecture, interiors, print, theory and history. But above all, they are brilliant specimens of innovative visual design. There's no better place to view the stylistic rollercoaster of graphic design than the covers of design magazines - it's a fast-track education in the history of design and typography. As Steven Heller notes: "As we head deeper into the age of hand-held devices, covers will become obsolete. So, it is for this reason that preserving and archiving these documents of international design, one cover at a time, is beyond useful."
With the international take-up of new technology in the 1990s, designers and typographers reassessed their roles and jettisoned existing rules in an explosion of creativity in graphic design. This book tells that story in detail, defining and illustrating key developments and themes from 1980-2000.
Visual culture is all around us: television, dance, film, fashion, painting, sculpture, installation and fine art are only a few of its many faces. Feminist Visual Culture looks at feminist theory, the role of women, and the contribution of women artists to the world of visual culture. This substantial introduction provides an overview of visual culture and of the origins of feminist practice. In the volume's three sections--Fine Art, Design, and Mass Media--the authors discuss the visual media specific to that area, incorporating wider issues such as class, culture, and ethnicity. Each chapter is written by a woman working in a different field of visual culture. A topical and comprehensive introduction, Feminist Visual Culture will be a valuable tool for readers and students in women's studies, visual studies, and media studies.
The move from the underground to the mainstream by many fanzines and underground comics has been largely ignored by the mainstream media. These writings consider how and why this has occurred and the relationship between reader and producer.