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The new handmade graphics : beyond digital design / Anne Odling-Smee.

By: Odling-Smee, Anne.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Switzerland : 2002Description: 160 p. : col. ill. ; 27 cm. + hbk.ISBN: 2880467039.Subject(s): Commercial artDDC classification: 741.6
Contents:
Production methods -- Analogue processes -- Analogue and digital -- Sourcing ideas -- Commercial work -- Personal work.

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

The new handmade graphics combines a collection of graphic designers with an astonishing diversity of creative approach and geographical location. The one thing they share is that they are experimenting in ways that remove or reduce dependence on the computer. Scrupulous and haphazard, traditional and futuristic, pure and polluted, the work in this book is an energetic mix of styles, technologies and attitudes that represent the most encouraging signs for graphic design in years. The new handmade graphics is the marker for a post-digital generation. Includes work by: Alan Kitching, Johnson Banks, Alan Fletcher, Mevis & van Deursen, Peter Anderson, Graphic Thought Facility, LettError, Vince Frost, Stefan Sagmeister, Phil Baines, Derek Birdsall, Goodwill, Design Writing Research, Daniel Eatock, John Morgan, John Maeda, Studio Myerscough, NB Studio, Eric Wear, Paul Elliman, Bump, Mark Pawson. Book jacket.

Bibliography: (pages 154-155) and index.

Production methods -- Analogue processes -- Analogue and digital -- Sourcing ideas -- Commercial work -- Personal work.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • Introduction (p. 6)
  • 1. Production methods
  • Analogue processes (p. 20)
  • Printing (p. 20)
  • Drawing (p. 30)
  • Paper work (p. 36)
  • Analogue and digital (p. 40)
  • Technology (p. 40)
  • Education (p. 44)
  • Web design (p. 46)
  • Portfolio section (p. 50)
  • 2. Sourcing ideas
  • Commercial work (p. 84)
  • Mistakes (p. 84)
  • Imitation (p. 88)
  • Collaboration (p. 92)
  • Interactive (p. 96)
  • Re-using (p. 98)
  • Defacing (p. 102)
  • Three-dimensional (p. 105)
  • Low-budget (p. 108)
  • Personal work (p. 112)
  • Self-initiated (p. 112)
  • Self-publicity (p. 116)
  • Portfolio section (p. 118)
  • Endmatter
  • Glossary (p. 152)
  • Bibliography (p. 154)
  • Index (p. 156)
  • Contacts (p. 158)
  • Acknowledgements (p. 160)

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Anne Odling-Smee runs her own graphic design business and also teaches at The University of Reading and Camberwell College of Art and Design