Dutch Type
Author: Jan Middendorp
Publisher: 010 Publishers
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 332
ISBN-13: 9789064504600
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Overzicht van vooral de 20e-eeuwse Nederlandse typografie.
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Ootje Oxenaar
Author: Els Kuijpers
Publisher: Nai010 Publishers
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9789064507205
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The role played by R.D.E. ('Ootje') Oxenaar in the development of Dutch graphic design is a fascinating one. In 1970 he joined the Department of Art and Design at what was then the Dutch Postal and Telecommunications Service (PTT). He was deputy head from then until 1976, when he took over as head of the department until 1994. It would be hard to overstate his importance as one of the key public principals of Dutch graphic design during those years. That success can be attributed to Oxenaar's own visual production from the early 1950s onward, and the position this earned him in the design field as a front-rank graphic designer, which enabled him to enlist the services at the PTT of many a prominent designer. This book relates these two capacities as the commissioning and the commissioned party by assessing precisely how graphic design functions in the community. In so doing, it does justice to the exceptional personal talent of the designer-artist Oxenaar as well as to the particular cultural and socio-economic circumstances that helped to inform his career. It therefore avoids the one-sidedness of either a formalist or a determinist approach to Oxenaar's visual production. Accordingly, this book is also a potted history of Dutch graphic design and its turbulent development into a primary creative industry of significance during the 50 years since the Second World War.
Best Practices for Graphic Designers, Color Works
Author: Eddie Opara
Publisher:
Published: 2014
Total Pages: 194
ISBN-13: 1592538355
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This is the go-to guide for designers as it outlines and details the essential color design skills needed to create successful, meaningful, and aesthetically compelling designs. Along with hands-on projects, it offers unique insights into strategy and business when working in the real world with real clients. Color Works starts with basic information on color practices and fundamentals, and then delves more deeply into theory and application on a project-by-project basis. Illustrated with real-world projects and case studies, this book offers a behind-the-scenes take on the design process and the necessary steps to go from concept to final outcome, including the challenges encountered along the way.
Dutch Design
Author: Mienke Simon Thomas
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Published: 2008-12-15
Total Pages: 274
ISBN-13: 1861894724
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Experimentation and Dutch design have long gone hand in hand, from postage stamps to the Rietveld chair to the clean simplicity of Schiphol airport. Mienke Simon Thomas skillfully details the groundbreaking accomplishments and popular products of Dutch design in Dutch Design Culture. Thomas, a museum curator, delves deeply into the rich design history of the Netherlands, beginning with the historical roots of Dutch crafts education and the moral and social ideals of modernism that became central to the nation’s cultural dialogue. Touching upon such issues as the emergence of the professional industrial designer, public work initiatives, debates about design as art, and the provocative notion of “anti-design,” Thomas argues that though Dutch design from the beginning has been driven by aims of functionality, simplicity, and affordability, it has also embraced luxury and exclusivity. The book also discusses the role played by leading Dutch designers and their works, including Wim Crouwel, Marcel Wanders, and the design collective Droog Design. An unprecedented, detailed history, Dutch Design Culture is a critical primer on one of the leading national design movements today.
Design and National Identity
Author: Javier Gimeno-Martínez
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2016-09-22
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 1472591062
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This important study introduces the key theories of national identity, and relates them to the broad fields of product, graphic and fashion design. Javier Gimeno-Martinez approaches the inter-relationship between national identity and cultural production from two perspectives: the distinctive characteristics of a nation's output, and the consumption of design products within a country as a means of generating a national design landscape. Using case studies ranging from stamps in nineteenth century Russian-occupied Finland, to Coca-Cola as an 'American' drink in modern Trinidad and Tobago, he addresses concepts of essentialism, constructivism, geography and multiculturality, and considers the works of key theorists, including Benedict Anderson, Eric Hobsbawm and Doreen Massey. This illuminating book offers the first comprehensive account of how national identity and cultural policy have shaped design, while suggesting that traditional formations of the 'national' are increasingly unsustainable in an age of globalisation, migration and cultural diversity. Javier Gimeno-Martinez is Lecturer in Design Cultures at the VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Jan Van Toorn
Author: Rick Poynor
Publisher: 010 Publishers
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9064505659
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Jan van Toorn is one of the most significant and influential Dutch graphic designers to have emerged since the early 1960s. His designs persistently call attention to their status as visual contrivances, obliging the viewer to make an effort to process their complexities. Van Toorn wants the public to measure the motives of both the client and the designer who mediates the client's message against their own experiences of the world. He hoped in this way to stimulate a more active and skeptical view of art, communication, media ownership and society. Projects such as Van Toorn's posters and catalogues for the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven and his long-running series of calendars for the printing firm Mart.Spruijt are powerful demonstrations of graphic design used as a means of commentary and as a tool of critique. Later, as director of the Jan van Eyck Academy, Van Toorn drew together all the strands of his critical practice into a multi-levelled educational initiative that urged designers to think harder about design's role in shaping contemporary reality.
Colour, Based on Nature
Author: Irma Boom
Publisher:
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9789081865203
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The colour diagrams is this book are derived from images from 80 UNESCO nature sites in every continent. The spot colours are based on specific parts of the diagrams
Ootje Oxenaar
Author: Els Kuijpers
Publisher:
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 15
ISBN-13: 9789074009645
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Emigre: The End - #69
Author: Rudy VanderLans
Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
Published: 2005-12
Total Pages: 148
ISBN-13: 9781568985923
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"Everything must come to an end, and after publishing Emigre magazine for over 21 years we're both relieved and just a little bit sad to announce that #69 will be our final issue. Inside is a look back on some great years in graphic design, while our contributors and colleagues bid us farewell. It was quite an experience. Thank you for reading Emigre."--Back cover.
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