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Design Thinking
Integrating Innovation, Customer Experience, and Brand Value
Edited by Thomas Lockwood

Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: November 10, 2009
Price: $24.95

Design Thinkingis packed with intriguing case studies and practical advice from industry experts. This anthology is organized into three sections that focus on the use of design for innovation and brand-building, the emerging role of service design, and the design of meaningful customer experiences. This book provides readers with the strategies... Read more >

Designers Don't Read

Written by Austin Howe
Designed by Fredrik Averin

Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
On Sale: September 22, 2009
Price: $19.95

Designers Don’t Read is a love song to graphic design and graphic designers. Austin Howe is a creative director, writer, advocate, and cheerleader for design-but not a designer. He believes “in the wonder and exuberance of someone who gets paid-by clients to do what he loves.” Howe places immense value on... Read more >

Corporate Creativity
Developing an Innovative Organization
Written by Thomas Lockwood and Thomas Walton

Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: June 9, 2009
Price: $24.95

Following the success of Building Design Strategy, DMI’s latest book, Corporate Creativity: Developing an Innovative Organization, is the ultimate guide for executives and managers looking to increase creativity and innovation in their companies. This anthology of provocative essays, drawn from the pages of Design Management Review and Design Management Journal, explores... Read more >

Marketing Illustration
New Venues, New Styles, New Methods
Written by Steven Heller and Marshall Arisman

Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: June 9, 2009
Price: $24.95

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Building Design Strategy
Using Design to Achieve Key Business Objectives
Edited by Thomas Lockwood and Thomas Walton

Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: November 11, 2008
Price: $24.95

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Design Disasters
Great Designers, Fabulous Failure, and Lessons Learned
Edited by Steven Heller

Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: October 28, 2008
Price: $24.95

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Designing Logos
The Process of Creating Symbols That Endure
Written by Jack Gernsheimer

Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: October 14, 2008
Price: $35.00

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Green Graphic Design

Written by Brian Dougherty and Celery Design Collaborative

Format: Trade Paperback, 212 pages
On Sale: October 14, 2008
Price: $24.95

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AIGA Professional Practices in Graphic Design

Edited by Tad Crawford

Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: June 10, 2008
Price: $29.95

“Provides definitive guidelines on all aspects of the graphic design business.”—FYI



Here’s the definitive guide to professional business practices in graphic design, now fully revised and updated for the digital age. Up-to-the-minute coverage of web, interactive, and motion graphics; green design; potential repercussions of legislation on Orphan Works; protection of fonts... Read more >

Fly Now!

Written by Joanne Gernstein London
Foreword by Herb Kelleher
Introduction by Robert Van Der Linden

Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
On Sale: May 20, 2008
Price: $15.95

The Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum draws more visitors than any other museum in the world—90,000 a day in the summertime—and the exhibit of air travel posters featured in this unique companion volume combines arresting, colorful art, rare archival material, and a unique approach to aeronautical history. The posters—most of... Read more >

Teaching Motion Design
Course Offerings and Class Projects from the Leading Graduate and Undergraduate Programs
Edited by Michael Dooley and Steven Heller

Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: March 18, 2008
Price: $21.95

How motion design is taught in more than 45 leading programs



This definitive study of motion design is essential reading for everyone teaching or studying design. Now, for the first time, authors Steven Heller and Michael Dooley present a comprehensive look at course offerings from more than 45 leading programs devoted to... Read more >

The Swastika
Symbol Beyond Redemption?
Written by Steven Heller

Format: Trade Paperback, 184 pages
On Sale: March 4, 2008
Price: $19.95

“Force[s] even the most sophisticated to rethink and rework their ideas of how images work in the world.”—School Library Journal



This acclaimed examination of the most powerful symbol ever created is now available in paperback. The rise and fall of the swastika, and its mysteries and misunderstandings, are fully explained and explored... Read more >

Designing Magazines

Written by Jandos Rothstein

Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
On Sale: November 13, 2007
Price: $35.00

Turn editorial challenges into graphic solutions


How does a designer create graphic solutions to the
behind-the-scenes editorial challenges at a magazine? Designing
Magazines is the complete guide to understanding the
inner workings of magazines and their day-to-day management—and a great
guide to using that knowledge to create visually stunning, editorially effective
magazines, in both new designs and... Read more >

How to Think Like a Great Graphic Designer

Written by Debbie Millman

Format: Trade Paperback, 248 pages
On Sale: October 30, 2007
Price: $24.95

Revealing, intimate
interviews with 19 giants
of graphic design


Take a peek inside the heads of some of the world's greatest living graphic designers. How do they
think, how do they connect to others, what special
skills do they have? In honest and revealing interviews,
nineteen designers, including Stefan Sagmeister,
Michael Beirut, David Carson, and Milton
Glaser, share their... Read more >

New Vintage Type
Classic Fonts for the Digital Age
Written by Steven Heller and Gail Anderson

Format: Hardcover, 176 pages
On Sale: October 2, 2007
Price: $39.95

Choose, use, and understand great vintage type with this authoritative guide. Retro is the new modern. And nowhere is that fact more evident than in typography, which today uses vintage type in ads, book and magazine design, movies, and everywhere words convey meaning. Viewers may not even realize that the type... Read more >

Light of India
A Conflagration of Indian Matchbox Art
Written by Warren Dotz

Format: Boxed Set, 144 pages
On Sale: October 1, 2007
Price: $16.95

With all the zany vibrancy of a Bollywood musical, the colorful matchbox labels of LIGHT OF INDIA present a fascinating confluence of popular culture and a sophisticated graphic arts tradition that stretches back for centuries. Populated with pouncing Bengal tigers, regal jungle elephants, and Hindu gods and goddesses, these miniature masterpieces... Read more >

Looking Closer 5
Critical Writings on Graphic Design
Edited by Michael Bierut, William Drenttel and Steven Heller

Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: February 6, 2007
Price: $21.95

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Selling Graphic and Web Design

Written by Donald Sparkman

Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: September 1, 2006
Price: $24.95

Expert guidance on selling graphic design, in print and online



Attract today’s savvy design clients! A veteran designer who turned his small business into a multimillion-dollar new-media company shares his strategies for success in this new edition of the acclaimed Selling Graphic and Web Design. Donald Sparkman’s approach blurs the lines between... Read more >

The Education of a Graphic Designer

Edited by Steven Heller

Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: November 1, 2005
Price: $29.95

• Anecdotes and insights from
graphic-design stars


• In association with the School of
Visual Arts in New York City


• This replaces ISBN 1-880559-99-4


Completely updated, this compelling collection of essays, interviews, and course syllabi is the ideal tool to help teachers and students keep up in the rapidly changing field of graphic... Read more >

The Graphic Design Business Book

Written by Tad Crawford

Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: November 1, 2005
Price: $24.95

• Authoritative advice on every aspect
of running a design business


• Expert contributors include Leonard DuBoff, Richard Weisgrau, Eva Doman Bruck, and many more


General small-business advice just doesn’t work for a graphic design business. What graphic designers need is The Graphic Design Business Book, packed with directly relevant strategies for creating... Read more >

Breaking into Graphic Design
Tips from the Pros on Finding the Right Position for You
Written by Michael Jefferson

Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
On Sale: September 1, 2005
Price: $19.95

• Interviews with dozens of design
professionals reveal what they’re
looking for


• Employment tips you didn’t learn in
art school


Packed with information on every step of the job search from writing a cover letter to assembling a portfolio, Breaking into Graphic Design is the definitive book on creating a professional, employable... Read more >

Emotion As Promotion
A Book of Thirst
Written by Rick Valicenti

Format: Hardcover, 280 pages
On Sale: April 21, 2005
Price: $60.00

From innovative fonts and commercial logos to products and artists' books, the work of graphic design collective Thirst is unmistakable: dazzling in form, intellectually challenging, incorporating Real Human Presence, just over the edge of the Discomfort Zone. The firm is known not only for fusions of text and image but for... Read more >

J. Garcia
Paintings, Drawings, and Sketches
Written by Jerry Garcia
Foreword by Roberto Weir

Format: Trade Paperback, 96 pages
On Sale: March 1, 2005
Price: $19.95

Legendary counterculture icon and beloved Grateful Dead guitarist and vocalist Jerry Garcia was also a graphic artist of considerable talent. After attending the San Francisco Art Institute as a young man, he began to focus on music, but his passion for visual art never dimmed and he continued to sketch throughout... Read more >

How to Grow as a Graphic Designer

Written by Catharine Fishel

Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: January 1, 2005
Price: $19.95

Helping graphic designers find professional and spiritual support in the ever-demanding struggle to stay creative and profitable, this book reveals how some of today's most successful and intriguing designers keep growing as artists and as people with the power to affect public attitudes. Topics addressed include how to keep track of... Read more >

Communication Design
Principles, Methods, and Practice
Written by Jorge Frascara

Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: November 1, 2004
Price: $24.95

Graphic design students will get a firm grip on the theory and practice of communication design with this unique work that inspires young designers to look beyond aesthetic concerns and develop an integrated, multidimensional understanding of this ever-changing field. New designers learn how to approach design problems in a methodical, professional... Read more >