New Releases by Anne Fink

This text explores the emerging less is more attitude in graphic design through work and insight from 96 of today''''s hottest designers. Featured profiles examine the individual styles and influences of seven prominent designers.''

Steven Heller and Anne Fink Designed by Michael Ian Kaye Faces on the Edge Type in the Digital Age More than any other graphic medium, today’s fontography mirrors the traditions, eccentricities, and trends of modern society. Faces on the Edge, by prominent art director and author Steven Heller, is a spellbinding survey of the revolutionary effects of digital type design on 20th-century typography. More than 200 typefaces, from the classically inspired to the exuberantly (near) illegible, are featured in this compilation, illustrating how new technologies have dramatically increased the possibilities of type design. Included are typefaces from many of the world’s most innovative type foundries, such as Emigre Fonts, FontShop International, Garage Fonts, Thirst Fonts, Exploding Fonts, and T-26, and represents some of the finest type designers such as Zuzana Licko, Rudy VanderLans, Jonathan Hoefler, Tobias Frere-Jones, Ed Fella, and Barry Deck. The Typefaces are Organized into Six Kinds of Fontography: Rebirths and Revivals • Greeking Roman • Digital Carvings Off the Wall • Optical Delusions • Lots O’ Laffs Typefaces are identified by date, designer, and foundry; a brief description text places each in the larger context of digital type history. With useful information on how to obtain and apply each typeface, Faces on the Edge is an indispensable resource for graphic designers, desktop designers, and students alike. Over 200 illustrations in color and black and white document the real-life application of these inventive typefaces in popular magazines, advertising, posters, and multimedia. Faces on the Edge is a vivid, timely account of what is undeniably a significant era of type design.

It''s good design -- not big bucks -- that sells products or ideas in visual messages, and this practical guidebook tells how.

'Food Wrap' is a profusely visual record of the contemporary packages that transcend the commonplace the concepts are smart, the designs are beautiful, and what's more, they possess real appetite appeal.

The entertainment industry - including music, television, film and theater - is a haven for graphic experimentation (sometimes even indulgence), and the material that emerges from this highly creative field of graphic design becomes the paradigm for designers in other realms. Although the CD packages, theater and film posters, logos, brochures, film opening sequences, books and magazines featured within That''s Entertainment promote and advertise, they transcend this fundamental requirement and are integral to the gestalt of the overall project. Included are REM''s interactive disc, Madonna''s tour book, Cape Fear''s opening sequence, Dylan''s box set, promotionals for MTV, and the list continues. The more than 300 inspiring, beguiling, and amusing entertainment graphics by renowned designers and directors that grace the pages of That''s Entertainment are destined to define the graphic milieu for decades to come. While That''s Entertainment is the quintessential resource of entertainment graphics, theater lovers, movie goers, television watchers, and music connoisseurs alike will find this an exciting and memorable journey into America''s favorite pastime.

"Presents more than 400 exemplary book jackets, paperback covers and magazine covers produced by outstanding designers from America and abroad"--Dustjacket.