Get published!
Paper graphics can encompass everything from self promotions to greetings to specialty mailers to posters that use unique and special print processes, folds, papers, and more. 1,000 Paper Graphics will provide a wealth of tactile ideas for a variety of paper projects. Rockport Publishers wants to celebrate your design in 1,000 Paper Graphics.
Selected pieces will be featured in 1,000 Paper Graphics, a full-color, 320-page, 9x9-inch hardcover book brimming with great design. Slated for publication in the spring of 2012, this volume will present creative, top-notch paper graphics.
Deadline for entries: May 1, 2011
What is eligible:
Any paper graphics (greetings, self promos, packages, etc.) that have been created in the last two years. Designs that have been published in other Rockport Publishers books are not eligible. There is no entry fee and, because of that, we cannot provide free copies of the book to those whose work is chose. However, we do offer a 50 percent discount on copies of the book.
For more information and details on submitting your work, please visit http://www.quaysidepub.com/entries.php.
And on the subject of paper graphics, don't you just love the Post-it? Or generic sticky note?
I do. Yes I do.
This page from Information Design Workbook has a couple of really interesting tidbits of info one of which includes the lovable Post-it.
I actually participated in doing this organizing technique at a big meeting. We all wrote ideas and concepts on Post-its and then grouped them on a wall. I highly recommend it as an organizing technique.
The second is this quote from Jeff Harris:
"If you ever find yourself designing something a certain way because you think it would be better that way, then you're probably performing art and not design.
Art is about self-expression.
Design is selfless."
Well, those are words to think about.......hmmmm.
To see more inside Information Design Workbook, pop on over to Qbookshop.com where there is a Google Preview button and you can see lots more inside!
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This new volume takes a methodical yet comprehensive approach to conveying the fundamentals of avant-garde, innovative, information design by examining history, theory, criticism, technology and media, process, method, and practice.
Opening with a very brief history followed by an instructive breakdown of the discipline, readers will get an intimate understanding of the complexities of crafting information design to effectively improve communication both functionally and aesthetically. The back half of the book contains a wide range of case studies from design firms around the world so designers can see the techniques previously outlined in the first half of the book. The author critiques and explains why the design is successful in terms of formal quality (Aesthetics) and function (How does it improve communication?).
Kim Baer is principal of Los Angeles-based design studio KBDA, which she founded in 1982.
The firm's client list ranges from nonprofit organizations, such as the Prostate Cancer Foundation, UCLA, and Chamber Music Los Angeles, to consumer-oriented companies, such as Nike, Nissan, and Hilton Hotels.
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