Roger Walton Books

What if you need someone to draw salad on a plate with a glass of wine next to it? You could go through the above processes, and—after a while—you'd probably find someone to draw or paint it in the style you wanted. Or you could simply pick up The Big Book of Illustration Ideas 2 flip to the section marked "Food and Still Life," and find pages and pages of illustrators who can draw all kinds of food in all kinds of styles: pencil, crayon, watercolor, collage, and so on, and so on. It's a smorgasbord of illustration ideas. In fact, within these pages are the best illustrators from all over the world, found together in one place along with all their contact information. For ease of reference, illustrators' work is cataloged by theme: People; Portraits; Food and Still Life; Buildings; Landscapes; Abstract Concepts; Diagrams; and Miscellaneous.

Design Rules for Letterheads is a collection of invaluable information, insight, advice, and design examples for anyone designing or commissioning the design of letterhead and stationery. Design Rules for Letterheads gives quick and easy pointers on all aspects of letterhead and stationery design in more than 70 concise articles. The book helps you negotiate the many decisions that a stationery designer has to make -- where to position the company's contact information; what space to allow for the text of the letter itself; what shape and size paper to use; what typography, colors, and printing processes to select; and so on -- and explains clearly how stationery items can work not just on paper, but in other media such as e-mail or website content. A wealth of practical advice, the book showcases more than 100 examples of work from the simplest one-color letterhead to designs with complex color printing, die-cuts and embossing. These stationery designs from the world's leading designers show that there are an infinite number of stylish and original solutions to the challenge of creating original letterheads.

The latest edition in the best-selling Typographics series, this guide puts designers ahead of the curve, giving them a sneak peek at the sharpest designs currently being produced in the cutting-edge realm of zines and e-zines. As this inspiring book illustrates, rapidly advancing technological developments in both print and electronic magazine mediums are allowing for unprecedented creativity in graphic design. Designers will discover amazing new ways to use these developments to the fullest of their potential, including examples that take binding, printing and embossing to groundbreaking extremes. They'll also find information on the latest design techniques for incorporating film clips, interviews and live interactive events into a dynamic site that is functional as well as engaging. The final section explores the newest trends in magazine publishing that blend print with disk for an exciting, multimedia approach to communicating. Each design offers generous captions highlighting the production process and initial concept, in addition to insightful commentary from the actual designer.

Outstanding and innovative magazine design from around the globe focuses on the cutting-edge typography known as cybertype. More than 260 full-color examples are featured.