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Paul Rand: A conversation with students

Paul Rand: A conversation with students

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African Digital Art Recommended Reading
Author: Michael Kroeger
Price: $13.57
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As one of the most influential and inspirational graphic designers of the twentieth century, Paul Rand defined modern American graphic design. His iconic logo designs for IBM, UPS, and the ABC television network distilled the essences of modernity for his corporate patrons. His body of work includes advertising, [...]

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Black Light

Black Light

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Price: $47.25
Author: Kehinde Wiley
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Los Angeles native and New York-based visual artist Kehinde Wiley has firmly situated himself within art history’s portrait painting tradition. As a contemporary descendent of a long line of portraitists–including Reynolds, Gainsborough, Titian, Ingres, and others–Wiley engages the signs and visual rhetoric of the heroic, powerful, majestic, and [...]

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Contemporary African Art Since 1980

Contemporary African Art Since 1980

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Contemporary African Art Since 1980 is the first major survey of the work of contemporary African artists from diverse situations, locations, and generations who work either in or outside of Africa, but whose practices engage and occupy the social and cultural complexities of the continent since the past 30 years. Its [...]

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Information Architecture: Blueprints for the Web

Information Architecture: Blueprints for the Web

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Price:$27.57
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All web sites have an architecture, whether you design one or not-just as every building has an architecture, from the lowly shanty by the railroad track to Chicago’s tallest skyscraper. Unfortunately, most web sites are shanties, not skyscrapers. Companies that hastily threw up a web site in the dot-com boom days [...]

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Designing Interactions

Designing Interactions

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Price: $24.01
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Digital technology has changed the way we interact with everything from the games we play to the tools we use at work. Designers of digital technology products no longer regard their job as designing a physical object—beautiful or utilitarian—but as designing our interactions with it.
In Designing Interactions , award-winning designer [...]

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The Design of Dissent: Socially and Politically Driven Graphics

The Design of Dissent: Socially and Politically Driven Graphics

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Price: $49.99
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With the world’s economy in a slump, the Middle East’s never ending conflict, and the on-going war on terrorism, there is a heightened awareness in the world community of the many sides of the numerous issues that both directly and indirectly affect our lives. Increasingly, people are feeling powerless and underrepresented because they have [...]

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