1,000 Graphic Elements: Special Details for Distinctive Designs

by Wilson Harvey

Book Overview

Often, the small, delightful details make a piece shine, similar to the way unique buttons on a white shirt can give it an entirely new look. This book explores 1,000 of these embellishments available... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 159253077X
• ISBN13: 9781592530779
• Release Date: September 2004
• Publisher: Rockport Publishers
• Length: 307 Pages
• Weight: 2.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 9.2" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

nice inspriation

lots of smart ideas and nicely print good to look at and that inspired some of my so far best designs ^_^ just hope some pictures could be even bigger with more details overall, i love it! :D

Good stuff; inspiring and spans the spectrum, even 3D/boxes/pop-up

This book not only gives you the latest in cutting edge design and graphics, but it also does a good job of covering the world over. UK, Croatia, USA, Denmark, Germany, Australia, Austria, Canada, The Netherlands to name a few. Inside it is broken out into: Printing Techniques Manipulated Surfaces Formats and Binding Add-Ons Unique Materials Graphic Devices and a nice index by agency. Each photo is a studio shot of the actual product, not a reprint from file. In some you see hands holding the brochure open or a page curled open. Very high quality shots of the actual finished product, and artistically done, as well. I give it a big thumbs up for presentation value, inspiring choices and for it being edge to edge, chock-full of pictures and no lengthy write-ups on how the artist milled the paper herself from the hair of a Burmese goat or other such unnecessary drivel. Get this book.

1000 times I wished I was that good!

This is a wonderful book. From front to back it reaches out and messes with your head. So many inspiring examples, so many great minds have been at work. Designer envy is taking hold, and I don't want to put it out of my hands, oh, if only holding it to my head by osmosis all these amazing creative juices would fill my empty creative void. So then, I study and rejoice in finding beautiful, fun, clever and artistic masterpieces that seem so innocently displayed on these pages. You need to see it to believe it. I feel inspired and free again. I will try again, or maybe tomorrow, to be the best designer I can be. I love grapic design! If only coffee had the same effect on me :)

Awesome Book

Great examples, not only of typography and design elelments, but of printing techniques as well. Though, there are no explanations added, the pictures do all the talking. Great resource for design inspiriration.

Terrific resource - one of a kind

To be up-front, a few of my package design pieces have been featured in this book which is a compilation of design ideas from around the world. You may consider me biased because of this, but I have found the work of the designers in this book to be very inspiring and practically useful in my day-to-day design work. Rockport is the premier design book publisher - and this book is a terrific example of it. The book is divided into sections that zero in on different techniques and effects that designers around the world have utilized to create terrific look and feel for printed pieces. The book features mostly brochures, annual reports and mailers. A small proportion of packaging is represented. Harvey Wilson zeros in on effects like hotstamping, folding methods, unusual materials and methods of closure, bindings, type treatments and some graphic treatments. Handy little icons beneath each picture describe the effects that are used. Like the other reviewer, I thought the last chapter on graphic treatments was far too edgy to be useful to me. (Unless you do a lot of edgy work.) This book is for those who want to use special effects. This book acts more like a scrapbook of ideas than a design/technique book. You can mix and match many of these ideas - most of which are from cutting edge European design firms and some talented US firms plus others. I don't know of any book that is quite like this, so it would make a great addition to any design library.