This book offers a rare chance to read what graphic designers feel about their education and profession. Fifty influential designers give the low-down about their student days and their professional lives.

Good design begins with good ideas, generated in response to a given design brief. Successful visual outcomes can only be arrived at through generation of great ideas, driven by research that ultimately provides the designer with a range of potential design solutions. This title explores the different ways in which the designer can generate ideas.

Focuses on the needs of contemporary students of graphic design. This title includes topics such as: communication models; visual representation as a system of signs; cognitive approaches to design; modernism and postmodernism; and the social, cultural, and material contexts of contemporary design.

A guide that explores various aspects of the font creation process and covers everything from sketching initial letterforms to mastering the font creation software packages Fontlab and Fontographer. It addresses the issue of how designers can best market and sell their fonts, and includes advice on copywriting and working with foundries, and more.