Yes Logo: 40 Years of Branding and Design by Michael Peters
Product DescriptionYes Logo: 40 Years of Branding, Design & Communication by Michael Peters chronicles the story of Michael Peters, one of Britain’s most significant design luminaries. Peters began his venture into graphic design at London College of Printing, continuing his studies abroad at Yale, where he was tutored by such greats as Paul Rand, Herbert Matter and Alexej Brodovitch; he was also fortunate to work as an assistant to Bauhaus legend, Josef Albers. Peters then worked at CBS in New York, which was at the time a mecca for the creative marketing profession. He returned to London and set…
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I was reading some articles online that said most graphic designers last two to five years in the field. Why is this? The articles didn’t really say why.
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Product DescriptionRetro Graphics makes it easy for DIY designers to mimic the most prominent styles of the past hundred years. A plethora of authentic design models from Art Deco and Gothic Revival to Pop Art and Post Modernism are presented and broken down into their component parts in this handy sourcebook. These entries include step-by-step techniques, color palettes, typefaces, illustration styles, and ornamentation to help anyone create the look of such diverse materials as Victorian advertisements and pulp fiction book jackets. History can’t be revived, but it can be simulated with this richly illustrated and meticulously researched visual encyclopedia.…
