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Book Design Funny

    Book Details:
  • Author : Heather Bradley
  • Publisher : HOW Books
  • Release : 2015-03-05
  • ISBN : 9781440335495
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Design Funny written by Heather Bradley and published by HOW Books. This book was released on 2015-03-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's time to stop taking graphic design so seriously! All-natural, free-range and gluten-free, Design Funny: A Graphic Designer's Guide to Humor is an entertaining yet practical guide to the lighter side of the design profession. Inside you'll find inspiration, advice and visual gags from comedy juggernauts The Onion, Comedy Central, Funny Or Die, MAD magazine, JibJab, Cheezburger, as well as dozens of top creative agencies, talented freelance designers and professional comedians. But wait, there's more! You'll also get... 300 witty images 175 contributing designers 42 ways to design funny 10 quizzes to reveal your sense of humor 6 serious reasons to pitch funny 0 bullshit* Discover how you can use 42 principles of comedy to transform your visual communication from ho-hum to ha-ha. Find out what your client or boss needs to hear in order to buy into your funny ideas. Learn astonishing facts about design and humor theory from science, psychology and history. Did you know the first dirty cartoon appeared over 50,000 years ago? Whether you're an aspiring designer, design expert or just like funny pictures, you'll get a kick out of seeing the method behind the madness of designing funny.

Book Made by James

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  • Author : James Martin
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2022-01-25
  • ISBN : 0760371490
  • Pages : 229 pages

Download or read book Made by James written by James Martin and published by . This book was released on 2022-01-25 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Made by James, top graphic designer James Martin shares techniques, information, and ideas to help you become a better logo designer.

Book Design Humor

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  • Author : Steven Heller
  • Publisher : Skyhorse Publishing
  • Release : 2002
  • ISBN : 9781581152463
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Design Humor written by Steven Heller and published by Skyhorse Publishing. This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the first satiric cave drawings to the quirky humour of Push Pin studios, Design Humor explores what makes wit and humour such important tools in graphic design. Compiling some of the most clever, ironic, and acerbic pieces from annuals, exhibitions, and designer's drawers, this entertaining sourcebook demonstrates how to communicate effectively through visual puns, type play, and ironic images. It features dozens of classic examples of comical type creations such as Goudy Stout as well as the exuberant playfulness of post-modern design. Full of captivating historical and philosophical references from such humour experts as Groucho Marx, Max Eastman, and Mark Twain, Design Humor is an invaluable resource for designers and design students, as well as a treasured collection of design wit for the enthusiast!

Book Creativity and Humor

Download or read book Creativity and Humor written by and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2018-09-28 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Creativity and Humor provides an overview of the intersection of how humor influences creativity and how creativity can affect humor. The book's chapters speak to the wide reach of creativity and humor with different topics, such as play, culture, work, education, therapy, and social justice covered. As creativity and humor are individual traits and abilities that have each been studied in psychology, this book presents the latest information. - Explains how, and why, humor enhances creativity - Explores the thought processes behind producing humor and creativity - Examines how childhood play is the basis for both creativity and humor - Discusses cross-cultural differences in humor and creativity - Reviews creativity and humor in politics, teaching and relationships

Book The Graphic Design Idea Book

Download or read book The Graphic Design Idea Book written by Gail Anderson and published by Laurence King Publishing. This book was released on 2016-04-13 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book serves as an introduction to the key elements of good design. Broken into sections covering the fundamental elements of design, key works by acclaimed designers serve to illustrate technical points and encourage readers to try out new ideas. Themes covered include narrative, colour, illusion, ornament, simplicity, and wit and humour. The result is an instantly accessible and easy to understand guide to graphic design using professional techniques.

Book Encyclopedia of Humor Studies

Download or read book Encyclopedia of Humor Studies written by Salvatore Attardo and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2014-02-25 with total page 985 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Encyclopedia of Humor: A Social History explores the concept of humor in history and modern society in the United States and internationally. This work’s scope encompasses the humor of children, adults, and even nonhuman primates throughout the ages, from crude jokes and simple slapstick to sophisticated word play and ironic parody and satire. As an academic social history, it includes the perspectives of a wide range of disciplines, including sociology, child development, social psychology, life style history, communication, and entertainment media. Readers will develop an understanding of the importance of humor as it has developed globally throughout history and appreciate its effects on child and adult development, especially in the areas of health, creativity, social development, and imagination. This two-volume set is available in both print and electronic formats. Features & Benefits: The General Editor also serves as Editor-in-Chief of HUMOR: International Journal of Humor Research for The International Society for Humor Studies. The book’s 335 articles are organized in A-to-Z fashion in two volumes (approximately 1,000 pages). This work is enhanced by an introduction by the General Editor, a Foreword, a list of the articles and contributors, and a Reader’s Guide that groups related entries thematically. A Chronology of Humor, a Resource Guide, and a detailed Index are included. Each entry concludes with References/Further Readings and cross references to related entries. The Index, Reader’s Guide themes, and cross references between and among related entries combine to provide robust search-and-browse features in the electronic version. This two-volume, A-to-Z set provides a general, non-technical resource for students and researchers in such diverse fields as communication and media studies, sociology and anthropology, social and cognitive psychology, history, literature and linguistics, and popular culture and folklore.

Book The Psychology Behind Design

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jeongmin Lee
  • Publisher : Springer Nature
  • Release :
  • ISBN : 9819734266
  • Pages : 261 pages

Download or read book The Psychology Behind Design written by Jeongmin Lee and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Handbook of Research on Managing and Designing Online Courses in Synchronous and Asynchronous Environments

Download or read book Handbook of Research on Managing and Designing Online Courses in Synchronous and Asynchronous Environments written by Durak, Gürhan and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2021-12-17 with total page 731 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In order to be successful, online learning should be planned systematically. It can be said that offering distance education courses without preparation and knowledge about the theoretical background can cause drawbacks. While distance education has become widespread and popular, it is observed that there could be problems in its application. Such problems can include technical problems, inability to meet the learning needs at the learners’ own speeds, lack of communication among learners and between learners and teachers, and lack of quality materials appropriate for online learning or the inclusion of materials used in traditional methods directly into online learning. For successful online courses, these critical aspects of distance education are important, and they should be taken into account by the institutions and the instructors offering online courses. The Handbook of Research on Managing and Designing Online Courses in Synchronous and Asynchronous Environments provides up-to-date knowledge and experiences regarding technologies, processes, and environments for online course design in distance education systems and covers topics related to the aspects of successful distance education systems with a focus on teaching and learning in online environments. Focusing on topics such as instructional design and integrated systems, it is an ideal guide for online course designers, instructional designers, curricula developers, administrators, educators, researchers, trainers, and students.

Book Thoughts on Design

    Book Details:
  • Author : Paul Rand
  • Publisher : Chronicle Books
  • Release : 2014-08-19
  • ISBN : 1452130655
  • Pages : 97 pages

Download or read book Thoughts on Design written by Paul Rand and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2014-08-19 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the seminal texts of graphic design, Paul Rand's Thoughts on Design is now available for the first time since the 1970s. Writing at the height of his career, Rand articulated in his slender volume the pioneering vision that all design should seamlessly integrate form and function. This facsimile edition preserves Rand's original 1947 essay with the adjustments he made to its text and imagery for a revised printing in 1970, and adds only an informative and inspiring new foreword by design luminary Michael Bierut. As relevant today as it was when first published, this classic treatise is an indispensable addition to the library of every designer.

Book Gender and Humor

Download or read book Gender and Humor written by Delia Chiaro and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-05-09 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the mid-seventies, both gender studies and humor studies emerged as new disciplines, with scholars from various fields undertaking research in these areas. The first publications that emerged in the field of gender studies came out of disciplines such as philosophy, history, and literature, while early works in the area of humor studies initially concentrated on language, linguistics, and psychology. Since then, both fields have flourished, but largely independently. This book draws together and focuses the work of scholars from diverse disciplines on intersections of gender and humor, giving voice to approaches in disciplines such as film, television, literature, linguistics, translation studies, and popular culture.

Book American Designs

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jeanne Campbell Reesman
  • Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
  • Release : 2016-11-11
  • ISBN : 1512806749
  • Pages : 252 pages

Download or read book American Designs written by Jeanne Campbell Reesman and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2016-11-11 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American Designs addresses three major literary critical issues: the hermeneutics of the novel genre; the intense importance of this genre for American literature; and the way James and Faulkner; by writing within hermeneutic traditions of the modern American novel, explore further than any other writers the particular functions of the novelistic designs they inherited and transformed. Jeanne Campbell Reesman contends that in the late fiction of James and Faulkner the search for knowledge of the self and others is presented as a metafictive issue of power, authority, and freedom. While their own interests lead characters in the novels to enact designs on other characters, the novels themselves undermine the validity of any single, imposed design. American writers, Reesman argues, develop narrative structures that fail to close. Theirs is an open-ended search for American identity. Structures remain unfinished or unresolved or "disunified" in order to allow human beings a certain freedom from closed design, and they do this out of a dual reaction against both Old World tradition and New World Puritanism. Reesman probes the relationship between narrative design and "the problem of knowledge" in American literature in her resonant readings the The Ambassadors, Absalom, Absalom!, The Golden Bowl, and Go Down, Moses. James and Faulkner, of course, never knew each other, but in this first book-length comparison of these major authors, Reesman convinces her reader that they would have had a great deal to say to each other. American Designs will be of interest to scholars and students of American literature.

Book Sparking Creativity

    Book Details:
  • Author : Barry Kudrowitz
  • Publisher : Taylor & Francis
  • Release : 2023-06-01
  • ISBN : 1000863433
  • Pages : 402 pages

Download or read book Sparking Creativity written by Barry Kudrowitz and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-06-01 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Blending popular culture and design theory, framed by a decade of scholarly research, this book highlights how play and humor fuel innovation. Now, more than ever, we are in need of creative solutions to global problems, but creative skills and abilities decline over time without intervention and practice. Sparking Creativity provides empirically supported methods for embracing the often-trivialized domains of play and humor to increase our creativity. It shows that topical examples, such as Seinfeld's humor, the Apples to Apples board game, and the Adventure Time cartoon series, are more closely related to innovation than you might first think. The book is organized into five main parts, each containing short, engaging subsections and informative, playful, and colorful illustrations to demonstrate concepts. Written in a humorous and accessible style, this book is aimed toward creative-minded entrepreneurs, designers, engineers, industry leaders, parents, educators, and students. It encourages a playful approach throughout a design process to produce truly innovative solutions.

Book ECIE 2016 11th European Conference on Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Download or read book ECIE 2016 11th European Conference on Innovation and Entrepreneurship written by Minna Tunkkari Eskelinen and published by Academic Conferences and publishing limited. This book was released on 2016 with total page 1058 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Writing and Research for Graphic Designers

Download or read book Writing and Research for Graphic Designers written by Steven Heller and published by Rockport Publishers. This book was released on 2013-01-18 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For designers, writing and research skills are more necessary than ever before, from the basic business compositions to critical writing. In this competitive climate, designers are routinely called upon to make words about the images and designs they create for clients. Writing about design is not just "trade" writing, but should be accessible to everyone with an interest in design. This book is a complete, introductory guide to various forms of research and writing in design—and how they explain visuals and can be visualized. These pages address communication on various levels and to all audiences: - Designers to Designers - Designers to Clients - Designers to the Design-literate - Designers to the Design-agnostic Being able to express the issues and concerns of the design practice demands facts, data, and research. With Writing and Research for Graphic Designers, you’ll learn how to turn information into a valuable asset— one of the key talents of the design researcher.

Book Graphic Icons

    Book Details:
  • Author : John Clifford
  • Publisher : Pearson Education
  • Release : 2014
  • ISBN : 0321887204
  • Pages : 241 pages

Download or read book Graphic Icons written by John Clifford and published by Pearson Education. This book was released on 2014 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who are history's most iconic graphic designers? Let the debate begin here. In this gorgeous, visual overview of the history of graphic design, students are introduced to 50 of the most important designers from the early 20th century to the present day. This fun-to-read, pretty-to-look-at graphic design history primer introduces them to the work and notable achievements of such industry luminaries as El Lissitzky, Alexander Rodchenko, A.M. Cassandre, Alvin Lustig, Cipe Pineles, Armin Hofmann, Paul Rand, Saul Bass, Herb Lubalin, Milton Glaser, Stefan Sagmeister, John Maeda, Paula Scher, and more. Who coined the term "graphic design"? Who designed the first album cover? Who was the first female art director of a mass-market American magazine? Who created the "I Want My MTV" ad campaign? Who created the first mail-order font shop? In Graphic Icons: Visionaries Who Shaped Modern Graphic Design, students start with the who and quickly learn the what, when, why, and where behind graphic design's most important breakthroughs and the impact they had, and continue to have, on the world we live in.

Book The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales

Download or read book The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales written by Jon Scieszka and published by Viking Juvenile. This book was released on 2002 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Madcap revisions of familiar fairy tales.

Book Vintage Tomorrows

    Book Details:
  • Author : James Carrott
  • Publisher : "O'Reilly Media, Inc."
  • Release : 2013-01-15
  • ISBN : 1449337996
  • Pages : 423 pages

Download or read book Vintage Tomorrows written by James Carrott and published by "O'Reilly Media, Inc.". This book was released on 2013-01-15 with total page 423 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can you imagine what today’s technology would have looked like in the Victorian Era? That’s the world Steampunk envisions: a mad-inventor collection of 21st Century-inspired contraptions powered by stream and driven by gears. It’s more than just a whimsical idea. In the past few years, the Steampunk genre has captivated makers, hackers, artists, designers, writers, and others throughout the world. In this fascinating book, futurist Brian David Johnson and cultural historian James Carrott offer insights into what Steampunk’s alternative history says about our own world and its technological future. Interviews with experts such as William Gibson, Cory Doctorow, Bruce Sterling, James Gleick, and Margaret Atwood explore how this vision of stylish craftsmen making fantastic and beautiful hand-tooled gadgets has become a cultural movement—and perhaps an important countercultural moment. Steampunk is everywhere—as gadget prototypes at Maker Faire, novels and comic books, paintings and photography, sculptures, fashion design, and music. Discover how this elaborate view of a future that never existed can help us look forward.