Sean Adams

Renowned designer Sean Adams’s essential tool kit for designers, featuring a portable guidebook and 75-card deck showcasing colour palettes and inspiring colour combinations The Designer’s Colour Box is a must-have resource for graphic designers, interior designers, artists, and anyone who works with colour. This practical and inspiring resource features a how-to guide on colour combinations and a deck of cards with colour palettes to spark creativity and experimentation. The guidebook features the works of art that have inspired each palette, drawn from a range of sources including graphic design, product design, interiors, art, and fashion. Designed to complement The Designer’s Dictionary of Colour with insightful descriptions and tips, The Designer’s Colour Box is the perfect interactive kit to unlocking the power of colour. The Designer’s Colour Box includes: - 75 cards featuring a colour on one side to mix-and-match colour palettes, with suggested combinations and CMYK and RGB values on the reverse. - An 80-page guidebook with descriptions and works that have inspired each palette.

Renowned designer and author of The Designer's Dictionary of Color Sean Adams's essential tool kit for designers, featuring a portable guidebook and 75-card deck showcasing color palettes and inspiring color combinations. The Designer's Color Box is a must-have resource for graphic designers, interior designers, artists, and anyone who works with color. This practical and inspiring resource features a how-to guide on color combinations and a deck of cards with color palettes to spark creativity and experimentation. The guidebook features the works of art that have inspired each palette, drawn from a range of sources including graphic design, product design, interiors, art, and fashion. Designed to complement The Designer's Dictionary of Color with insightful descriptions and tips, The Designer's Color Box is the perfect interactive kit to unlocking the power of color The Designer's Color Box includes: - 75 cards featuring a color on one side to mix-and-match color palettes, with suggested combinations and CMYK and RGB values on the reverse. - An 80-page guidebook with descriptions and works that have inspired each palette.

Smisl tsijeji knizhki - dopomogti dizajneru v remesli, ozbrojiti jogo pravilami, poradami j metodami. Mi pogovorimo pro tipografiju, kompozitsiju, kolir i zobrazhennja. Same tsi ingredijenti, jakscho jikh pojednati silnoju, perekonlivoju kontseptsijeju, dajut u pidsumku dizajnerske rishennja. Jakbi ja buv shef-kukharem, to khotiv bi gotuvati z najkraschikh ingredijentiv: najkraschij retsept pljus najkraschi produkti j pripravi. Navrjad chi mozhna rozrakhovuvati na shedevr, jakscho zamist svizhogo tuntsja musish vdovolnjatisja konservovanim, a zamist stiglikh pomidoriv - tomatnim sousom iz paketika. Te same stosujetsja dizajnu. Produmanij shrift na rivni z Garamonom, individualno pidibrana palitra i vdala fotografija dadut bilshe, nizh bezkoshtovna garnitura z internetu, kolori, scho jikh na avtomati proponuje soft, i pershe-lipshe foto zi stoku.Koli opanuvav "pravilnij" sposib dizajnuvati j perekonavsja, scho kozhne tire na svojemu mistsi, mozhna pidkljuchatisja do inshogo poljusu dizajnerskoji osobistosti. Todi j mozhna bude znakhoditi nespodivani, provokativni khodi, kidati viklik ustalenomu porjadku rechej, probuvati alternativni protsesi virobnitstva. Odnak navit u tsomu vipadku ta ipostas dizajnera, scho revno stezhit za dotrimannjam pravil i shukaje doskonalosti, povinna chas vid chasu vtruchatisja j perevirjati, chi znajdene rishennja jasne j chi spromozhne poloniti gljadacha.PerekladachMikola Klimchuk

Shon Adame - glava Shkoly graficheskogo dizajna ArtCenter, osnovatel studii Burning Settlers Cabin, vkhodit v spisok soroka naibolee vlijatelnykh dizajnerov mira. V pererabotannoj i dopolnennoj versii ego knigi, vyderzhavshej neskolko pereizdanij na Zapade, prosto i dostupno objasneny osnovy teorii tsveta, raskryto kulturnoe znachenie tsvetov, kljuchevye pravila raboty s tsvetovoj palitroj, predstavleny znakovye tsvetovye sistemy v istorii iskusstva i dizajna, osobennosti tsvetovosprijatija i vzaimodejstvija razlichnykh ottenkov. Vy nauchites gramotno govorit s klientami o tsvete i uspeshno prezentovat svoi proekty, a takzhe uvidite primery blestjaschikh i vdokhnovljajuschikh tsvetovykh reshenij veduschikh mirovykh dizajnerov. Eta i drugaja vazhnaja informatsija teoreticheskogo i prakticheskogo kharaktera pozvolit vam dobitsja maksimalno effektivnogo ispolzovanija tsveta v svoikh rabotakh.

A New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceFeatured on recommended reading lists by the New York Times • New York Post • Library Journal • Thrillist • Locus • USA TODAY"The first great science fiction novel of 2020. " —NPR “As intellectually playful as the best of Thomas Pynchon and as sardonically warm as the best of Kurt Vonnegut. . . A masterful and humane gem of a novel.” —Shaun Hamill, author of A Cosmology of MonstersBlending the piercing humor of Alexandra Kleeman and the jagged satire of Black Mirror, an audacious, eerily prescient debut novel that chronicles the rise and fall of a massive high-rise housing complex, and the lives it affected before - and after - its demise.Standing nearly five hundred stories tall, Los Verticalés once bustled with life and excitement. Now this marvel of modern architecture and nontraditional urban planning has collapsed into a pile of rubble known as the Heap. In exchange for digging gear, a rehabilitated bicycle, and a small living stipend, a vast community of Dig Hands removes debris, trash, and bodies from the building’s mountainous remains, which span twenty acres of unincorporated desert land.Orville Anders burrows into the bowels of the Heap to find his brother Bernard, the beloved radio DJ of Los Verticalés, who is alive and miraculously broadcasting somewhere under the massive rubble. For months, Orville has lived in a sea of campers that surrounds the Heap, working tirelessly to free Bernard—the only known survivor of the imploded city—whom he speaks to every evening, calling into his radio show.The brothers’ conversations are a ratings bonanza, and the station’s parent company, Sundial Media, wants to boost its profits by having Orville slyly drop brand names into his nightly talks with Bernard. When Orville refuses, his access to Bernard is suddenly cut off, but strangely, he continues to hear his own voice over the airwaves, casually shilling products as “he” converses with Bernard.What follows is an imaginative and darkly hilarious story of conspiracy, revenge, and the strange life and death of Los Verticalés that both captures the wonderful weirdness of community and the bonds that tie us together.

"... thought provoking, beautiful, and superbly created." --Paula Scher, Partner, Pentagram"Insightful and accessible, Sean Adams tackles design from every angle and every medium."--Jennifer Morla, President and Creative Director, Morla DesignAIGA medalist and former AIGA National President Sean Adams visually explores design principles and theory that affect the way we think and how we behave. Design is everywhere. It's visceral. It's intellectual. It's emotional. While we often discuss the aesthetics of design, we don't always dig deeper into the ways design can overtly, or covertly, influence how we feel and act. In How Design Makes Us Think, AIGA award-winning graphic designer Sean Adams walks us through the power of design to attract attention and convey meaning. Through hundreds of examples across design principles, from graphic design to industrial design to architecture, Adams illustrates how design can inspire, provoke, amuse, anger, or reassure us, or subtly or consciously influence our thoughts and behavior. The book also delves into the sociological, psychological, and historical reasons for our responses to design, offering practitioners and clients alike a new appreciation of their responsibility to create design with the best intentions. How Design Makes Us Think is an essential read for designers, educators, advertisers, psychology enthusiasts, marketing professionals, and anyone who wants to understand how the design around us makes us think, feel, and do things.

"... thought provoking, beautiful, and superbly created." --Paula Scher, Partner, Pentagram"Insightful and accessible, Sean Adams tackles design from every angle and every medium."--Jennifer Morla, President and Creative Director, Morla DesignAIGA medalist and former AIGA National President Sean Adams visually explores design principles and theory that affect the way we think and how we behave. Design is everywhere. It's visceral. It's intellectual. It's emotional. While we often discuss the aesthetics of design, we don't always dig deeper into the ways design can overtly, or covertly, influence how we feel and act. In How Design Makes Us Think, AIGA award-winning graphic designer Sean Adams walks us through the power of design to attract attention and convey meaning. Through hundreds of examples across design principles, from graphic design to industrial design to architecture, Adams illustrates how design can inspire, provoke, amuse, anger, or reassure us, or subtly or consciously influence our thoughts and behavior. The book also delves into the sociological, psychological, and historical reasons for our responses to design, offering practitioners and clients alike a new appreciation of their responsibility to create design with the best intentions. How Design Makes Us Think is an essential read for designers, educators, advertisers, psychology enthusiasts, marketing professionals, and anyone who wants to understand how the design around us makes us think, feel, and do things.

"Vse, kogo interesuet tsvet, najdut v etoj knige tsennye prakticheskie sovety s pojasnenijami i primerami, razreshajuschimi mnogie voprosy. Vosprijatie tsveta ne tolko individualno, ono esche i gluboko zalozheno v kulture, v raznoobrazii nezrimykh javlenij i vraschajuschikhsja v beskonechnosti assotsiatsij. Tsvet vyzyvaet vospominanija, emotsii i sozdaet mnozhestvo otsylok. Nu i konechno, tsveta - eto razlozhennyj v spektr svet. Zagadku spektra ponjat polnostju nevozmozhno, khotja popytki delali Aristotel, Gjote i Vitgenshtejn (i, razumeetsja, Isaak Njuton). Navernoe, imenno poetomu Dzhozef Albers vsegda prepodaval studentam stol voskhititelno prostoj urok: moj krasnyj ni sejchas, ni kogda-libo esche ne budet takim zhe, kak vash. V etom-to, kak vesma krasnorechivo rasskazyvaet nam Shon Adams, i zakljuchaetsja ves smysl". Dzhessika Khelfand

DON'T use comic sans (except ironically ) but DO worship the classic typefaces like Helvetica and Garamond. Graphic Design Rules is a handy guide for professional graphic designers, students, and laymen who incorporate graphic design into their job or small business. Packed with practical advice, this spirited collection of design dos and don'ts takes readers through 365 rules like knowing when to use a modular grid--and when to throw the grid out the window. All designers will appreciate tips and lessons from these highly accomplished authors, who draw on years of experience to help you create good design.

"As intellectually playful as the best of Thomas Pynchon and as sardonically warm as the best of Kurt Vonnegut, The Heap is both a hilarious send-up of life under late capitalism and a moving exploration of the peculiar loneliness of the early 21st century. A masterful and humane gem of a novel." --Shaun Hamill, author of A Cosmology of MonstersBlending the piercing humor of Alexandra Kleeman and the jagged satire of Black Mirror, an audacious, eerily prescient debut novel that chronicles the rise and fall of a massive high-rise housing complex, and the lives it affected before - and after - its demise.Standing nearly five hundred stories tall, Los Vertical s once bustled with life and excitement. Now this marvel of modern architecture and nontraditional urban planning has collapsed into a pile of rubble known as the Heap. In exchange for digging gear, a rehabilitated bicycle, and a small living stipend, a vast community of Dig Hands removes debris, trash, and bodies from the building's mountainous remains, which span twenty acres of unincorporated desert land.Orville Anders burrows into the bowels of the Heap to find his brother Bernard, the beloved radio DJ of Los Vertical s, who is alive and miraculously broadcasting somewhere under the massive rubble. For months, Orville has lived in a sea of campers that surrounds the Heap, working tirelessly to free Bernard--the only known survivor of the imploded city--whom he speaks to every evening, calling into his radio show.The brothers' conversations are a ratings bonanza, and the station's parent company, Sundial Media, wants to boost its profits by having Orville slyly drop brand names into his nightly talks with Bernard. When Orville refuses, his access to Bernard is suddenly cut off, but strangely, he continues to hear his own voice over the airwaves, casually shilling products as "he" converses with Bernard.What follows is an imaginative and darkly hilarious story of conspiracy, revenge, and the strange life and death of Los Vertical s that both captures the wonderful weirdness of community and the bonds that tie us together.

Award-winning designer Sean Adams presents over 100 case studies of environmental graphics and murals from around the world.

The Designer’s Dictionary of Color provides an in-depth look at 30 colors key to art and graphic design. Organized by spectrum, in color-by-color sections for easy navigation, this book documents each hue with charts showing color range and palette variations. Chapters detail each color’s creative history and cultural associations, with examples of color use that extend from the artistic to the utilitarian—whether the turquoise on a Reid Miles album cover or the avocado paint job on a 1970s Dodge station wagon. A practical and inspirational resource for designers and students alike, The Designer’s Dictionary of Color opens up the world of color for all those who seek to harness its incredible power.

The Designer's Dictionary of Color by award-winning educator Sean Adams offers an in-depth exploration of 30 essential colors in art and graphic design. ​Designed for graphic designers, interior designers, artists, and anyone who uses color to express themselves, this book is both a practical resource and an inspirational tool. With astute descriptions and ideas for pitching colors to clients, The Designer's Dictionary of Color opens up the world of color for all who seek to harness its incredible power. Organized by spectrum, this comprehensive guide provides detailed charts showing color ranges and palette variations, making it easy to navigate and reference during creative projects. Each chapter delves into the creative history and cultural associations of a specific color, from the artistic to the utilitarian. Whether it's the turquoise on a Reid Miles album cover or the avocado paint on a 1970s Dodge station wagon, Adams provides insightful context and practical applications for each hue. "The descriptions are astute and succinct and even offer ideas for pitching particular colors to clients. . . . Edges are lined in the color of each chapter, so you can flip to the right chapter for quick reference during a meeting and while doing research." --Communication Arts

365 daily design mantras from four leading industry experts, providing you with valuable design dos and don'ts for every day of year. Packed with practical advice presented in a fun, lighthearted fashion, this is the perfect book for the ever-growing group of non-designers who want some graphic design guidance. And for more experienced designers, individual entries will either bring forth knowing nods of agreement or hoots of derision, depending on whether or not the reader loves or hates hyphenation, has a pathological fear of beige, or thinks that baseline grids are boring. In the style of a classical almanac, 365 entries combine a specific rule with a commentary from a variety of experienced designers from all fields of the graphic design industry. Covering topics such as typography, colour, layout, imagery, production, and creative thinking, you can either dip in at random or use the book as the source of a daily lesson in how to produce great graphic design.