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Colour is one of the essential elements of many branding designs. It can help give an identity personality and warmth, express emotion, communicate messages in an unconscious and subtle way and it can keep or navigate the viewer’s interest, drawing the eye and making elements stand out. This book explores colour palettes in graphic design […]

Beautiful and inspiring book (large format with Japanese bindning) that takes us on a visual road-trip into the process of making good logotypes and marks. Process — Visual Journeys in Graphic Design is a unique book highlighting the rarely shown sketching and process behind the making of marks and logotypes. It is based on the […]

Flexible Visual Systems sums up 10 years of research at the University of Barcelona, 20 years of developing systems at TwoPoints.Net  and 18 years of teaching systems at over 10 design universities throughout Europe on 320 pages. Flexible Visual Systems is the design manual for contemporary visual identities. It teaches you a variety of approaches […]

Second in the series: classic Japanese color recipes for use in design, fashion, interiors, art, and more. From 1933 to 1934 Sanzo Wada published a collection of color combinations that was the first of its kind in Japan. In 2010 Seigensha reprinted this classic as A Dictionary of Color Combinations, which was applauded by Die […]