Книги видавництва Rockport

Create an alphabet all your own with a helping hand from Hand Lettering A to Z and its team of international artists here to help you get started. Your hand lettering contains a little bit of you! Hand lettering not only expresses w...

In Handbuilt, A Potter's Guide, pottery expert Melissa Weiss shows you the basics of crafting without a wheel, how to harvest and work wild clay, and using natural glazes. Handbuilt pottery is the perfect way for new potters to dive ...

A classic and essential text for designers since 2009, Layout Essentials: 100 Design Principles for Using Grids just got better with a fresh exploration of its design principles, updated text, and new photos and international graphics.  Grids...

Effective layout is essential to communication and enables the end-user to not only be drawn in with an innovative design, but to digest information easily. Making and Breaking the Grid is a comprehensive layout design workshop that assumes...

Learn to draw by sketching what surrounds you everyday. In Observational Sketching, author Mariko Higaki — an ISDA Gold Award-winning industrial designer based in Japan — teaches you how to practice and learn to sketch by using well-...

This comprehensive guide provides designers with a thoughtful packaging primer that covers the challenges of designing packaging for a competitive market in a very hardworking and relevant way. Package Design Workbook addresses all aspects of the cre...

Most architectural standards references contain thousands of pages of details, overwhelmingly more than architects need to know on any given day.  The updated and revised edition of Architecture Reference & Specification contain...

The only color guide a designer will ever need; The Complete Color Harmony, Pantone Edition has been completely updated with Pantone colors and new text. The Complete Color Harmony: Pantone Edition is the latest in Rockport Pub...

This handy, portable version of the authoritative Universal Methods of Design provides the same thorough and critical presentation, updated and expanded to include 125 research methods, synthesis/analysis techniques, and research deliv...

The book is a timeless art form, one that is as alive today as ever before, and artists continue to explore and explode the boundaries of what a book is and can be. In this beautiful collection, you will experience close-up various aspects of hand-cr...

Often, the small, delightful details make a piece shine, similar to the way unique buttons on a white shirt can give it an entirely new look. This book explores 1,000 of these embellishments available to graphic designers across all kinds of projects...

Graffiti and street art used to be a sure sign of a neighborhood’s neglect. Even though it is still a countercultural art form, its role has grown: it enlivens public space, provides social commentary, and adds humor and color to the urban and ...

A visual catalog for jewellery, bead artists, and crafters for hundreds of ideas at their fingertips to inspire their own projects. 1,000 Jewelry Inspirations is a stunning showcase of contemporary jewellery pieces that will feed the creative appe...

Making artist trading cards (ATCs) is a hugely popular activity for artists. Originally a paper/collage-based art form, ATCs have caught on with crafters working in a range of mediums and are now just as popular among fabric and mixed-media artists. ...

When attempting to create a bag, tag, or label design that is strong in every respect, you are contending with some of the world’s best designers. To compete in this league, you have to know your competition. Finally, here is a book in which you c...