• More and more organizations are using 360-degree feedback to provide an opportunity to talk about key changes. This second edition of the best-selling book includes research and information that more accurately reflects who is using 360-degree feedback and where and how it is being used. In addition, the authors incorporate information about the impact of advances in technology and the more global and virtual work environment. This new edition includes case examples, tips, and pointers on preparing 360-degree feedback and information on how to implement it.

• Experience real human body structures and movements with this indispensable guide to the the digital expression of anatomical mechanisms. Impressive graphic details, along with clear explanations, explore the character animation of each body part and movement as illustrated for art directors, designers, and animators. Packed with 650 full-color computer-graphic visuals, and covering more than 280 useful topics, with commentaries on every body part, bone, and muscular movement, this comprehensive body-animation graphic manual is a must have for every digital artist and designer!

• This final installment in an acclaimed series offers astute--and controversial--discussions on contemporary graphic design from 2001 to 2005.
• The essays here takes stock of the graphic design writing published in professional and general-interest design magazines, as well as in blogs and Internet journals.
• Contributors include Milton Glaser, Maud Lavin, Ellen Lupton, Victor Margolin, Mr. Keedy, David Jury, Alice Twemlow, Jessica Helfand, Michael Dooley, Nick Curry, Emily King, and more.
• These prominent designers look at design as pop culture, design as art, politics, aesthetics, social responsibility, typography, the future of design--a wide-ranging and thought-provoking mix of ideas and information.
• Students, beginning graphic designers, and even veterans seeking fresh perspective will savor this collection.
• Last in the series that helped launch the design-criticism movement--and that pioneered anthologizing important graphic-design criticism--this volume will be the most provocative of all.

Allworth Press | 2005 | ISBN: 1581154356 | 256 pages | PDF | 3.3 MB | RS & FF

• How to create great graphic-design courses—and why to create them.
• More than 30 big-name contributors, including Vince Frost, Ronn Campisi, Gail Anderson, and others.
• This provocative anthology provides inspiration on teaching and discussing art direction in the classroom and beyond. Essays, interviews, and images from more than thirty teachers and leaders in the field provide an in-depth view of every facet of art direction; concrete examples reveal how to create classes that are fun to teach and inspiring to students and department chairs alike.
• A boon to instructors, a boost to anyone interested in graphic design, this book is educational in the best sense of the word.