Design school confidential : extraordinary class projects from international design schools / Steven Heller & Lita Talarico.

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"Every great design school in the world is defined, in part, by the work of its students at any given time. The various project challenges given to a class determine the success of a school's pedagogy, but also the ingenuity of its faculty and students. This book features fifty real-world class assignments from top design programs at universities around the world, and examines the resulting student projects. From undergraduate to graduate work and basic class challenges to final thesis's, students delivered a wide variety of graphic and multimedia design projects from print to motion to exhibition. The book has three functions: to exhibit a wide range of challenging problems and successful solutions, provide practical models to be inspired by and learn from, examine how sophisticated design school projects are and what value they have in relation to real-world practice."--Jacket.

Introduction the gold standard -- Anatomy of a successful project -- The projects -- Helvetica nation -- VCUQatar 10th anniversary publications -- Cradle to grave -- Visual identity for the 25th biennial of graphic arts in Ljubljana -- On trial -- Product identity -- Locale -- Turning data into information -- Sacral design -- New identity for the academy of fine arts of Bologna -- Boston and Suzhou: a cultural concept book study -- Water, politics, and hope -- Town of split workshop -- My first political poster design: Chile, the other September 11th -- To die for -- South African stories -- The formal language of a display typeface -- Visualizing various information types across multiple channels -- X box -- Breaking the rules in interactive media design -- Medical information design -- Human rights, human wrongs -- Illustrating a fiction spread -- Prague souvenirs -- User-centered communication -- Creating meaningful graphics -- Make a chair -- Books for travel -- Collage poster workshop -- Research project -- Undaunted courage -- Development of type families for magazines -- Type as metaphor -- Horsepower -- What happened? -- Think: the credibility of information in the digital age -- Listen carefully -- Interactive music or musician's website -- Beyond the surface -- Pattern magazine -- Color y carnaval -- The transparent cover -- Reading the urban landscape -- Comic sequence -- Senior degree project in graphic design -- Modular type -- Communication design program -- Major design project -- Graphic design with any media -- The one -- Stop global warming -- Ways of seeing (sequential image making) -- Beatrice Warde and you.

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