num_pages: 272
description: Equal parts design inspiration and manual Please Make This Look Nice combines interviews writings case studies and personal ephemera from celebrated designers into a solid primer for designers and design enthusiasts alike. Please Make This Look Nice is a behind-the-scenes look at the graphic design process of more than fifty graphic designers typographers and studios from around the world. Hundreds of never-before-seen images mined from their archives are woven together with first-hand observations resulting in a rich and diverse perspective on the nature of making. A must-have for students devotees and practicing designers it expands the most basic understanding of graphic designhow it gets made and its effect on the modern world. Celebrated graphic design contributors including Maira Kalman Milton Glaser Michael Bierut Experimental Jetset Carin Goldberg Ivan Chermayeff &amp; Tom Geismar Paul Sahre and Stefan Sagmeister as well as emerging design stars share their far-ranging insights and personal means of finding inspiration. Kalman advises on the importance of journals and walking; Sagmeister meditates on his desire to find define and create beauty in a world defined by efficiency; Bierut speaks to the existence of many possible solutions to a single design problem as well as how his own process developed in response to his mentor Massimo Vignelli; and Ed Fella encourages designers to experiment innovate and discover a personal methodology unique to their own criteria interests and values. Please Make This Look Nice is sure to appeal to type and graphic design professionals students and design fans alike.
language: English
title: Please Make This Look Nice: The Graphic Design Process
publisher: Skira Rizzoli