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 design--how 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 & 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.
