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“Three D – Graphic Scenarios” highlights a current trend in international graphic design. More and more visual designers are staging three-dimensional scenarios and turning them into posters, flyers, book and magazine covers, and animated films. The result is new and evocative pictorial worlds that range from playfully arranged still lifes to room-filling installations. Common to them all is the use of analogue design techniques that give real objects precedence over perfectly simulated computer representations. 

The publication is rounded out by an essay by Steven Heller, for many years the art director of the New York Times, and an interview with the noted graphic designer Stefan Sagmeister, one of the leading exponents of this trend.
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If you enjoy this book or subject, you may also want to pick up or check out books like: Tactile, Tangible and Stereographics. 

Many designers from different areas are choosing to no longer work exclusively in two dimensions and are instead dealing intensively with space, material and physical products. 
   

Tactile shows how graphic design is moving into three-dimensional objects and products and presents graphic design that works with space – or the perception of space. The book focuses less on murals than on products, objects, installations and collage that demonstrate how designers are developing and implementing their ideas spatially from the very outset of a given project.

Buy Tactile: High Touch Visuals $44  from Amazon.

The striking visual work in Tangible indicates the rise of graphic-inspired interior designs as artists, graphic designers, typographers and illustrators transform their ideas into shops, restaurants, hotels and fair stand designs.

Buy Tangible: High Touch Visuals $41 from Amazon.

This ground breaking new book explores how the pathways of graphic design are moving away from the over exposed digital medium and turning to the crafty real-world manifestations of analog inspired visual ideas. One brilliant method within this milieu is the creation of graphics in a sculptural or 3 dimensional environment. Logos are no longer flat, but are designed to reflect a physical presence that is palpably discernible on the printed page; typefaces are carved and sculpted. All of which means, that the edges between the real, the physical and the imagined have again been blurred. Stereographics explores how the discipline of prop building and model creation can be applied in graphic design, especially in innovative and fresh new font design. It features hundreds of successful projects including promotional flyers, brochures, in-store graphics, textiles and clothing.

Buy Stereographics: Graphics in New Dimensions $26 from Amazon.

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