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Design for Special Events: 500 of the Best Logos, Invitations, and Graphics

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Length:: 0:31 Mins

There are 320 pages in these book. In it contains pictures of graphic design done on different medium for special occasions.

19 out of these hundreds of designs are pulled out as case studies. Each case study has a short write up explaining the event and the promotional material published. These promotional material includes tickets, brochures, t-shirts, posters, cards and many other stuff. The more eye catching ones are those that break out of the medium, like tying real shoe laces to a shoe on a brochure, paper cutouts and stuff like that.

The events themselves are also categorized. Here's the list:

- Art & Design
- Business
- Fund-raisers
- Community & Education
- Entertainment
- Private Parties
- Awards
- Sports & Automotive

It's a graphic design book from Rockport. There's really nothing much I can add. The quality of selection has always been consistently high.

(More pictures are available on my blog. Just visit my Amazon profile for the link.)

A great book with wonderful design examples. If you're in the event marketing environment it's a must have. Provides plenty of inspirations and ideas. I can highly recommend.. Marc [...]

Design for Special Events is the kind of title I've been searching for. More than just pretty wedding invites with silky bows, this collection features substantial event campaigns, with multiple pieces, for a broad variety of events. While some of the graphics are gritty, not the elegant invitations many are used to, it was a refreshing change of pace. On the downside, however, while the text describes event-related design as "of the moment", many of these pieces, frankly, weren't. Many of the events happened in 2003, or earlier, and there was a heavy number of "retro" examples using Rosewood font and "farmer's almanac" type graphics. Overall, this is a nice addition to my reference collection but I hope future titles will be more current.

Book arrived in great conditions but it could have taken less time.
The book has a lot of original invitations, flyers, logos.. a lot of great inspiration for your work.

Having gone through many books I think this book is a good resource to have for ideas and assist in thought provoking, Very neatly packaged and easy to use.
I will always have it my book shelve for reference.

As a graphic designer who works on lots of trade show graphics, I was hoping for a book that would offer photo examples of actual trade show graphics on the show floor. This book features predominantly pre-show mailings/posters/collateral to drive traffic to the show, not actual show graphics. Another good reference book for my shelf, but didn't quite fit the bill for what I originally wanted.

Unfortunately, I don't think there are any great books out there right now for trade show graphics that are what I'm looking for.

Good book, but the samples are a bit outdated. Would have been better to have more contemporary samples of event design.

Comprei este livro, na intenção de visualizar "idéias" novas, produtos diferenciados, mas encontrei convites, selos, e cartazes nada fora do normal.