Next: The New Generation in Graphic Design [Hardcover]

Jesse Marinoff Reyes (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 2000

Young designers and students are hungry to know what their peers are doing in today's graphic design field. This book showcases many of the best designers in their 20s and 30s who are producing innovative, eye-catching work with posters, book covers and jackets, CD packaging and other music media. Brief interviews with each artist illuminate the ideas behind their work. Next also helps jump-start the creative process by presenting fresh, edgy concepts that designers can't see anywhere else, and it's a wonderful tool for older designers, enabling them to get a handle on the visual language understood by younger consumers. Includes an introduction by the dean of underground designers, award-winner Art Chantry.

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About the Author

Jesse Marinoff Reyes has been employed in graphic arts as a freelance designer, magazine art director and book cover designer for the past fifteen years. He is an award-winning designer whose work has been included in the Print Regional Design Annual, How, Creativity, The New York Book Show and The Society of Publication Designers Annual.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 160 pages
• Publisher: North Light Books; 1 edition (July 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0891349995
• ISBN-13: 978-0891349990
• Product Dimensions: 12.1 x 9.2 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,721,397 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The shape of things to come, June 11, 2001

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Stan Shaw (Tacoma, WA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Next: The New Generation in Graphic Design (Hardcover)

"Next" is a prime example of what should be considered the design that will take us into the coming millenium. Inspirational, and informative it shows us the work and tells about the process behind the scene. As an illustrator I love the fact that Mr. Reyes includes comments by, and work by Illustrators. From lables to posters, "Next " is an insightful look at current design.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A great book, June 1, 2001

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Pam Pollack (New York, NY United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Next: The New Generation in Graphic Design (Hardcover)

I found Next to be a great book on contemporary graphic design, essential in representing an aesthetic that is generally under-represented in most other design annuals and survey books. The author, who's won numerous awards in his professional career, has done his research: he presents designers who are NOT the dozen or so "usual suspects" or "name" designers over-represented in most other books. The book is also less New-York-centric, though not exclusionary, than a lot of other books of its kind.

An intriguing and essential look at a new generation of designers.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars it's called "personal style", May 29, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Next: The New Generation in Graphic Design (Hardcover)

I bought this book recently because I used to follow Mr. Reyes' design, back when he was the designer of The Rocket, the Seattle music-related newspaper.

"Next" is a treat for me -- not only because I saw current work by people whose art I have long appreciated, but because Mr. Reyes offered a well-considered picture of how contemporary designers have evolved since the "D.I.Y" aesthetic of The Rocket.