Something from Nothing (Design Process) [Paperback]

April Greiman (Author), Aris Janigian (Author), Lewis Blackwell (Foreword)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 15, 2002 | Series: Design Process

Something from Nothing explores the process of design pioneered by April Greiman - digital design. Greiman is internationally recognized as one of the world's most innovative and influential designers. Her work is wide-ranging - covering web design, print, moving imagery, 3D design and, during the last decade, architecture. Her bold, kinetic explorations of typography as objects in time and space are grounded in the brilliant fusion of technology and graphics. Written and designed by Greiman, this book is an intimate insight into her inspirational design philosophies and the many projects she has executed.

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About the Author

LA-based April Greiman has been at the forefront of graphic design since the 1970s and is a lecturer at the Art Center College, LA. She is a member of the AGI and was recently made partner at Pentagram. Her work has been exhibited at museums in USA, Japan, Europe and Israel. April Greiman is author of: It's Not What You Think It Is, Ellipsis, 1994 Floating Ideas In Time and Space, Watson-Guptill, 1997.

Product Details

• Paperback: 160 pages
• Publisher: Rotovision (April 15, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 2880465478
• ISBN-13: 978-2880465476
• Product Dimensions: 10.8 x 9.1 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.7 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,286,077 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars "Light is always looking for a body." a. greiman, January 13, 2005

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This review is from: Something from Nothing (Design Process) (Paperback)

If you are one who loves the west, particularly southern California, you will find great pleasure in this book, returning to it over and over again. April's digital work offers a view that is both humorous and reverential, reflecting the consequences of dysjunction and ambiguity in the present moment, the environment, politics and the general state of being.

I confess I am a fan of Greiman's work. It is always changing the way I see the world and the way I am in it. No small thing. If you are a designer, her typography alone will stop your heart. How does she do it? If you are an architect, you will gather a new vision of space, demonstrated in the relationship of art and type. Let your eye read it. If you are a interior designer, let yourself absorb her use of color and integrate it into your senses, or die trying. If you are a student of the environment, this is also your book. You see the world as both intimate and removed;its real self. If you are a poet, you will see the wordless poem in much of the work. And then, again, if you are a radical, conservative evangelical, you will see God's world in its full blown beauty and worth through the eyes of an angel from another planet. Praise the Lord.

This book...it is good. I recommend it for, say, long plane flights when you don't want to think, but just want to look at and feel the world differently, which, for me, is most of the time, most days. And finally, if you are a singer, don't read this book. You will be up all night warbling, crooning, trying, hopelessly,to find the tune that expresses its great pleasure.