Product Description

Not satisfied with the new T-shirts on sale at the local mall? Maybe you'd like a wedding invitation that expresses your own vision, not your party planner's? How about some personalized stationery? An upgrade to your website? A business card? A poster for your political campaign? A CD package for your band? Sound good? Then get up off your couch and Design It Yourself! Avoid graphic identity theft: build your own. Ellen Lupton, bestselling author of Thinking with Type, will show you how.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #33836 in Books
• Published on: 2006-01-19
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 176 pages

Review
...this book offers constructive and elegant projects that are easy to understand for a range of abilities. -- Bust, Feb/Mar 2006

A crash course in promotion and visual design, D.I.Y.: Design It Yourself is the perfect book for anyone looking to pimp their brand, their band, their blog or just their Christmas card list. -- Penascola Independent News, November 29, 2007

Lupton wants the objects to go out into the world, as emissaries of individual creativity. Inspiration begets inspiration. -- Syndicated-Washington Post, Philadelphia Enquirer, etc., March 2006

About the Author
Ellen Lupton is Princeton Architectural Press's all-time bestselling author. Her titles include Thinking with Type, Skin, Design Culture Now, Inside Design Now, and more. This book is produced with her students at the Maryland Institute College of Art, in Baltimore, where she is chairman of the Department of Design.

Customer Reviews

A pretty but only introductory book on design
I'd had the impression that I would learn some techniques on creating my own stuff: business cards, websites, t-shirts, stationary, etc. They touch on all these subjects, and more, in the book. But I was disappointed that it is really more just a collection of ideas and work that MFA and graphic arts students have created, with very little technical detail of how to create designs for yourself. I was looking for a how-to, not a see-what-we've-done.

This is a good idea book-but not a good textbook on design
I saw this book years ago and thought I'd like to own it. Now that I do I really am underwhelmed.

Good coffee table or bathroom reading book
This is basically like all those magazines - Sunset, Martha Stewart Living, etc. etc, - wherein you buy it with the hopes of being inspired to create, update, remake, etc. and you ACTUALLY NEVER WILL, except in book form!

I love reading the book - it's cute, kitschy and definitely entertaining, but really, who can create these crazy wall decorations and/or press kits and have them turn out flawless!?!??