Rockport is committed to providing useful and inspirational reference content for working designers, students, and educators. The core of our program focuses on the graphic arts but we also offer content for architects, fashion designers, and general design reference.
Just My Type is a book of stories about fonts. It examines how Helvetica and Comic Sans took over the world. It explains why we are still influenced by type choices made more than 500 years ago, and why the T in the Beatles logo is longer than the other...
Our juried competition celebrates the best use of typography as the primary visual element in design and advertising, plus new typeface designs, calligraphy and handlettering. Chosen by a jury of leading design professionals, the selected entries will be distributed worldwide in the Communication Arts Typography Annual and on commarts.com, assuring...
The founder of design firm Thirst/Chicago, Rick Valicenti recently art directed this incredible book using the photography of Francois Robert from his series Stop the Violence.
In the ever-more-perfect world of computerised design, accidents can be inspirational. When the software seizes up, some free spirits become even more creative. What was once a goof is now a genre – let the featuring 12 glitch-design specialists explain how it has opened up new vistas for them.
Shawmut Vice President Stacy Peluso-Slaney is featured in the June issue of Print Professional. The article focuses on women in print, and provided Stacy the opportunity to speak about her role as part of the third-generation of Pelusos to work at the family-owned business – Shawmut.
Diagraphics is the ultimate book on the latest design ideas for all varieties of graphs. Featured here in full-color illustrations are bar, line, and pie graphs, as well as area charts and modern display graphs.
The video—made by GAFFTA and Nic Hanselmann for the new turn-by-turn direction app Waze—begins just as evening rush hour is starting. The numbers behind this video were generated by Waze users, whose apps generate GPS readings that measure routes and average speed as they drive, over a single day.
Join the 7th Annual BHCHP Sock Drive – March 1-31 Join us in a drive to collect new white socksfor men and women living in shelters and on the streets.