Fingerprint: The Art of Using Hand-Made Elements in Graphic Design

Chen Design Associates

ISBN 10: 1581808712 / ISBN 13: 9781581808711

Published by HOW Books, 2006

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Fingerprint: The Art of Using Hand-Made Elements in Graphic Design
• Publisher: HOW Books
• Publication Date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1581808712
• ISBN 13: 9781581808711
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1747946268.
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: 46855126
• Signed: 5/22/2025 8:37:48 PM
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Synopsis

Make Your Mark

Design is at a turning point. Our infatuation with—and the backlash against—technology is over. Today's best designers have learned to embrace its advantages and think beyond its limitations by combining the power of the computer with the tactile qualities of handmade elements.

Inside you'll find examples of work that showcase a variety of design methods, including mixed media, illustration, letterpress, screenprinting and collage. You'll find inspiration in examples from outstanding designers and see how traditional elements can make a more powerful statement than anesthetized computer-only work. Fingerprint also includes insightful essays on the power of the handmade by Debbie Millman, Jean Orlebeke, Jim Sherraden, Martin Venezky and Ross Macdonald.

The projects in this book are beautiful, technical, simple, layered and powerful. Each project communicates its intended message with eloquence.

You can be part of this exciting design revolution. Leave your own fingerprint on the world by exploring the fusion of the digital with the hand-wrought.

About the Author

Chen Design Associates is a place for collaboration, education and dynamic invention. Founded by principal and creative director Joshua C. Chen, the award-winning design studio partners with a wide range of clients, from start-up ventures to established corporations, local to global, artistic to analytic. For more than 20 years, CDA has been helping clients find a voice to express the genuine and the necessary, the illuminating and the unexpected. CDA engages clients in the process to foster respect and fuel invention -- and together, move people to explore, to wonder, to succeed. 

Follow the studio on Twitter @chen_design, or visit chendesign.com