Touch Graphics: The Power of Tactile Design

Touch Graphics examines a wide array of innovative and often experimental graphic design pieces that have incorporated imaginative materials like fur, velvet, plastic, and metal to convey powerful messages and connect with audiences on a deeper level. Tactile designs feed our most neglected sense in a digital world that focuses aggressively on visual and audio stimulation and the authors celebrate and showcase the remarkable power they have to engender wonder, excitement, and a sense of ownership in today's consumers. An invaluable idea book and resource, this stimulating collection will inspire designers to open their minds-and their art-to include new forms and shapes, and insightful text will tell the reader the technical hurtles (if any) that were apart of the design process.

Ferdinand Lewis has written about the arts and entertainment for Daily Variety, American Theatre, Animation, Logik, TV Kids, and Audio Media magazines. He is a recipient of an Irvine Fellowship for Arts Journalism, four PBS APAC Awards, the Richard Scott Handley Prize for Creative Writing, the Group Repertory Theatre’s New Playwright’s Award, and a Durfee Foundation Fellowship.

His plays have been performed on both coasts and in Europe, and his experimental writing has appeared in Parabas is: The Journal of A.S.K. Theatre Projects. He is working on a pair of books about ensemble theatre, Ensemble Works: An Anthology for Theatre Communications Group Publishers, and Ensemble Works: Traditions, Approaches, Strategies, which is supported by the Flintridge Foundation.

Since 1991, Rita Street has written about entertainment, entertainment technology, and the graphic arts for various publications in the U.S., U.K., and Asia. She is the former editor of Animation and Film & Video magazines. Other Rockport titles authored by Street include Computer Animation: A Whole New World, and Creative Newsletters & Annual Reports: Designing Information. She is the founder of the international organization, Women In Animation.