Touch Graphics celebrates innovative graphic design that uses materials to send a message. Fur, cloth, vellum, metal, and more—here are designs whose tactile allure is fascinating and memorable. In this electronic age, when much of what reaches us is flashed across a soreen, items that beg to be held strike a chord—feeding our most neglected sense: touch. Discover the fresh, innovative work collected in these pages, from designers using materials and shapes to do what advertising is meant to do: grab our attention—in a way that we can really get our hands on.
Rita Street and Ferdinand Lewis specialize in writing on graphic design and communication. Street is the former editor of Animation Magazine, and the author of two books: Computer Animation: A Whole New World, Best New Animation Design 2, and Creative Newsletters & Annual Reports: Designing Information. Ferdinand, a former art director and copywriter, is an instructor at California Institute of the Arts and has edited numerous award-winning PBS publications.