Digitalization is one of the modern foundations for the world around us today. On the other hand, people find a value of analog effects in design, advertising and products such as handmade merchandises or furniture giving an antique look. By following the recent trend of “healing boom” in Japan and simple and modern design in Europe, promotions, advertisements and/or graphic tools of those trendy shops intend to highlight homemade sense or feeling in graphic design. For example, handmade collages that evoke a feeling of warmth, or well-worn materials that brings to mind feeling of nostalgia or coziness.This book introduces great examples of captured these concepts, which will be an excellent new design source for all graphic designers.

“Free paper” is already established as one of the major media these days, and the competition is even getting fierce among the same medium. The selected free papers in this book are all unique in editorial concept, design or promotional strategies, and you will learn how each paper has acquired the readership and why they are commercially successful.The free papers are grouped by type of content; local, lifestyle, culture and others. Each magazine is presented with the cover and its interior page designs.

As the third title following “CAP Magazine Designers’ Collective” and “The Secret Sense of Japanese Magazine Design,” Mr. Yasushi Fujimoto, the head of CAP selected 10 magazines, 4 Japanese and 6 international, and inteviewed the art directors. The art directors are: Christophe Brunnnquell, Work in Progress, Yorgo Tloupas, Jop Van Bennekom, MM, David Carson, Tadanori Yokoo, Heikichi Harata,Gento Matsumoto,Kazunari Hattori.

This book presents many of well-selected editorial design examples, featuring unique and outstanding works in 1 & 2 color. All designers who create editorial designs in limited color variation or combination always require extensive picturesque style in layout and device on selection of paper. All works in this single volume presents designers enormous hints for effective and unique techniques with information on specs of inks and papers.

Text and table typographic composition plays a major role in the design of all print collateral. This volume presents some of the finest examples of typographic composition from a variety of print media - including company profile, catalogs, magazines, and books – grouped in four basic categories: table of contents pages, primarily text pages, captions/supplementary text on primarily visual pages, and tables.
This volume is the softcover reprint edition of the original title: "Typographic Composition – Text & Table Layout Design."

This book focuses on top 20 magazines which have been the influential pioneers in the magazine designs in Japan. Featuring various outstanding graphic designs in the magazines such as Esquire, POPEYE, I.D.Japan, STUDIO VOICE and more. This is a sister volume to "CAP Magazine Designers' Collective."

A collection of over 500 outstanding ads that consciously shun standard fonts in favor of decorative or handwritten letterforms. Do you hear the breath of the people making them? Is there not a sense of warmth welling up in your chest? Why not use fonts? Why stick with handwritten and decorative letterforms? If those questions arise, we implore you to look harder. The answer lies within.

A collection of graphic works using digital typefaces designed recently as well as traditional common fonts. Selected from around the world, it offers high quality typographic works with strong visual appeal, providing not only the names of typefaces but also URLs where you can purchase/download. At the end of the book, font samples (the alphabets from A to Z and numbers) of each typeface used in the design are shown for reference.

CAP is the magazine designers' collective synonymous with history-making editorial design the likes of Studio Voice, Vogue Nippon and Brutus.This eagerly awaited collection presents over 2,500 works of their editorial and cover design spanning a period of 20 years.