Advertising by Design: Creating Visual Communications with Graphic Impact

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Author: Robin Landa

ISBN-10: 0471428973

ISBN-13: 9780471428978

Category: Business Life & Skills

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A complete guide to the process behind effective advertising design Advertising by Design is a brilliantly accessible approach to the creative process behind effective, memorable advertising. This full-color text provides a highly illustrative, behind-the-scenes look at developing successful ads for a variety of media–including print, television, online, and guerrilla advertisements–empowering students to find creative solutions. Advertising by Design encourages students to push past the obvious design choices to find the big idea! Dozens of celebrated ad campaigns demonstrate such concepts as the visual and verbal relationship, visual metaphors, creating unified campaigns, and many others. Fully supplemented with interviews from esteemed creative directors and chapters on developing imaginative ideas, copywriting, and advertising history, Advertising by Design is a perfect text for beginning and intermediate advertising design courses and core courses in all visual communications programs that incorporate advertising concepts and design strategies.

ForewordPt. 1Informing, persuading, and provoking : how advertising worksCh. 1A brief history of advertising2Ch. 2The biz : structure, strategy, and the creative brief34Pt. 2What's the big idea? : formulating an advertising conceptCh. 3Thinking critically and creatively, and getting started50Ch. 4The big idea67Ch. 5Ad categories90Ch. 6Expression : make 'em laugh, make 'em cry106Pt. 3The visual and verbal expression of an idea : design and copyCh. 7Graphic impact : design principles124Ch. 8The design of advertising and expressive typography142Ch. 9Flexibility : the ad campaign and creativity168Ch. 10Copy186Ch. 11Beyond print media : television commercials, interactive media, and guerilla advertising206