Three D – Graphic Spaces highlights a current trend in international graphic design: more and more visual designers are staging their compositions as three-dimensional scenarios, in order to turn them into posters, magazine covers, web sites, and animated films. The result is a host of suggestive new pictorial worlds that range from playfully arranged still lifes, to room-filling installations. Edited by Gerrit Terstiege, editor-in-chief of the European design magazine “Form”, and designed by the prize winning German studio Pixelgarten, this book offers an inspiring look at the various modelling techniques and means of expression involved.
The book contains designs from about 50 international creative individuals and studios. A volume on a similar subject, Book review: Tactile – High Touch Visuals, was published last year but Three D: Graphic Spaces is way more talkative, offering essays, deeper analysis and descriptions. The projects are grouped into 4 main categories: Still Lifes Come Alive, Intricate Installations, Touching Type and Thrilling Animation. At the end of the book, readers are treated with a small description of the design studios as well as the contact address and url of their respective websites.
