Inside you'll find examples of work that showcase a variety of design methods, including mixed media, illustration, letterpress, screenprinting and collage. You'll find inspiration in examples from outstanding designers and see how traditional elements can make a more powerful statement than anesthesized computer-only work. Fingerprint also includes insightful essays on the power of the handmade by Debbie Millman, Jean Orlebeke, Jim Sherraden, Martin Venezky and Ross Macdonald.

The projects in this book are beautiful, technical, simple, layered and powerful. Each project communicates its intended message with eloquence.

You can be part of this exciting design revolution. Leave your own fingerprint on the world by exploring the fusion of the digital with the hand-wrought.

Chen Design Associates is a visual communications firm based in San Francisco. Firm Principal Joshua Chen is a frequent guest speaker for professional conferences, workshops, studio tours and educational institutions. The firm self-published the award-winning Peace: 100 Ideas.

One-color and two-color printing, although more common than four-color printing, often carries with it a stigma of looking cheap compared to four-color pieces. This book puts that myth to rest by showing how truly dynamic effects can be achieved with simple, inexpensive one- and two-color design and printing. Besides its simplicity, it has a style all its own, which can convey sophistication, elegance, and integrity.

Included is a color finder section designed to show readers a variety of color combinations for various projects such as logos, packaging, book jackets, and posters. Each featured project is shown in thumbnail size in 15 to 20 different single or two-color combinations.

Including projects such as posters, invitations, promotional materials, logos, letterheads, and more, this beautiful book will help graphic designers of all levels harness the magic and simplicity of one color -- without breaking a client's budget.

One-Color Graphics is the first book published on this topic in over five years and distinctive in its focus of all one-color work.

The book demonstrates through its selected works, as well as the book's presentation itself, that one-color design can be ambitious, provocative, edgy and beautiful. The Chen Design staff judged over 1,000 international submissions and included work from Brazil to Croatia, Germany to Singapore. The work of Bløk Design, Cahan & Associates, Elixir Design, Jennifer Sterling Design, and Sagmeister, Inc. is showcased, among others.

Each selected piece was chosen because of its ingenuity, professionalism, and ability to demonstrate the power of design—with the central criterion of having used only one color on press. Non-ink processes such as emboss, foil, die-cuts, and varnishes were acceptable, as were off-press ink techniques such as rubber stamping and laser printing.

The end of the book includes a brief collection of one-color works by Chen Design Associates.

Projects included in this book range from posters, invitations, and promotional materials to logos and letterheads. This book will help graphic designers of all levels harness the magic and simplicity of one color without breaking a client?s budget.