Celebration Graphics Sourcebook: Festive Designs from All Cultures

by John Stones

How dull would a seasonal holiday or special day be without the addition of celebration graphics—be it greetings cards, gift wrap, food packaging, sales promotions, gift supplements, merchandising, window displays, or room and street decorations? With international clients recognizing diverse religious observations, an increasing number of festivals, celebrations, and holidays are appearing on the calendar, and designers are being commissioned to communicate celebration greetings to audiences worldwide. Celebration Graphics Sourcebook presents innovative case studies from across all media, budgets, and cultures. Celebrations are arranged month by month, interspersed with weddings, birthdays, Name Days, and other life-marking events.

256 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2009

Reviews

[Francine Fang · Rating 3 out of 5]

Designs about different festivals. Most selections are not good enough to be printed.

[Parka · Rating 3 out of 5]

(More pictures at parkablogs.com)

The good thing about this book is the number of festivals covered. Unfortunately, that's also the bad thing since the examples featured for each festival is really limited. There are lots of different graphic styles which are quite nice, but just when you want to see more, you're next page on a new festival.

The text talks much on the festivals but not on graphic design side like associated colours, symbols. At times, I felt like I was reading a book on festivals rather than graphic design on festivals.

Hopefully, if there's another volume of festive graphics, a few can be singled out for more focus with more graphics, like the big ones - Christmas, Chinese New Year, weddings, birthdays...

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By the way, this book has two different publishers (Rockport Publishers and RotoVision) so the covers may look different.