Web Design: Studios 2 (Taschen Icon Series)

Taschen Icons - Web Design

by Julius Wiedemann (Editor)

The follow-up to our popular title Web Design: Best Studios, this new installments brings you more examples of the web's most outstanding design work. Working online means working from every place you can imagine. The coolest design studios from over 28 countries are profiled herein, complete with examples of recent work, contact information, list of awards, and client list. If you are a web designer, marketing manager or your work has anything to do with the web, this book is a must-have reference for your daily work.

Genres: Design

191 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2007

About the author

Julius Wiedemann was born in Brazil, where he studied design and marketing, and has lived and worked in Japan, Germany, and the UK. An eclectic expert on design based visual culture, Wiedemann has produced books on a range of topics, from robots to record covers. He holds the positions of Executive Editor for Design and Pop Culture at TASCHEN. Wiedemann studied graphic design and marketing and was an art editor for newspapers and design publications before joining TASCHEN in 2001.

Wiedemann has edited over 40 books in 10 years, he is a regular contributor to magazines, and has been on the jury of several awards all over the world. His publications have sold more than 1.5 million copies worldwide, and his titles are immensely popular. As an editor his work is grounded in an interdisciplinary approach to contemporary design, synthesizing a vast array of topics, including logo design, fashion design, graphic design, web design, and product design. Underpinning many of his books is a desire to understand creativity and explore the nature of reality in a world that increasingly takes place online and is populated by characters and creatures not entirely human but of our creation. The wonders of animation, manga, and computer graphics fascinate and inspire him.

Julius Wiedemann’s TASCHEN titles include the celebrated series Illustration Now! a staple of any designer’s bookshelf, as well as the compendium 100 Illustrators. He has also edited the Package Design Book collection. His award-wining Jazz Covers and Rock Covers books showcase his editorial variety and his publication on National Geographic magazine’s infographics demonstrates how wide his design knowledge and appreciation extends.

Reviews

[Roch · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is a time capsule! It shows both where design trends started, but also serves as a reminder that we should be creative, unique, and bold in this world of templates and copycats. A lot of the design studios shown in this book seem to no longer exist, or they’ve completely pivoted into NFT art. Which to me, just shows how people really used web design to express themselves in the 2000’s, which feels quite different from what the industry has become.

[Ivonne · Rating 4 out of 5]

really useful book, it is pretty, gives you awesome ideas and reunites the best of web design.

[Jason · Rating 3 out of 5]

Useful for finding agencies and inspiration but way to Flash happy.

[Luke Krzysztofiak · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great visual references. Have been studying this book for inspiration for years now.