Layout Essentials
Author: Beth Tondreau
Publisher: Fair Winds Press
Published: 2011-06
Total Pages: 209
ISBN-13: 1592537073
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book outlines and demonstrates basic layout/grid guidelines and rules.
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Layout Essentials Revised and Updated
Author: Beth Tondreau
Publisher: Rockport Publishers
Published: 2019-02-05
Total Pages: 211
ISBN-13: 1631596306
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA classic and essential text for designers since 2009, Layout Essentials: 100 Design Principles for Using Grids just got better with a fresh exploration of its design principles, updated text, and new photos and international graphics. Grids are the basis for all design projects, and learning how to work with them is fundamental for all graphic designers. From working with multi-column formats to using type, color, images, and more, Layout Essentials not only demonstrates, using real world examples, how to use grids effectively, but shows you how to break the rules to use them effectively, too. This revised and updated version of Layout Essentials is your one-stop reference and resource for all layout design projects.
Typography Essentials Revised and Updated
Author: Ina Saltz
Publisher: Rockport Publishers
Published: 2019-02-12
Total Pages: 208
ISBN-13: 1631596489
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTypography Essentials: 100 Design Principles for Working with Type is a practical, hands-on resource that distills and organizes the many complex issues surrounding the effective use of typography. An essential reference for designers since 2009, Typography Essentials is now completely refreshed with updated text, new graphics and photos, and a whole new look. Divided into four sections—The Letter, The Word, The Paragraph, and The Page—the text is concise, compact, and easy to reference. Each of the 100 principles, which cover all practical aspects of designing with type, has an explanation and inspiring visual examples drawn from international books, magazines, posters, and more. Typography Essentials is for designers of every medium in which type plays a major role, and is organized and designed to make the process enjoyable and entertaining, as well as instructional.
Best Practices for Graphic Designers, Grids and Page Layouts
Author: Amy Graver
Publisher:
Published: 2012-07
Total Pages: 194
ISBN-13: 1592537855
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis unique, go-to guide for designers fully details the essential layout and design skills needed to succeed in this competitive industry. With fun and practical application, it offers valuable insight into strategy and business when working in the real world with real clients, starting with basic information on layout principles before delving more deeply into theory and application on a project-by-project basis. Illustrated with real-world assignments and case studies, this guide offers a behind-the-scenes take on the entire process and steps necessary to go from concept to final outcome, including how to overcome challenges presented along the way.
Layout Index
Author: Jim Krause
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2001-04-16
Total Pages: 316
ISBN-13: 1440321965
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIdea Index kick-started a revolution in graphic design books, unique in size, feel—and most important—wealth of ideas. Layout Index is the next step, a compendium of layout idea-generators that will help designers explore multiple possibilities for visual treatments each time they turn the page. The visual and textual suggestions are divided into eight major areas, including newsletters, flyers, posters, brochures, advertising, stationery, page layout, and Web pages.
Layout Workbook
Author: Kristin Cullen
Publisher: Rockport Pub
Published: 2007-05
Total Pages: 241
ISBN-13: 1592533523
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn inspired resource for creating meaningful design, A Layout Workbook is one of five volumes in Rockport's series of practical and inspirational books that cover the fundamental areas of graphic design. In this edition, author Kristin Cullen tackles the often perplexing job of nailing down a layout that works. A More than a collection of great examples, this book is a valuable resource for students, designers, and creative professionals who seek design understanding and inspiration. The book illuminates the broad category of layout, communicating specifically what it takes to design with excellence. It also addresses the how and why of the creative process. A Cullen approaches layout with a series of step-by-step fundamental chapters addressing topics such as design function, inspiration, process, intuition, structure, organization, the interaction of visual elements, typography, and design analysis.
IC Mask Design
Author: Christopher Saint
Publisher: McGraw Hill Professional
Published: 2002-06-14
Total Pages: 481
ISBN-13: 0071500936
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIntegrated Circuit Mask Design teaches integrated circuit (IC) processes, mask design techniques, and fundamental device concepts in everyday language. It develops ideas from the ground up, building complex concepts out of simple ones, constantly reinforcing what has been taught with examples, self-tests and sidebars covering the motivation behind the material covered.
Making and Breaking the Grid, Third Edition
Author: Timothy Samara
Publisher: Rockport Publishers
Published: 2023-05-23
Total Pages: 258
ISBN-13: 0760381941
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTake your design work to the next level with Making and Breaking the Grid: A Graphic Design Layout Workshop (Third Edition), the essential easy-to-use guide for designers working in every medium. With over 150,000 copies in print, this new edition makes a classic text relevant to a new generation of designers. Updates include: A cross-cultural inclusive re-envisioning of design history related to the grid, including alternative approaches to layout Expanded discussion of grid use in interactive, UX/UI scenarios Greater equity in the representation of design work by women and BIPOC designers Grids are the most basic and essential forms in graphic design—and they can be the most rigid. This book shows you how to understand the rules of the grid to use them effectively, and then how to break them, resulting in phenomenal cohesive layouts. Timothy Samara explains the history of the grid and shows examples of grid basics, such as column, compound, and modular grids. He shows methods for building and using grids, and offers numerous examples of stunning design projects using a variety of imagery and typography. Pages are filled with hundreds of large, full-color layout concepts and diagrams that educate and inspire. After mastering the grid, discover how to break it using conceptual designs that deconstruct and flip the grid successfully. Split, splice, and shift; create spontaneous compositions; make narrative constructs; work on an axis; use intuitive design; and more to create unique layouts or other projects. See ideas in action with eye-catching layout examples. With this book you will: learn how grids work. be inspired to explore new concepts for using—or not using—grids. discover achievable alternatives for boring layouts. get the results you want using fresh design elements. learn designers’ processes via fascinating case studies. see numerous examples of successful layouts created with and without grids. communicate ideas effectively using visual language. This new, expanded edition presents the most comprehensive, accessible, in-depth exposition of layout concepts ever published.
The Designer's Graphic Stew
Author: Timothy Samara
Publisher: Rockport Publishers
Published: 2010-02-01
Total Pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9781592535477
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUnder the witty and metaphorical guise of a high-end cookbook, the author provides visual “ingredients,” such as grid structures, folios, border devices, type treatments, abstract graphic elements, categorized stylistically and functionally. These ingredients are shown in use through a “recipe” format to accomplish strategies such as movement, rhythm, organization, contrast, metaphor, etc. Ingredients are coded and cross-referenced among categories for mix and matching purposes as well as demonstrating varied alternate combinations to achieving different approaches to strategies.
7 Essentials Of Graphic Design
Author: Allison Goodman
Publisher: HOW Books
Published: 2001-09-13
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781581801248
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis title reduces the complexities of 2001 design work into seven basic elements: research, typography, contrast, layout, grid systems, identity design, and critique and analysis. Topics are explained through an analysis of good and bad examples, anecdotes and other instruction.
