Download or read book The Visual Design Primer written by Susan G. Wheeler and published by Pearson. This book was released on 2002 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For undergraduate courses in Graphic Design Fundamentals and Introduction to Design where students learn the foundations of design before choosing a specific design focus. Filled with step-by-step design development examples, this easy-to-use, "how-to" introductory design book clearly explains the basic building blocks of design--how to stimulate creativity, the process of design (from thumbnails to layouts to comprehensives), and the immediate application of these concepts to specific design projects for print and electronic media. Exceptionally student-friendly in tone and format, it is fully in tune with the needs and concerns of students contemplating an exciting and rewarding career in design--covering material in a simple and accessible manner, and offering a brief history of the field and preparation for entering the profession. Presenting information in a variety of styles, from summary notes to annotated illustrated examples to extended text paragraphs, it serves as a trigger for each topic by laying out the high-points with a wealth of practical design tips and examples that can be supplemented with instructor-assigned projects, demonstrations, examples, and in-class lab activities.
Download or read book The Language of Graphic Design written by Richard Poulin and published by . This book was released on 2012-10 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The Language of Graphic Design' provides graphic design students and practitioners with an in-depth understanding of the fundamental elements and principles of their language, what they are, why they are important and how to use them effectively.
Download or read book A Primer of Visual Literacy written by Donis A Dondis and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1974-09-15 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This primer is designed to teach students the interconnected arts of visual communication. The subject is presented, not as a foreign language, but as a native one that the student "knows" but cannot yet "read." Responding to the need she so clearly perceives, Ms. Dondis, a designer and teacher of broad experience, has provided a beginning text for art and design students and a basic text for all other students; those who do not intend to become artists or designers but who need to acquire the essential skills of understanding visual communication at a time when so much information is being studied and transmitted in non-verbal modes, especially through photography and film. Understanding through seeing only seems to be an obviously intuitive process. Actually, developing the visual sense is something like learning a language, with its own special alphabet, lexicon, and syntax. People find it necessary to be verbally literate whether they are "writers": or not; they should find it equally necessary to be visually literate, "artists" or not. This primer is designed to teach students the interconnected arts of visual communication. The subject is presented, not as a foreign language, but as a native one that the student "knows" but cannot yet "read." The analogy provides a useful teaching method, in part because it is not overworked or too rigorously applied. This method of learning to see and read visual data has already been proved in practice, in settings ranging from Harlem to suburbia. Appropriately, the book makes some of its most telling points through visual means. Numerous illustrated examples are employed to clarify the basic elements of design (teach an alphabet), to show how they are used in simple syntactic combinations ("See Jane run."), and finally, to present the meaningful synthesis of visual information that is a finished work of art (the apprehension of poetry...).
Download or read book Go A Kidd s Guide to Graphic Design written by Chip Kidd and published by Workman Publishing. This book was released on 2022-06-07 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in paperback: Chip Kidd's introduction to graphic design for kids.
Download or read book Graphic Design for the Electronic Age written by Jan V. White and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A Xerox Press book." Includes index.
Download or read book Graphic Design Theory written by Helen Armstrong and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2012-08-10 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Graphic Design Theory is organized in three sections: "Creating the Field" traces the evolution of graphic design over the course of the early 1900s, including influential avant-garde ideas of futurism, constructivism, and the Bauhaus; "Building on Success" covers the mid- to late twentieth century and considers the International Style, modernism, and postmodernism; and "Mapping the Future" opens at the end of the last century and includes current discussions on legibility, social responsibility, and new media. Striking color images illustrate each of the movements discussed and demonstrate the ongoing relationship between theory and practice. A brief commentary prefaces each text, providing a cultural and historical framework through which the work can be evaluated. Authors include such influential designers as Herbert Bayer, L'szlo Moholy-Nagy, Karl Gerstner, Katherine McCoy, Michael Rock, Lev Manovich, Ellen Lupton, and Lorraine Wild. Additional features include a timeline, glossary, and bibliography for further reading. A must-have survey for graduate and undergraduate courses in design history, theory, and contemporary issues, Graphic Design Theory invites designers and interested readers of all levels to plunge into the world of design discourse.
Download or read book A Graphic Design Primer written by Sarah Beth Tregay and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thesis examines current methods and trends in graphic design education. It focuses on the improvement of graphic design education by helping educators better understand the graphic design discipline, describing important factors in a design education, and the needs of the graphic design student. The focus is on the first year of graphic design study, and includes a sample textbook designed by the thesis author for first-year graphic arts students.
Download or read book Drawing and Reinventing Landscape written by Diana Balmori and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2014-05-19 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How to tackle representation in landscape design Representation is a hot topic in landscape architecture. While computerization has been a catalyst for change across many fields in design, no other design field has experienced such drastic reinvention as has landscape architecture. As the world urbanizes rapidly and our relationship with nature changes, it is vitally important that landscape designers adopt innovative forms of representation—whether digital, analog, or hybrid. In this book, author Diana Balmori explores notions of representation in the discipline at large and across time. She takes readers from landscape design's roots in seventeenth-century France and eighteenth-century England through to modern attempts at representation made by contemporary landscape artists. Addresses a central topic in the discipline of landscape architecture Features historic works and those by leading contemporary practitioners, such as Bernard Lassus, Richard Haag, Stig L Andersson, Lawrence Halprin, and Patricia Johanson Written by a renowned practitioner and educator Features 150 full-color images Drawing and Reinventing Landscape, AD Primer is an informative investigation of beauty in landscape design, offering inspiring creative perspectives for students and professionals.
Download or read book Designer Primer written by Tom Porter and published by Butterworth-Heinemann. This book was released on 1988 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fully illustrated manual of objective drawing and design drafting skills has been designed specifically for students of architecture and the arts. The novice is introduced to drawing mediums and their rendering potentials, along with a variety of useful methods for achieving drawing accuracy.
Download or read book Graphic Design Manual Principles and Practice written by Armin Hofmann and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book 7 Essentials Of Graphic Design written by Allison Goodman and published by HOW Books. This book was released on 2001-09-13 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 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.
Download or read book A Type Primer written by John Kane and published by Laurence King Publishing. This book was released on 2002 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide full of practical hints to help build the confidence of graphics and typography students. Its aim is to bring the reader to the point where they understand the basic principles of typography and to strengthen the designer's 'eye' through informed, direct observation.
Download or read book Design Primer for Architects Graphic Designers and written by Tom Porter and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book GOOD an Introduction to Ethics in Graphic Design written by Lucienne Roberts and published by AVA Publishing. This book was released on 2006 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author seeks to marry abstract ideas with practical application, removing some of the mystique that surrounds philosophy and highlighting its relevance for all of us. It will engage designers in a debate about their profession and in an analysis of their value and worth.
Download or read book Graphic Design Primer written by John Kane and published by . This book was released on 2010-03-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This brief text focuses on the principles of form that anyone study graphic design needs to learn. Through a series of exercises, readers learn two-dimensional design concepts and will gain the graphic skills they need to develop their individual expression. Part I focuses on graphic design drawing and Part II focuses on graphic relationships.
Download or read book Problem Solved written by Michael Johnson and published by Phaidon. This book was released on 2002-10-24 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Designers and advertisers continually have to interpret design briefs, produce new solutions to familiar problems and work to keep their clients' brands high in the public consciousness. This highly informative guide brings together for the first time discussions and case studies that illustrate the working methods of major advertising and graphic design firms. Each chapter explores a different theme of problem solving, and concludes with a case study to illustrate a particular solution in detail. Themes include producing innovative work, avoiding repetition, standing out in the market place, reinventing a tired brand, communicating essential facts in a culture of information overload, keeping a brand young and trendy, dealing sensitively with propaganda, the use of shock tactics, and word-based advertising in a world over-run with images and sound-bites. Examples featured are taken from classic and contemporary international advertising. Designers and agencies whose work is discussed in the book include Chermayeff and Geismar, Saatchi and Saatchi, BMP, Minale Tattersfield, Derek Birdsall, Niklaus Troxler, Bob Gill, Wieslaw Walkuski, Makoto Saito, Paul Fishlock and Pentagram.
Download or read book Drawing for Graphic Design written by Timothy Samara and published by Rockport Publishers. This book was released on 2012-07-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is a complete, comprehensive drawing reference for design students and professionals alike who want to implement drawing as a professional tool. In Drawing for Graphic Design, Timothy Samara empowers readers to add drawing to their design vocabulary, featuring case studies of commercial projects from start to finish along with a showcase of real-world projects that integrate drawing as an intrinsic part of their visual communication. Filled with original author drawings and sketches, it’s a must-have reference that will benefit designers of all levels.
