Graphic Design Basics

Graphic Design Basics
Author: Amy E. Arntson
Publisher:
Total Pages: 242
Release: 2012
Genre: Advertising layout and typography
ISBN: 9781111354312

GRAPHIC DESIGN BASICS, International Edition combines design principles, history, and current technology to present students a comprehensive introduction to the field of graphic design. Keeping pace with rapid changes in the field of design, while maintaining a consistently high academic quality, the text emphasizes design structure, visual perception and digital design, with a wide range of visuals from throughout design history, as well as the latest contemporary illustrations. Each chapter provides assignments with student sample solutions and critique sections to help students apply the concepts and assess their work. This market leader’s interwoven combination of concept, history, and practice rarely found in other graphic design texts has been enriched by integrating material specific to digital design. The accompanying Premium Website offers students bonus images, interviews with artists featured in the text, additional projects, studio techniques and research links.

Basics Design: Print and Finish

Basics Design: Print and Finish
Author: Gavin Ambrose
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 185
Release: 2014-01-30
Genre: Design
ISBN: 2940496749

The Basics Design series is designed to provide graphic arts students with a theoretical and practical exploration of fundamental topics, including layout, format, typography, colour and image. Packed with examples from students and professionals and fully illustrated with clear diagrams and inspiring imagery, they offer an essential exploration of the subject. The second edition of the sixth book in the series, Print and Finish is a guide to the printing and finishing techniques employed by graphic design studios all over the world. A thorough understanding of these techniques will equip the designer with the ability to harness the creative potential of these processes and add creative elements to a design in order to increase its impact and functionality. Showcasing seven different paper and ink stocks and finishes, the book is an invaluable reference tool. With new contributions and activities, the second edition builds on the success of the first, and is an absolute must-have for all design students.

Design for Communication

Design for Communication
Author: Elizabeth Resnick
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 270
Release: 2003-06-10
Genre: Design
ISBN: 9780471418290

Complete coverage of basic design principles illustrated by student examples Design for Communication offers a unique approach to mastering the basic design principles, conceptual problem-solving methods, and critical-thinking skills that distinguish graphic designers from desktop technicians. This book presents forty-two basic to advanced graphic design and typography assignments collaboratively written by college educators to teach the fundamental processes, concepts, and techniques through hands-on applications. Each assignment is illustrated with actual student solutions, and each includes a process narrative and an educator's critical analysis revealing the reasoning behind the creative strategies employed by each individual student solution. Assignments are organized from basic to advanced within six sections: * The elements and principles of design * Typography as image * Creative word play * Word and image * Grid and visual hierarchy * Visual advocacy Design for Communication is a highly visual resource of instruction, information, ideas, and inspiration for students and professionals.

Basics Graphic Design Box Set

Basics Graphic Design Box Set
Author: Gavin Ambrose
Publisher: Fairchild Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2014-12-03
Genre: Design
ISBN: 9781472567543

Graphic design is a complex and dynamic subject. Far-reaching in its influence and broad-ranging in the creative skills it encompasses, it is an exciting and challenging area in which to study. The Basics Graphic Design Box Set contains all three books from the Basics Graphic Design series: Approach and Language, Design Research and Idea Generation. Originally published by AVA Publishing, this series covers the key ideas and processes that underpin successful graphic design. Together, the books cover topics such as key styles, movements and debates in the history of graphic design, idea generation, design vocabulary, conducting research, and presenting work to clients. Written by experts in the field and packed with inspiring full-colour images, studio projects and interviews with leading designers, such as Fred Deakin, Dennis Y Ichiyama, Wout de Vringer (http://www.woutdevringer.nl/), Morag Myerscough (http://studiomyerscough.com/), Lawrence Zeegen (http://www.zeegen.com/) Brian Rea (http://www.brianrea.com/) and Hat-trick Design (http://www.hat-trickdesign.co.uk/), this box set offers a rich and inspiring guide to the world of graphic design.

The Fundamentals of Creative Design

The Fundamentals of Creative Design
Author: Gavin Ambrose
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 196
Release: 2011-08-31
Genre: Design
ISBN: 2940411611

Introduces students to the various aspects of the graphic design. This title provides a fresh introduction to the key elements of the discipline and looks at the following topics: design thinking, format, layout, grids, typography, colour, image and print and finish.

Basics Graphic Design 02: Design Research

Basics Graphic Design 02: Design Research
Author: Neil Leonard
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 312
Release: 2017-07-13
Genre: Design
ISBN: 135003410X

Design Research shows readers how to choose the best method of research in order to save time and get the right results.The book makes readers aware of all the different research methods, as well as how to carry out the most appropriate research for their graphic design projects. All stages of the research process are considered in a dynamic and entertaining style, covering audience, context, trends, sources, documentation, dissemination and more. Students and designers can benefit from this text by learning fresh ways to analyse information obtained by data gathering, and how best to test and prove decisions. The resulting, well-rounded solutions will be informed, innovative, and aesthetically fitting for the brief.

The Fundamentals of Graphic Design

The Fundamentals of Graphic Design
Author: Gavin Ambrose
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 194
Release: 2008-11-24
Genre: Design
ISBN: 2940439036

The Fundamentals of Graphic Design explores key aspects of design, including typography, art direction, production and finishing, environmental design, and self-promotion. It also examines the broader implications of graphic design, including social responsibility, its role in art and its future. The book places graphic design in its socio-historical context, discussing its influences and development. It is an ideal guide for anyone starting out or seeking a role in the world of graphic design.

Layout for Graphic Designers

Layout for Graphic Designers
Author: Gavin Ambrose
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 209
Release: 2018-03-08
Genre: Design
ISBN: 1474255566

Layout for graphic design concerns the arrangement of text and images on a page. How these elements are positioned, both in relation to one another, and within the overall design scheme, will affect how content is viewed and received. Whether in print or online, it is key to powerful visual communication. Layout for Graphic Designers provides visual arts students with a theoretical and practical underpinning of this design subject. Packed with over 200 examples from key contemporary practices, and fully illustrated with clear diagrams and inspiring imagery, it offers an essential exploration of the subject. This third edition has been updated to include 25 new images and 6 new case studies from Lundgren + Lindqvist, TwoPoints.Net, Bruce Mau Design, Non-Format, Mind Design and Plau.

Graphic Design

Graphic Design
Author: Ellen Lupton
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Total Pages: 250
Release: 2014-04-15
Genre: Design
ISBN: 1616893443

How do designers get ideas? Many spend their time searching for clever combinations of forms, fonts, and colors inside the design annuals and monographs of other designers' work. For those looking to challenge the cut-and-paste mentality there are few resources that are both informative and inspirational. In Graphic Design: The New Basics, Ellen Lupton, best-selling author of such books as Thinking with Type and Design It Yourself, and design educator Jennifer Cole Phillips refocus design instruction on the study of the fundamentals of form in a critical, rigorous way informed by contemporary media, theory, and software systems

7 Essentials Of Graphic Design

7 Essentials Of Graphic Design
Author: Allison Goodman
Publisher: HOW Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2001-09-13
Genre: Graphic arts
ISBN: 9781581801248

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.