Design Elements: A Graphic Style Manual

EAN:9781592532612 Label:Rockport Publishers Author:Timothy Samara Binding:Paperback

This book describes the 20 rules of graphic design Awesome book, exactly what I needed. It has lots of great examples of concepts and ideas for brainstorming2009-02-09 Rating 5. I highly recommend this to someone who is wanting to learn about the general rules of graphic design and how to communicate, not decorate, with graphic design. "A Real World Book Design Elements. " After being in the graphic design field for more than 25 yeas, I find it very hard to find books that are interesting, useful for everyday life or not out of date2009-02-07 Rating 5. Our field is constantly changing and it is hard to find books that are not "Old School". I like info that is cutting edge, not stuff that has fallen over the edge and is not useful information that can not be used in the "real world". This one is right on. Not only is it informative it is visually stimulating. It is one that I will go back and look at often for inspiratin. It really gets the creative juices flowing. Finally a useful book. Love It!. I'm an amateur-to-semipro designer and found this book to be absolutely wonderful Exceptional resource for learning and design inspiration. Besides some great principles it offers an amazing collection of examples, several on each page2009-01-07 Rating 5. They illustrate Samara's points well, and also provide a profusion of design ideas. I started by using post-its to mark pages that made especially good points, or that I wanted to revisit. By the time I was half-way through I realized I'd marked nearly every page. . For the novice, even the technologist who is not a graphical designer, this is an excellent text on graphical style Great Design Guide. It is probably the only guide you'll ever need2008-12-28 Rating 5. Very complete, very detailed and inspires good use of graphics, text and even space. Excellent. I have purchased a lot of books from Amazon; this is the first time I have actually taken the time to write a review GREAT BOOK!!!. I have decided to take a minute to write this review simply because I am so impressed with this book2008-11-17 Rating 5. I have been creating various media that involve graphic design; including web design, print material, graphics for video, etc. , for about three years now. Like many other people, I am 100% self taught. I have never been to graphic design school or taken classes in the field. So I don't know the basic fundamentals of Graphic Design & color treatment, and often find myself struggling with creativity and coming up with ideas. This book lays out the fundamentals really well. One of the nice things about this book is this; all of the examples are modern illustrations that you see in the real world today that reflect really good design. Not some hokie, boring examples that you see in a lot of other books. I have a lot more that I want to say but I will keep it short. I will say this; if you are like me a self taught web designer, print developer, or work with graphic design in any other capacity and struggle with ideas and creativity, YOU GOTTA GET THIS BOOK!!! This book is definitely opening new doors of creativity for me. Joseph K. . The graphic design equivalent to Strunk & White's The Elements of Style This book is simply the most compact and lucid handbook available outlining the basic principles of layout, typography, color usage, and space Being a creative designer is often about coming up with unique design solutions. Unfortunately, when the basic rules of design are ignored in an effort to be distinctive, design becomes useless