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Design elements : a graphic style manual : understanding the rules and knowing when to break them
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Design elements : a graphic style manual : understanding the rules and knowing when to break them

Author: Timothy Samara
Publisher: Gloucester, Mass. : Rockport Publishers, ©2007.
Edition/Format: Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Timothy Samara
ISBN: 1592532616 9781592532612
OCLC Number: 70158378
Description: 272 p. : chiefly ill. (some col.) ; 26 cm.
Contents: Preface : Graphic design: what it is -- Introduction : Twenty rules for making good design -- 1. Form and space : Seeing form and space ; Categories of form ; Putting stuff into space ; Spatial qualities ; Compositional strategies ; A foundation for meanings -- 2. Color fundamentals : The identity of color ; Chromatic interaction ; Color systems ; Emotions and messages -- 3. Choosing and using type ; Structure and optics ; Issues related to style ; Mechanics of text ; Texture and space ; Type as information ; How color changes type -- 4. The world of image : Real, unreal, and otherwise ; Media and methods ; Presentation options ; Content and concept -- 5. Putting it all together : Visual logic ; Structuring the page ; Intuitive arrangement ; Integrating type and images ; Layout systems -- App.A. The right design choices: twenty reminders for working designers -- App.B. Causin' some trouble: when and why to challenge anything in this book.
Responsibility: Timothy Samara.
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