Design elements understanding the rules and knowing when to break them

This updated version of Rockport's best-selling Design Elements covers all the design fundamentals, from working with grids, color application, typography, and imagery to finally how to put it all together.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Samara, Timothy (-)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Minneapolis : Quarto Publishing Group USA 2020.
Colección:Design Elements
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • What is graphic design?
  • Twenty rules for making good design
  • Form and Space. Defining visual language
  • Attributes of form
  • Putting stuff into space
  • Compositional strategies
  • Color Fundamentals. The identity of color
  • Chromatic interaction
  • Color logic and systems
  • When color means something
  • Color in the real world
  • Choosing and Using Type. Structure and optics
  • Issues related to style
  • The mechanics of textsetting
  • Type is visual, too
  • Type as information
  • The World of Imagery. The nature of images
  • Media and methods
  • Content, concept, context
  • Narrative massage
  • Putting It All Together. Merging type and image
  • Working with grids
  • Intuitive arrangement
  • Design as a system
  • The working process
  • Causin' some trouble : Breaking every rule in this book
  • Index (By subject)
  • Directory of contributors
  • About the author and acknowledgments.