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The Designer's Graphic Stew: Visual Ingredients, Techniques, and Layout Recipes for Graphic Designers
Under the witty and metaphorical guise of a high-end cookbook, the author provides visual “ingredients,” such as grid structures, folios, border devices, type treatments, abstract graphic elements, categorized stylistically and functionally. These ingredients are shown in use through a “recipe” format to accomplish strategies such as movement, rhythm, organization, contras...more
Hardcover, 248 pages
Published
February 1st 2010
by Rockport Publishers
(first published January 1st 2010)
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Melissa
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This is a beautiful book. Sort of like a menu or a cookbook, filled with the "ingredients" to create a beautiful design project. It's kind of overwhelming, though -- whole pages filled with color schemes, followed by whole pages of dingbats, then whole pages of fonts and whole pages of photographic and typographic effects. This type of book would make a good reference book for a graphic artist. You can learn some from reading through it once (like I did, by checking it out of the publi...more
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