Design elements : a graphic style manual /
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| Author / Creator: | Samara, Timothy. |
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| Imprint: | Gloucester, Mass. : Rockport Publishers, ©2007. |
| Description: | 1 online resource (272 pages) : illustrations |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13604897 |
Table of Contents:
- Cover; Title; Contents; Preface: Graphic Design: What It Is; Introduction: Twenty Rules for Making Good Design; Chapter 1 Form and Space; Seeing Form and Space; Categories of Form; Putting Stuff Into Space; Compositional Strategies; A Foundation for Meaning; Chapter 2 Color Fundamentals; The Identity of Color; Chromatic Interaction; Color Systems; Emotions and Messages; Chapter 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; Chapter 4 The World of Image; Real, Unreal, and Otherwise.
- Media and MethodsPresentation Options; Content and Concept; Chapter 5 Putting it All Together; Visual Logic; Structuring the Page; Intuitive Arrangement; Integrating Type and Image; Layout Systems; Appendix A: The Right Design Choices; Twenty Reminders for Working Designers; Appendix B: Causin' Some Trouble; When and Why to Challenge Anything in This Book; Contributors; Acknowledgments; About the Author.