Design School: Layout

A Practical Guide for Students and Designers

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Pub Date 16 Jan 2018 | Archive Date 17 Apr 2018

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Description

Design School: Layout is an instructive guide for students, recent graduates, and self-taught designers. It provides a comprehensive introduction to creating and changing layouts: a crucially important skill that underpins practically every aspect of graphic design. 

You'll get in-depth analysis of all the major areas of theory and practice used by experienced professional designers. Each section provides explanation and visual examples of grid systems and in-depth discussion of compositional principles and strategies. The text is interspersed with tests designed to help you retain key points you've covered in the preceding spreads, and includes illustrations sections with real world scenarios.

This in-depth guide avoids the temptation to stray into other areas of design technique, preferring to cover the essential, detailed skills of the professional graphic designer to arm you with the knowledge needed for a successful start to your chosen career.

Design School: Layout is an instructive guide for students, recent graduates, and self-taught designers. It provides a comprehensive introduction to creating and changing layouts: a crucially...


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ISBN 9781631593192
PRICE $27.99 (USD)
PAGES 224

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Let me start by saying that I think I will buy a physical copy for my own bookshelf one day. This book is full of theory and a lot of technical stuff and it is a gem for anyone interested in graphic design. It talks about everything, including the golden section, rule of thirds, paper sizes and all elements of a poster.

This book is useful for students, but it's also great for anyone who is really interested in graphic design - plus every chapter ends with a few questions to test your knowledge. I think my only complaint is that this book could have used more images as examples - actual posters and compositions. It does have a section at the end full of examples, and that is really useful, but personally I prefer the examples on the same page with the theory explaining the elements and concepts.

Even so, I loved it.

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Sadly my computer won't open this file and I cant read it. however, I bet it would have been amazing

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This is a course book, written as such and is of best use to students already engaged in and accustomed to designing terminology.

Thanks to the publisher for the ARC and all the best to the author.

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