Graphic Design, Referenced: A Visual Guide to the Language, Applications, and History of Graphic Design
Graphic Design, Referenced is authored by designers and co-founders of UnderConsideration.com, Armin Vit and Bryony Gomez Palacio.
With more than 2,000 design projects illustrating more than 400 entries, it provides an intense overview of the varied elements that make up the graphic design profession through a unique set of chapters:
Principles defines the very basic foundation of what constitutes graphic design to establish the language, terms, and concepts that govern what we do and how we do it, covering layout, typography, and printing terms.
Knowledge explores the most influential sources through which we learn about graphic design from the educational institutions we attend to the magazines and books we read.
Representatives gathers the designers who over the years have proven the most prominent or have steered the course of graphic design in one way or another.
Practice highlights some of the most iconic work produced that not only serve as examples of best practices, but also illustrate its potential lasting legacy.
Graphic Design, Referenced serves as a comprehensive source of information and inspiration by documenting and chronicling the scope of contemporary graphic design, stemming from the middle of the twentieth century to today.
FROM CHUCK This is the first book of its kind I have seen--and it is superb. It is not a history, a how-to, a reference, or a book of examples--though it includes elements of each. Instead, it offers a studied impression--via 400-plus well-written, beautifully illustrated entries--of the people, principles, and ingredients that have made (and are making) the field of graphic design such a compelling part of world culture.
Authors Armin Vit and Bryony Gomez Palacio (of UnderConsideration.com) have again demonstrated their wonderful sense of what is important about graphic design. It is a must-have.
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400 pages; ISBN 978-1592534470
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