FAQ
How is this different from the 2nd edition?
Good question. I ended up rewriting a lot more than I expected, including a whole new chapter about usability for mobile web sites and apps. And the examples are now from the current century.
I’ve been doing Web design [or development, marketing, etc.] for a long time. Won’t this be too basic for me?
As one Amazon reviewer said:
“If you’re new to web design, you’ll learn TONS; if you’re a seasoned pro, you’ll get a solid refresher and maybe even pick up on a few new things.”
A lot of Web professionals tell me they leaf through it again every time they start a new project, just to remind themselves of all the “common sense” that they tend to forget.
What’s the difference between this book and your other one?
Don’t Make Me Think explains what everyone should know about usability.
Rocket Surgery Made Easy explains how to do your own usability testing.
Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered Description
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"[Show Your Work is] timeless; readers can return to it repeatedly throughout life and still glean useful ideas and tips... Anyone starting out (or starting over)...will find upbeat encouragement here."
--Library Journal
“Sassy and spot-on.”
--Publishers Weekly
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“Austin Kleon is one of the brightest new minds on the creative landscape. SHOW YOUR WORK! demonstrates why. With simple yet profound insights, and an array of his amazing images, he casts aside old stereotypes of the creative life and tells what it’s really like.”
—DANIEL H. PINK, author of To Sell Is Human and Drive
Layout Workbook is one of five volumes in Rockport's series of practical and inspirational workbooks that cover the fundamental areas of the graphic design business. In this edition, author Kristin Cullen tackles the often perplexing job of nailing down a layout that works.
More than a collection of great examples of layout, this book is an invaluable resource for students, designers, and creative professionals who seek design understanding and inspiration. The book illuminates the broad category of layout, communicating specifically what it takes to design with excellence. It also addresses the heart of design-the how and why of the creative process.
Cullen approaches layout with a series of step-by-step fundamental chapters (a "how-to" of layout) addressing topics such as The Function of Design, Inspiration, The Design Process, Intuition, Structure and Organization, The Interaction of Visual Elements, Typography, and Design Analysis. The book offers inspirational quotations and a unique, progressive design that truly reflects its content.
About the Author
Timothy Samara is a graphic designer and educator working in New York City. His 15-year career, focused primarily on visual identity development and information design, includes adverse project history - from branding systems and user interfaces to books, animation, and architectural work - for a wide range of corporations and not-for-profit organisations.
This latest volume in Rockport's Workbook series, Publication Design Workbook is packed with information regarding the ins and outs of publication design. The media featured includes magazines, literature systems, newsletters, exhibition catalogs, annual reports, newspapers, and retail catalogs. Both current and historical approaches are provided to give readers a complete background on design style, application, and techniques involved in creating effective publications.
Readers will develop a clear understanding of publication design through a comprehensive and accessible workshop-style format. Fundamentals of form and content are included, along with diagrams to further textual understanding. This is the most complete book for designers on applied publication design principles combined with an awe-inspiring collection of the best work from around the world.
Adhering to certain layout and grids standards and principles is important for any job from brochures, to annual reports, to posters, to websites, to publications. However, knowing how to bend the rules and make certain grids work for the job at hand takes skill.
This book will outline and demonstrate basic layout/grid guidelines and rules through 100 entries including choosing the a typeface for the project, striving for rhythm and balance with type, combining typefaces, using special characters and kerning and legibility. These essentials of grid design are critical to the success of any job
101 Things I Learned in Architecture School - Matthew Frederick
his is a book that students of architecture will want to keep in the studio and in their backpacks. It is also a book they may want to keep out of view of their professors, for it expresses in clear and simple language things that tend to be murky and abstruse in the classroom. These 101 concise lessons in design, drawing, the creative process, and presentation -- from the basics of "How to Draw a Line" to the complexities of color theory -- provide a much-needed primer in architectural literacy, making concrete what too often is left nebulous or open-ended in the architecture curriculum. Each lesson utilizes a two-page format, with a brief explanation and an illustration that can range from diagrammatic to whimsical. The lesson on "How to Draw a Line" is illustrated by examples of good and bad lines; a lesson on the dangers of awkward floor level changes shows the television actor Dick Van Dyke in the midst of a pratfall; a discussion of the proportional differences between traditional and modern buildings features a drawing of a building split neatly in half between the two. Written by an architect and instructor who remembers well the fog of his own student days, " 101 Things I Learned in Architecture School "provides valuable guideposts for navigating the design studio and other classes in the architecture curriculum. Architecture graduates -- from young designers to experienced practitioners -- will turn to the book as well, for inspiration and a guide back to basics when solving a complex design problem.
Start with Why -
Simon Sinek
Start with Why offers a number of examples to support Sinek's ideas as well as providing ideas for how to check on if an action is following the "why." Sinek himself is a business consultant, but he avoids putting together a compilation of his favorite exercises (and of course, how they lead to success); instead, he focuses on his "why" and creates a book which is not about him. Apple is successful, but they did it without Sinek. What Sinek does is look at those who have succeeded, figures out why, and then passes those ideas on to us.
Start with Why is a must-read for leaders of any type, but also for anyone wanting to get back to basics. While Sinek resists the temptation to create a self-help book, it is not a stretch to see how he makes sure our personal actions reflect on our "why" and will only lead to a fuller life. Sinek is new in the business publishing world, but with this start his future books will be eagerly awaited.
Manage Your Day-to-Day - Jocelyn K. Glei
Stop doing busywork. Start doing your best work.
Are you over-extended, over-distracted, and overwhelmed? Do you work at a breakneck pace all day, only to find that you haven’t accomplished the most important things on your agenda when you leave the office?
The world has changed and the way we work has to change, too. With wisdom from 20 leading creative minds, Manage Your Day-to-Day will give you a toolkit for tackling the new challenges of a 24/7, always-on workplace.
Featuring contributions from: Dan Ariely, Leo Babauta, Scott Belsky, Lori Deschene, Aaron Dignan, Erin Rooney Doland, Seth Godin,Todd Henry, Christian Jarrett, Scott McDowell, Mark McGuinness, Cal Newport, Steven Pressfield, Gretchen Rubin, Stefan Sagmeister, Elizabeth G. Saunders, Tony Schwartz, Tiffany Shlain, Linda Stone, and James Victore. Plus, a foreword from Behance founder & CEO Scott Belsky.
Maximize Your
Potential -
Jocelyn K. Glei
Success isn't about being the best.
It's about always getting better.
Can you step outside your comfort zone? Bounce back from failure? Build new skills? Tapping into your true potential is no idle endeavor. It demands creativity, dedication, and a whole lot of hustle.
With wisdom from 21 leading creative minds, 99U'sMaximize Your Potential will show you how to generate new opportunities, cultivate your creative expertise, build valuable relationships, and take bold, new risks so that you can utilize your talents to the fullest.
Author:David Dabner, Sandra Stewart, Eric Zempol
PUBLISHER: Wiley
Good Graphic design Illustration's for Beginner . great Examples From books, to magazines, to websites, and even mobile devices.
unflattening
AUTHOR: Nick Sousanis
PUBLISHER: Harvard University Press
To do this, Sousanis used “visual thinking,” with all of his pages styled in a similar variation like the one below.
Best described by its own book cover, this work of graphic art within a book on graphic art weaves “together diverse ways of seeing drawn from science, philosophy, art, literature and mythology, [by using] the collage-like capacity of comics to show that perception is always an active process of incorporating and reevaluating different vantage points.”
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Design Elements:,Color Fundamentals
AUTHOR: Aaris Sherin
PUBLISHER: Rockport Publishers
This manual of color is a perfect resource for every designer. It’s chock-full of essential information, from color theory to pairings for real world projects. With this guide on your shelf, you will learn how to truly and effectively communicate with color and how best to use it in your client’s projects.
Logo Design Love : Creating Iconic Brand Identities
AUTHOR: David Airey
PUBLISHER: PeachPit Press
Discovering and understanding your client’s brand identity is critical to creating the perfect logo. David Airey, the author of Logo Design Love, takes the reader through the paces of how he and other designers go from concept to completed product with their logos.
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know your onions
UTHOR: Drew de Soto
PUBLISHER: BIS Publishers
Despite the somewhat silly title, this book is a seriously epic tutorial on the business aspects of design. As nice as it would be to do away with the business side of the graphic design process, most of us cannot afford to do that quite yet.
If you’re a working graphic designer, or plan to become one, this is your business bible. It will make sure you understand the less creative, but equally important, part of being a graphic designer: getting paid.
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The Design Of Every Day Things
by Don Norman (Author)
An industry classic explaining how to design products for real human use.
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Thoughts On Design
relevant to today's designers.
houghts on Design
Aug 19, 2014
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