Graphic Design Cookbook: Mix & Match Recipes for Faster, Better Layouts

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Chronicle Books, 2001 - Design - 142 pages
With 100,000 copies sold, Graphic Design Cookbook is one of the most useful all-purpose resources for designers and anyone who wants to create a dynamic layout for magazines, newsletters, books, posters, and other media. Now released with a fresh new cover, its more than a thousand line drawings illustrate effective design devices, type treatments, spatial solutions, and pictorial presentations, allowing examination and comparison of various options in no time. The Graphic Design Cookbook can be opened to virtually any page for instant access to great ideas. As a catalyst for cooking up endless new design recipes, this classic goes on inspiring one generation of designers to the next.
 

Contents

HOW TO USE THIS BOOK
11
Word Page Border Devices
24
Division of Page into Rectilinear Boxes
37
Comic Captioning Systems
52
Folios
56
Orienting on Page with Letters
65
TEXT SYSTEMS
73
ORDERING INFORMATION
97
PICTORIAL CONSIDERATIONS
123
DESCRIPTION OF TERMS
139
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