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, or other media.

The ultimate compendium of graphic and typographic idea generators for designers, illustrators, art directors, students and creative professionals.

Following on from Idea Index , this extremely compact guide is a pocket-sized compendium of ideas of layout generators. The book will help designers, at every skill level, explore multiple possibilities for visual treatments.

A lot has happened in the world of digital design since the first edition of this title was published, but one thing remains true: There is an ever-growing number of people attempting to design pages with no formal training. This book is the one place they can turn to find quick, non-intimidating, excellent design help from trusted design instructor Robin Williams. This revised classic--now in ...

A critical guide for designers, writers, editors and students.

Offering more than 450 images, along with the coverage of such topics as Italian, Russian, and Dutch design, this book includes: the invention of writing and alphabets; medieval manuscript books; the origins of printing and typography; renaissance graphic design; modern art and its impact on design; and the computer graphics revolution.