365 daily design mantras from four leading industry experts, providing you with valuable design dos and don'ts for every day of year. Packed with practical advice presented in a fun, lighthearted fashion, this is the perfect book for the ever-growing group of non-designers who want some graphic design guidance. And for more experienced designers, individual entries will either bring forth knowing nods of agreement or hoots of derision, depending on whether or not the reader loves or hates hyphenation, has a pathological fear of beige, or thinks that baseline grids are boring. In the style of a classical almanac, 365 entries combine a specific rule with a commentary from a variety of experienced designers from all fields of the graphic design industry. Covering topics such as typography, colour, layout, imagery, production, and creative thinking, you can either dip in at random or use the book as the source of a daily lesson in how to produce great graphic design.

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Publisher

Year

Print ISBN

eBook ISBN

Topic

Subtopic

Index

Adobe InDesign 140

clipping 260

colour, and 181

finishing techniques 330

paragraph composer 146

tables 132

Baseline

adjacent columns 119

aligning the baseline 122

alternate baseline grids 123

bottom margin 120

caption boxes 122

Binding

‘creep’ at trim and spine 322

embossing and debossing 324

H&T bands 325

matt and gloss lamination 323

saddle-stitch 321

Body copy 36

display fonts 37

novelty typeface 36

Books and magazines

baseline grid for body copy 118

book covers, legibility of 161

crossovers 113

facing pages spread 112

footnotes 133

folio spread 115

‘printer spreads’ 113

structure 145

Borders see Layout

Brief 342

deliverables 343

questions on 343

Camerawork 264

‘do it yourself’ 264

mobile phone 266

SLR camera 265

Caps

drop caps

body copy, and 62

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Cover
Title Page
Contents
Foreword
Type and Typography
Layout and Design
Colour
Imagery and Graphics
Production and Print
The Practice of Design
Index
Credits
Copyright

About this book

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