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Photoshop Creative Magazine, issue 22, 2007
A great tool..become a design geek in no time..bold,bright and
full of modern design concepts..a real treat
full of modern design concepts..a real treat
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A straight talking guide to the many and varied terms used within the realms of art and design. An invaluable resource to anyone studying or simply just interested in art and design. Each term is explained and contextualised, myths surrounding some of these terms are dispelled using varied illustration techniques, creating an eclectic, useful, and entertaining book.
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In typography, many values, such as character spacing, are directly linked to typesize which means that they are defined by a series of relative (rather than absolute) measurements. Read the first page
Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Index | Back Cover
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This is a fantastic dictionary! It's great value for money and is one of those titles that I find myself reaching for again and again. It is a great compact size, which means I am able to carry it with me and I really like the illustrations and find it is a book which, unlike most dictionaries, is enjoyable to read.
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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful
great book!
25 Oct 2007
Format:Paperback
This book is an excellent tool to have when you are working with a layout program like indesign cs. You can pretty much look up the definitions for most of the commands and you can understand what they mean and what they are for. I'm very pleased with this purchase.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Any artist should have this
6 Mar 2008
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This book doesn't go into too much detail on any single topic, but it gives you a good introductory guide to a useful number of art cocepts, history, and industry jargon (just stuff you only could ever need to know). A lot of the information may seem trivial, but it's all good to know if you are interested in entering an artistic field, regardless of which one.
Content-wise, this book is diverse. There's stuff for printers/publishers, typographers, art historians/teachers, digital graphic designers, photographers, writer/journalists, colorists, iconographers, pretty much any student of art! I will say that there's not that much for painters, sketchers, and other more 3-dimentional artforms, but a lot of the information does come in handy since nowadays, a lot of people use computers to compose graphic art.
Here's a sample of the stuff I learned:
Recto - right page of an open book
Verso - left page of an open book
Tessellation - Repeated layout of a design that doesn't have gaps or overlaps
Ascender - Parts of a letter that extend above the x-height
Descneder - Parts of a letter that extend below the baseline
Art Deco - A style of decorative designs that started during the 1920's which celebrated technology via geometric designs, intense colors, and use of plastic and glass
Canadian Binding - A book binding method that uses a spiral
Moire - Printed patterns produced by colour (CMYK) halftone dots which ultimately combine to reproduce images
Denotation - The literal and primary meaning of an image
As you can see, the kind of information in this book is really diverse; from components of text to composition basics. Some of the stuff is pretty basic, but a lot of times the book adds to a subject something that you either didn't know or don't pay enough attention to.
The book itself is a good piece of art; it not only explains concepts in text, but it also demonstrates them by using graphics (mostly photographs) and comitting an entire page for every topic. I think this is something graphic designers really could use and enjoy having.
Content-wise, this book is diverse. There's stuff for printers/publishers, typographers, art historians/teachers, digital graphic designers, photographers, writer/journalists, colorists, iconographers, pretty much any student of art! I will say that there's not that much for painters, sketchers, and other more 3-dimentional artforms, but a lot of the information does come in handy since nowadays, a lot of people use computers to compose graphic art.
Here's a sample of the stuff I learned:
Recto - right page of an open book
Verso - left page of an open book
Tessellation - Repeated layout of a design that doesn't have gaps or overlaps
Ascender - Parts of a letter that extend above the x-height
Descneder - Parts of a letter that extend below the baseline
Art Deco - A style of decorative designs that started during the 1920's which celebrated technology via geometric designs, intense colors, and use of plastic and glass
Canadian Binding - A book binding method that uses a spiral
Moire - Printed patterns produced by colour (CMYK) halftone dots which ultimately combine to reproduce images
Denotation - The literal and primary meaning of an image
As you can see, the kind of information in this book is really diverse; from components of text to composition basics. Some of the stuff is pretty basic, but a lot of times the book adds to a subject something that you either didn't know or don't pay enough attention to.
The book itself is a good piece of art; it not only explains concepts in text, but it also demonstrates them by using graphics (mostly photographs) and comitting an entire page for every topic. I think this is something graphic designers really could use and enjoy having.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Fantastic Dictionary!
24 Aug 2010
Format:Paperback
This is a fantastic dictionary! It's great value for money and is one of those titles that I find myself reaching for again and again. It is a great compact size, which means I am able to carry it with me and I really like the illustrations and find it is a book which, unlike most dictionaries, is enjoyable to read.
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