Amazon.co.uk Review
Alistair Campbell is well known to professional designers as the author of
The Designer's Handbook. In the days of Cow Gum, type depth scales and Letraset rub-down transfers, the
Handbook explained how your sticky collage glorified by the name of artwork got turned, by other people, into the real thing. As Campbell accurately notes in his introduction to
The Designer's Lexicon, in the digital world designers are increasingly responsible for all aspects of the process. A much greater knowledge both of traditional design arts and digital technology is required. "The 'man who does' is becoming increasingly elusive and, as if our heads aren't crammed full enough with the nomenclature of our profession ... completely new things are being chucked at us at every turn...".
The book is divided into two sections--an alphabetical index or "wordfinder" and the lexicon itself, which, subdivided into nine categories, loosely groups collections of like terms. This approach works well if you have no idea about the word you're looking for, only that it means, say, a typesetting style where successive lines are progressively indented at both ends, forming the shape of an inverted triangle. Entry number 1868 "in pendentive" in the Typogr
