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Non-Designer's Design Book, The Paperback – 1 Dec. 2014

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For nearly 20 years, designers and non-designers alike have been introduced to the fundamental principles of great design by author Robin Williams. Through her straightforward and light-hearted style, Robin has taught hundreds of thousands of people how to make their designs look professional using four surprisingly simple principles. Now in its fourth edition, The Non-Designer’s Design Book offers even more practical design advice, including a new chapter on the fundamentals of typography, more quizzes and exercises to train your Designer Eye, updated projects for you to try, and new visual and typographic examples to inspire your creativity.

Whether you’re a Mac user or a Windows user, a type novice, or an aspiring graphic designer, you will find the instruction and inspiration to approach any design project with confidence.

THIS ESSENTIAL GUIDE TO DESIGN WILL TEACH YOU

The four principles of design that underlie every design project
How to design with color
How to design with type
How to combine typefaces for maximum effect
How to see and think like a professional designer
Specific tips on designing newsletters, brochures, flyers, and other projects

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0133966151
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978-0133966152
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4th
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1 Dec. 2014
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English
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17.78 x 1.65 x 25.15 cm
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Robin Williams is the author of dozens of bestselling and award-winning books, including The Non-Designer's Presentation Book, The Non-Designer's InDesign Book, and The Mac is not a typewriter. Through her writing, teaching, and seminars, Robin has educated and influenced an entire generation of computer users in the areas of design, typography, desktop publishing, the Mac, and the Web.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Peachpit Press; 4th edition (1 Dec. 2014)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 240 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0133966151
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0133966152
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 17.78 x 1.65 x 25.15 cm

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W. Boon

Great practical and directly useable advice for people with little or no formal design experience

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 22 March 2016

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This is a great book. I only wish I'd read it a long time ago. It's well written, structured and doesn't get bogged down in unnecessary detail. The author has been teaching this for years, so she knows a thing or two about good design. If you ever find yourself having to design anything really (flyers, birthday or greeting cards, photo books, presentations...) but don't have any formal training in design this book will help. It starts with basic principles: Contrast, Repetition, Alignment and Proximity and how they are applied to practically every design. There are some examples of bad design and the suggestions the author proposed to fix the problems.

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Chrille

Trained my unprofessional eye exponentially

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 12 February 2018

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Love this book,clear, concise information on design, formatting,contrasts and colours. Everytime I see a printed ad now I'm assessing it and rebuild the ones in my head how I would redesign the not so good ones.Especially the colour section is easy to understand,I used to put the wrong colours together not knowing how they are related to make a design more effective. Really pleased with this book and keep revisiting for colour coordination.

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Anna

Just what I needed.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 21 March 2017

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I bought this as I'm due to start a new job where I'll be expected to do some design work, and it brilliantly describes all the basics that I had a vague idea about in a coherent, logical way. It's not too long neither and has good examples and as such is a good bite-sized design guide!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 16 May 2019

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This has a lot of helpful tips about choosing fonts/design basics, but I'm not sure how much I trust the advice considering the interior doesn't look very well designed to me, though of course it's personal preference.

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Dave

Rewrite

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 23 May 2019

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Rewrite of earlier book of same name and author. If you have the earlier version you do not need this one.

However, it is an interesting and useful book to have.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 4 September 2019

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Great book, it's simple yet very powerful!
I Study computer science, but they dont teach us anything about visual design.

I learned so much from this great book

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Chris Thomas

Did the job for me...

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 25 March 2016

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Excellent. I am putting a loose-leaf home study course together, and this had all the design guidelines I needed in a very accessible way, covering layout and use of colours particularly well.

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Bhathiya Perera

Book came damaged. But good content.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 25 January 2019

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Book came damaged. I don't think the book is bad though. Useful typography index and answers. But some designs seem old.

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