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A Visual Dictionary of Graphic Design

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* Shows the meaning of each term
* Quick reference for students and anyone who wants to understand specialized terms
* Handy go-anywhere format

Abstract. Zeitgeist. Bauhaus. Pluralism. The Visual Dictionary is just the book for anyone who’s ever been a bit hazy about the meaning of the many terms used in art and design. Each term is explained visually and put in context, providing the reader with a clear understanding of the often mystifying language of these specialized fields. To help the reader understand and remember the meanings, each entry uses a different typeface (a history of the fonts is in the back of the book) and includes a picture in an appropriate illustration techniques. Eclectic, useful, and entertaining, The Visual Dictionary takes the complex and makes it simple.


PRODUCT DESCRIPTIONS:

Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 745
EAN: 9782940373437
ISBN: 2940373434
Label: AVA Publishing
Manufacturer: AVA Publishing
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 288
Publication Date: 2006-11-15
Publisher: AVA Publishing
Release Date: 2006-11-15
Studio: AVA Publishing


SIMILAR ITEMS:

• Design Elements: A Graphic Style Manual
• The Fundamentals of Typography (Fundamentals (Ava))
• Getting it Right with Type: The Dos and Don'ts of Typography
• Making and Breaking the Grid: A Graphic Design Layout Workshop
• Fingerprint: The Art of Using Hand-Made Elements in Graphic Design


CUSTOMER REVIEWS:

A must addition to Graphic Designer's library -
Great book, very nicely put together, easy to go through and tons of knowledge in few words. A must for any graphic designer.

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Any artist should have this -
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.

great book! -
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.