- ISBN13: 9781592531257
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- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
Product Description
For designers working in every medium, layout is arguable the most basic and most important element. Effective layout is essential to communication and enables the end user to not only be drawn in with an innovative design but to digest information easily. Making and Breaking the Grid is a comprehensive layout design workshop that assumes that to effectively break the rules of grid-based design one must first understand those rules and see them applied to real-worl… More >>
Making and Breaking the Grid: A Graphic Design Layout Workshop
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#1 by Paul Mason on April 17, 2010 - 2:11 am
This is not a full review of the book. It is an initial caveat to purchasers. If you are the sort of graphic designer who is mightily impressed by references to the ‘poststructural French philospher Rene Foucault’ (reproduced with original spelling from page 117 of the book) then you will find this highly stimulating, and admire the pretty pictures.
If, on the other hand, you find such ignorance laughable, or feel that a half-decent writer (never mind editor) should catch such howlers, then you may have pause for thought. It is a philosophical issue, of course: some believe that graphic design should have such contempt for mere words that they can be ignored, set in Dingbats or otherwise mutilated. Such an opinion is, however, not entirely in accord with many designers referenced in this book. A deliberate contradiction on the part of the author? I don’t think so.
So, shoddily edited, but looks nice.
Rating: 3 / 5
#2 by Brandi R. Holaday on April 17, 2010 - 3:58 am
An architecture book used to help us as students push the envelope for design, book is brand new and arrived quickly thanks!
Rating: 5 / 5
#3 by Hemilton M. Cunha on April 17, 2010 - 5:46 am
Useful, clear for understand, direct and not superficial.
Very very good.
Rating: 5 / 5
#4 by David Trump on April 17, 2010 - 6:04 am
A great resource. Inspirational and educational all in one great little book.
Great for designers of all levels.
Rating: 5 / 5
#5 by Girl with the curls on April 17, 2010 - 8:24 am
I would LOVE to provide an opinion. If I EVER GET THE PRODUCT. I don’t understand what takes so long? I’ve ordered tires via the internet and get them faster than this. It’s been over 4 weeks!
Rating: 3 / 5