- ISBN13: 9781856695916
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
Product Description
This book offers students, novice designers, and battle-toughened professionals alike an insider’s guide to the complexities of current graphic design practice and thinking.
It contains all you need to know to survive and prosper in the complex, ever-shifting world of graphic design. Set out in A-Z style and written in a realistic, conversational, and insightful way, the book provides advice on the fundamental topics and issues that face designers in their … More >>
Graphic Design: A User’s Manual
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#1 by John Sutton on April 17, 2010 - 3:31 am
The content of Graphic Design: A User’s Manual is fantastic. I enjoyed and learned something from every entry, and I would recommend it to anyone who has anything to do with graphic design in even the most tangential capacity. Every essay, without exception, contains nuggets of gold. I’ve bought copies for friends and I recommend you too, dear reader, secure a copy for yourself.
The only problem, and a glaring one in my opinion, is the lack of a table of contents. Without a table of contents good luck in getting a content overview. For that you have to physically flip through the pages of the whole book! What a pain in the neck. The index is comprehensive enough but I’m sorry, it doesn’t help in this regard.
Someone wasn’t thinking and whoever that someone is should carefully read and take to heart the section on ‘Wayfinding’ so clearly articulated on page –let me see now I have to flip through the whole book to find it…. ah yes, that would be on page 299. And while this person is at it they should also glance through the section on ‘Accessibility’. One second now, that…would…be…page…8.
Other than this one criticism, congratulations on a fantastic book!
Rating: 3 / 5
#2 by Corey Allen on April 17, 2010 - 3:38 am
Graphic Design: A User’s Manual written and designed by Adrian Shaughnessy is an absolute must read for a graphic designer. Actually, I should rephrase that, this book is an absolute must-reference for any designer. Structured as a very concise reference tool with each chapter, titled simply with a letter of the alphabet, addressing common and not so common topics in the design world.
If you’re anything like me when flipping through a new book, regardless of it’s topic there has to be plenty of visual stimulation and an equal amount of brain bending insight pulled from the text to summarize what I’m about to read (or summing up what I just read). [...].
Rating: 5 / 5
#3 by Jason A. Tselentis on April 17, 2010 - 4:14 am
Shaughnessy’s ‘Graphic Design: A User’s Manual’ covers all aspects of the creative process. It includes insight into business practices, media use, self-promotion, education and research, among others. Shaughnessy presents the information in a friendly, accessible manner without talking over your head or boring you with long-winded details.
Rating: 5 / 5