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Basics Design Colour (Basics Design)
Gavin Ambrose, Paul Harris

AVA Publishing, 2006

Basics Design Layout (Basics Design)

2 reviews
Gavin Ambrose, Paul Harris

AVA Publishing, 2005

Awesome book
I found this book extraordinarily helpful. A great resource of information presented in a way that anyone can understand and grasp. Every page is full of text and pictorial descriptions. Great for the visual learners. I also think this book would be helpful for an educated graphic designer looking to expand their library. The other four books in this basic design series are similar in the ...

The Production Manual: A Graphic Design Handbook (Advanced Level)
Gavin Ambrose, Paul Harris

AVA Publishing, 2008

Get ready for the real world of graphic design with The Production Manual * Less theory, more practice * Detailed how-tos and full instructions on hundreds of production techniques * Practical, down-to-earth, up-to-the-minute information Want a job in graphic design? In the real world? Here?s the book that teaches everything you really need to know. The Production Manual is filled with practical how-it-works, how-to-get-it-done ...

Basics Design Format (Basics Design S.)
Gavin Ambrose, Paul Harris

AVA Publishing, 2005

Introducing the brand-new, extremely visual BASICS series, which will eventually incorporate 5 titles, each representing a fundamental aspect of graphic design. Format, the first entry, concerns the physical dimensions of a product and the space one has to present the graphic elements of a design: the size of a book, the scale of a poster, the folds in a brochure. This instructive handbook examines in detail books, magazines, posters, direct ...

The Fundamentals of Typography (Fundamentals (Ava))

1 review
Gavin Ambrose, Paul Harris

AVA Publishing, 2006

A Concise but Complete Course In What Type can do.
One of the hardest things for a beginning designer to understand is that there are reasons for their being so many styles of type, and so many things that you can do to adjust or modify that typeface to produce the appearance and effect that you are trying to produce. Today with the ease with which typefaces are produced using computers it is especially important that the designer working on ...

Basics Design: Grids (Basics Design)
Gavin Ambrose, Paul Harris

AVA Publishing, 2008

The how and why of using grids in graphic design * Packed with case studies and illuminating examples * Seventh title in a top-selling series The seventh book in the award-winning Basics Design series, Grids focuses on the construction and ordering of the page and screen through use of the grid. This book explores how to construct grids--and, more fundamentally--why the designer should construct grids. Through detailed investigation ...

Basics Design: Print and Finish (Basics Design)

3 reviews
Gavin Ambrose, Paul Harris

AVA Publishing, 2006

Great book for the various print techniques, uses itself as example!
Wonderful book that not only describes various print and finish techniques but uses itself as an example. From paper to ink - the book is bound with of no less than a half dozen stock types to demonstrate various techniques and stock/ink combinations, and demonstrates the printer spreads used for various sections. Even the cover uses a brilliant blend of die cuts and varnish prints to ...

The Visual Dictionary of Fashion Design (Visual Dictionary)

2 reviews
Gavin Ambrose, Paul Harris

AVA Publishing, 2007

I'm Buyin'
As usual, I found this book at a brick and mortor bookstore and returned home to look it up on-line. Let me tell you what others have not. To a seamstress, curator, or art historian, this book may be of little value, but to a lay person, it is a great resource. Now I can look up designers, period styles and their origen, and industry terms. The photography is great! Pictures are historically ...

A Visual Dictionary of Graphic Design

3 reviews
Gavin Ambrose, Paul Harris

AVA Publishing, 2006

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.

The Layout Book (Advanced Level)

2 reviews
Gavin Ambrose, Paul Harris

AVA Publishing, 2007

The collaborative work of freelance writer, journalist and editor
The collaborative work of freelance writer, journalist and editor Paul Harris and professional graphic designer Gavin Ambrose, "The Layout Book" is a profusely illustrated introduction to the basic principles of graphic design as they have been employed for in the worlds of fashion, the principles of architecture, the creation of art, and the organization of the illustrated printed page. With a ...

Layout
Gavin Ambrose, Paul Harris

Stiebner, 2004

The Visual Dictionary of Architecture (Visual Dictionary)

1 review
Gavin Ambrose, Paul Harris

AVA Publishing, 2008

visual dictionary of architecture and construction
disappointed there wasn't a glossary. that's the point a word not understood referenced by an illustration. in general, for the above exception, a fair book to help you talk to your contracator more easily while doing a build out.

DICCIONARIO VISUAL DE LA MODA
AMBROSE GAVIN, 2008

The Fundamentals of Graphic Design (Fundamentals (Ava))
Paul Harris, Gavin Ambrose

AVA Publishing, 2008

A thoughtful exploration of the role of graphic design today, The Fundamentals of Graphic Design offers a unique overview of a challenging and dynamic profession. From new media to marketing, from package design and print design to typography, opportunities in graphic design are everywhere. This book discusses both the familiar aspects of graphic-design jobs, such as art directing, copyright issues, and web design, and the broader implications ...

Basics Design Image (Basics Design)

1 review
Gavin Ambrose, Paul Harris

AVA Publishing, 2006

Great design resource
This series of books are an excellent resource for graphic designers. It really helps me when I am given an open brief and asked to be really creative. Image is a great mix of inspiration and technical advice.

Basics Photography: Composition (Basics Photography)

6 reviews
Paul Harris, Xavier Young, ...

AVA Publishing SA, 2005

Fantastic book
Despite the sheer number of photography books in the marketplace, finding one that defines, explains and teaches the basics of composition has been difficult - until now. David Prakel's fine book explains the fundamentals of composition in clear and understandable ways, providing examples and definitions. Far from being a mechanical "how-to" book, "Composition" provides the building blocks that ...

Fundamentals of Creative Design (Fundamentals (Ava))

2 reviews
Gavin Ambrose, Paul Harris

AVA Publishing, 2003

Good Stuff
I am currently a design student and thoroughly enjoyed this book. I was particularly interested because it had some examples from Asterik Studios, a firm in Seattle, but found that there are many inspiring pieces within the book.

Grafikdesign. Grundmuster Des Kreativen Gestaltens. (Taschenbuch)
Gavin Ambrose

Rowohlt Tb, 2004

Kurzbeschreibung Grafikdesign macht vertraut mit den Schlüsselementen des kreativen Gestaltens. Ob Format, Typografie, Layout, Bild oder Farbe - jeder Bereich wird mit farbigen Schaubildern erläutert, theoretisch und historisch unterfüttert, vor allem aber durch ausgesuchte Fallbeispiele mit der Praxis verknüpft. Die detailliert beschriebenen Arbeitsprozesse kreativer Profis lassen erkennen, warum das Beherrschen der Grundregeln so wichtig ist.

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