The Non-Designer’s Design and Type Books, Deluxe Edition
admin | Jan 27, 2010 | 5 comments
- ISBN13: 9780321534057
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
Product Description
Design and typographic insights from the author of The Non-Designer’s book series (over 700,000 copies in print!)
This book offers decades of experience from one of the greatest computer book authors. Here in one volume, Robin Williams has joined together a new edition of her classic The Non-Designer’s Design Book—in glorious full color for the first time—and her best-selling The Non-Designer’s Type Book. Robin uses her straightforward and lighthearted style to define the principles that govern good design and type as well as the logic behind those principles. Using numerous examples, you’ll learn what looks best and why on your way to designing beautiful and effective projects. Whether you are a Mac user or a Windows user, a type novice or an experienced graphic designer, you will find inspiration and direction for the design quandaries and conundrums you are sure to encounter!
These essential guides to design and type will teach you about:
- The four principles of design that underlie every design project
- Categories of type
- Working with color
- How to combine typefaces for maximum effect
- Readability and legibility
- The proper typographic treatment of punctuation
- Letter spacing, line spacing, and paragraph spacing
- Special characters and accent marks
$25.00
The Non-Designer's Design and Type Books, Deluxe Edition
Filed Under: Books Today
If you don’t know nothing o know a little about design, but, the most important, you care about how your work should be presented, this is a great guide to learn the basics and the rules for design.
Rating: 5 / 5
This book is actually two books in one.
The first book (Non-Designer’s design book) opens your eyes for good design. I just read it once while watching TV and the next day intuitively started applying what I had browsed. It affects the way you structure Emails, Word documents, … Basically everything.
I was not happy with our website and all off the sudden could actually put in words what I didn’t like about it. I could write a design guideline and ask web designers for quotes. I even started re-designing our companies trade show booth with over double the impact (enquiries, sales,…) as result.
If you are a small business owner or have to deal with anything design this is a great starting point.
I included research in my headline because I worked in research for a long time and know how crucial the reports, presentations and publications are for the career. I wish I would have had this book at that time.
The second book (type) got a bit dry and detailed for me but opened my eyes for effects of fonts. Needless to say that I changed my standard fonts in Word straight away.
Cheers,
Edward
Rating: 5 / 5
The Non-Designer’s Design and Type Book, Deluxe Edition (Paperback)
Robin Williams is the queen of Macintosh design and her new book is it’s Bible. The book is exactly as described: a design book for those people not trained as designers. The book is actually divided into two sections, design and typography.
The design book goes over the basic principles of how to design using a few basic concepts most anyone can learn such as white space, proximity, layout, and contrast. She gives copious amounts of real world examples to help lay people give a bit of “oomph” to such things as newsletters, business cards, and stationary. For someone trying to go out on their own, this book is an invaluable aid in basic design work while saving money to get a true expert on board. The book is a very quick read, but it’s a good book to keep around whenever you do design work.
The typography portion was a bit over my head. It’s all about fonts, typefaces and so forth. She clearly tries to made the topic accessible, but I found the content difficult to understand as someone not in the design field. The typography portion of the book can be used as a reference guide when deciding which font would work in specific situations.
This book is perfect for the small business owner or the group secretary who suddenly gets called on to create a newsletter or a basic identity for print.
Pros: Accessible and understandable principles of basic design made understandable to everyone
Cons: Font portions a bit over the novice’s head
Four out of Five Dogcows
Rating: 4 / 5
I actually bought this book before for school & for some reason decided to sell it after the course was done. Now I have bought it again because I decided that I wanted this book in my collection. There are lots of examples and quality images in the book so you can see what the writer is talking about. It gives you great font ideas & advice on how to create effective flyers, invitations, layouts, etc. Now I use it as a reference guide whenever I am creating something that needs to stand out or look special.
Rating: 4 / 5
Love the visual examples of bad and good design side by side. It is a thick book and so far I have just skimmed it (too busy), but so far I am loving it. I think most people that don’t have a clue about how to design their business ads will learn a lot from this book and their ads will do better for them.
Rating: 4 / 5