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These affordable, beautifully designed and produced books are ideal points of inspiration for both students and seasoned practitioners who want an overview of the fundamentals of design, and to learn new ideas about how far a strong understanding of the basics can take you. There are 16 books in the series Design Briefs:
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D.I.Y. Design It Yourself, by Ellen Lupton
Series: Design Briefs ISBN 9781568985527, paperback binding, $24.95 Not satisfied with the new T-shirts on sale at the local mall? Maybe you'd like a wedding invitation that expresses your own vision, not your ... 
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Designing For Social Change: Strategies for Community-Based Graphic Design, by Andrew Shea
Series: Design Briefs ISBN 9781616890476, paperback binding, $24.95 (A PAPress book) Some call it design for the greater good. Others call it social design. Whatever you call it, it's clear that an altruistic impulse is on ... 
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Elements of Design: Rowena Reed Kostellow and the Structure of Visual Relationships, by Gail Greet Hannah, Designed by Tucker Viemeister and Seth Kornfeld
Series: Design Briefs ISBN 9781568983295, paperback binding, $24.95 A hands-on book design students and designers alike will welcome. Elements of Design is a tribute to an exceptional teacher and a study of the ... Available for online reading at www.ebrary.com 
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Form+Code in Design, Art, and Architecture, by Casey Reas, Chandler McWilliams, and Jeroen Barendse
Series: Design Briefs ISBN 9781568989372, paperback binding, $24.95 The last decade has witnessed a proliferation of artists whose primary medium is software. Algorithmic processes, harnessed through the medium of computer code, allow artists ... Available for online reading at www.ebrary.com 
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Geometry of Design: Studies in Proportion and Composition, by Kimberly Elam
Series: Design Briefs ISBN 9781568982496, paperback binding, $21.95 At last, a mathematical explanation of how art works presented in a manner we can all understand. Kimberly Elam takes the reader on a geometrical ... This book has been replaced by a new edition 
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Geometry of Design, Revised and Updated Second Edition: Studies in Proportion and Composition, by Kimberly Elam
Series: Design Briefs ISBN 9781616890360, paperback binding, $24.95 The very first volume in our acclaimed Design Briefs series is now available in a revised and updated second edition. Geometry of Design is a ... 
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Graphic Design Theory: Readings from the Field, by Helen Armstrong
Series: Design Briefs ISBN 9781568987729, paperback binding, $24.95 The titles in our best-selling Design Brief series are highly praised by graphic design students, educators, and professionals worldwide as invaluable resources. Each beautifully designed, ... Available for online reading at www.ebrary.com 
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Graphic Design Thinking: Beyond Brainstorming, by Ellen Lupton
Series: Design Briefs ISBN 9781568989792, paperback binding, $24.95 Creativity is more than an inborn talent. It is a hard-earned skill that, like all skills, improves with practice. Graphic Design Thinking explores a variety ... 
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Grid Systems: Principles of Organizing Type, by Kimberly Elam
Series: Design Briefs ISBN 9781568984650, paperback binding, $24.95 Although grid systems are the foundation for almost all typographic design, they are often associated with rigid, formulaic solutions. However, the belief that all great ... 
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Indie Publishing: How to Design and Produce Your Own Book, by Ellen Lupton
Series: Design Briefs ISBN 9781568987606, paperback binding, $24.95 Once referred to derisively as "vanity publishing," self-published books are finally taking their place alongside more accepted indie categories such as music, film, and theater. ... Available for online reading at www.ebrary.com 
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Lettering and Type: Creating Letters and Designing Typefaces, by Bruce Willen, Nolen Strals, and Ellen Lupton
Series: Design Briefs ISBN 9781568987651, paperback binding, $24.95 No component of graphic design has attracted as much interest or inspired as much innovation in recent years as lettering and type. These fundamentals of ... Available for online reading at www.ebrary.com 
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Participate: Designing with User-Generated Content , by Helen Armstrong, Zvezdana Stojmirovic
Series: Design Briefs ISBN 9781616890254, paperback binding, $24.95 Creativity is no longer the sole territory of the designer. User-driven design has never been easier for the public to generate and distribute. Users of ... 
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The Wayfinding Handbook: Information Design for Public Places, by David Gibson
Series: Design Briefs ISBN 9781568987699, paperback binding, $24.95 Where am I? What can I do here? Where can I go from here? How do I get out of here? Consciously or not, we ... Available for online reading at www.ebrary.com 
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Thinking with Type, Second, Revised, Expanded Edition: A Critical Guide for Designers, Writers, Editors, & Students, by Ellen Lupton
Series: Design Briefs ISBN 9781568989693, paperback binding, $24.95 Our all-time best selling book is now available in a revised and expanded second edition. Thinking with Type is the definitive guide to using typography ... Available for online reading at www.ebrary.com 
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Typographic Systems, by Kimberly Elam
Series: Design Briefs ISBN 9781568986876, paperback binding, $24.95 Typographic organization has always been a complex system in that there are so many elements at play, such as hierarchy, order of reading, legibility, and ... 
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Visual Grammar, by Christian Leborg
Series: Design Briefs ISBN 9781568985817, paperback binding, $21.95 Life in the image world has made us all voracious, if not always deliberate, consumers of visual messages. Easy access to computer graphic tools has ... Available for online reading at www.ebrary.com |
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