Type, Image, Message: Merging Pictures and Ideas - A Graphic Design Layout Workshop - Softcover

Skolos, Nancy; Wedell, Thomas

Softcover

ISBN 10: 159253189X ISBN 13: 9781592531899

Publisher: Rockport Publishers Inc., 2006

Synopsis

Working with type and image and the integration of these two elements to create persuasive and effective design pieces are the foundations of good graphic design. Yet, very little practical information exists for these tasks.

This book changes all it. It gives designers the practical know-how to combine type and image for dynamic effect as well as to use them in contrast to create tension and meaning in design. Creating strong layouts is the most important as well as the most challenging of any project. This book inspires through excellence by exhibiting great design work then deconstructing the processes in simple visual terms.

Type, Image, Message: Merging Pictures and Ideas looks at this respected art form while providing practical information that can be used by any designer wishing to hone the skills needed to merge type with images in an inspired manner.

About this title

Synopsis

The art of merging type and image is graphic design at its most basic level. The goal of this new volume is to provide designers with the practical know-how essential for creating strong design. Authors Skolos and Wedelll aim to demystify the process of marrying these two often-conflicting modes of communication by looking at work from some of today's best designers from around the world. Their designs, intricately presented in thematic chapters, offer insight into the dynamics of putting words and pictures together. The book explores the visual and communicative properties of type and image and celebrates the creative potential that can be unleashed when the two are combined. The resulting complexities are analysed and common properties and strategies are identified, such as framing, layering and modularity, to reveal the underlying causes and effects. "Type, Image, Message" is an essential handbook for any designer keen to apply their skills in merging type and images in a fresh and inspired way.

About the Author

Nancy Skolos and Thomas Wedell are the principals of Skolos-Wedell, an interdisciplinary graphic design and photography studio.

Husband and wife, photographer and designer, the two work to diminish the boundaries between graphic design and photography - creating collaged three-dimensional images influenced by modern painting, technology, and architecture. With a home and studio halfway between Boston and Providence, they balance their commitments to professional practice and teaching at the Rhode Island School of Design, where Skolos is Head of the Department of Graphic Design.

The studio's work has received numerous awards and has been widely published and exhibited. Skolos-Wedell's posters are included in the graphic design collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Library of Congress, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Israel Museum, and the Museum fur Gestaltung, Zurich, Switzerland. Skolos is an elected member of the Alliance Graphique Internationale

Edition details

• Publisher: Rockport Publishers Inc.
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 159253189X
• ISBN 13: 9781592531899
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 193