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Synopsis
The Visual Dictionary Design Box Set provides readers with an enhanced understanding of over 1000 professional design terms, illustrated with historical and contemporary examples throughout. These four books represent a comprehensive compendium of design terminology and will be useful to all designers, visual arts lecturers and students. The variety of illustrations and photographs serve as a source of inspiration, as well as an ideal memory stimulus for visual learners. The box set comes neatly presented in a slipcase and contains four Visual Dictionaries - Pre-press and Production, Typography, Graphic Design and Illustration. From 'linocut' to 'lithography', 'pilcrow' to 'kerning' and 'crop' to 'creep', The Visual Dictionary Design Box Set will prove a fun and useful resource to design enthusiasts.
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From the Back Cover
The language used within design-related disciplines can often be mystifying and confusing; The Visual Dictionary Design Box Set will provide the reader with an enhanced understanding of over 1000 professional design terms, supplemented by historical and contemporary illustrations throughout.
The box set comes neatly presented in an arlin-covered slipcase and contains four key design-related Visual Dictionaries - Pre-Press and Production, Typography, Graphic Design and Illustration.
Over 250 professional terms are defined and contextualized within each title; from 'linocut' to 'lithography', pilcrow' to 'kerning' and 'crop' to 'creep', the "Visual Dictionary Design Box Set" will prove an invaluable and enjoyable resource to design enthusiasts.
About the Author
Gavin Ambrose is a practising graphic designer. His current commercial practice includes clients from the arts sector, publishers and advertising agencies.
Paul Harris is a freelance writer, journalist and editor. Paul writes for international magazines and journals in London and New York. He is co-author and collaborator on several books about graphic design.
Mark Wigan is an artist, illustrator and academic. He was an early pioneer of transglobal club art in 1980s New York, London and Tokyo. For the past ten years, he has been lecturing worldwide and has led illustration programmes at a range of universities.
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- PublisherAVA Publishing SA
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 2940411972
- ISBN 13 9782940411979
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages1168
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