This book is the most compact and lucid handbook available outlining the basic principles of layout, typography, colour usage and space. Being a creative designer is often about coming up with unique design solutions. Unfortunately, when the basic rules of design are ignored in an effort to be distinctive, design becomes useless. In language, a departure from the rules is only ...(展开全部)

这部具有开创性的著作为设计师、艺术指导和学生，无论他们的经验如何，提供了通向成功的设计的独特方法。在他对使视觉设计醒目和清楚易读的要素的探索中，经验丰富的设计师和教育家阿历克斯·伍·怀特收集了大量的资料和例子，学习怎样使用： 限定和表现主导图像、词汇和概念 运用规模、色彩和位置引导观者穿过主次等极进行阅读 把空白空间作为设计的一个重要组成部分，而不仅仅只是背景 运用特排和正文字体使读者能够最大程度地理解和重视它 从设计、绘画、建筑和版画以及作者自己的文件资料中选出来的数百幅插图使甚至是最抽象的概念都变得通俗易懂。为思考和运用4种设计要素提供了一个新的方法，本书一定能够促成、产生更好的设计。

Born of the traditions of fine art and printing, graphic design is a form of visual communication that seeks to inform, identify or promote through the combination of word and image. But unlike the written word or a work of art, a graphic design operates exclusively in the context in which it will be seen, and mediates between the wishes of the client and the expectations of th...(展开全部)

Winner of the First-Ever QED (Quality, Excellence, Design) award by Digital Book World This is the unrivaled, comprehensive, and award-winning reference tool on graphic design recognized for publishing excellence by the Association of American Publishers. Now, this Fifth Edition of Meggs' History of Graphic Design offers even more detail and breadth of content than its herald...(展开全部)