Robin Williams Design Workshop, 2nd Edition
Category: Books,Computers & Technology,Graphics & Design
Robin Williams Design Workshop, 2nd Edition Details
About the Author Robin Williams has written dozens of best-selling and award-winning books, including The Little Mac Book; The Non-Designer's Design Book; Robin Williams Mac OS X Book; Mac OS X Tiger: Peachpit Learning Series; Robin Williams Web Design Workshop; and many more. Through her writing, teaching, and seminars, Robin has educated and influenced an entire generation of computer users in the areas of design, typography, desktop publishing, the Mac, and the web. John Tollett has coauthored numerous books with Robin, including The Robin Williams Mac OS X Book, Panther Edition; three editions of The Non-Designer's Web Book; Cool Mac Apps; Robin Williams Web Design Workshop; and Macs on the Go! John has over 30 years' experience working as a professional designer and illustrator. Mos of his current projects involve web design, digital video production and editing and DVD design. Read more
Reviews
Always having a passion for graphic design, I read through the reviews for this book and found most of it accurate. This book introduces basic graphic design at its most elemental level: key principles.It is not a workshop where it teaches you graphic design through a workbook environment. Rather, it introduces you to principles and challenges you to think how you are able to use the information provided. It gives you perspective and adds a new way of thinking to being creative with guidelines.Although, it touches many facets of graphic design it primarily focuses on having an aspiring graphic designer to notice the four basic elemental principles of graphic design. They would be: Contrast, Repetition, Alignment and Proximity.The book goes on to cover how different arts and mediums all need to be aware of the underlying 4 principles of graphic design.I found this book to be highly useful, easy to read, and a great basic introduction to the subject matter. You will always be able to use it as a handy reference and that in itself will add value forever!
