Introduces useful tools and materials, and discusses card folds, edges, lettering, transfers, stencils, printing techniques, embossing, block printing, silk-screening, marbling, foil decorating, and card forms

Tips on Making Greeting Cards

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Gray, Bill

Van Milligen, Jane

Crafts & Hobbies

Design Pr

Revised edition of: Computer graphics user's guide (1984). How to use computer graphics programs and hardware effectively. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

3 D Computer Graphics: A User's Guide for Artists and Designers

Computers & Technology

Glassner, Andrew S.

Programming

Surveys the principles of visual perception based on psychological research and everyday experience, and how they are related to the perception of art in particular

Principles of Visual Perception

Bloomer, Carolyn M.

Arts & Photography

Defines architectural terms, identifies various architectural ornaments and styles, and offers brief profiles of influential architects

Architecture and Ornament: A Visual Guide

ROBERTSON, Bruce

White, Antony

Architecture

Defines terms related to furniture design and ornament, describes more than one hundred styles, and shows hundreds of construction details and decorative features

Furniture and Furnishings: A Visual Guide

Handbook of Type and Lettering

An introduction and reference to the principles of type and lettering for anyone who uses or designs written text, including desktop publishers, graphic designers, and calligraphers. The short course, with graded exercises, is illustrated with models of forms and styles, and photographs of their use in posters, packaging, books, and other contexts. Also covers page design. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

Korger, Hildegard

Graphics & Design

A fine type book. Some 1,700 laser typefaces from the Linotype library are displayed in a tabular format that puts a character in column with that character from other faces. Lacks a taxonomist's "key"; one must select from eight style groupings and grope among these if trying to name the type used in a piece of printing. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

The Concise Guide to Type Identification

Apicella, Vincent F.

Pomeranz, Joanna V.

Wiatt, Nancy G.

Covers color origins, sources, properties, synchronicity, contrasts, effects, and mixing, and suggests practical exercises

Controlling Color: A Practical Introduction for Designers and Artists

Lambert, Patricia

Discusses composition and design, basic drawing skills and painting techniques, typography and layout, reproduction and the printing process, and setting up a studio

Handbook of Illustration

Wood, John Rowland

Tells how to develop a logical hierarchy of type, select and mix typefaces, create layout grids, and use white space and color, and provides hundreds of examples

Type in Use: Effective Typography for Electronic Publishing

White, Alex

Graphic Design

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