Web Design Bibliography

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    Basics Design 07: Grids
    By Gavin Ambrose, Paul Harris
    AVA Publishing, May 2008
    ISBN: 9782940439133
    176 pages, $27.50

    This book introduces you to the basic principles of grid usage in graphic design as practiced by contemporary designers. Although these design principles have a long history, they have been refined and improved, since new technology creates new media contexts. The book is not intended to be a prescriptive guide to setting up and using grids. Instead it looks at the principles behind grid usage to give the reader the ability to tackle a wide variety of graphic design problems. The book’s main message is that a static and repetitive approach to grid use does not result in effective and creative designs. Instead, it provides a clear understanding of the many facets of the grid, providing opportunities for expression and creativity. Contemporary work is supported by concise descriptions, technical expansions and diagrammatic visualizations.
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    Typography Workbook: A Real-World Guide to Using Type in Graphic Design
    By Timothy Samara
    Rockport Publishers, September 2004
    ISBN: 9781592530816
    240 pages, $40.00

    This book is a guide for navigating through the mass of detail that makes up typographic form-the shapes of letters, the spaces between words and grids-and bringing those pieces together to create a visual whole that is far more than the sum of mere parts. It differs from other books on the subject by focusing to a great degree on the relationship-optical and conceptual-between the crafting of typographic form and the meaning that form carries. Novices can follow a progression from basics to experimentation and then practical application. Working designers can likewise reacquaint themselves with familiar ideas and also find new ways of working. The goal of the typographic designer, whether new or seasoned, will be the same: discovering how the word and the image become one.
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    I Heart Design: Remarkable Graphic Design Selected by Designers, Illustrators, and Critics
    By Steven Heller
    Rockport Publishers, July 2011
    ISBN: 9781592536825
    216 pages, $45.00

    This book is a collection of favorite designs as selected by 80 prominent graphic designers, typographers, teachers, scholars, writers and design impresarios. Designers have preferences, like modern over postmodern, serif over sans serif, decorative over minimal, but designers could not be engaged in design practice if they did not love design. The reasons for such a charged emotion varies from individual to individual, but there are certain commonalities regarding form, function, outcome, and more. Design triggers something in all of us that may be solely aesthetic or decidedly content-driven, but in the final analysis, we are drawn to it through the heart.
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    The Fundamentals of Typography (second edition)
    By Gavin Ambrose, Paul Harris
    AVA Publishing, August 2011
    ISBN: 9782940447244
    200 pages, $30.50

    This book introduces the fundamental principles of typographic theory and practice, covering the history of typography, typographic detailing and the use of creative typography across a range of media. Packed with clear explanations, expanded illustrations and historical and contemporary examples from leading practitioners around the world, this book offers an essential guide to the subject of typography and its role within graphic design. It is an ideal primer text for typographic modules within visual arts degrees, offering quick and easy explanations of key concepts.
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    Stop, Think, Go, Do: How Typography and Graphic Design Influence Behavior
    By Steven Heller, Mirko Ilic
    Rockport Publishers, March 2012
    ISBN: 9781592537662
    224 pages, $40.00

    This revolutionary guide is not only the first to look at how typography in design creates a call to action, but it also explores type and image as language. This book is packed with arresting imagery from around the world that influences human behavior. Page after page, you’ll find innovative messages that advocate, advise caution,