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Author: Tony Seddon Sean Adams John Foster Peter Dawson
ISBN : B006QRYQ2O
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Ask any graphic designer the world over about their preferred approach to setting type, choosing a color, or beginning a new layout, and you will rarely get exactly the same answer twice. All designers have their own way of working and their own combinations of the thousands of techniques one can apply when planning a new design project. But there are some dos and don'ts that always figure in any heated debate about what one should or should not accept as the right way to create the best graphic design.
This book looks at key dos and don'ts, bringing them together in the form of a classically structured almanac. Packed with practical advice, but presented in a light-hearted fashion, the advisory rather than dictative approach means designers can take or leave the advice presented in each rule as is typical of most creatives with their own strong views on what does and does not constitute good design practice. Individual entries will either bring forth knowing nods of agreement or hoots of derision, depending on whether or not the reader loves or hates hyphenation, has a pathological fear of beige, or thinks that baseline grids are boring.
Thou Shall Not Use Comic Sans is the must-have collection of the best advice that any graphic designer should have at his fingertips, with each entry combining a specific rule with a commentary from a variety of experienced designers from all fields of the graphic design industry. Grouped into six, color-coded categories—typography, color, layout, imagery, production, and the practice of design—but presented numerically and in mixed groups, the reader can either dip in at random or use the book as the source of a daily lesson in how to produce great graphic design.
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- File Size: 6392 KB
- Print Length: 385 pages
- Page Numbers Source ISBN: 0321812816
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- Publisher: Peachpit Press; 1 edition (December 29, 2011)
- Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
- Language: English
- ASIN: B006QRYQ2O
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There is a lot of useful information in this book, good checklist-type stuff.
However, the effectiveness of the book is occasionally undermined by sloppy proofreading:
* "Thou shall not hyphenate text that is ragged right", says one of the entries. Yet they do exactly that on the very next page
* "Thou shall hang quotation marks outside the paragraph margins", says another entry. Yet they ignore this advice on the very same page.
As I read through the book, I also found instances of an extra space at the very beginning of a line in the middle of a paragraph, two sentences missing the space that should have separated them, a hyphenated word appearing in the middle of a line, and ellipses that looked like evenly spaced periods instead of proper ellipses.
In short, a good general reference in need of a little tidying.
By Kevin O'Conner
Thou Shall Not Use Comic Sans: 365 Graphic Design Sins and Virtues: A Designer's Almanac of Dos and Don'ts [Hardcover]
Tony Seddon (Author), Sean Adams (Author), John Foster (Author), Peter Dawson (Author)
I love, love, love this book. I am a graphic design teacher and these are just the right length messages for attention span of high school and middle school students. Small digestible bites of information that cuts right to the point. The book is a nice size to haul back and forth between my classroom and home and the paper and cover are excellent quality. I know there is lots of information on line but I still like books and I like to show the kids that books are still relevant. This book is easy to read and well organized by subject. There are many rules to remember in the world of graphic design and this books helps remind, even a seasoned professional, about using elements effectively and properly. This book is like a condensed college course. . . or things that should be iincluded in college courses.
By Roxanne L. Burns