By Robin Landa
Wadsworth Cengage Learning, 2000, ISBN: 1401881548

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This one-of-a-kind workbook for graphic designers, which may be used independently or in conjunction with Graphic Design Solutions, 3rd edition by Robin Landa, will stimulate your imagination and enable you to flex your creative design muscles. The exercises stimulate visual thinking, creativity, and conceptualization, encourage sketching, visualization, hand skills, and, most importantly, prompt experimentation.

Table of contents:

PART I: GET SET:

Introduction

Critique Guide

PART II: THE DESIGN WORKOUT

Expressive Typography

Mixed Up Media & Techniques

Visual Surprises

Points of Departure

Work It Out

PART III: SHOWCASE OF PROFESSIONAL DESIGNERS

Steven Brower Design/NY. DMA/NJ. Donovan & Greene/NY. Jim Drydan/Illustrator/MN. Ema Design/CO. Russell Hassell/NY. Martin Hollloway/NJ. Liska & Associates/IL&NY. Point B Inc./HI. Jefferson Raul/FL. Segura Inc./IL. Mary Ann Smith/NY. Stuart Topper/NJ. Viva Dolan/CANADA. Vrontikis Design Office/CA. Robin Landa/NY. Rose Gonnella/NY.

Features:

• Exercises that can be executed digitally or with traditional materials.
• Workbook pages become your personal design journal.
• Fosters hand skills, experimentation, and problem-finding.
• Showcases of work by award winning designers, illustrators and art directors.