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So you have a great concept and all the fancy digital tools you could possibly require¿what¿s stopping you from creating beautiful pages? Namely the training to pull all of these elements together into a cohesive design that effectively communicates your message. Not to worry This book is the one place you can turn to find quick, non-intimidating, excellent design help.
In The Non-Designer¿s Design Book, 2nd Edition, best-selling author Robin Williams turns her attention to the basic principles of good design and typography. All you have to do is follow her clearly explained concepts, and you¿ll begin producing more sophisticated, professional, and interesting pages immediately. Humor-infused, jargon-free prose interspersed with design exercises, quizzes, illustrations, and dozens of examples make learning a snap¿which is just what audiences have come to expect from this best-selling author.PDF The NonDesigner Design Book Robin Williams 9780321193858 Books
"As someone prepping for a continuing ed design program, I wanted to get my hands on some basic knowledge of graphic design. This book is exactly what I needed, and covers the principles of design in short, sweet, and accurate detail. Coming from a more technical background I appreciate how succinct this book is and clearly lays out the point and purpose of what you need to accomplish.
You won't come away as a design master from this book, but it is a wonderful intro to the field of graphic design principles and I would highly recommend it for newbies, or those simply interested in learning graphic design principles for their own personal projects."
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The NonDesigner Design Book Robin Williams 9780321193858 Books Reviews
- I have no graphic design background, but have always been interested in pursuing it as a hobby and/or freelance opportunity eventually. This has been an incredible resource for me as a beginner.
It has tought me tons about fonts, colors, layout ideas, designing business card and other business forms, and so much more, it'd be impossible to list it all. The way the author lays out the book makes all this new information so easy to comprehend, and that is one of the things I like most about the book.
I am always going back to re-read and look at ideas and info when I'm working on designing different things.
I would highly recommend this book to anyone interested in graphic design. - As a community college student studying media and graphic design, the problem with the required class textbooks is that I find them very bland and drawn-out. They often dive right into the history of it all, typically using popular pieces of art from another era to exemplify what the chapter is trying to say. As a result, those books lose me very quickly because they're boring as heck and we are not usually tested on these things anyway. Which is a big problem right there. But if I do manage to make it through a few chapters, I rarely walk away being able to recall what I just read.
It's hard to absorb material that consist of many daunting paragraphs that either beat around the bush or throw terms with definitions at me left and right. It also doesn't help when the pages are usually littered with distracting graphics and colors to try and give it style, which I find to be ironically counterproductive. And if the school curriculum itself doesn't help put the fundamental principals into practice with every assignment, it's like trying to sprint before you can properly walk.
Now at the near-end of my program, I really wish I would've came across this book when I started out. It has helped my confidence in a way that reading endless amounts of articles and watching TED Talks could not. I keep wrestling with this idea that, despite my good grades and everything I have learned, I would never feel like I could produce something that I would actually consider a pretty good design. I would open a new document and never know where to begin. At first I thought it was because I wasn't creative, then I thought I was just a demotivated person in general, then I started to think my college curriculum was the biggest issue (too much emphasis on students knocking out assignments instead of learning), which for me resulted in a lot of trial and error to make a good design. Sometimes I lucked out and sometimes it was meh. All this doing and not enough knowing was starting to make me doubt this career path. It wasn't until I cracked opened this book and realized the big problem, I needed to go back to basics.
It's straight-forward, uses very clear examples, and covers many topics; much of it pertaining to making print materials. Although a couple of things that weren't covered were grids and logos, I can make up for these in another hard-to-read textbook I have. It doesn't go super in-depth since this is meant more for beginners, but it still touches on each thing with a great amount of information so the reader understands each topic very well, all while using a plain layout for its information. After getting through this, I can highly suggest the book to anyone not feeling that great about their abilities if they're still fairly new to learning graphic design. Only people I probably wouldn't recommend this for are those at university or people disciplined enough to teach themselves, as this book may be nothing new to them. For me, this book has retaught me a lot of what I should already know by now, but embarrassed to say that I really didn't. Even though I have obviously studied these principles in order to get to this point, nothing I have read/watched/heard have really explained in clear uninterrupted English on how to put these things into practice. And that not knowing was the thing holding me back. I now have good reference material for whenever I start self-doubting.
Robin Williams has made learning graphic design quite easier than I have been perceiving the subject this whole time, all in this one quick read. I now feel more ready to go back to the heavier material on these subjects, and actually memorize it all. Also, I'm only now realizing the hardest part over the years was learning Adobe's three main pieces of software and using them to their full potential, which seems like an endless journey in itself. It's almost aggravating
realizing that I retained probably more from this book in one day, than the hundreds of dollars worth of college textbooks that mostly sat in my backpack each semester.
Now I'm not saying this book will surely make you a pro after reading it all. I am saying that many people, like me, do much better when the material is explained as simply as possible, with effective visuals in a non-intimidating format.
If you need something concise that starts from the beginning principles, and expands on them to make you more comfortable in creating professional looking layouts, I think this is the best option. - I learned a lot from this book. I can hardly believe some of the one-star comments “pretensious and cocky,†"no help,†“written for a 3-year old.†I did not see any of that. If you didn’t attend graphic design school and want to make your designs ten times better, this book is amazing. The author breaks down four simple concepts and then shows you step-by-step examples to help you to apply those concepts. I’ve been looking for a book like this for years because I wanted to understand design better without needing a degree and I can see how the concepts could apply to other areas of visual design as well. This book also has font tips—wow—which have totally changed my typing life. Great book.
- If you need to do graphic design and are not professionally trained, buy this book and read it. It was a fast, easy read with lots of before/after pictures to illustrate applying the principles she teaches. My own work has improved dramatically after doing this work. I was a competent amateur, but now what I'm producing looks better, and I have the words to explain how and why it is better. This book was worth every penny, and it's not particularly expensive to begin with.
- This is an awesome book. The author clearly builds on proper design principles using outstanding examples of poorly and properly designed bulletins, personal stationary, postcards, resumes, etc. Although I have been using Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop and InDesign (formerly Pagemaker for years), I have a lot to learn about graphic design. Considerable emphasis is placed on the focus for the particular design followed by four easily understood design principles. The last one-half of the book concerns use of type.
The book does not and should not teach specific brand-name computer applications.
This is one great book. Seriously. I highly recommend the book to any beginner or low intermediate designer. Thank you very much. - Pretty good book for the novice designer and it will improve your design skills after applying the principles in the book. Easy to read, follow and understand, it also has good tips and tricks to make your design work look better and more professional. The chapter on color is really good and the chapter on fonts shows you there's more to a font than meets the eye. Highly recommended if you have no design background and need to do your own newsletters, flyers etc.
- As someone prepping for a continuing ed design program, I wanted to get my hands on some basic knowledge of graphic design. This book is exactly what I needed, and covers the principles of design in short, sweet, and accurate detail. Coming from a more technical background I appreciate how succinct this book is and clearly lays out the point and purpose of what you need to accomplish.
You won't come away as a design master from this book, but it is a wonderful intro to the field of graphic design principles and I would highly recommend it for newbies, or those simply interested in learning graphic design principles for their own personal projects.
