| The Designer’s Desktop Manual | User Reviews Send this to a friend | | The Designer's Desktop Manual | | |  | | Manufacturer: How | | Customer Rating: | | | List Price: $30.00 | | Sale Price: $7.96 | | Availibility: Usually ships in 24 hours |  Free Shipping Available | | Buy Now |
| | | Product Description | | The best practice, technical desk reference for all professional designers and aspiring pros. Perfect for professional designers, aspiring pros, and design students alike. The Designer's Desktop Manual explores, topic by topic, the essential aspects of key areas of print and screen based design-type and typography; color; imaging; layout; and printing, from the most basic, introductory techniques and principles, to more advanced practices, via step-by-step projects and inspirational examples. This in-depth guide offers insight into the technological issues and step-by-step skills needed to bring design to a professional standard. Readers will also find historical background on key topics, allowing them to put up-to-date techniques into context with the evolution of design. |
| Product Details |  No details are available for this product | Video Reviews |  No video reviews found for this product. | Customer Reviews |  best instructional graphics design book around! | | Review Date: June 30, 2008 | | Reviewer: Liz, Raleigh, New Caledonia | | Thanks to the author!!! amazing, amazing, amazing! This book has helped me finally grasp the principles of Adobe Indesign. I have been slowly teaching myself the program and have more than a few instructional books. Concepts that I have previously thought diffictult to understand are now clear! This book is so clear and concise that it makes learning a breeze. It covers information about photoshop, illustrator, web design, Quark, and dreamweaver. It is very well written and the directions for applications are easily understood. I love this book! I give it a 10! If I would have had this book to begin with, I would have learned how to manipulate the program a long time ago... |
Fills in the Knowledge Gaps | | Review Date: May 13, 2009 | | Reviewer: S. Christie, | | This is the book I wish I had starting out in graphic design. I am an in-house designer, with no team of peers, self-trained and responsible for everything from print to web. This book covers all of it, and in a very easy to read, no muss no fuss layout, where each spread of the book is on a different subject. Extremely easy to use. It either verified the things that I was doing right, or made me exclaim "Oh THAT's how you do that . . . " Really good to learn "best practices," things I had to learn the hard way. If you work in a very collaborative design group and have had a lot of formal design training recently, you may not need this. For everyone else, it's a godsend. |
Good resource | | Review Date: August 9, 2010 | | Reviewer: Shop Shop Shop, Atlanta, GA | | This is a handy resource for graphic designers. Easy to read and arranged by topics. |
Worthwhile Desktop Resource | | Review Date: May 22, 2009 | | Reviewer: R. Johnson, Milton, VT United States | | This book is packed with information for graphic designers, desktop publishers and even small businesses. It's not a book you would sit down and read cover to cover, rather one that you flip to for specific information (paper size, specific printing information, etc.). |
An excellent overview of graphic design principles... | | Review Date: April 24, 2009 | | Reviewer: J. Whitaker, | | Really great book for someone who has limited formal training, but a decent amount of hands-on experience. Explains the details and concepts that are easy to overlook until you are forced to meet them while working in the professional world. Great lay-out, pictures, structure of topics. I am thoroughly enjoying each time I sit down with this book and am learning a lot. Great investment. |
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