Timothy Samara
By comparing the designer to a chef, the author of the “Graphic Designer’s Essential Reference” walks readers through the ingredients, tools and techniques it takes to create successful design “recipes.”
This book is broken into easy-to-follow sections, including basic design techniques, graphic ingredients and projects recipes.
The Graphic Ingredients section is categorized into four groups: Pictorial Staples, Chromatic Flavors, Typographic Confections and Spatial Presentations. Once the basic design techniques and ingredients are established, Samara demonstrates how to concoct delectable design recipes.
Publisher: Rockport Publishers (November 2011) ISBN-10: 159253743X