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Creative Thinking: Unlocking the Minds of Visual Communicators
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Product Description: Creative Thinking explores the tools that visual communicators can use to facilitate imaginative thinking. This title exposes readers to new ways of approaching the design process to help them to develop their powers of creative problem solving...read more
By Gavin Ambrose
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9782940411962 | Ava Pub, December 3, 2012, cover price $49.95 | About this edition: Creative Thinking explores the tools that visual communicators can use to facilitate imaginative thinking.

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The Fundamentals of Interactive Design
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Product Description:  The Fundamentals of Interactive Design takes a snapshot of the essential areas of digital design and introduces the reader to their importance. It explores best practice for creating within this medium. These fundamentals provide a core skill-set and an invaluable insight into the world of interactive design...read more
By Gavin Ambrose
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9782940411863 | Ava Pub, November 1, 2012, cover price $38.50 | About this edition:  The Fundamentals of Interactive Design takes a snapshot of the essential areas of digital design and introduces the reader to their importance.

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Basics Graphic Design: Idea Generation
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Product Description: Basics Graphic Design: Idea Generation explores the different ways in which designers can generate creative ideas in response to a given project brief.Great designs begins with great ideas. Throughout this book, best-selling author team Ambrose and Leonard show how a clear understanding of audience, context and materials can lead to innovative, targeted designs...read more
By Gavin Ambrose
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9782940411818 | Ava Pub, November 1, 2012, cover price $34.50 | About this edition: Basics Graphic Design: Idea Generation explores the different ways in which designers can generate creative ideas in response to a given project brief.

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Basics Design 01: ]format
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Product Description: Basics Design: Format explores the entire range of formats available to designers today, from the traditional formats of books, magazines and posters to the emerging new media technologies. Format is critical to design practice as it represents the physical point of contact with the user, affecting how successfully a design's printed or digital information is received...read more
By Gavin Ambrose and Paul Harris
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9782940411795 | 2 edition (Ingram Pub Services, May 31, 2012), cover price $34.50 | About this edition: Basics Design: Format explores the entire range of formats available to designers today, from the traditional formats of books, magazines and posters to the emerging new media technologies.

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The Fundamentals of Typography
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Product Description: The Fundamentals of Typography (second edition) is an updated version of the popular first edition of this book, in which Ambrose and Harris introduce the fundamental principles of typographic theory and practice. It covers a wide range of subjects, including the history of typography, typographic detailing and the use of creative typography across a range of media...read more
By Gavin Ambrose and Paul Harris
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9782940411764 | 2 edition (Ava Pub, November 25, 2011), cover price $38.50 | About this edition: The Fundamentals of Typography (second edition) is an updated version of the popular first edition of this book, in which Ambrose and Harris introduce the fundamental principles of typographic theory and practice.
9782940373451 | Ava Pub, November 1, 2006, cover price $36.95 | About this edition: The Fundamentals of Typography offers an overview plus incisive insight into the use of type and stunning examples sure to inspire typographers and designers in the field.

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The Fundamentals of Creative Design
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Product Description: "The Fundamentals of Creative Design" (second edition) is an update to the popular first edition of the same name, in which Gavin Ambrose and Paul Harris introduce students to the various aspects of the graphic design. This volume provides a fresh introduction to the key elements of the discipline and looks at the following topics: design thinking, format, layout, grids, typography, colour, image and print and finish...read more
By Gavin Ambrose and Paul Harris
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9782940411610 | 2 edition (Ava Pub, September 1, 2011), cover price $38.50 | About this edition: "The Fundamentals of Creative Design" (second edition) is an update to the popular first edition of the same name, in which Gavin Ambrose and Paul Harris introduce students to the various aspects of the graphic design.
9782940373475 | Ava Pub, November 1, 2003, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Discusses the creative process in terms of brief, process and result.
9782884790239 | Ava Pub, October 1, 2003, cover price $24.95

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Basic Design 02: Layout
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Product Description: This is an updated version of the popular first edition of this book, in which Ambrose and Harris introduce the fundamentals of layout within the field of graphic design. It provides a guide to the effective arrangement of text and image elements within a design scheme, which enables students to learn how to create powerful forms of visual communication in both print and electronic media...read more
By Gavin Ambrose and Paul Harris
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9782940411498 | 2 edition (Ava Pub, May 29, 2011), cover price $34.50 | About this edition: This is an updated version of the popular first edition of this book, in which Ambrose and Harris introduce the fundamentals of layout within the field of graphic design.

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Packaging the Brand: The Relationship Between Packaging Design and Brand Identity
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Product Description: Packaging the Brand is a detailed discussion of the most overtly commercial area of graphic design. Packaging represents the largest overlap between the disciplines of graphic design and branding. While many other areas of design may be commercial to an extent, the success of a piece of packaging design is inextricably linked with its ability to sell a product...read more
By Gavin Ambrose and Paul Harris
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9782940411412 | Ava Pub, April 6, 2011, cover price $52.50 | About this edition: Packaging the Brand is a detailed discussion of the most overtly commercial area of graphic design.

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Approach and Language
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Product Description: The first in this series, Approach & Language looks at the initial stages of the design process and at the vocabulary used on undergraduate design courses. Students are provided with the tools and supporting knowledge that will enable them to respond to a design course content and prepare for a career in graphic design...read more
By Gavin Ambrose and Nigel Aono-billson
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9782940411351 | Ava Pub, November 10, 2010, cover price $32.95 | About this edition: The first in this series, Approach & Language looks at the initial stages of the design process and at the vocabulary used on undergraduate design courses.

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Visual Dictionary of Typography
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Product Description: The Visual Dictionary of Typography is a comprehensive guide to the numerous terms used within typography and its associated disciplines. Over 250 terms are explained and contextualised, with concise definitions accompanied by illustrations and examples taken from historical and contemporary typography...read more
By Gavin Ambrose and Paul Harris
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9782940411184 | Ingram Pub Services, September 30, 2010, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: The Visual Dictionary of Typography is a comprehensive guide to the numerous terms used within typography and its associated disciplines.

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The Visual Dictionary of Pre-press & Production
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Product Description: The Visual Dictionary of Pre-press & Production is a comprehensive guide to the many and varied terms used within the print industry. From alignment to z-bind fold and Acrobat to woodblock, this book will prove an invaluable resource to anyone interested in pre-press and production...read more
By Gavin Ambrose
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9782940411290 | Ava Pub, August 5, 2010, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: The Visual Dictionary of Pre-press & Production is a comprehensive guide to the many and varied terms used within the print industry.

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Design Thinking
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Product Description: Basics Design: Design Thinking is an introduction to the process of generating creative ideas and concepts. It indentifies methods and thought processes used by designers in order to start the process that eventually leads to a finished piece of work...read more
By Gavin Ambrose and Paul Harris
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9782940411177, titled "Design Thinking: Design Thinking" | Ava Pub, December 10, 2009, cover price $34.50 | About this edition: Basics Design: Design Thinking is an introduction to the process of generating creative ideas and concepts.

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The Fundamentals of Graphic Design
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Product Description: A thoughtful exploration of the role of graphic design today, The Fundamentals of Graphic Design offers a unique overview of a challenging and dynamic profession. From new media to marketing, from package design and print design to typography, opportunities in graphic design are everywhere...read more
By Gavin Ambrose
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9782940373826 | Ava Pub, December 1, 2008, cover price $38.50 | About this edition: A thoughtful exploration of the role of graphic design today, The Fundamentals of Graphic Design offers a unique overview of a challenging and dynamic profession.

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Grids
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Product Description: The how and why of using grids in graphic design* Packed with case studies and illuminating examples* Seventh title in a top-selling seriesThe seventh book in the award-winning Basics Design series, "Grids" focuses on the construction and ordering of the page and screen through use of the grid...read more
By Gavin Ambrose and Paul Harris
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9782940373772, titled "Grids: Grids" | Ava Pub, August 19, 2008, cover price $34.50 | About this edition: The how and why of using grids in graphic design* Packed with case studies and illuminating examples* Seventh title in a top-selling seriesThe seventh book in the award-winning Basics Design series, "Grids" focuses on the construction and ordering of the page and screen through use of the grid.

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The Visual Dictionary of Fashion
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Product Description: From A-line to yukata, from batik to yoke, "The Visual Dictionary of Fashion" explores and explains the many terms used in the fashion industry. Each term is defined and put in context to give the reader a clear understanding of fashion terminology...read more
By Gavin Ambrose and Paul Harris
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9782940373611 | Ava Pub, November 13, 2007, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: From A-line to yukata, from batik to yoke, "The Visual Dictionary of Fashion" explores and explains the many terms used in the fashion industry.

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The Visual Dictionary of Architecture
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Product Description: This book is a guide to the many and varied terms used frequently within architecture. From Column to Cornice, Skyscraper to Ha-Ha, this book will prove an invaluable resource to anyone interested in architecture. Each term is explained and contextualised, giving the reader an enhanced understanding of architectural terminology...read more
By Gavin Ambrose and Paul Harris
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9782940373543 | Ava Pub, February 5, 2008, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: This book is a guide to the many and varied terms used frequently within architecture.

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The Layout Book
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Product Description: Most books just tell how to do layout. The Layout Book explains the hows, whys, and why nots of layout. A historical overview of layout, from the early scribes to today, is followed by a systematic look at key theoretical principles and practical applications...read more
By Gavin Ambrose and Paul Harris
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9782940373536 | Ava Pub, November 13, 2007, cover price $49.95 | About this edition: Most books just tell how to do layout.

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The Visual Dictionary of Graphic Design
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Product Description: Abstract. Zeitgeist. Bauhaus. Pluralism. The Visual Dictionary is just the book for anyone who's ever been a bit hazy about the meaning of the many terms used in art and design. Each term is explained visually and put in context, providing the reader with a clear understanding of the often mystifying language of these specialized fields...read more
By Gavin Ambrose and Paul Harris
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9782940373437 | Ava Pub, January 25, 2007, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Abstract.

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Print & Finish
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Product Description: How can printing and finishing techniques be used to enhance graphic design? Basics Design: Print and Finish explores that question in depth, with complete information that will be valuable to both graphic-design students and practicing designers...read more
By Gavin Ambrose
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9782940373420 | Ava Pub, November 1, 2006, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: How can printing and finishing techniques be used to enhance graphic design?

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Image
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Product Description: Images are used everywhere, from cinema posters to perfume packaging, they have the power to elicit a response and impart information. Images can, quite literally, 'paint a thousand words', but understanding what they mean, when to use them and how to control them is becoming ever more crucial...read more
By Gavin Ambrose and Paul Harris
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9782940373307 | Ava Pub, April 1, 2006, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Images are used everywhere, from cinema posters to perfume packaging, they have the power to elicit a response and impart information.

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Typography
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Product Description: This further addition to AVA's Basics Design series will follow on from Format and Layout to cover the third fundamental element of graphic design, typography. Typography is the means by which a written idea is given a visual form...read more
By Gavin Ambrose and Paul Harris
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9782940373352 | Ava Pub, March 17, 2006, cover price $34.50 | About this edition: This further addition to AVA's Basics Design series will follow on from Format and Layout to cover the third fundamental element of graphic design, typography.

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Colour
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Product Description: Basics Design: Colour explores the use of colour in graphic design. The book explores in depth what colours mean, their inherent associations and their cultural connotations. Building on this information, it then tackles how to control colour in a design in order to achieve a desired effect or fulfil a specific brief...read more
By Gavin Ambrose and Paul Harris
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9782940373314 | Ingram Pub Services, March 17, 2006, cover price $34.50 | About this edition: Basics Design: Colour explores the use of colour in graphic design.

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Basic Design: Layout
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Product Description: Addresses the practical and aesthetic considerations of layout such as where and how the content will be viewed, whether the format is a magazine, website, television graphic or bottle of bubble bath. This book will prove indispensable to anyone wishing to acquire a thorough knowledge of the principles of layout as used in modern design...read more
By Gavin Ambrose and Paul Harris
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9782940373345 | Ingram Pub Services, May 1, 2005, cover price $32.95 | About this edition: Addresses the practical and aesthetic considerations of layout such as where and how the content will be viewed, whether the format is a magazine, website, television graphic or bottle of bubble bath.

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Basic Design: Format
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Product Description: Format represents the physical point of contact with the user; affecting how we receive a design's printed or online information. The book demonstrates how a creative approach to format selection and a careful consideration of presentation space can produce dramatic results within both print and digital media...read more
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9782940373284 | Ava Pub, January 1, 2005, cover price $32.95 | About this edition: Format represents the physical point of contact with the user; affecting how we receive a design's printed or online information.

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Format
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Product Description: Introducing the brand-new, extremely visual BASICS series, which will eventually incorporate 5 titles, each representing a fundamental aspect of graphic design. Format, the first entry, concerns the physical dimensions of a product and the space one has to present the graphic elements of a design: the size of a book, the scale of a poster, the folds in a brochure...read more
By Gavin Ambrose and Paul Harris
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9782884790512 | Ava Pub, September 30, 2004, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Introducing the brand-new, extremely visual BASICS series, which will eventually incorporate 5 titles, each representing a fundamental aspect of graphic design.

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