Product Description: - An ideal core text for research modules within visual arts degrees with more than 200 vibrant colour illustrations that bring the subject to life. - Twelve inspirational student case studies put the ideas discussed into a real-world context...read more

Product Description: Explains the key terms and theories that underlie design research; examining the importance of audience, communication theory, semiotics and semantics. Features a range of case studies which demonstrate how the use of rigorous research methods can form the basis of effective visual communication and design problem solving, eschewing end product analysis for a discussion of the way research feeds into the design process...read more

Product Description: This is a study of contemporary experimental approaches to layout - the essence of graphic design. At the heart of Experimental Layout is the sheer breadth of the discipline of graphic design, its adjustments and accommodation, the innovators and their idiosyncrasies...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)