The Designer’s Graphic Stew. Visual Ingredients, Techniques, and Layout Recipes for Graphic Designers

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Rockport Publishers, Beverly. 2010. 247 pages. 4to (26 x 21,5 cm). Black cloth in dust jacket. Profusely illustrated in colour and monochrome. New copy.
Under the witty and metaphorical guise of a high-end cookbook, the author provides visual “ingredients,” such as grid structures, folios, border devices, type treatments, abstract graphic elements, categorized stylistically and functionally. These ingredients are shown in use through a “recipe” format to accomplish strategies such as movement, rhythm, organization, contrast, metaphor, etc. Ingredients are coded and cross-referenced among categories for mix and matching purposes as well as demonstrating varied alternate combinations to achieving different approaches to strategies.