The Graphic Design Reference & Specification Book: Everything Graphic Designers Need to Know Every Day

by Poppy Evans, Aaris Sherin, Irina Lee

"The Graphic Design Reference & Specification Book" should always be next to a designer's computer. Completely practical with only the most needed information, this valuable book provides designers with all the little details that can make or break a design, such as how much space to leave in the gutter when designing barrel folds, how to layout a template for a box, and the ratios of each part, as well as metric conversion charts, standard envelope sizes in the USA, Europe, Canada and Asia, and much more. This hardworking handbook is compact and accessible and is a must-have for any graphic designer.

Genres: Design, Reference

320 pages, Paperback

First published September 1, 2013

Reviews

[Miriam · Rating 1 out of 5]

Could have been great.

Flicked through it and thought ‘wow! This is exactly the book I need!’ Not too much dense technical detail, but enough information to be useful on a broad range of design topics.

However, I’m only 30 pages in and I’ve found half a dozen mistakes in the illustrations & tables - bullet points missing in the diagram illustrating the use of bullet points, lines in the wrong place in the diagram illustrating letterform anatomy, etc. These mistakes make the whole book unreliable and utterly useless - I’ll always feel like I need to independently verify any information it contains so I may as well just search the other sources to start with.

[Derenik Baghramian · Rating 5 out of 5]

A "Neufert" for graphic designers.