Creative Anarchy: How to Break the Rules of Graphic Design for Creative Success

by Denise Bosler

Creatives are taught the rules of design by mentors and professors. We are told what to do and how to do it. "Follow the rules and color within the lines," they say. "Only use two fonts on a page and don't make your logo too complicated," they say. It's time for us to tell them to shove it.

Creative Anarchy explains and explores both rule-following and rule-breaking design. It includes tips to throw design caution to the wind, designers' stories with galleries of work, and creative exercises to help push your designs to the next level. Creative Anarchy is about great design and awesome ideas.

You'll find sections specifically devoted to designing logos, posters, websites, publications, advertising and more.

Genres: Design, Art Design, Art

240 pages, Paperback

First published January 20, 2015

About the author

Denise Bosler is a graphic designer, illustrator, and professor of communication design at Kutztown University in Pennsylvania. She earned a B.F.A. from Kutztown University and an M.F.A. from Marywood University in Scranton, Pennsylvania. She is the author of Mastering Type: The Essential Guide to Typography for Print and Web Design (HOW books 2012). Denise has focused her design work on print collateral, product packaging, and identity development in both print and digital projects. She is dedicated to creating custom typography, which she brings to the work she creates for her clients. She has produced numerous award-winning logo and packaging designs featuring hand-rendered and custom type. For the past eight years, Denise has taught typography and upper level graphic design classes, allowing her to share her professionally applied and tested knowledge. As a professor, she is known for her obsession with the proper treatment of type, and is frequently heard admonishing her students when they fail to kern accurately with, "You could drive a truck through there!" Denise lives in Pennsylvania with her husband, daughter and two large dogs.

(From http://masteringtype.com/press.html)