Design Basics for Creative Results

by Bryan L. Peterson

Create designs that will stand the test of time! To maximize the power of your good ideas, use time-tested design principles that work! Design Basics for Creative Results, 2nd Edition highlights the fundamental elements of design while showcasing their spectacular visual execution. Through informative tutorials and illuminating exercises, award-winning designer Bryan L. Peterson shows you how to express and anchor your concept with the design elements of line, type, shape, texture, balance, contrast, unity, color and value. He also provides a bounty of exceptional examples from some of the world's top designers that show these elements in action. These are the rules you need to succeed, whether you're a savvy designer with years of experience or a student just starting out. Read them; learn and use them to make your work extraordinary!

Genres: Design, Art, Nonfiction

144 pages, Hardcover

First published June 12, 2003

Reviews

[Annette · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great reference book - the basics and then some. Great if you are starting to learn about design and some pointers for people who have been designing for years. Great break-down from starting with a blank piece of paper to adding graphics, colors, fonts, texture and balance.
Will definitely read more of the "HOW" Design books!

[Amanda · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is a good starting point for me to learn more about design.