Design Technology Program - Lafayette

This guide presents hundreds of color combinations and color principles needed to create effective designs. Every lesson is demonstrated by example, enabling designers of all specialties and levels of experience to make the best color choices for every type of design.

Color and Design addresses how we understand and experience color, and through specific examples explores how color is used in a spectrum of design-based disciplines.

Color is an integral part of any design solution. Design Elements, Color Fundamentals is an essential resource for designers who want to create memorable design and successfully communicate with their audience.

Meggs' History of Graphic Design is the industry's unparalleled, award-winning reference. With over 1,400 high-quality images throughout, this visually stunning text guides you through a saga of artistic innovators, breakthrough technologies, and groundbreaking developments that define the graphic design field. This new sixth edition has also been updated to provide key developments in web, multimedia, and interactive design, expanded coverage of design in Asia and the Middle East, and emerging design trends and technologies.

A comprehensive selection of articles written by specialists covering a wide range of topics in computer graphics.

Guide to international development in design.

This book demonstrates how ideas influenced and defined graphic design, and how those ideas have manifested themselves in objects of design.

The book covers all the design fundamentals from working with grids, color application, typography, imagery to finally how to put it all together. Expansion and new material includes: -Composition/layout, visual hierarchy -Form and composition in relation to concepts and meaning -Color psychology and narrative-Color coding-Reference palettes for time periods, cultures, and businesses -Special color and printing techniques -Combining type styles, editorial text setting issues, plus-Web-related type style and hierarchy issues -Strategies for using photography; design drawing; medium and meaning; pictorial and non-pictorial -image-making options; semiotics, symbolic and metaphorical image use; type as image-Making type and imagery work better together -Finding flexibility in design systems -The design process, from creative concept development and practical work-flow standpoints... -Plus a complete project case study with major decision-moments keyed to respective sections!