Princeton Architectural Press
Available: 04/01/08
8 x 9 · 248 pages
978-1-56898-702-6
CDN $38.95 · pb

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Graphic Design

The New Basics

Ellen Lupton and Jennifer Cole Phillips

Appropriate both for course adoption and as a book for the amateur design market of Thinking with Type and Design It Yourself, Graphic Design The New Basics fills a huge gap in course books on graphic design. Classic texts like Meggs’ History of Graphic Design don’t incorporate the influence of new software and new media, while new books ignore the basics of line, point, colour and grid. Both are addressed in this book by bestselling author Ellen Lupton, who has proven herself as a major player in design education.

ELLEN LUPTON is the author, co-author or editor of Design Culture Now; Skin: Surface, Substance + Design; Inside Design Now; Thinking with Type; D.I.Y.: Design It Yourself; and D.I.Y. Kids. She is curator of contemporary design for Cooper-Hewitt, the National Design Museum and the Smithsonian Institution, New York and the director of the Graphic Design MFA Program, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore. Her many awards include I.D. Forty (1992), Chrysler Design Award (1996) and AIGA Gold Medal (2007). JENNIFER COLE PHILLIPS is a principal of J. Cole Phillips Design.