Graphic Design For Everyone: Understand The Building Blocks So You Can Do It Yourself

Graphic Design For Everyone: Understand The Building Blocks So You Can Do It Yourself Transform your ideas into powerful visuals - to connect with your audience, define your brand, and take your project to the next level. This highly practical book takes you through the building blocks of graphic design - type, photography, illustration, colour - and shows you how to combine these tools to create visuals that inform, influence, and enthral. Grasp the key principles through in-depth how-to articles, hands-on workshops, and inspirational galleries of great design. Find out how to create a brand plan, discover how a typeface sets the mood, and learn how to organize different elements of a layout to boost the impact and meaning of your message. Then apply your skills to do it yourself, with ten step-by-step projects to help you create your own stunning designs - including business stationery, invitations, sales brochure, website, digital online newsletter and e-shop. There's also plen...