Best Practices for Graphic Designers, Color Works by Eddie Opara; John CantwellThis is the go-to guide for designers as it outlines and details the essential color design skills needed to create successful, meaningful, and aesthetically compelling designs. Along with hands-on projects, it offers unique insights into strategy and business when working in the real world with real clients. Color Works starts with basic information on color practices and fundamentals, and then delves more deeply into theory and application on a project-by-project basis. Illustrated with real-world projects and case studies, this book offers a behind-the-scenes take on the design process and the necessary steps to go from concept to final outcome, including the challenges encountered along the way.
From the Rochester Institute of Technology, The Graphic Design Archives document and preserve the work of significant American graphic designers active from the 1920s to the 1950s.
Harvard Art Museums' online catalog of their 32,000-piece Bauhaus Collection, containing rarely seen drawings and photographs from attendees and instructors of the revolutionary German design school.
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A well-established international site for design (graphic, architectural, product) professionals, faculty, and students provides critical writings by well-known writers.