The designer's desktop manual /
Jason Simmons.
- Cincinnati, Ohio : HOW books, c2007.
- 256 p. : col. ill. ; 24 cm.
Includes index.
Explores, topic by topic, the essential aspects of key areas of print and screen based design-type and typography; color; imaging; layout; and printing, from the most basic, introductory techniques and principles, to more advanced practices, via step-by-step projects and inspirational examples. Also covers technological issues and gives historical background on key topics, allowing them to put up-to-date techniques into context with the evolution of design.--From publisher description.