The Visual Dictionary Design Box Set

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The Visual Dictionary Design Box Set Gavin Ambrose and Paul HarrisMark Wigan
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The Visual Dictionary Design Box Set provides readers with an enhanced understanding of over 1000 professional design terms, illustrated with historical and contemporary examples throughout.

These four books represent a comprehensive compendium of design terminology and will be useful to all designers, visual arts lecturers and students. The variety of illustrations and photographs serve as a source of inspiration, as well as an ideal memory stimulus for visual learners.

The box set comes neatly presented in a slipcase and contains four Visual Dictionaries - Pre-press and Production, Typography, Graphic Design and Illustration.

From 'linocut' to 'lithography', 'pilcrow' to 'kerning' and 'crop' to 'creep', The Visual Dictionary Design Box Set will prove a fun and useful resource to design enthusiasts.

Key features
- Over 1000 common design terms defined and contextualized, providing readers with an invaluable reference tool.
  
  A concise and comprehensive introduction to four key design disciplines: pre-press and production; typography, graphic design; and illustration.
  
  Each title is beautifully presented with compelling and exciting illustrations.

Gavin Ambrose is a practising graphic designer. His current commercial practice includes clients from the arts sector, publishers and advertising agencies. Paul Harris is a freelance writer and editor. His work has appeared extensively in magazines and journals on both sides of the Atlantic.

Mark Wigan is an artist, illustrator and academic. He was an early pioneer of transglobal club art in 1980s New York, London and Tokyo. For the past ten years, he has been lecturing worldwide and has led illustration programmes at a range of universities.
Readership: Foundation

978 2 940411 97 9
1168 pages
950 colour images
640mm x 480mm
Paperback
April 2012

AVA Academia