Design Elements

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• Kinimat · May 30, 2008 · Recommends

  …of me. I'd recommend looking for some good designers on one of the freelance sites.. there's no shortage of choice. If you decide to go it alone, or even if you don't, I recommend picking up the book "Design Elements" by Timothy Samara. It's the best, most concise, book on the general principles of design I have yet to find. It will give you a good overview and some talking points with any designers you hire. Good…

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• Gibbon · Sep 21, 2009 · Recommends

  I'm a designer and the two books I always recommend to non-designers and newbies are: Design Elements: A Graphic Style Manual (http://www.amazon.com/Design-Elements-Graphic-Style-Manual/d...) and The other is the complementary case studies book "Design Evolution" (http://www.amazon.com/Design-Evolution-Handbook-Principles-C...)…

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