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Graphic Design & Advertising: Home

A guide to the resources available for Graphic Design students.

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Contemporary Graphic Design by Charlotte Fiell; Peter Fiell
This compendium showcases the extraordinary cutting-edge work of 100 of the world's most progressive graphic designers, from the hard-hitting political messages of Jonathan Barnbrook to the lyrical digital compositions of Peter Saville. Contemporary Graphic Design is absolutely essential to anyone interested in the power of images.
A visual language: elements of design by David Cohen
This is a practical approach to the theory of visual language, taking the basics of line, shape, tone, colour, texture, form, scale, space and light and discussing how to use them.

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