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Graphic Design Cookbook: Mix & Match Recipes for Faster, Better Layouts

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Book Title: Graphic Design Cookbook: Mix & Match Recipes for Faster, Better Layouts
Author: Leonard Koren, R. Wippo Meckler
Publisher: Chronicle Books (March 1, 2001)
Paperback: 142 pages
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0811831809
ISBN-13: 978-0811831802

Book Description
With 100,000 copies sold, Graphic Design Cookbook is one of the most useful all-purpose resources for designers and anyone who wants to create a dynamic layout for magazines, newsletters, books, posters, and other media. Now released with a fresh new cover, its more than a thousand line drawings illustrate effective design devices, type treatments, spatial solutions, and pictorial presentations, allowing examination and comparison of various options in no time. The Graphic Design Cookbook can be opened to virtually any page for instant access to great ideas. As a catalyst for cooking up endless new design recipes, this classic goes on inspiring one generation of designers to the next.

Book Review
It’s 10:00 at night, and you still have several hours of design ahead of you. How do you keep your designs creative and original? The first book I grab is The Graphic Design Cookbook. It’s not a book of canned designs, but a catalog of design concepts and structures to hang your own artwork on. I wouldn’t go into my studio without it. –By A Customer

I almost didn’t buy this book because of the mixed reviews. After flipping through it in the bookstore, I purchased it. I’m so glad I did! Seems to me the negative reviewers here are not rating it well because they expected it to go beyond it’s intended scope. The book clearly states up front that it provides various layout options, to be used as-is or to mix and match. It’s purpose is to jump-start your creativity when your in a rut, not tell you exactly what to do with your content or cover layout theory. It is a reference of visual layout ideas. There are no lengthy explanations. Overall, great buy. I love it! –By Susan Ohtake “sooz” (santa monica, ca)

About the Author
Leonard Koren trained as an artist and architect. He is the creator of the legendary WET: The Magazine of Gourmet Bathing and is also the author of numerous books about design and aesthetics, including Wabi-Sabi for Artists, Designers, Poets & Philosophers and Gardens of Gravel and Sand. He divides his time between San Francisco and Tokyo.

R. Wippo Meckler, an award-winning print designer, has designed magazines such as WET, Mademoiselle, PC Week, and MadUser. He is currently president of redesigninc.com, a web design/development agency in New York City that creates sites for corporate, editorial, and artist clients.

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