The Designer's Graphic Stew: Visual Ingredients, Techniques, and Layout Recipes for Graphic Designers, Hardcover Book, By: Timothy Samara

Under the witty and metaphorical guise of a high-end cookbook, the author provides visual "ingredients, " such as grid structures, folios, border devices, type treatments, abstract graphic elements, categorized stylistically and functionally. These ingredients are shown in use through a "recipe" format to accomplish strategies such as movement, rhythm, organization, contrast, metaphor, etc. Ingredients are coded and cross-referenced among categories for mix and matching purposes as well as demonstrating varied alternate combinations to achieving different approaches to strategies.