The Designer`s Graphic Stew: Visual Ingredients, Techniques, and Layout Recipes for Graphic Designers

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