Type, image, message : a graphic design layout workshop / Nancy Skolos, Thomas Wedell.

By:

Skolos, Nancy

Contributor(s):

Wedell, Thomas

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Gloucester, MA : Rockport Publishers, c2006.Description: 192 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 29 cmISBN:

159253189X (hbk.)
9781592531899 (hbk.)

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

741.6 SKO

Review: "Creative integration of type and image is the basis of compelling graphic design, yet very little practical information exists for understanding and mastering this challenge." "This book gives designers the practical know-how to combine type and image for dynamic effect to create tension and meaning in design. Type, Image, Message inspires through excellence by exhibiting great design work and then investigating the processes in simple visual terms."Summary: "This book: is filled with exceptional examples that will inspire designers to work with the convergence and opposition of type and imagery; explores the visual and communicative properties of type and image, and celebrates the creative potential that can be unleashed when the two are strategically combined; analyzes the resulting complexities and identifies common properties and strategies, such as framing, layering, and modularity, to reveal the underlying causes and effects; and contains insight from top designers from around the world who are known for their mastery of joining the forces of words and pictures."--BOOK JACKET.

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Standard Loan	LSAD Library Main Collection	741.6 SKO (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		39002000186867

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

This design tutorial examines the part that typography and image play as individual design elements as well as the effect they can have in combination. Common properties and strategies are identified such as framing, layering and modularity. It includes interviews with designers renown for their skill in merging type and image.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 191) and index.

"Creative integration of type and image is the basis of compelling graphic design, yet very little practical information exists for understanding and mastering this challenge." "This book gives designers the practical know-how to combine type and image for dynamic effect to create tension and meaning in design. Type, Image, Message inspires through excellence by exhibiting great design work and then investigating the processes in simple visual terms."

"This book: is filled with exceptional examples that will inspire designers to work with the convergence and opposition of type and imagery; explores the visual and communicative properties of type and image, and celebrates the creative potential that can be unleashed when the two are strategically combined; analyzes the resulting complexities and identifies common properties and strategies, such as framing, layering, and modularity, to reveal the underlying causes and effects; and contains insight from top designers from around the world who are known for their mastery of joining the forces of words and pictures."--BOOK JACKET.

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Nancy Skolos and Thomas Wedell are the principals of Skolos-Wedell, an interdisciplinary graphic design and photography studio.

Husband and wife, photographer and designer, the two work to diminish the boundaries between graphic design and photography - creating collaged three-dimensional images influenced by modern painting, technology, and architecture. With a home and studio halfway between Boston and Providence, they balance their commitments to professional practice and teaching at the Rhode Island School of Design, where Skolos is Head of the Department of Graphic Design.

The studio's work has received numerous awards and has been widely published and exhibited. Skolos-Wedell's posters are included in the graphic design collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Library of Congress, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Israel Museum, and the Museum fur Gestaltung, Zurich, Switzerland. Skolos is an elected member of the Alliance Graphique Internationale