{"id":110,"date":"2012-11-21T07:00:38","date_gmt":"2012-11-21T12:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/awgentry.com\/blog\/?p=110"},"modified":"2013-04-29T23:08:47","modified_gmt":"2013-04-30T03:08:47","slug":"review-of-the-non-designers-design-book-by-robin-williams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/awgentry.com\/weblog\/review-of-the-non-designers-design-book-by-robin-williams\/","title":{"rendered":"Review of &#8220;The Non-Designer&#8217;s Design Book&#8221; by Robin Williams"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><span id=\"btAsinTitle\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0321534042\/deltamuse-20\">The Non-Designer&#8217;s Design Book (3rd Edition) (Paperback) by Robin Williams<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote><p><strong>From the Back Cover (2nd Edition): <\/strong>So you have a great concept and all the fancy digital tools you could possibly require-what&#8217;s stopping you from creating beautiful pages? Namely the training to pull all of these elements together into a <strong>cohesive design that effectively communicates your message<\/strong>. Not to worry: This book is the one place you can turn to find quick, non-intimidating, excellent design help. In <em>The Non-Designer&#8217;s Design Book<\/em>, 2nd Edition, best-selling author Robin Williams turns her attention to the <strong>basic principles of good design and <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Typography\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Typography\">typography<\/a><\/strong>. All you have to do is follow her clearly explained concepts, and you&#8217;ll begin producing more sophisticated, professional, and interesting pages immediately. Humor-infused, jargon-free prose interspersed with design exercises, quizzes, illustrations, and dozens of examples make learning a snap-which is just what audiences have come to expect from this best-selling author.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>My Review:<\/strong> Amazing book! As a Web designer, I actually found more use from this than the author&#8217;s work specifically meant for my profession (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0321303377\/deltamuse-20\">The Non-Designer&#8217;s Web Book<\/a>). It provides a <strong>great grounding for a person with no formal graphic\/layout experience<\/strong> from an aesthetic standpoint. The sections on typography were also surprisingly fascinating. This book has strengthened my graphic and <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Page layout\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Page_layout\">page layout<\/a> skills, and definitely opened up my eyes to the basic techniques used by experts in this field.<\/p>\n<h6 class=\"zemanta-related-title\">Related articles by Zemanta<\/h6>\n<ul class=\"zemanta-article-ul\">\n<li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li\"><a href=\"http:\/\/dancurtis.ca\/2010\/05\/19\/do-you-want-to-make-your-printed-pages-look-better\/\">Do You Want to Make Your Printed Pages Look Better?<\/a> (dancurtis.ca)<\/li>\n<li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.smashingmagazine.com\/2010\/05\/06\/50-helpful-typography-tools-and-resources\/\">50 Helpful Typography Tools And Resources<\/a> (smashingmagazine.com)<\/li>\n<li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.noupe.com\/design\/graphic-design-theory-50-resources-and-articles.html\">Graphic Design Theory: 50 Resources and Articles<\/a> (noupe.com)<\/li>\n<li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.instantshift.com\/2010\/06\/04\/90-clean-and-minimal-web-designs-for-design-inspiration\/\">90+ Clean and Minimal Web Designs for Design Inspiration | Inspiration | instantShift<\/a> (instantshift.com)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/pixy.gif?x-id=c1025e6e-eb44-4adb-8ef4-64d404167ade\" alt=\"\" \/><span class=\"zem-script more-related pretty-attribution\"><script src=\"http:\/\/static.zemanta.com\/readside\/loader.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Non-Designer&#8217;s Design Book (3rd Edition) (Paperback) by Robin Williams From the Back Cover (2nd Edition): So you have a great concept and all the fancy digital tools you could possibly require-what&#8217;s stopping you from creating beautiful pages? Namely the training to pull all of these elements together into a cohesive design that effectively communicates&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[63,64,65,66,67],"class_list":["post-110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-creative","tag-aesthetics","tag-book-reviews","tag-graphic-design","tag-page-layout","tag-typography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/awgentry.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/awgentry.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/awgentry.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/awgentry.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/awgentry.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/awgentry.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1018,"href":"http:\/\/awgentry.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110\/revisions\/1018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/awgentry.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/awgentry.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/awgentry.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}