“In A Life In Books, author and graphic design visionary Warren Lehrer crafts a vivid kaleidoscopic odyssey that frames one man’s life through not one, but one hundred different books—and book jackets... An unmistakably modern evocation of the illuminated manuscript.” MenBookDifferentModernDesignHundredCraftsOne ManVividJacketsGraphicVisionariesManuscriptsGraphic DesignOdysseyDifferent Books Author:Jessica Helfand
“Graphic design is a visual language uniting harmony and balance, color and light, scale and tension, form and content. But it is also an idiomatic language, a language of cues and puns and symbols and allusions, of cultural references and perceptual inferences that challenge both the intellect and the eye.” LightEyeFormLanguageChallengesDesignColorBalanceHarmonyIntellectScalesSymbolsTensionVisualsGraphicGraphic DesignPunInferenceUnitingAllusion Author:Jessica Helfand
“Graphic design is a popular art and a practical art, an applied art and an ancient art. Simply put, it is the art of visualizing ideas.” ArtIdeasDesignAncientPracticalsGraphicGraphic DesignVisualizingAncient ArtApplied Arts Book:Screen: Essays on Graphic Design, New Media, and Visual Culture Source: Screen: Essays on Graphic Design, New Media, and Visual Culture
