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    Graphic Design for Beginners: Fundamental Graphic Design Principles that Underlie Every Design Project: Be Your Own Designer
    Graphic Design for Beginners: Fundamental Graphic Design Principles that Underlie Every Design Project: Be Your Own Designer
    Graphic Design for Beginners: Fundamental Graphic Design Principles that Underlie Every Design Project: Be Your Own Designer
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    Graphic Design for Beginners: Fundamental Graphic Design Principles that Underlie Every Design Project: Be Your Own Designer

    By Anita Nipāne

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    About this ebook

    Do you need to design things, but have no background in graphic design theory? Would you like to learn the main graphic design principles and create visuals that effectively communicate your message?

     

    If you lack a degree in art but need to make social media posts and ads, business cards, flyers, brochures, or any other visuals, buy this book and read it.

    It won't substitute studying in a design school but will give you a vocabulary of the basic design and composition principles, color theory, and typography. This book will serve as your starting point if you want to create eye-catching visuals and never again make amateur mistakes.

     

    Read the book "Graphic Design for Beginners" and you will learn how to:

    • use the main principles of professionally-looking designs
    • create a composition and use visual weight, balance, and flow to emphasize your message
    • recognize the difference between the optical and geographic center and why the first one is important
    • use the science behind the good looking color schemes
    • combine typefaces and use contrast in a sophisticated way
    • use more than 20 FREE resources and tools for creating your designs

    In short, after reading this book you will know how to apply the same graphic design principles every professional designer knows and uses.

    Recommended especially for non-designers this book will change the way you look at graphic designs around you. Get it now!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAnita Nipāne
    Release dateMar 10, 2017
    ISBN9781386745754
    Graphic Design for Beginners: Fundamental Graphic Design Principles that Underlie Every Design Project: Be Your Own Designer

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    • 3/5
      Good overview/summary of design principles. But there are some grammatical and formatting errors (which detracted from reading it).
    • 5/5
      The book is very easy to read and gives all the basics of design. I've learned a lot of new things I didnt know, I am looking forward to check out the udemy courses.

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    Graphic Design for Beginners - Anita Nipāne

    Graphic Design for Beginners

    ____________

    Fundamental Graphic Design Principles that Underlie Every Design Project

    After reading it you will never look at a graphic design with the same eyes again.

    This book was written by Anita Nipane of Digginet.

    Design Book for Non-Designers: Guidelines for Small Business Owners, Bloggers, and Marketers

    Copyright © 2020 by Anita Nipane.

    All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles or reviews.

    Trademarks

    All product or brand names and services identified throughout this book are used in editorial fashion only and for benefit of such companies with no intention of infringement of the trademark. No such use, or the use of any trade name, is intended to convey endorsement or other affiliation with this book.

    The book cover has been designed using resources from Freepik.com

    For information contact:

    http://www.digginet.com

    First Edition: January 2017

    Contents

    Your Free Gift

    Is This Book for You?

    CRAP – The Big Four

    Contrast

    Repetition

    Alignment

    4 Ways to Align Your Design Elements

    Centered alignment

    Left Alignment

    Right Alignment

    Justified alignment

    Advanced Text Alignment Techniques

    Proximity

    What is Composition?

    Viѕuаl Bаlаnсе

    4 Tуреѕ Of Composition Bаlаnсе

    Visual Direction and Flow

    Optical Center

    White Space

    How to Create White Space in Your Design?

    Color as Design Element

    Primary, Secondary and Tertiary Colors

    Hues, Tints, Shades and Tones

    Tints or Pastels

    Shаdеѕ

    Tоnеѕ

    Warm Colors and Cool Colors

    Make Your Own Shades, Tints and Tones

    Create Your Own Professionally Looking Color Schemes

    Complementary Colors

    Double Complementary Colors

    Triads

    Split Complementary Colors

    Analogous Colors

    Monochromatic Color Scheme

    11 Free Online Tools that Will Help You to Create Your Own Color Schemes

    How to Choose The Right Colors for Your Project

    CMYK vs RGB

    7 Deadly Color Combinations to Avoid

    Fonts or Typefaces?

    Perfectly Paired Typefaces

    4 Typeface Categories

    Typographic Contrasts

    How Many Typefaces to Use?

    Main Principles of Perfecting Your Typefaces

    Kerning

    Tracking

    Leading

    10 Resources to Download Free Fonts

    Typeface Licenses Explained

    How to Install New Typefaces on Your Computer?

    What Software and Apps to Use for Creating Your Designs?

    Use Free Images - 10 Free Resources

    Conclusion

    Other Books by the Author

    Udemy Online Courses

    Your Free Gift

    Do you need to create images and simple banners for your webpage, blog, and social media? 

    The good news is – you don't need to hire a designer or buy expensive software to create visuals for the web. You can do it YOURSELF and with FREE tools. Thanks to the different resources that are available on the Internet. There are so many easy and quick solutions out there! Get my book "100+ Free Tools to Create Visuals for Web & Social Media" for FREE and learn how to:

    get royalty free images even for commercial purposes

    edit photos and create web banners with free online editors

    pick tasteful color combinations for your brand and web banners 

    create simple animated gif banners 

    take and edit screenshots as well as record tutorial videos from your screen 

    remove the background from any image (no Photoshop or designer skills needed)

    create slideshows, presentations, and infographics

    use other tools that will save you time and improve your efficiency

    Is This Book for You?

    Do you need to design things, but have no background in graphic design theory? Are you a starting blogger, small business owner or a zero-budget marketing specialist who needs to create content for social media, advertisements, brochures or images for a web page? Do you want to learn the main graphic design principles to create visuals that effectively communicate your message?

    If you lack a degree in art but need to make social media posts, simple ads, business cards, flyers, web visuals, brochures or any other visuals, buy this book and read it. It won’t substitute studying in a design school, but it will give you a vocabulary of the basic design and composition principles, color theory, and typography in a quick and practical way. This book ideally serves as a good starting point, if you want to learn how to produce better-designed visuals and never again make amateur mistakes. Moreover, after reading it you will know exactly why your designs look better than they were before.

    The idea of this book is not just telling you theoretical principles about using colors, creating compositional balance and pairing typefaces correctly, but to show you how you can apply these principles in the real world to improve your design. You will be educated enough to understand when the design created really helps to communicate your message and when it doesn’t. 

    In order to make this book as practical as possible, you will see illustrations and examples of every principle that is described as well as will learn about the free online resources you can use for creating your new designs. Recommended especially for non-designers this book will change

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