The Graphic Design Exercise Book

Graphic designers like to be creatively challenged. The design briefs in The Graphic Design Exercise Book act as sparks to fire your creativity and exercises to broaden your skill set. As prompts for developing your own personal projects they can lead to unexpected developments and revitalized portfolios, helping you break into new and lucrative areas of the design industry.

Each brief is illustrated with inspiring reference material providing a visual resource that can be utilized well beyond this book. Sample roughs and visuals show work in progress to give you an insight into the thought processes and creative bent of other designers. Industry insiders share their specialist knowledge, offering professional advice on a selection of fully realized projects.

As an additional research tool, The Graphic Design Exercise Book gives you a full glossary and reading list for every genre covered, including:

• packaging
• visual identity and branding
• page layout
• music graphics
• screen-based design

• Creative Workshop: 80 Challenges to Sharpen Your Design Skills
• Thinking with Type, 2nd revised and expanded edition: A Critical Guide for Designers, Writers, Editors, & Students
• Graphic Design: The New Basics
• It's Not How Good You Are, It's How Good You Want to Be: The world's best selling book
• Logo Design Love: A Guide to Creating Iconic Brand Identities, 2nd Edition
• Color Design Workbook: A Real World Guide to Using Color in Graphic Design
• Hegarty on Creativity: There Are No Rules
• Graphic Design: A Concise History, Second Edition (World of Art)
• Graphic Design Thinking: Beyond Brainstorming (Renowned Designer Ellen Lupton Provides New Techniques for Creative Thinking About Design Process with Examples and Case Studies) (Design Briefs)
• Graphic Design Rules: 365 Essential Design Dos and Don'ts