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The Non-Designer's Design Book Paperback – 28 August 2003

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So you have a great concept and all the fancy digital tools you could possibly require¿what¿s stopping you from creating beautiful pages? Namely the training to pull all of these elements together into a cohesive design that effectively communicates your message. Not to worry: This book is the one place you can turn to find quick, non-intimidating, excellent design help.

In The Non-Designer¿s Design Book, 2nd Edition, best-selling author Robin Williams turns her attention to the basic principles of good design and typography. All you have to do is follow her clearly explained concepts, and you¿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.

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  6. ISBN-10
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Robin Williams is the author of more than 20 best-selling and award-winning books, including The Robin Williams Mac OS X Book, The Non-Designer's Design Book, The Non-Designer's Type Book, and Robin Williams Design Workshop, and Web Design Workshop. Through her writing, teaching, and seminars, Robin has influenced a generation of computer users in the areas of design, typography, desktop publishing, the Mac, and the World Wide Web.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ 0321193857
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Peachpit Press; 2 edition (28 August 2003)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 192 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9780321193858
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0321193858
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 17.78 x 1.27 x 25.4 cm
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Robin Williams spent twenty-five years writing computer and design books and was one of the top three best-selling computer book authors in the world. But the world changed and no one bought computer books anymore, so she went to London and formalized her long study of Shakespeare with an M.A. and Ph.D. in Shakespeare studies. Her M.A. is in Shakespearean authorship and her doctorate is on the history (and future) of reading Shakespeare out loud and in community.

Her particular interest is in Shakespeare reading groups, where adults read the plays aloud and talk about them along the way. Robin has been involved in Shakespeare reading groups for almost two decades, during which time she developed a list of design features for play texts specifically for reading groups. Her doctorate research includes the editorial practice of publishing Shakespeare over the past four hundred years. This research, combined with her design skills, visual communication skills, knowledge of Shakespearean language, and familiarity with the needs of reading groups coalesced in the Readers’ Editions of the plays.

Numerous Shakespeare reading groups have told Robin they choose which play to read based on which play is now in the Readers’ Editions. Interestingly, high school drama teachers have also found these editions more useful than any other. University professors have found them the most satisfying for their students. And directors have found them to be the most efficient texts to use for actors, with plenty of room on the pages for notes.

For more information about Shakespeare reading groups and how to start one of your own, please see www.iReadShakespeare.org.

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J. Axup
5.0 out of 5 stars My Favourite Design Book
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 10 October 2012
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This book should be essential reading for anyone let loose on PPT. It teaches you essential skills such as the meaning of proximity, contrast, color. These sound simple, but I learned a lot from this book that I should have been taught better in school. Im now famous within my company (a Fortune 500) for making amazing PPT - if you do something, why not be the best at it! lol
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Harvey Sugar
5.0 out of 5 stars Required Reading for Software Engineers!
Reviewed in the United States on 13 November 2006
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I feel like Robin Williams wrote this book for people exactly like me! I'm a software engineer and find myself making presentation, writing documents, and designing user interfaces. The principles presented in this book will help me do a better job at all three. Much of what we do in software is present information to users. How much easier it would be for users if all software engineers read this book!

The book is an easy read with plenty of illustrations that make the ideas clear and make them stick. After reading this book I can't, as the author promised, look at a printed page in the same way. Neither can I look at my power point slides nor my user interfaces without feeling a little embarrassed now that I know how to see what's wrong with them.
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MojitoMama
5.0 out of 5 stars It was a very popular and fun class. I used this book as the required ...
Reviewed in the United States on 3 June 2016
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I have degrees in both graphic design and marketing, and I used to teach a University elective to business majors on basic design skills so that they could create professional-looking presentations and understand how to work with graphics. It was a very popular and fun class. I used this book as the required text. I now work as a marketing director and I have purchased this book for every single person I have ever hired. It is hands-down the best reference book to explain basic design concepts to people who are not professionally trained in design.
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Fonant
5.0 out of 5 stars Easy read, powerful ideas
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 7 March 2014
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I found this book to be very easy to understand. It makes you want to go out and re-design everyone's business cards and event posters! Applicable to all sorts of design involving text and images.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 27 February 2015
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thanks!!!
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