A Book About Design.A Book About Design Mark Gonya Henry Holt 115 18th St., New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of NY 10011 www.henryholt.com 0805075755 $18.95 1-888-330-8477 A Book About Design: Complicated Doesn't Make It Good is one of the few books to address basic design issues for young picturebook readers--and its advice and insights should be considered by many an adult, too. Simple lines, shapes, colors and humor humor, according to ancient theory, any of four bodily fluids that determined man's health and temperament. Hippocrates postulated that an imbalance among the humors (blood, phlegm, black bile, and yellow bile) resulted in pain and disease, and that good health was explain why complication complication /com·pli·ca·tion/ (kom?pli-ka´shun) 1. disease(s) concurrent with another disease. 2. occurrence of several diseases in the same patient. com·pli·ca·tion n. doesn't equal a good design--and why that fact matters. Pages of merely one or two sentences are accompanied by easy sample pictures to illustrate such basic design concepts as 'change the size of one (in this case increase it) and you lessen less·en v. less·ened, less·en·ing, less·ens v.tr. 1. To make less; reduce. 2. Archaic To make little of; belittle. v.intr. To become less; decrease. the impact of the other'. |
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