Perfect for professional designers, aspiring pros, and design students alike.

The Designer's Desktop Manual explores, topic by topic, the essential aspects of key areas of print and screen based design-type and typography; color; imaging; layout; and printing, from the most basic, introductory techniques and principles, to more advanced practices, via step-by-step projects and inspirational examples. This in-depth guide offers insight into the technological issues and step-by-step skills needed to bring design to a professional standard. Readers will also find historical background on key topics, allowing them to put up-to-date techniques into context with the evolution of design.