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Visual Grammar (Design Briefs)
by Christian Leborg
from Princeton Architectural Press

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0

• I Found It Facinating
  I stumbled on this book at the local library and found it a very fascinating read. I've been involved in graphic production for years and can push the objects around on the comp, but never really knew the basics and foundation of visual language.
  This is a great primer to learn the basic concepts that lead one to want to learn the syntax and the structure of the visual nouns learned.
  This is something I will purchase and pore over until I learn the concepts.

• If you missed out in 5th grade...
  Wow. Thats just it for this book. Seriously, someone wanted a publication and farted this thing out. I mean, it gives you the vocab of the elements...thats it. Im a college design teacher and this book would be great for a middle-school art/design class.
  If you want simplistic...this may be for you.

• A book with few words
  This book certainly takes the simplicity route. It is ruthlessly straightforward in regards to expressing it's information, in a layout that is without a doubt concise and efficient. The nadir? It also unfortunately reads like stereo instructions and the knowledge it tries to impart is thoroughly basic at best. Simple shapes and the like may be the building blocks of structure, but without any really tangible information to be gleaned we are left with an attractive skeleton. Yes there are some bits of... more info

• Very Nice
  Everything was excellent except the quality of the binding on the book. it isn't bad enough for me to want to return it but it is something to mention.

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