Forms, Folds and Sizes, Second Edition: All the Details Graphic Designers Need to Know but Can Never Find

Sherin, Aaris; Evans, Poppy

ISBN 10: 1592534619 ISBN 13: 9781592534616

Publisher: Rockport Publishers, 2009

Synopsis

It’s tough to remember all the minute details of packaging standards and conversions when you are a designer juggling varied projects. With Forms, Folds & Sizes – Revised, you can just look them up! Including updated information and new topics, this handbook provides designers with all the little details that can make or break a design, such as how much space to leave in the gutter when designing barrel folds, how to layout a template for a box and the ratios of each part, metric conversion charts, and standard envelope sizes in the USA, Europe, Canada and Asia.

Featuring new topics such as sustainable design, web design, and grid design basics, Forms, Folds & Sizes – Revised is the one resource to turn to for answers to everything from folds and bindings to paper, imaging and much, much more!

About this title

About the Author:

Aaris Sherin is an educator, writer and designer based in New York City. She is currently assistant professor of graphic design at St. John's University in Queens, New York, where she teaches both history and studio classes. She holds a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and an MFA from Rochester Institute of Technology.Poppy Evans is an award-winning writer and graphic designer who lives in Park Hills Kentucky, a suburb of Cincinnati, OH. She is the former art director of Screen Printing and American Music Teacher magazines, and former managing editor of HOW magazine.

About this edition

• Publisher: Rockport Publishers
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1592534619
• ISBN 13: 9781592534616
• Binding: Vinyl Bound
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 336