Forms, Folds and Sizes, Second Edition: All the Details Graphic Designers Need to Know but Can Never Find / Edition 2

by Aaris Sherin, Poppy Evans

Overview

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, thishandbook 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!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781592534616
Publisher:	Rockport Publishers
Publication date:	01/01/2009
Edition description:	Second
Pages:	336
Product dimensions:	5.80(w) x 8.20(h) x 1.00(d)

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, Ohio. She is the former art director of Screen Printing and American Music Teacher magazines, and former managing editor of HOW magazine.