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Art News Before you start your weekend: the Committee on Public Relations Arts Camp, WPFW layoffs, New Center Concert Venue – Despite the 100 adolescents of the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities Media Arts Summer Camp are part of the city's Program on Youth Employment, which are at least a sense of luck: They do not have to wear uniforms, blue or otherwise.
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Thinking with Type: A Primer for Designers: A Critical Guide for Designers, Writers, Editors, & Students $19.49 The organization of letters on a blank sheet — or screen — is the most basic challenge facing anyone who practices design. What type of font to use? How big? How should those letters, words, and paragraphs be aligned, spaced, ordered, shaped, and otherwise manipulated? In this groundbreaking new primer, leading design educator and historian Ellen Lupton provides clear and concise guidance for an…

Meggs’ History of Graphic Design $46.34 Now in its Fourth Edition, this unrivaled, seminal work continues its long tradition of providing balanced insight and thorough historical background. Under the new authorial leadership of Alston Purvis, this authoritative book offers more than 450 new images, along with expansive coverage of such topics as Italian, Russian, and Dutch design. It reveals a saga of creative innovators, breakthrough …

Non-Designer’s Design Book, The (3rd Edition) $19.99 A lot has happened in the world of digital design since the first edition of this title was published, but one thing remains true: There is an ever-growing number of people attempting to design pages with no formal training. This book is the one place they can turn to find quick, non-intimidating, excellent design help from trusted design instructor Robin Williams. This revised classic–now i…