Calling all design students

Calling all design students

Are you adapting to learning and creating at home?  Trying to create content while staying inside?

Laurence King offers free and discounted resources to continue your design studies while staying at home. Discover instructional videos, presentation slides, and activities to keep you learning. Just click on the relevant title and select “Downloads & Extras” and get studying!

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Graphic Design: A History, 3rd Edition

This book traces the impact of politics, economics, war, nationalism, colonialism, gender and art on graphic designers working in print and film and with the latest web, multimedia and emerging digital technologies. This new edition includes over 500 new and existing images and a new chapter on current trends in digital design.

A range of ancillary materials are available alongside this text, including discussion questions, comparison topics and mock tests.

When on the product page, select the "Downloads and Extras" tab to view and download all these resources.

Production for Graphic Designers, 5th Edition

Computer technology has completely revolutionised the work of graphic designers, printers and print production professionals. To keep pace with these far-reaching changes, Production for Graphic Designers is set firmly in the digital age. In this fifth edition the material on digital technologies has been expanded, with increased coverage of Web 2.0, and with sustainable and environmentally sound processes detailed throughout.

Download the tests that are available alongside this title and challenge your knowledge.

When on the product page, select the "Downloads and Extras" tab to view and download all these resources.

How to Use Type

This book is a guide to the use of type in design for print and screen. The book includes basic information about type and its terminology, using typefaces, designing and communicating with type, colour and movement, experimentation with type and production issues.

Discover activities and tests that support this text and can help you develop your skills at home.

When on the product page, select the "Downloads and Extras" tab to view and download all these resources.

Product Design

Product Design offers a broad and comprehensive introduction to the field of product design and the key role of product designers. It follows through all the stages and activities involved in the creation of a new product – from concept design to manufacture, prototyping to marketing.

Download tip sheets for this title on a range of areas such as designing your portfolio, identifying customer needs, and preparing a CV and covering letter.

When on the product page, select the "Downloads and Extras" tab to view and download all these resources.

 

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