Design Literacy: Understanding Graphic Design

Acknowledgments

Design Literacywould be but a figment if not for the remarkable support

and encouragement from Tad Crawford, the publisher of Allworth Press.

Thanks also to Nicole Potter, senior editor, Monica Rodriguez, assistant

editor, and to James Victore, designer of this and my other Allworth Press

books.

Thanks again to Karen Pomeroy, who collaborated with me on the

first Design Literacy,and who made invaluable contributions to a few of the

essays retained for this revision.

Many of the essays in this book appeared in slightly different

forms in design magazines. Much gratitude goes to the editors of these

periodicals for their wisdom, expertise, and enthusiasm. Thanks to Martin

Fox, former editor-in-chief, and Joyce Rutter Kaye, current editor-in-chief,

at PrintMagazine; Julie Lasky, editor at I.D.; Rick Poynor, former editor,

and John Walters, current editor, at Eye; Hans Dieter Reichert, editor at

Baseline, and Emily Potts, editor at Step.Also thanks to Caroline

Hightower, former director, and Ric Grefe, current director, of the

American Institute of Graphic Arts, for their counsel when I was editor of

AIGA Journal of Graphic Design.

Finally, I also dedicate this book to all my past, present, and future

students. —SH

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