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Forthcoming April 2008

SKILL SET: Knowledge Resource and Educational Series is a new multi-volume series for specialised design disciplines. Using a practicable, outcomes-based approach, Skill Set will provide instruction in various fields of design, including graphic design, stage design, fashion design and industrial design.

Skill Set will feature locally relevant content, as well as commentary and work by leading local design professionals. The series is aimed at a broad audience that includes learners at secondary schools and tertiary institutions, as well as emerging and experienced professionals.

SKILL SET VOLUME ONE: A PRIMER IN GRAPHIC DESIGN
By Michael MacGarry

Written by a graphic designer, featuring the work of leading design professionals, and targeted at designers, A Primer in Graphic Design features design fundamentals and principles; practical advice and guidance; designing for and within the local context; example of work by designers; Q & A with experienced local design professionals; and a glossary of useful resources and information. The book provides an intelligent balance of educational material relevant to design students and practical content to help young professionals embark on their careers, whilst providing sufficiently advanced material and content to appeal to mid-level and experienced designers and allied industry practitioners alike.

Michael MacGarry is a graphic designer, writer and artist based in Johannesburg. He began his design career in Dublin and London before returning to South Africa to work with The Trinity Session as designer, copywriter, and researcher. He is currently Senior Designer at Fever Identity Design. Michael has an MFA from Wits and is also a visual artist who has exhibited locally and internationally. He is owner of www.alltheorynopractice.com and is a founder member of art collective AVANT CAR GUARD. As a writer Michael is published in several local magazines, and recently co-published, with Lloyd Gedye, a limited-edition magazine titled The Pavement Special.

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OTHER DESIGN BOOKS AVAILABLE FROM OUR BOOKSTORES

Design Books published by David Krut Publishing
Skill Set One: A Primer in Graphic Design
Light on a Hill: Building the Constitutional Court of South Africa
Art and Justice: Artworks in the Constitutional Court of South Africa
Architecture and Vegetation: Hybrid Home Spaces
Mapula: Embroidery and Empowerment in the Winterveld

Design Books distributed by David Krut Publishing
Cooper-Hewitt Design Museum, New York
Design for the Other 90%
Piranesi as Designer
Design Now

TATE Publications, London
Albers and Moholy-Nagy: From Bauhaus to the New World
Pop Art
Julian Opie
Internet Art
The Stage of Drawing

Further Titles available from our Bookstores
10 x SA Fashion Week
An A – Z of Type Designers
Craft Art in South Africa
Design Like You Give a Damn
Design Thinking
Design, Writing, Research
The Designer’s Desktop Manual
Inspiring Designers: A Source Book
Konstantin Grcic Industrial Design
Modern Architecture and Design
Notes on Book Design
Ogilvy on Advertising
Points for Departure
Thinking with Type
Understanding Design
The Visual Dictionary of Fashion Design
Wired: Contemporary Zulu Telephone Wire Basket

Keywords: Books, Design, graphic-design, michael macgarry, skill set, South-Africa