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Drawing on over thirty years of experience, In Standout Designs for the Web, I’ll show you how to uncover a company’s story, develop a distinctive visual language, and combine colour, typography, imagery, and layout to create designs that people recognise and remember.
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Drawing on over thirty years of experience, In Standout Designs for the Web, I’ll show you how to uncover a company’s story, develop a distinctive visual language, and combine colour, typography, imagery, and layout to create designs that people recognise and remember.
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Get three of Andy’s industry influencing books—Art Direction for the Web, Hardboiled Web Design, and Transcending CSS Revisited—in one best-value bundle.
Essential reading
In this popular book, I explore the work of influential art directors to understand it and learn how to apply that knowledge to the web. Published in 2019.
Fifth Anniversary Edition
Incredibly well received, in 2015 I updated its content for an all new Fifth Anniversary Edition.
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In 2019 it was time to revisit Transcending CSS to examine the approaches we took and the tools we used at the start of the web standards revolution. Read free online or buy the e-book.
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