DIY—DESIGN IT YOURSELFDesign Brief Series

Ellen Lupton

DIY: Design It Yourself provides you with all the tools you'll need to create your own projects from conception through production. Tips include ideas on how you can "think like a designer"; explanations of design technologies, from silkscreening to web development; materials you'll need to get your job done and where to find and buy them; diagrams that show how to handle complex tasks; basic typographic dos and don'ts; the history and theory of the DIY design movement and hundreds of innovative and beautiful projects for inspiration.

2006 / 176 pp / 250 color / 978-1-56898-552-7 / pb / $19.95