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title: Print Design
description: Print design covers the creation of physical media, including brochures, packaging, posters, and books. You will understand color spaces, paper stocks, binding techniques, and prepress preparation to ensure digital designs translate accurately to physical formats.
category: arts-design
subcategory: graphic-design
difficulty: beginner, intermediate, advanced
url: /subject/print-design
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# Print Design

Print design covers the creation of physical media, including brochures, packaging, posters, and books. You will understand color spaces, paper stocks, binding techniques, and prepress preparation to ensure digital designs translate accurately to physical formats.

## Available Resources

3 Books • 2 Websites

## Books

### 1. Grid Systems in Graphic Design

**Author:** Josef Müller-Brockmann

The definitive structural guide to using grids as a logical tool for visual layout and information hierarchy.

**Difficulty:** Advanced | **Price:** Paid

**Link:** https://www.amazon.com/s?k=3721201450&tag=edmonddante07-20

**Tags:** grid-systems, typography, layout, graphic-design, swiss-design

### 2. Graphic Design for Print

**Author:** Cath Caldwell

Cath Caldwell's Barron's guide to building a graphic design portfolio, in print and online: selecting and sequencing work, presenting student and professional projects, and tailoring submissions for studio interviews and client pitches.

**Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid

**Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/0764145053?tag=edmonddante07-20

**Tags:** books, arts-design, graphic-design

### 3. Making and Breaking the Grid

**Author:** Timothy Samara

Samara's workshop on typographic grid systems: how column, modular, and hierarchical grids are built, and how designers deliberately deconstruct them. Annotated case studies show the structural reasoning behind published print layouts.

**Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid

**Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/1592531253?tag=edmonddante07-20

**Tags:** books, arts-design, graphic-design

## Websites

### 1. Prepressure

Laurens Leurs's prepress reference covers PDF and PostScript, fonts, colour separation, JDF workflows, and printing processes, plus a glossary of trade terminology — background for preparing files that output correctly on commercial presses.

**Difficulty:** Beginner | **Price:** Free

**Link:** https://www.prepressure.com/

**Tags:** prepress, print-production, pdf, color-separation, printing-processes

### 2. printmag.com

Print Magazine is a long-running design publication showcasing articles, features, interviews, and case studies on graphic design, typography, and print production. It also offers tutorials, insights, and inspiration to help designers learn and explore print design techniques and trends.

**Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free

**Link:** https://printmag.com

**Tags:** websites, arts-design, graphic-design

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