Visual Research: An Introduction to Research Methods in Graphic Design (Required Reading Range)

This book is really good for graphic design students, because it gives them a good foundation in graphic design and research. It’s not written in an academic “prose”, so it’s easy for most students to gain the knowledge. I use this book as course literature in many of our courses and programmes at the university.

This is a must read for students, academics and professionals who want to learn the basics of visual research.Don't pay attention to the previous reviewer on Amazon who gave this book one star rating because he didn't like the design of the book itself.First, the content of this book is extremely valuable and useful. Second, the design of the books does justice to the best of design.In summary, this is a great book and I would encourage you to buy it.

I love it. It is exactly what I needed. Thank You!

The authors, who I assume also designed the layout and the typography of this book, must not want you to actually read the content. All the main text content is typeset inbetween dotted lines. Seriously, what good designer in their right mind would do this? I couldn't read more than a few sentences at a time because of all the dotted lines inbetween the lines of text. It about gave me a migraine. There might be some good information in this book, but I'll never know because I can't read it.

For a Graphic Design book, this is so ugly and difficult to navigate, I couldn't even use it for help or inspiration.My Prof. loves it, but I honestly found it entirely unhelpful. There are so many design books out there, if you don't have to buy this one, I would suggest looking for something else. At least check it out in a library first... Or buy it used!

It's not a good book ...

Very hard to read and wondering what is the main point to there? What info I can get?, it's very hard to follow up!

I am a third year graphic design student, I bought this book for my final project. I would highly recommend it to anyone, as it has some very cool ideas inside it.

Great condition. For a course