Timothy Samara 
Design Elements, Third Edition 
Understanding the rules and knowing when to break them – A Visual Communication Manual

This updated version of Rockport’s best-selling
Design Elements covers all the design fundamentals, from working with grids, color application, typography, and imagery to finally how to put it all together.

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Timothy Samara is a graphic designer based in New York City, where he divides his time between teaching, writing, lecturing, and consulting through STIM Visual Communication. His 20-year career in branding and information design has explored projects in print, packaging, environments, user interface design, and animation. He has been a senior art director at Ruder Finn, New York’s largest public relations firm, and senior art director at Pettistudio, a small multidisciplinary design firm. Before relocating to Manhattan, he was principal of Physiologic in Syracuse, located in upstate New York. In 1990, he graduated a Trustee Scholar from the Graphic Design program at the University of the Arts, Philadelphia. Mr. Samara is a faculty member at New York’s School of Visual Arts, New York University, Purchase College/SUNY, and The New School, and has published six books on design and typography, all through Rockport Publishers: Making and Breaking the Grid; Typography Workbook; Publication Design Workbook; Type Style Finder; Design Elements,  Design Evolution,  and Letterforms. Mr. Samara and his partner live in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn.