Go

Kidd, C. (2016). Go: A Kidd's guide to graphic design. New York, New York: Workman Publishing Company.

Go is a book about a guide to graphic design and how we perceive and look at things.   Kidd informs the reader that everything around us not made by nature is a form of design.  Graphic design has been around for many years in different forms and explains that form is about solving problems.  From cave paintings to the Declaration of Independence, to coke cans, flags, maps, logos, many more, have their own unique design.  This book is divided into five chapters:  Form, Typography, Content, Concept, and 10 Design Projects. Content and form create visuals to communicate messages. Form is visuals and typography.   Content is the most important for of graphic design.  It has illustrations and pictures showing us examples of each part of graphic design.  Content + Form +Type+ Concept= Graphic Design.(p. 109)  The appropriate age group for this a book is adolescents from 10-17 years old.  Even at my age, I enjoyed reading this book.  I learned many new things that I did not know about.  I learned what serif and sans is a type of topography.  I learned about points, picas, and kerning.  We live in a time where our world is being ran by technology.  As a teacher and parent, I can see why children today are infatuated with technology. This book can be used as a tool to help them bring out their creativity.  The last chapter in the book gives children projects they can begin with.  This book is an informational literature.  The qualifications of the author are valid.  He uses examples of his own work in his book to show the different types of steps of graphic design. He designed the cover for Jurassic Park, Bat-Manga, Mythology, Superman, and many more.  Go has been reviewed both by The School Library Journal and Booklists and was given five stars.  Go has accuracy and current information.  For example, the author describes how written words and graphic designs have gone in a full circle.  They have evolved into what they are today.