Garcia's Design Book To Hit Shelves In December

By: Chris Nammour Design consultant Mario Garcia, who has worked with numerous newspapers, including The Wall Street Journal and The Philadelphia Inquirer, will have his Pure Design published by Miller Media in December. He calls it "a living text of how we should present information."

Examples in the book provide instruction on cover design, page layout, photo selection, content usage, and other design and layout elements for newspapers, magazines, and books, as well as Web sites. Pure Design abandons chapter format in favor of shorter segments that revolve around one particular case study.

"In today's fast-paced environment, editors and designers need to make choices for information consumers who lack time," Garcia wrote in a letter to university officials about the book.

Robyn Spoto, a marketing coordinator at Garcia's design firm, Garcia Media, said, "The book itself is an example of how design should work." Spoto added that it would be a useful tool for journalism and design students as well as professionals in the field.

Garcia, a former faculty member at the Poynter Institute in St. Petersburg, Fla., has received two lifetime-achievement awards from the Society for News Design.