Although its name clearly implies a close relationship with photography, Adobe Photoshop is widely used as an illustration and design tool. Photoshop has also excelled as a color separation tool for prepress and photochromy jobs. Cartoonists and Illustrators find the possibility of using pressure sensitive tablets with Photoshop a huge asset. Architects use Photoshop to embellish their perspective drawings. Industrial designers and 3d artists can correct and enhance their 3d rendering. Pixel perfect images are created by icon and web designers. This section is a guide to different art and design resources, such as books, software, fonts, clipart and tutorials to help you to build a creative way of thinking and working.
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Type & Layout: Are You Communicating or Just Making Pretty ShapesWith additional material by Geoffrey Heard and the original foreword by advertising guru the late David Ogilvy, this is a book for anyone who has a say in what appears in print and needs to know whether, as well as looking good, it will do its job by being read. Out of print for several years, this expanded and updated edition of the book is based on research carried out by the author in Sydney. Parts were first published in a brochure Communicating or Just Making Pretty Shapes by the Newspape... |
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1000 Record Covers (Taschen 25)A fascinating survey of cover art (TASCHEN's 25th anniversary special edition) Record covers are a sign of our life and times. Like the music on the discs, they address such issues as love, life, death, fashion, and rebellion. For music fans the covers are the expression of a period, of a particular time in their lives. Many are works of art and have become as famous as the music they stand for?Andy Warhol's covers, for example, including the banana he designed for The Velvet Underground. This s... |
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Basics Design: Print and Finish (Basics Design)Enhance graphic design with great print and finish techniques * Dozens of print and finish techniques, each showcased with examples by top designers * Handy, small format * Highly visual throughout, with informative text and clear layout How can printing and finishing techniques be used to enhance graphic design? Basics Design: Print and Finish explores that question in depth, with complete information that will be valuable to both graphic-design students and practicing designers. Concepts su... |
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Full-Color Angels CD-ROM and Book (Dover Pictorial Archives)Heavenly images, selected from rare, vintage publications and abounding in old-fashioned charm, depict angels and cherubs tending sheep, playing musical instruments, in attitudes of prayer, and in other appealing poses. 307 illustrations for commercial artists, designers, and craftworkers.... |
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Art Directors Annual 86 (Art Directors Annual)The number-one international visual reference annualThe best-selling, international review of the year's most innovative works in visual communication, this annual features, in full color, the winners of the toughest competition in the field-the Art Directors Club Annual Awards. The book presents, with exceptional clarity and detail, the work of gold and silver medalists and distinctive merit winners in national and international advertising, graphic design, and new media.Founded in 1920 and bas... |
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Typography: Formation +Transformation... |
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Cinema 4D: The Artist's Project Sourcebook, 2nd EditionMake the creative leap to 3D. Realize your artistic vision with this treasure chest of instructional projects. Get the essential concepts and techniques without drowning in the technical complexities. This new edition is an artists sourcebook for the visionary in you that wants to master 3Dand have fun in the process. It serves as a complete guide for the creative use of CINEMA 4D R10 and all of its modules. This new edition features an engaging full-color presentation of short, playful projects... |
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Twenty-Two Tips on Typography22 typographic recipes that work and 22 common mistakes to avoid. This is a recipe book of twenty-two tips in creating the best typography and twenty-two things you should never do with lettering. Secrets which many designers will never reveal. In an era of typographic fundamentalism and the cult of forms, this list of dos and don'ts explodes myths and provides a fresh view of typography.... |
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The Real Business of Web DesignThe Real Business of Web Design reviews how the Internet became an integral part of our culture and provides a broad framework of specific tools for improving Web initiatives in any business. The author's analysis of information as currency, the pitfalls of acronyms, the perils of "tech-talk," and the value of abundance helps make Web design understandable and the results meaningful and sustainable. This book provides insight on numerous companies now streamlining business processes and improvin... |
