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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The Creative Business Guide to Running a Graphic Design BusinessA comprehensive manual for running and maintaining a graphic design business. This is the graphic design industry's go-to guide for operating a successful business. The four sections cover organization, marketing, personnel, and operations, and provide the necessary tools unique to the specific management styles and operation agendas of a design firm. A complete appendix of business forms is also included.... |
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In the Future...: Entertainment Design at Art Center College of DesignIn The Future... showcases the first student work created in the new Entertainment Design program at the prestigious Art Center College of Design. Entertainment design requires strong industrial design, architectural and illustration skills, as the designers create characters, environments, vehicles and props. Examples of class work from such courses as Originality in Design, Character Design, Architectural Design, Visual Development and Color Theory are presented. This stunning collection of... |
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Flowers (Pictura)Bursting with superior botanical illustrations, this gorgeous collection features more than 200 blossoms and bouquets, hand-picked from the rarest sources. Glorious full-color images — carefully selected and meticulously reproduced from hard-to-find publications — provide a rich resource that spans many periods and styles.... |
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Engineering Design and Graphics with Autodesk Inventor 2008 (Autodesk Design Institute Press)Using a step-by-step format, this book introduces Autodesk Inventor 12 and shows how to use Autodesk Inventor to create and document designs. The content of the book goes beyond the material normally presented in an engineering graphics book associated with CAD software to include exercises requiring users to design simple mechanisms. Sample problems and a variety of additional exercise problems reinforce the material and allow the reader to practice the techniques described. Allows users to w... |
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Besler's Book of Flowers and Plants: 73 Full-Color Plates from Hortus Eystettensis, 1613 (Pictorial Archive Series)One of the great treasures of botanical literature, the Hortus Eystettensis vividly illustrated and identified the plants, flowers, and trees that thrived in the legendary German garden at Eichstätt. This book presents intricately detailed plates from that original masterpiece, showcasing the garden's lush variety of plants.... |
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General Printing: An Illustrated Guide to Letterpress PrintingGeneral Printing is a comprehensive guide to letterpress printing. With 300 photos and 140 illustrations, it offers detailed step-by-step visual instruction. Key topics include: handsetting type, taking proofs, mitering rules, locking up a form, adding packing and make-ready, feeding a platen press, advanced composition, design, typography, and tricks of the trade. "The best all-around introductory book for traditional letterpress printing, this manual is profusely illustrated with detailed a... |
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The Big Book of Illustration Ideas 2 (Big Book of Illustration Ideas)What if you need someone to draw salad on a plate with a glass of wine next to it? You could go through the above processes, and—after a while—you'd probably find someone to draw or paint it in the style you wanted. Or you could simply pick up The Big Book of Illustration Ideas 2 flip to the section marked "Food and Still Life," and find pages and pages of illustrators who can draw all kinds of food in all kinds of styles: pencil, crayon, watercolor, collage, and so on, and so on. I... |
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Mascots & Mugs: The Characters and Cartoons of Subway GraffitiIn the graffiti world it's the name that brings the fame, but what about the figural components of this urban typography? Some of the most iconic pieces in the history of graffiti have earned their place in the street art pantheon with the help of masterfully rendered figures that lend additional presence to these works. Mascots & Mugs, brought to you by the publisher of the best-selling sneaker encyclopedia Where'd You Get Those? is the first book to examine figurative elements in graffiti art:... |
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Altitude: Contemporary Swiss Graphic DesignA new wave of intellectually rigorous and iconoclastic Swiss designers are carving their niche in a new graphic language. By combining traditional high quality "Swiss Style" with advanced media, they are giving rise to a progressive style of visual expression. Seven years after publishing Swiss Graphic Design, we present Altitude - a new generation of flourishing contemporary designers, giving insight into the impact, essence and diversity of the work and evaluating the significant evolution of ... |
