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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Pattern Design: Applications and VariationsThe lack of a specific contemporary guide to pattern design called for the publication of this volume. It brings together a wide variety of pattern designs and their variations and maps the spectrum of their possible applications, such as wallpaper, furniture, interior design, clothes and more. Featuring work from outstanding pattern designers from around the world, this book celebrates all aspects of pattern design. The text includes detailed insight from the designers and artists featured maki... |
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Rethink Redesign Reconstruct: How Top Designers Create Bold New Work by Re:Interpreting Original DesignsThis book is a powerful reminder that there's more than one solution to every creative problem. Author Mark Wasserman has created a unique experiment in design that is much like the process of remixing music. Top designers were given the source files to one of 37 original designs and asked to reinterpret the original art into new creations. Ultimately, the project was not about making a design better, but about different visual approaches. Besides being a visual treat, these remixes can also ser... |
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Animal Silhouettes CD-ROM and Book (Dover Electronic Clip Art)A treasury of striking silhouettes depicts a magnificent menagerie of wild and domesticated animals — from the tiny mosquito, salamander, dragonfly, and sea horse to the coyote, seal, tiger, horse, and gigantic elephant. Ideal for illustrating magazines and books, newsletters, posters, and advertisements. 310 black-and-white illustrations.... |
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Teaching Graphic Design: Course Offerings and Class Projects from the Leading Graduate and Undergraduate ProgramsThis priceless teaching tool features more than 70 proven-effective programs from the country's leading graphic design schools. Spanning from traditional, "bricks and mortar" approaches to the ever-widening digital frontier of graphic design, these syllabi include detailed introductions, weekly breakdowns, project suggestions, and selected readings, as well as offer valued background material on the history, social responsibility, and cultural impact of design. More than an instructor's guide, ... |
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Mas Creaturas: Monstruo Addendum"Where are all the monsters?" was Carlos Huante's question in his first book. And then the questions kept coming... "What if Medusa could somehow create her own kind?" "What if Hera was a disease, a virus or a fatal agent instead of the goddess?" There is no end to the fantastical visual answers that Carlos provides to his own creativity-inducing questions.... |
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One Show Interactive, Volume 10: Advertising's Best Interactive and New MediaInteractive advertising and new media have come a long way from simple pop-up ads and banners. Among the winners in this years 2007 One Show Interactive Awards, youll find work that inspires, entertains, and continually pushes the boundary between the real and virtual realms. One Show Interactive, Volume X showcases the best of this past years winners from around the world. Featuring an all-new format, this latest edition includes more in-depth analyses of the Pencil-winning work, more des... |
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Exploring InDesign CS3 (Design Exploration Series)In the world of design, projects don't come with directions. The "recipe book" approach used by most software books does little to prepare designers for the demands of a highly competitive industry. Exploring InDesign CS3 takes a different approach. With an emphasis on typography and critical thinking, Exploring InDesign CS3 transforms the novice into a professional who is able to use the software while applying industry-standard design principles. In addition to using the new features of Adob... |
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300% Cotton: More T-Shirt GraphicsMore than a cheap article of clothing, the T-shirt is a portable personal ad, its wearing declaring their political/musical/social affiliations for all the world to see. Since the 1960s the T-shirt has provided a forum for expression, where anti-war slogans mixed with early counter-culture classics such as "Keep on Truckin'," and tie-dye mingled with the debut of that hardy perennial, the tour T-shirt: album cover graphic on the front, venue details listed on the back. This book reflects the div... |
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Turkish Designs (Agile Rabbit Editions)This book contains stunning images for use as a graphic resource, or inspiration. All the illustrations are stored in high-resolution format on the enclosed free CD-ROM and are ready to use for professional quality printed media and web page design. The pictures can also be used to produce postcards, or to decorate your letters, flyers, etc. They can be imported directly from the CD into most design, image- manipulation, illustration, word-processing and e-mail programs; no installation is requi... |
