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 Designer's Toolkit: 500 Grids and Style SheetsGood graphic design relies on a simple, fundamental concept: the grid. With the invisible, unifying structure they provide, grids bring consistency and visual harmony to multi-page or multi-screen documents. The Designer's Toolkit is the first book to streamline the use of this critical tool, providing a fast-track way for both experienced and amateur designers to identify and employ the best grid for the job. A CD embedded in the book's cover includes 500 ready-to-use grid templates formatted f... |
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Design By NumbersHonorable Mention, 2000, American Association of Museums (AAM) publication competition. and Winner of the 1999 AAP/PSP award in the category of Computer Science, granted by the Professional/Scholary Reference Division of the Association of American Publishers. Most art and technology projects pair artists with engineers or scientists: the artist has the conception, and the technical person provides the know-how. John Maeda is an artist and a computer scientist, and he views the computer not ... |
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Graphis Brochures 6 (Graphis Brochures)The sixth edition of Brochures presents more than 200 international Designers, and is specifically designed to illustrate the complete impact of each brochure with close ups, reproductions of covers and inside spreads. All included brochures are winners of the new Graphis Gold and/or Platinum awards. Feature commentary with carefully selected Platinum winners and a detailed index of creative personnel, clients and Design firms completes the book.... |
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Sticker City: Paper Graffiti Art (Street Graphics / Street Art)A worldwide survey of one of the biggest trends in street art: paper works of art glued to a city's surfaces.For some forty years, city streets have been home to the modern graffiti movement, and now there is a fresh creative twist. Walls, phone booths, curbs, traffic signs—in cities around the world public surfaces are adorned with hand-painted or hand-crafted posters and stickers.Claudia Walde, aka Mad C and herself a graffiti artist, traveled the globe from Philadelphia to Prague, Barcel... |
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100 Habits of Successful Graphic Designers: Insider Secrets from Top Designers on Working Smart and Staying CreativeIn need of advice? Just want to sounds off? Opening this volume is like grabbing lunch with a fellow designer to commiserate or celebrate. In its pages, noteworthy designers, both past and present, working in fields ranging from graphic design, fashion, architecture, typography, and industrial design sound off on every topic, ranging from deadlines, inspiration, competition, rules, respect, education, and handling criticism-all with a certain amount of irreverence. Their thoughts are boiled down... |
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Web Design Flash Sites (Icons)The power of Flash... Many of the web's most eye-popping sites are created using Flash, a program which allows for total creative freedom and maximum interactivity. In its early years, Flash was used mostly for artistic and design sites, but more recently large corporations—even Citibank—have turned to Flash. This guide rounds up the very best and most innovative sites using 100% Flash navigation, including Nike, Adidas, Bacardi, Shrek, Nintendo, Playstation, Ford, and Honda. Also fea... |
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Illuminated Initials in Full Color: 548 Designs (Dover Pictorial Archive Series)Practical archive of extraordinarily beautiful and decorative letters of the alphabet splendidly ornamented with geometric and curvilinear motifs interwoven with royal and saintly figures, mythical creatures, knights in battle, exquisite florals, and much more. A wonderful glimpse of the ancient art of manuscript illumination.... |
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Motion by DesignThe advent of new software and the blurring of disciplinary boundaries have given rise to an entirely new creative category motion graphics. Motion by Design is the first combined book and interactive DVD package to present the works of some of the world s leading motion graphic studios. The book showcases new work by over 30 international studios, grouped according to genre: Opening Credits, Commercial/Installation and Web, each introduced by a leading motion graphic designer: Garson Yu, Why No... |
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Branding USA No. 2Branding USA No. 2 showcases the most innovative word in the field *Insight from forty top design firms *The newest, boldest branding ideas Branding isn’t about getting prospects to choose you over the competition. It’s about getting them to see your product as the one and only solution to their problem. An effective brand identity is trustworthy, superior, and memorable, immediately identifiable whether presented in a business card or on an elaborate website. In this book, the follo... |
