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Author Mark Gatter
This book gives designers the confidence to do everything necessary to ensure trouble-free, high-quality printingâÂÂto calibrate images (color and black and white); adjust trapping levels in all the major software applications, and mix colors that won't print as....
Release Date 2010/09 -
Author Andrew Hall
This broad introduction to illustration reveals the artistic, intellectual, and organizational skills needed to practice as a freelance illustrator, and helps the reader navigate the specialist areas of its application.There is a practical introduction to image-maki....
Release Date 2011/05 -
Author Tomi Vollauschek , Agathe Jacquillat
This book is the most comprehensive showcase of three-dimensional letterforms ever written, featuring over 1,300 images of more than 300 projects by more than 160 emerging talents and established individuals and studios. Contributors include Sagmeister Inc, Vaughan ....
Release Date 2011/04 -
Author John Ingledew
The A–Z of Visual Ideas explains the key ideas, sources of inspiration, and visual techniques that have been used throughout design history. Showing where ideas and inspiration come from, the book provides numerous strategies to help unlock the reader’s creativity. ....
Release Date 2011/10 -
Author Lorraine Farrelly
Drawing for Urban Design explores a wide range of ways to represent the city, from freehand sketching to sophisticated computer models. Architects and urban planners need to describe cities in the course of their work, be it through maps, diagrams, sketches, compute....
Release Date 2011/04 -
Folding Techniques for Designers
Author Paul Jackson
Many designers use folding techniques in their work to make three-dimensional forms from two-dimensional sheets of fabric, cardboard, plastic, metal, and many other materials. This unique book explains the key techniques of folding, such as pleated surfaces, curved....
Release Date 2011/05 -
Author Harriet Posner
Marketing and fashion branding inform many of the strategic and creative decisions involved in fashion design and product development. Marketing is a vital component of the industry supply chain, and an understanding of its importance and role is essential for those....
Release Date 2011/04 -
Author Kevin Henry
This is both a practical and theoretical guide to the visualization techniques used by contemporary product designers, including freehand sketching, digital rendering, information graphics, and presentation skills. Hundreds of hand-drawn sketches and computer models....
Release Date 2012/08 -
Author Chris Lefteri
There are many ways in which a product can be manufactured but most designers know only a handful of techniques. Informative and incredibly easy to use, this bestselling book discusses more than a hundred production methods in detail. With specially commissioned di....
Release Date 2012/03 -
Author Lynda Grose , Kate Fletcher
This book examines how sustainability has the potential to transform both the fashion system and the innovators who work within it. Sustainability is arguably the defining theme of the twenty-first century. The issues in fashion are broad-ranging and include labor a....
Release Date 2012/04 -
Rethinking Design and Interiors
Author Shashi Caan
The world is increasingly and rapidly being affected by environmental and technological changes. It is imperative that the design profession address these developments with a new way of thinking. This book points the way for the design of interiors in this newly com....
Release Date 2011/08 -
Author Tony Morgan
A great introduction for retail students, this book offers a user-friendly reference guide to all aspects of visual merchandising and covers both window dressing and in-store areas. Using examples from a range of shops, from fashion emporia to small outlets, the boo....
Release Date 2011/10 -
Author Steven Thomas Miller
Drawing Fashion Accessories is a practical guide to illustrating footwear, millinery, bags and purses, cosmetic products, and jewelry, offering a unique resource for students and professional fashion illustrators alike. Beginning with a discussion of the media avail....
Release Date 2012/10 -
Sustainability in Interior Design
Author Siân Moxon
The environmental impact of interior architecture and design practice is immense, and this book highlights the need for designers to adapt the way they work and relearn the lessons lost in order to make their designs fully sustainable. Contrary to many preconceptio....
Release Date 2012/03 -
Author Thomas Wedell , Nancy Skolos
The process of creating graphic design cannot be easily defined: each designer has their own way of seeing the world and approaching their work. Graphic Design Process features a series of in-depth case studies exploring a range of both universal and unique design m....
Release Date 2012/08 -
How to Create Your Final Collection
Author Mark Atkinson
Companion material not available with eBook.Designing a final thesis collection is a fashion student’s first chance to approach the reality of the industry. This handbook provides a step-by-step guide to creating this collection, with each chapter exploring a differ....
Release Date 2012/08 -
Prototyping and Modelmaking for Product Design
Author Bjarki Hallgrimsson
Building prototypes and models is an essential component of any design activity. Modern product development is a multi-disciplinary effort that relies on prototyping in order to explore new ideas and test them sufficiently before they become actual products. Protot....
Release Date 2012/09 -
Author David Hornung
Taking a practical approach to color, Color: A workshop for artists and designers is an invaluable resource for art students and professionals alike. With its sequence of specially designed assignments and in-depth discussions, it effectively bridges the gap between....
Release Date 2012/08 -
Author Kate Scully , Debra Johnston Cobb
Color is a powerful selling tool. It is the first thing to catch the consumer's eye in the shop window. Get the color choice wrong and an entire range can stay on the racks. So, how do colors arrive on the runway or the sales floor and why do different companies al....
Release Date 2012/02 -
How to Set up & Run a Fashion Label, 2nd Edition
Author To Meadows
No matter how talented you are as a designer, if you are going to run a successful fashion label you also need to know about business—from marketing and PR to manufacturing your collection, and where to find the money to finance it all. In How to Set Up and Run a F....
Release Date 2012/08 -
Author Michael Evamy
Logotype is the definitive modern collection of logotypes, monograms, and other text-based corporate marks. Featuring more than 1,300 international typographic identities, by around 250 design studios, this is an indispensable handbook for every design studio, provi....
Release Date 2012/09 -
Author Lester Meachem , Lindsey Marshall
This book is a guide to the use of type in design for print and screen. It provides a creative, informative, and practical introduction for those studying all pathways of graphic design. The authors discuss who uses type, where and when type is employed, audience an....
Release Date 2012/09 -
Author Frank Philippin , Billy Kiosoglou
This book offers a rare chance to read what graphic designers feel about their education and profession. Fifty influential designers give the low-down about their student days and their professional lives. A piece of their college work is shown alongside an example ....
Release Date 2013/02 -
Stirling and Pulse-tube Cryo-coolers
Author Allan J. Organ
Modern technology calls increasingly for provision of cooling at cryogenic temperatures: super-conductivity research; imaging equipment for search-and-rescue; contemporary diagnostic medicine (MRI – magnetic resonance imaging); space exploration; advanced computer h....
Release Date 2005/01 -
Practising Information Literacy
Author Sanna Talja , Annemaree Lloyd
This book showcases new interdisciplinary academic research on the relationship between information literacy and learning. It combines findings with new understandings drawn from theoretical and empirical research conducted in primary and secondary schools, higher e....
Release Date 2010/06 -
Visionary Leaders for Information
Author Arthur Winzenried
This book examines the theory, behaviour, connections and issues of modern information organizations. Asking leading professionals where we may be in the near future, it challenges both our perceptions and preconceptions. Posing perhaps the most vital question of al....
Release Date 2010/06 -
User Interface Design for Programmers
Author JOEL SPOLSKY
Most programmers' fear of user interface (UI) programming comes from their fear of doing UI design. They think that UI design is like graphic design—the mysterious process by which creative, latte-drinking, all-black-wearing people produce cool-looking, artistic pi....
Release Date 2001/06 -
Learning Autodesk Maya 2010: Foundation
Author Autodesk Maya Press
New coverage, art, and tutorials of the latest features of the new Maya 2010Maya is the industry-leading 3D animation and effects software used in movies, special effects, games, cartoons, short films, commercials, etc. Complex and difficult to learn, the new Maya 2....
Release Date 2009/08 -
Learning Revit Architecture 2010
Author Autodesk Official Training Guide
Learn Revit Architecture 2010 from the source!This beautiful full-color Official Training Guide is the perfect resource for those who need a complete, expert guide to Revit Architecture 2010. With training provided by Autodesk experts who helped create the software,....
Release Date 2009/11 -
Learning AutoCAD® Civil 3D® 2010
Author Autodesk Official Training Guide
Learn AutoCAD Civil 3D from the creators of the software!This beautiful full-color Official Training Guide from Autodesk is the perfect resource for those just starting out or for professionals seeking to improve their Civil 3D skills or preparing for Civil 3D certi....
Release Date 2009/11