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Book for designEnvisioning Informationby Edward R. Tufte 
The Visual Display of Quantitative Information -- American Mathematical Society http://rapidshare.com/files/35836...ning_information__tufte_.pdf.html |
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Grid Systems in Graphic Design
Grid Systems in Graphic Design PDF | 176 pages | 18 Mb Author: Josef Muller-Brockmann Language: English/German Publisher:Arthur Niggli; Bilingual edition | ISBN: 3721201450 | 2001-10 From a professional for professionals, here is the definitive word on using grid systems in graphic design. Though Muller-Brockman first presented hi interpretation of grid in 1961, this text is still useful today for anyone working in the latest computer-assisted design. With examples on how to work correctly at a conceptual level and exact instructions for using all of the systems (8 to 32 fields), this guidebook provides a crystal-clear framework for problem-solving. English & German Text, 357 examples and illustrations. http://www.heroturko.com/ebooks/1...id-systems-in-graphic-design.html |
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Taschen - Graphic Design for the 21st Century
# Paperback: 192 pages # Publisher: Taschen (February 1, 2005) # Language: English # ISBN-10: 3822838780 # ISBN-13: 978-3822838785 Covering a vast range of cutting-edge graphics, with politically charged anti-commercial work placed in the same context as Nike's latest ads, this book presents highlights of today's most progressive graphic currents -- from signage and packaging to branding and web-design. http://ebook-magazine.blogspot.co...sign-for-21st-century-100-of.html |
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See Magazine - Issue 01 by Design&Life
See Magazine - Issue 01 by Design&Life PDF | English | 5 MB | RS + ES See! Tokyo! Tokyo / Uniqueness / Tradition x Modern / Delicate food culture / Clean streets / Bicycles / vendor machines / color system / Dramatic dressing / ZAKA / Tokyo Night life / 100% chocolate cafe / Natural Lawson / Matsunosuke N.Y. / Sunshine studio / OmoteSando Hills / AMADANA / Kihachi / UT / Midtown / Otoko Mae Tofu Koh-men / Belberry / Time & Style / Tokyo Midtown Design Hub / ±0 / A-Mei-Yo-Ko / The Nomadic Museum / Porter / Tofu Cafe / D&Department http://ebook-magazine.blogspot.co...-magazine-issue-01-by-design.html |
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Digital Color Management:Principles and Strategies for the Standardized Print Production
Springer; 1 edition (November 2008) PDF | 212 pages | English | 24mb(rar) Digital Color Management:Principles and Strategies for the Standardized Print Production/by Jan-Peter Homann (Author), Andrew Jack Newman (Translator) Description The book describes color management for the print production with a focus on implementing standards for separation, soft proof, contract proof, data delivery and printing. The basics and strategies are targeted at setting up vendor-independent color management workflows which can easily be realized with leading applications from e.g. Adobe, AGFA, GMG, Heidelberg, Kodak and X-Rite. The author explains with a unique graphical concept how different standards such as ISO 12647, SWOP, GRACoL, G7, ICC profile format and PDF/X fit together. He describes the main points for setting up color management and quality control from the print buyer over photography, agency and pre-press to the printer. The book has a strong focus on communication between print buyer, photographer, agency, pre-press and printers. Based on the best practice in communication it explains the important steps for quality control for digital data, contract proofs and prints. http://w13.easy-share.com/1702018681.html or: http://depositfiles.com/files/8821742 http://ebook-magazine.blogspot.co.../10/digital-color-management.html |
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Graphic Design Cookbook : Mix & Match Recipes for Faster, Better Layouts
Graphic Design Cookbook : Mix & Match Recipes for Faster, Better Layouts by R. Wippo Leonard Koren Book Description: Beautiful brushstrokes step by step! This is the one! The Brushstroke Handbook is your complete reference for mastering more than 50 fabulous strokes. Inside you'll find visual, step-by-step instruction divided into two sections that detail techniques for working with both round and flat brushes in acrylics. The lay-flat spiral binding makes it easy to quickly flip through and find the stroke you want, featuring a range of comma strokes, pressure strokes, fan strokes, teardrop strokes, scroll strokes and much more. From the very basics of supplies and techniques to more in-depth guidance for creating unique compositions, this guide offers everything you need to build confidence, have fun and paint successfully--whether you're a beginner or a more experienced decorative painter. This comprehensive guide includes: • Quick-reference photos for finding the right stroke, fast • Step-by-step stroke instructions that actually build a little painting with every lesson • Easy-to-follow worksheets for combining strokes to make complete flowers, birds, butterflies, lace, ribbons and more • 20 fresh and pretty borders painted with round and flat brushes • Two sections highlighting common mistakes and how to fix them Plus, this guide offers a bonus section that shows you how to create six gorgeous compositions that feature today's most popular colors and stroke styles. It's all here! The Brushstroke Handbook gives you everything you need to master every stroke and explore a range of decorative painting possibilities. It's the one reference you'll want to have handy for virtually every project. Download: http://rapidshare.com/files/13895...orative_Painting_Brushstrokes.rar |
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Design Elements: A Graphic Style Manual
This book is simply the most compact and lucid handbook available outlining the basic principles of layout, typography, color usage, and space. Being a creative designer is often about coming up with unique design solutions. Unfortunately, when the basic rules of design are ignored in an effort to be distinctive, design becomes useless. In language, a departure from the rules is only appreciated as great literature if recognition of the rules underlies the text. Graphic design is a "visual language," and brilliance is recognized in designers whose work seems to break all the rules, yet communicates its messages clearly. This book is a fun and accessible handbook that presents the fundamentals of design in lists, tips, brief text, and examples. Chapters include Graphic Design: What It Is; What Are They and What Do They Do?; 20 Basic Rules of Good Design; Form and Space-The Basics; Color Fundamentals; Choosing and Using Type; The World of Imagery; Putting it All Together?Essential Layout Concepts; The Right Design Choices: 20 Reminders for Working Designers; and Breaking the Rules: When and Why to Challenge all the Rules of this Book. http://www.pinoyunderground.com/showthread.php?p=971545 |
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Action! Cartooning
Written and illustrated by a former Marvel Comics’ artist with brilliant hand-done images throughout, this graphic handbook of cartooning is without equal. It's simply larger, better illustrated, and more in depth than any similar title on the market. In elaborate detail, it focuses on superheroes and their atmospheric world filled with speed and movement. Every aspect of creating cartoons is taught: the supplies, developing mood, and the techniques that endow characters with personality. See how to draw a variety of faces (female, heroic, cute, gaunt), and give the appearance of age. From the skeleton to the torso, to the arms, hands, and legs, follow every stroke that goes into producing bodies of all shapes and sizes. Finally, there's instruction on sending those figures into running, jumping, punching, kicking action in a fully realized scene. With advice so thorough, any amateur can become a pro. http://rapidshare.com/files/26204616/Sterling.Action_.Cartooning.rar http://depositfiles.com/files/776801 http://ebook-source.co.cc/graphic...sign/12753/action-cartooning.html |
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Digital Color and Type by Rob Carter
Very useful for color design choices as to what color schemes work, and what dosn't work on a web page. You cant help but learn something from this book. You will be susprised as to what color combinations work well together. Another thing is his obvious preference for 'teach by example'. Instead of trying to force the reader to wade through miles of bla, bla text he drops that approach entirely. Instead, the reader is granted endless exposure to examples and graphics. Even though the book is about the visual side of life he's able to bring the information alive in constantly conjuring up visuals as one reads through the book. http://rapidshare.com/files/31206145/2880466881_pdfs.part1.rar http://rapidshare.com/files/31206203/2880466881_pdfs.part2.rar http://rapidshare.com/files/31206265/2880466881_pdfs.part3.rar http://ebook-source.co.cc/graphic...color-and-type-by-rob-carter.html |
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The Graphic Work of M.C. Escher
M.C. Escher, make many contributions to the art and math-related sciences. This awesome book, a must-have relic, shows, the graphic work of this artist, showing us, the complexity and mistery of many of his works, from his popular "Metamorphosis" series to it's "impossible paintings", like "Waterfalls" or "Concave and Convex". The quallity of the illsutrations and content is excellent. This is, a must-have book, for any artist, graphic designer, scientist, or people, interested on contemporary, and impressive art. http://www.amazon.com/Graphic-Wor...oks&qid=1230451271&sr=1-1 http://rapidshare.com/files/144717607/The_Graphic_Work_Escher.rar |
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The Structure of Paintings
Publisher: Springer | Number Of Pages: 235 | Publication Date: 2006-09-27 | 3MB | ISBN / ASIN:3211357394 Michael Leyton has developed new foundations for geometry in which shape is equivalent to memory storage. A principal argument of these foundations is that artworks are maximal memory stores. The theory of geometry is developed from Leyton's fundamental laws of memory storage, and this book shows that these laws determine the structure of paintings. Furthermore, the book demonstrates that the emotion expressed by a painting is actually the memory extracted by the laws. Therefore, the laws of memory storage allow the systematic and rigorous mapping not only of the compositional structure of a painting, but also of its emotional expression. The argument is supported by detailed analyses of paintings by Picasso, Raphael, Cezanne, Gauguin, Modigliani, Ingres, De Kooning, Memling, Balthus and Holbein. http://ifile.it/uwplcy |
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A Century of Graphic Design
The twentieth century was a landmark era in graphic design, the art that combines words with graphic images on posters, book and magazine covers, record jackets, billboards, and other print advertising and publicity media. This visually magnificent and factually informative volume tells the story of graphic design, then gives separate illustrated thumbnail biographies of more than 100 of the most influential and internationally known designers of the past 100 years. From the century's early decades we find artists' profiles and reproductions from the studios of Peter Behrens, Alexander Rodchenko, the Bauhaus, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, a sampling of Art Deco, and much more. Examples of Mid-Century Modern include Lester Beall, Yusaku Kamekura, and jazz record covers from various sources. http://depositfiles.com/en/files/1193217 |
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Problem Solved: A Primer in Design and Communication
For decades designers and advertisers have had to interpret design briefs, produce new solutions to familiar problems and continually work to keep their clients brands fresh and in the public consciousness. This book explores the theme of "problem solving" in design and communication, from reviving the identity of tired brands to dealing creatively and sensitively with propaganda. For decades designers and advertisers have had to interpret design briefs, produce new solutions to familiar problems and continually work to keep their clients' brands fresh and in the public consciousness. This book explores the theme of 'problem solving' in design and communication, from reviving the identity of tired brands to dealing creatively and sensitively with propaganda. Each chapter deals with a specific problem and concludes with a case study to illustrate a particular solution in greater detail. With hundreds of examples from a huge range of international agencies and designers, both contemporary and classic, this book presents an informative, comprehensive and lively discussion of communications and advertising in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Advertising is one of the biggest industries worldwide and is a field devoted to continuous innovation and reinvention. The author presents an intelligent and informative discussion, with many illustrated examples, of the problems faced by designers and advertisers when presented with a client's brief. http://depositfiles.com/en/files/889554 http://www.heroturko.com/2008/05/...olved-a-primer-in-design-and.html |
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Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Photography (3 Volumes)
Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Photography (3 Volumes) 1719 pages | Routledge; 1 edition (November 15, 2005) | ISBN-10: 1579583938 | PDF | 29 Mb In these alphabetically arranged volumes, Warren, along with 227 contributors, strives to "provide a useful resource on the entire scope of photography in the twentieth century." The set has an international reach, and 324 of its 525 entries cover people, mostly photographers. The remaining articles, as outlined in the thematic list of entries, cover "Equipment" (Camera: Digital; Enlarger); "Institutions, Galleries, and Collections" (Museum of Modern Art); "Publications and Publishers" ( National Geographic); "Regions" ( Mexico, photography in); and "Topics and Terms" ( Contact printing, Industrial photography, Photographic "truth"). Some articles, such as Camera: An overview, offer surveys on broad topics. Other, such as C able release, zero in on specifics. Articles on equipment tend to describe features and operation rather than historical development. Other types of entries, such as those on publications, regions, and photographic genres, provide a more historical overview. Many articles are 2 to 3 pages long, with some entries spanning 8 pages or more (e.g., Museums: Europe is 13 pages). The signed articles conclude with see also references and lists of further readings. Entries on people can include additional reference categories such as individual exhibitions, group exhibitions, books of photographs, and selected works (e.g., notable photographs). Also, readers can quickly scan a person's biographical highlights--entries on people include a capsule biography. The alphabetical and thematic lists of entries, set index, and a 10-page glossary are repeated in each volume. Less helpful is a list of contributors without affiliations. Each volume also contains about 100 black-and-white photographs along with an 8-page glossy insert. Picture quality is fair. Warren states, "This is a work of scholarship, a book intended to be read rather than viewed," and some readers will be disappointed. The Oxford Companion to the Photograph (2005) covers a longer time period, has more than 1,600 entries, and reviews about 800 photographers and other persons. However, most articles are much shorter and include fewer references. The Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Photography should prove useful for academic and larger public libraries. http://avaxhome.ws/ebooks/Photo_related/1579583938.html http://rapidshare.com/files/172914561/EOTCP.rar |
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Creative Illustration by Andrew Loomis
Creative Illustration by Andrew Loomis Titan Books | English | ISBN: 1845769287 | 300 pages | 39 Mb best book available about illustration http://rapidshare.com/files/17673...oomis_-_Creative.Illustration.pdf http://avaxhome.ws/ebooks/graphic...andrew_loomis_by_hungraphics.html |
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Modernism and the Architecture of Private Life
Modernism and the Architecture of Private Life (Gender and Culture Series) by Victoria Rosner Publisher: Columbia University Press 2004-12 | 240 Pages | ISBN: 0231133049 | PDF | 2.8 MB In the late nineteenth century the conventions of Victorian domesticity came under scrutiny by British writers, designers, artists, and architects intent on bringing a modern spirit into the home.... http://depositfiles.com/files/qtezx4l60 http://avaxhome.ws/ebooks/graphics_drawing_design/0231133049.html |
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Mark Dion: Cabinet of Curiosities: Mark Dion and the University as Installation
Mark Dion: Cabinet of Curiosities: Mark Dion and the University as Installation Pages: 128 | PDF | Univ of Minnesota (6. Dezember 2006) | ISBN 0816644705 | 3,2 mb The richly illustrated essays in Cabinet of Curiosities records the creative processes behind an installation designed by contemporary artist Mark Dion at the Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum at the University of Minnesota, a collaboration of museum staff, students, and collection curators. Drawing from university collections, Dion and the curators chose seven hundred objects representative of the state’s history, ranging from a Bierstadt painting of Minnehaha Falls to Hubert Humphrey memorabilia, as well as objects that would have fascinated Renaissance viewers—such as mirrors and the world’s smallest plant—and arranged them into categories typical of Renaissance inquiry, such as the Underworld, the Sea, Humankind, and the Library. Together, the cabinets represented the university in miniature, just as their Renaissance precursors had attempted to represent microcosms of the world. Cabinet of Curiosities offers commentary on the ways in which collecting has undergirded the creation of knowledge within universities and in Western society. Colleen J. Sheehy is director of education at the Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum and associate faculty in American studies and art history at the University of Minnesota. Published in cooperation with the Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum http://depositfiles.com/files/3w1l3pnw5 http://w17.easy-share.com/1702877389.html http://avaxhome.ws/ebooks/graphics_drawing_design/0816644705.html |
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Great Web Typography
Wendy Peck, "Great Web Typography" Wiley | ISBN: 0764537008 | February 7, 2003 | 320 pages | PDF | 53.2 MB * Demystifies Web typography by revealing the secrets of professional developers! * Shows how to find, select and implement Web typography that will give any site a slick, professional look! * Demonstrates how to use Cascading Style Sheets and other technologies to control the way type appears on any browser! * Describes how to make beautifully design sites download super-fast. * Shows how to set type that wraps around images and other objects on the page. * Provides professional secrets for increasing type legibility. * Provides recipes for type special effects that will "wow" site visitors and ensure that they come back for more! * Includes real-world case studies and examples from top companies. * Includes interviews with top Web design experts and Web type gurus. http://rapidshare.com/files/17258...ng_-_Great.Web.Typography.pdf.ZIP http://depositfiles.com/files/9a56zvcks http://avaxhome.ws/ebooks/graphic.../great_web_typography_repost.html |
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Web Design: Best Portfolios (Icons)
Julius Wiedemann, "Web Design: Best Portfolios (Icons)" Taschen | ISBN: 3822840432 | August 1, 2005 | 191 pages | PDF | 53.3MB We’re been trawling the web looking for the most interesting and well-designed portfolios—of designers, photographers, artists, illustrators, and motion graphic pros—to profile the creators working behind the scenes. The focus is not so much the work presented, but the way the portfolios are designed. Presentation, elegance, and style are key, and the individuals and studios featured in this guide represent the best the web has to offer. Entries include screenshots, designers’ contacts, tools and content used (HTML, Flash, XML, music, video, etc.), awards received, and cost in hours per website for creation and maintenance. With designers hailing from 33 countries, from the United States to Croatia to Japan, this selection of portfolios demonstrates how today’s best designers are pushing the limits and experimenting with innovative ways of navigation outside of corporate contexts. http://rapidshare.com/files/17071...eb_Design_Portfolios.pdf.zip.html http://depositfiles.com/files/06itelpep http://avaxhome.ws/ebooks/graphic...design_best_portfolios_icons.html |
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Web Design: Best Studios
Julius Wiedemann, "Web Design: Best Studios (Icons)" Taschen | ISBN: 3822840416 | June 1, 2005 | 192 pages | PDF | 51MB Julius Wiedemann was born and raised in Brazil. After studying graphic design and marketing, he moved to Japan, whore he worked in Tokyo as art editor for digital and design magazines. Since joining TASCHEN in Cologne, he has been building up TASCHEN's digital collection with titles such as Digital Beauties, 1000 Game Heroes, Animation Nowl, and TASCHEN's 1000 Favorite Websites. http://rapidshare.com/files/170708978/Web_Design_Studios.pdf.zip.html http://depositfiles.com/files/0p4newday http://avaxhome.ws/ebooks/graphic...eb_design_best_studios_icons.html |
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Advertising Graphics with Impact
Advertising Graphics with Impact Language: English | P.I.E. Books | December 2003 | ISBN: 4894442876 | PDF | 163 pages | 75 Mb http://rapidshare.com/files/140297631/Advertising_Graphics_Impact.rar |
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Dance the Line: Paintings by Karl Benjamin
Dance the Line: Paintings by Karl Benjamin Louis Stern Fine Arts | 2007 | 0974942170 | 128 pages | PDF | 6 Mb When Karl Benjamin was a kid, he lived in Pacific Palisades in a house that hung off the cliff overlooking the Pacific. Eventually, years later, that house would slide down onto the PCH, but he were long gone by then. During those years, he wanted to surf, that was it. I wanted to haul his clunky board up and down the concrete steps leading to the beach, sometimes, out of sheer exhaustion, sliding his board on the stair-rails. his Dad wanted me to listen to jazz or, more precisely, he didn’t want Karl Benjamin to bother him while he listened to jazz. he didn’t mind this. he would even ride with him down to Hermosa Beach to the Lighthouse where one could listen to jazz in one’s wet bathing trunks. his Mom wanted me to ride all over Los Angeles with her looking for art, up to Hollywood, out to Pasadena, to San Marino, and over to Claremont. When we found some art (usually hanging on white pegboard wall with an adjacent rubber plant), we would look at it. he resisted these trips mightily but, as it turned out, he was never more than a B- surfer and at best a B+ musician. he was, however, an A+ looker at art. So, even then, as unwilling as I was to traipse around, I still had my favorites. I liked the hardedge stuff by Fred Hammersley, Karl Benjamin, and John McLaughlin. It reminded me, somehow, in its apparent effortlessness, of the claritas of surfing where one must never be seen to be trying very hard. My Mom, who had a darker vision of the world, liked Rico LeBrun and other artists whose work looked like it hurt to make. She said I would learn when I grew up but I never did. Even so, I have to thank her here for the privilege I have today, of writing in my maturity, about the first art I liked as a feckless youth, especially for the pleasure of visiting a career that has paralleled my own at one remove. Not many of one’s youthful enthusiasm survive with us into adulthood, of course, so I am embarrassed to this day about Colin Wilson, Herman Hesse and George Battaile. On the Road, however, is still a great book and Karl Benjamin is still a great painter, not just a neglected local, not just a victim of fashion’s whim, but a genuine world class practitioner who has, as they say in Georgia, hoed his own row. http://rapidshare.com/files/17723...BenjaminDanceLinePaintingsgPG.rar http://w18.easy-share.com/1702553537.html |
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Digital Currents: Art in the Electronic Age
Margot Lovejoy "Digital Currents: Art in the Electronic Age" Routledge | 2004-05-10 | ISBN: 0415307813 | 304 pages | PDF | 19,6 MB Digital Currents explores the growing impact of digital technologies on aesthetic experience and examines the major changes taking place in the role of the artist as social communicator. Just as the rise of photographic techniques in the mid 1800s shattered traditional views about representation, so too have contemporary electronic tools catalyzed new perspectives on art, affecting the way artists see, think, and work, and the ways in which their productions are distributed and communicated. Margot Lovejoy recounts the early histories of electronic media for art making - video, computer, the internet - in the new edition of this richly illustrated book. She provides a context for the works of major artists in each media, describes their projects, and discusses the issues and theoretical implications of each to create a foundation for understanding this developing field. Digital Currents fills a major gap in our understanding of the relationship between artand technology, and the exciting new cultural conditions we are experiencing. http://depositfiles.com/files/93q2xxn6p http://rapidshare.com/files/165550923/DigCurArt.zip |
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Geometry for Computer Graphics: Formulae, Examples and Proofs by John Vince
Geometry for Computer Graphics: Formulae, Examples and Proofs by John Vince Publisher: Springer; 1 edition (November 19, 2004) | ISBN-10: 1852338342 | PDF | 4 Mb | 342 pages Geometry is the cornerstone of computer graphics and computer animation, and provides the framework and tools for solving problems in two and three dimensions. This may be in the form of describing simple shapes such as a circle, ellipse, or parabola, or complex problems such as rotating 3D objects about an arbitrary axis. Geometry for Computer Graphics draws together a wide variety of geometric information that will provide a sourcebook of facts, examples, and proofs for students, academics, researchers, and professional practitioners. The book is divided into 4 sections: the first summarizes hundreds of formulae used to solve 2D and 3D geometric problems. The second section places these formulae in context in the form of worked examples. The third provides the origin and proofs of these formulae, and communicates mathematical strategies for solving geometric problems. The last section is a glossary of terms used in geometry. http://w18.easy-share.com/1702480599.html http://depositfiles.com/files/xg976sa2e |
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Kompendium Informationsdesign
Wibke Weber “Kompendium Informationsdesign" Springer | 2007-11 | ISBN: 3540698175 | 556 pages | PDF | 17,4 MB Was ist Informationsdesign? Welche Designdisziplinen spielen dabei eine Rolle? Und wo liegen Schnittstellen zu anderen Disziplinen wie Usability-Engineering und Informationsarchitektur? Das Kompendium bietet eine umfassende Einführung in theoretische und gestalterische Grundlagen, in Geschichte und Praxis des Informationsdesigns. Verständlich und anschaulich beschreiben die Autoren Teildisziplinen und Aufgabenfelder des Informationsdesigns: von Interaktionsdesign, Ausstellungsdesign und Signaletik über Corporate Design, Textdesign und Sounddesign bis hin zu Informationsdidaktik und Informationspsychologie. Begriffsdefinitionen, Tipps sowie Beispiele aus der Praxis machen das Kompendium Informationsdesign zu einem Handbuch für Studierende, Dozenten und Praktiker. http://depositfiles.com/files/b39zvkf42 http://letitbit.net/download/d038...ndium-Informationsdesign.rar.html http://avaxhome.ws/ebooks/graphic...ompendium_Informationsdesign.html |
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Van Gogh: Masters of world painting
Van Gogh: Masters of world painting Publisher: Aurora Art Publishers | Pages: 65 | Date: 1974 | ISBN: B0007AITFG | DJVU | 5 MB http://avaxhome.ws/ebooks/graphic..._goch_masters_world_painting.html |
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Comics
Dietrich Grünewald “Comics" Niemeyer, Tübingen | 2000-10-01 | ISBN: 3484371080 | 106 pages | PDF | 1,6 MB Der vorliegende Band definiert Comics im Rahmen des Prinzips Bildgeschichte als eigenständige Kunstform und versucht auf der Basis exemplarisch-anschaulicher Analyse Theorie und Ästhetik des Comics zu entwickeln. Er bietet einen Einblick in die interdisziplinäre Comic-Forschung, seine Geschichte, seine Produktion und Distribution. Bezogen auf die differenzierten Erzähl- und Gestaltungsweisen werden seine spezifischen ezeptionsanforderungen aufgezeigt. Die Comic-Kritik will dazu beitragen, den kulturellen Stellenwert der Comics zu bestimmen. Der Band wird abgeschlossen durch ein umfangreiches Literaturverzeichnis. http://depositfiles.com/files/1lx4auz5h |
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Web Site Design Is Communication Design
Web Site Design Is Communication Design Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Co | Pages: 165 | 2001-10 | ISBN 9027232024 | PDF | 7 MB http://rapidshare.com/files/155098313/9027232024.zip http://www.filefactory.com/file/9ed18f/n/9027232024_zip |
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Design Basics. Joyce Rutter Kaye
Design Basics. Joyce Rutter Kaye. / Фирменный стиль ISBN no | edition 2006 | PDF | 251 pages | 49 mb | English http://depositfiles.com/files/5679837 |
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Dutch type
"Dutch type" by Jan Middendorp 010 publishers; (2004) | ISBN: 9789064504600 | PDF | 60 Mb | 320 pages There is probably no other country that boasts a type design culture as dense as the Netherlands. Considering the small geographical size of the country the contribution of the Dutch to the development of type and typography has been phenomenal. In Dutch Type Jan Middendorp presents a comprehensive overview of today's and yesterday's type design in the Netherlands, tracing back its origins to the groundbreaking work by punchcutters, type designers and lettering artists from the fifteenth to the twentieth century. Partly based on dozens of interviews the book aims to give insight into the motives and methods of the current type design community, showing published and unpublished typefaces as wel as sketches, studies and samples of unkown lettering work. Since its emergence less than fifteen years ago the digital type scene in the Netherlands has become even more complex and more varied; but the relentless quest for quality and innovation has remained constant.. http://avaxhome.ws/ebooks/graphics_drawing_design/dutch_type.html |
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Rockport Publishers: Minimal Graphics
Minimal Graphics The Powerful New Look of Graphic Design Rockport Publishers | ISBN 1564968448 | 2002 | PDF | 80 mb | 97 pages The visual overload of the last decade -- crashing type, unreadable text, in-your-face images -- is being replaced by simple, seamless design with a clean approach. Minimal Graphics offers a striking new collection of international graphic design work that uses the power of simplicity to get messages across. Filled with potent images and offering a wealth of minimal design solutions for color, type, images, packaging, and more -- this authoritative guide underscores the elegance of the "undesigned" approach. http://rapidshare.com/files/59925716/minimal.zip http://depositfiles.com/files/1949673 |
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Learning Web Design: A Beginner's Guide to (X)HTML, StyleSheets, and Web Graphics
Learning Web Design: A Beginner's Guide to (X)HTML, StyleSheets, and Web Graphics | Jennifer Niederst Robbins ISBN: 0596527527 | June 29, 2007 | PDF | 23.58 Mb “ Everything you need to know to create professional web sites is right here. Learning Web Design starts from the beginning -- defining how the Web and web pages work -- and builds from there. By the end of the book, you'll have the skills to create multi-column CSS layouts with optimized graphic files, and you'll know how to get your pages up on the Web. This thoroughly revised edition teaches you how to build web sites according to modern design practices and professional standards. Learning Web Design explains: * How to create a simple (X)HTML page, how to add links and images * Everything you need to know about web standards -- (X)HTML, DTDs, and more * Cascading Style Sheets -- formatting text, colors and backgrounds, using the box model, page layout, and more * All about web graphics, and how to make them lean and mean through optimization * The site development process, from start to finish * Getting your pages on the Web -- hosting, domain names, and FTP ” http://mihd.net/lm4pf1 http://rapidshare.com/files/49786145/0596527527.zip http://rapidshare.com/files/49790...rd.Edition.Jun.2007.eBook-BBL.rar |
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Design Elements: A Graphic Style Manual
Timothy Samara, "Design Elements: A Graphic Style Manual" ISBN-13: 9781592532612 | 272 pages | Publisher: Rockport Publishers Inc (1 April 2007) | English | PDF | Rawscan | 150dpi | 48MB This book is the most compact and lucid handbook available outlining the basic principles of layout, typography, colour usage and space. Being a creative designer is often about coming up with unique design solutions. Unfortunately, when the basic rules of design are ignored in an effort to be distinctive, design becomes useless. In language, a departure from the rules is only appreciated as great literature if recognition of the rules underlies the text. Graphic design is a 'visual language' and brilliance is recognised in designers whose work seems to break all the rules, yet communicates its messages clearly. This is a fun and accessible handbook that presents the fundamentals of design in lists, tips, brief text and examples. The chapters include Graphic Design: What It Is; What Are They and What Do They Do?, Choosing and Using Type and Breaking the Rules: When and Why to Challenge all the Rules of this Book. http://avaxhome.ws/ebooks/graphics_drawing_design/designelements.html |
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Web Bloopers: 60 Common Web Design Mistakes, and How to Avoid Them
Web Bloopers: 60 Common Web Design Mistakes, and How to Avoid Them (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Interactive Technologies) by Jeff Johnson Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann (April 14, 2003) | ISBN-10: 1558608400 | CHM | 35,4 Mb | 344 pages The dot.com crash of 2000 was a wake-up call, and told us that the Web has far to go before achieving the acceptance predicted for it in '95. A large part of what is missing is quality; a primary component of the missing quality is usability. The Web is not nearly as easy to use as it needs to be for the average person to rely on it for everyday information, commerce, and entertainment. In response to strong feedback from readers of GUI BLOOPERS calling for a book devoted exclusively to Web design bloopers, Jeff Johnson calls attention to the most frequently occurring and annoying design bloopers from real web sites he has worked on or researched. Not just a critique of these bloopers and their sites, this book shows how to correct or avoid the blooper and gives a detailed analysis of each design problem. Hear Jeff Johnson's on software and website usability at the University of Canterbury (25 min.) * Discusses in detail 60 of the most common and critical web design mistakes, along with the solutions, challenges, and tradeoffs associated with them. * Covers important subject areas such as: content, task-support, navigation, forms, searches, writing, link appearance, and graphic design and layout. * Organized and formatted based on the results of its own usability test performed by web designers themselves. * Features its own web site (www.web-bloopers.com)with new and emerging web design no-no's (because new bloopers are born every day) along with a much requested printable blooper checklist for web designers and developers to use. http://rapidshare.com/files/96024702/MKPWB60CWDMaHtAT.rar http://www.legendarydevils.com/e-...sign-mistakes-how-avoid-them.html |
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Picture Composition for Film and Television, 2nd Edition
Peter Ward, "Picture Composition for Film and Television" Focal Press | 2002-12-09 | ISBN: 0240516818 | 288 pages | PDF | 9,1 MB Behind each shot there lies an idea or purpose. When setting up a shot, the camera operator can employ a range of visual techniques that will clearly communicate the idea to an audience. Composition is the bedrock of the operator's craft, yet is seldom taught in training courses in the belief that it is an intuitive, personal skill. Peter Ward shows how composition can be learned, to enhance the quality of your work. Based on the author's own practical experience, the book deals with the methods available for resolving practical production questions such as: Does the shot composition accurately reflect the idea that initiated the shot? Will the content and method of presenting the subject accurately convey the idea? Major innovations in television and film production since the previous edition have affected the styles of composition, such as wide-screen and the use of mini DV cameras. These new technologies and their implications for picture composition are addressed in this new edition. A new colour plate section is also being included to update the section on colour. If you are a practising camera operator, trainee camera operator, student or lecturer on a television or film production course, or simply a video enthusiast wishing to progress to a more professional standard you will find this book essential in enhancing the quality of your work. * Learn the secrets of successful composition from an experienced camera operator * Completely rewritten including compositional implications of widescreen, DV cameras * Teaches through varied examples of practical scenarios and problem-solving http://avaxhome.ws/ebooks/engenee...tion_for_Film_and_Television.html |
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Visual Design for the Modern Web
Penny McIntire, "Visual Design for the Modern Web" New Riders Press | ISBN: 0321515382 | November 24, 2007 | 360 pages | PDF | 10.1MB Just as great artists must understand their tools, great Web designers must understand the technology behind their art. In Visual Design for the Web, author Penny McIntire shows novice Web designers how to use their tools--including HTML, CSS, and JavaScript--in conjunction with the principles of aesthetics and usability to become masters of their craft. Chapters begin with explanations of the terminology and techniques of web structures, then demonstrate how to apply the rules of design to create beautiful sites. http://depositfiles.com/en/files/8229017 http://rapidshare.com/files/148495896/VisDesModWeb.rar http://www.ebookee.com/Visual-Design-for-the-Modern-Web_192049.html |
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Art and Complexity
Art and Complexity JAI Press | ISBN 444509445 | 2003-02-01 | PDF | 170 pages | 4.61 MB This title is the result of a one-week workshop sponsored by the Swedish research agency, FRN, on the interface between complexity and art. Among others, it includes discussions on whether "good" art is "complex" art, how artists see the term "complex", and what poets try to convey in word about complex behavior in nature. http://depositfiles.com/files/1213400 |
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Design: A Very Short Introduction
Design: A Very Short Introduction Oxford University Press, USA | ISBN:0192854461 | Edition 2005-07 | PDF | 148 pages | 2.21 MB John Heskett wants to transform the way we think about design by showing how integral it is to our daily lives, from the spoon we use to eat our breakfast cereal, and the car we drive to work in, to the medical equipment used to save lives. Design combines 'need' and 'desire' in the form of a practical object that can also reflect the user's identity and aspirations through its form and decoration. This concise guide to contemporary design goes beyond style and taste to look at how different cultures and individuals personalize objects. Heskett also reveals how simple objects, such as a toothpick, can have their design modified to suit the specific cultural behaviour in different countries. There are also fascinating insights into how major companies such as Nokia, Ford, and Sony approach design. Finally, the author gives us an exciting vision of what design can offer us in the future, showing in particular how it can humanize new technology. http://avaxhome.ws/ebooks/desavsi.html |
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Information Arts: Intersections of Art, Science, and Technology
tephen Wilson “Information Arts: Intersections of Art, Science, and Technology" The MIT Press | 2001-11-30 | ISBN: 026223209X | 1024 pages | PDF | 10,2 Mb A new breed of contemporary artist engages science and technology--not just to adopt the vocabulary and gizmos, but to explore and comment on the content, agendas, and possibilities. Indeed, proposes Stephen Wilson, the role of the artist is not only to interpret and to spread scientific knowledge, but to be an active partner in determining the direction of research. Years ago, C. P. Snow wrote about the "two cultures" of science and the humanities; these developments may finally help to change the outlook of those who view science and technology as separate from the general culture. In this rich compendium, Wilson offers the first comprehensive survey of international artists who incorporate concepts and research from mathematics, the physical sciences, biology, kinetics, telecommunications, and experimental digital systems such as artificial intelligence and ubiquitous computing. In addition to visual documentation and statements by the artists, Wilson examines relevant art-theoretical writings and explores emerging scientific and technological research likely to be culturally significant in the future. He also provides lists of resources including organizations, publications, conferences, museums, research centers, and Web sites. http://www.4shared.com/get/393169...f_Art_Science_and_Technology.html http://avaxhome.ws/ebooks/programming_development/Informat_Arts.html |
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The Visual Mind II
Michele Emmer “The Visual Mind II (Leonardo Books)" The MIT Press | 2005-04-01 | ISBN: 0262050765 | 712 pages | PDF | 7,5 Mb Mathematical forms rendered visually can give aesthetic pleasure; certain works of art -- Max Bill's Moebius band sculpture, for example -- can seem to be mathematics made visible. This collection of essays by artists and mathematicians continues the discussion of the connections between art and mathematics begun in the widely read first volume of The Visual Mind in 1993. Mathematicians throughout history have created shapes, forms, and relationships, and some of these can be expressed visually. Computer technology allows us to visualize mathematical forms and relationships in new detail using, among other techniques, 3D modeling and animation. The Visual Mind proposes to compare the visual ideas of artists and mathematicians -- not to collect abstract thoughts on a general theme, but to allow one point of view to encounter another. The contributors, who include art historian Linda Dalrymple Henderson and filmmaker Peter Greenaway, examine mathematics and aesthetics; geometry and art; mathematics and art; geometry, computer graphics, and art; and visualization and cinema. They discuss such topics as aesthetics for computers, the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, cubism and relativity in twentieth-century art, the aesthetic value of optimal geometry, and mathematics and cinema. http://rapidshare.com/files/114799286/TheVisualMindII0262050765.rar http://avaxhome.ws/ebooks/science_books/math/Visual_Mind2.html |
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Design Basics. Joyce Rutter Kaye
Design Basics. Joyce Rutter Kaye. / Фирменный стиль ISBN no | edition 2006 | PDF | 251 pages | 49 mb | English This promotional book for entertainment company MGM emulates the drama of the company's big-screen productions by showing full-page stills from action films combined with lines of dialogue in provocative, large-scale type. http://avaxhome.ws/ebooks/artbook/design_basics.html |
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Mediendesign für Studium und Beruf: Grundlagenwissen und Entwurfssystematik in Layout, Typografie und Farbgestaltung
Norbert Hammer “Mediendesign für Studium und Beruf: Grundlagenwissen und Entwurfssystematik in Layout, Typografie und Farbgestaltung" Springer | 2008-09-01 | ISBN: 3540732179 | 422 pages | PDF | 28,3 MB http://avaxhome.ws/ebooks/artbook/Mediende_gestaltung.html |
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Beat Schneider: Design - Eine Einführung
Beat Schneider: Design - Eine Einführung: Entwurf im Sozialen, Kulturellen und Wirtschaftlichen Kontext German | Pages: 299 | PDF | Birkhäuser; Auflage: 2., Aufl. (November 2008) | ISBN: 3764389427 | 37Mb Bei der Komplexität der heutigen Gesellschaft ist auch das Design gefordert: wie kann es seinen Beitrag zur Orientierung, Klärung und nützlichen Gestaltung leisten? ........ http://avaxhome.ws/ebooks/eLearning_book/3764389427.html |
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John T. Drew : Color Management: A Comprehensive Guide for Graphic Designers
John T. Drew : Color Management: A Comprehensive Guide for Graphic Designers Pages:224 | PDF | RotoVision; Auflage: 1 (29. Juli 2005) | ISBN: 2880468191 | 158 MB Color Management shows how to implement colour as a practical form of problem solving. It is a consolidated resource, arming designers with an understanding of how to communicate with and manage colour in all its aspects and applications; subtractive and additive; pigment, CMYK and RGB; 2-D and 3-D; still and motion. Sensitivity of pigments to light and air and the stability of inks is also detailed, as is the human factor, through issues of colour legibility and the physical and psychological effects of colour. In its depth and breadth, it is a unique body of information. 1=82.00 MB 2=76.59 MB http://rapidshare.com/files/187054117/2880468191_sacrFX.part1.rar http://rapidshare.com/files/187054158/2880468191_sacrFX.part2.rar |
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Charles A. , II Riley: Color Codes
Charles A. , II Riley: Color Codes: Modern Theories of Color in Philosophy, Painting and Architecture, Literature, Music, and Psychology Pages:373 | PDF | Trout Gallery; Auflage: New edition (Oktober 1996) | ISBN: 0874517427 | 1.1 MB MB At the outset of this scholarly work, Riley (English, Baruch Coll., CUNY) states: "The first thing to realize about the study of color in our time is its uncanny ability to evade all attempts to codify it systematically." In six intricate essays, the author discusses uses of color by the foremost contemporary artists, composers, philosophers, authors, architects, and psychologists. Excerpts from the writings of such proponents of modernism as Barthes, Derrida, Kandinsky, Stella, Schoenberg, Messiaen, Le Corbusier, Joyce, Pynchon, and Jung, combined with Riley's impressively wide-ranging knowledge, demonstrate the unique and varied perceptions in the field. Throughout, Riley urges his readers to explore the elusive mysteries and powers of color, though the book requires a degree of familiarity with the cited artists and thinkers. Recommended primarily for academic libraries. Joan Levin, MLS, Chicago http://depositfiles.com/files/u1infxqia http://avaxhome.ws/ebooks/graphics_drawing_design/0874517427.html |
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Design Literacy: Understanding Graphic Design, Second Edition
Design Literacy: Understanding Graphic Design, Second (Revised) Edition by Steven Heller Allworth Press | July 2004 | ISBN: 1581153562 | Bookmarked PDF | 400 pages | 8.9 MB The book that turned designers on to reading is back, chock full of new stories about the graphic icons and idols of today's design culture. As witty and to the point as ever, the more than 125 thought pieces - 30 of them brand new - offer a vast taste of the aesthetic, political, historical, and personal issues that move today's global design community and fans, from the ubiquitous (shooting targets, the swastika, anti war posters) to the whimsical (Dwiggins jackets, Japanese matchboxes, the interior design of the Dr. Strangelove set). This revised and expanded edition of Design Literacy reflects recent trends in graphic design such as the impact of graphic design on popular visual communication, aesthetic changes in type and typography in the digital age, reflection and analysis on designs most cherished and curious artefacts, and the nexus between graphic design and wired culture. The essays range from the late 19th century to the present and are organized into eight thematic categories - persuasion, media, language, identity, information, iconography, style, and commerce - which follow a loose chronological order. “ http://avaxhome.ws/ebooks/graphic...Understanding_Graphic_Design.html |
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Design: The Key Concepts
Cathe McDermott, "Design: The Key Concepts" Routledge | 2007-12-17 | ISBN: 041532016X | 250 pages | PDF | 1,1 MB This is the essential students guide to Design its practice, its theory and its history. Drawing from a wide range of international examples, respected design writer Catherine McDermott explores key topics including: international design from Europe to Africa design history from Art Nouveau to punk sustainable design, recycling and green design design theory from semiotics to gender, to postcolonialism design technology, graphic design and the web. Fully cross-referenced, with up to date guides for further reading, Design: the Key Concepts is an indispensable reference for students of design, design history, fashion, art and visual culture. http://avaxhome.ws/ebooks/graphic...ing_design/DesignKeyConcepts.html |
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Colour Forecasting by Tracy Diane
Colour Forecasting by Tracy Diane Wiley-Blackwell | 2005 | ISBN: 1405121203 | 193 pages | PDF | 2.5 Mb This textbook for students of fashion and design identifies the driving forces of fashion, past and present, and explains why the colour forecasting process was initiated and has developed to its present day state. Colour terminology and some of the more subjective tools used by colour forecasters are explained. Also, a model is given of the colour forecasting process and this is discussed in detail. Finally, readers are shown how to develop 'colour stories'. http://avaxhome.ws/ebooks/graphic...r_forecasting_by_hungraphics.html |
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Type Specific: Designing Custom Fonts for Function and Identity by Charlotte Rivers
Type Specific: Designing Custom Fonts for Function and Identity by Charlotte Rivers Publisher: RotoVision | Number Of Pages: 160 | Publication Date: 2005-08-01 | ISBN-10: 2880468205 | PDF | 14 Mb Type Specific shows designers how typefaces designed for a specific purpose succeed by exploring each of the features that must be considered. These include letterforms, counterspaces, cross sections, ascenders/descenders, and junctions and how they work, in both print and screen, across a range of applications: posters, directories, newspapers and magazines, CD covers, packaging, signage, and film titles-including The Kitchen's organic paintbrush front for the promotion of Levi's Vintage Clothing and Saturday's elegant stencil-style face for the Chen Pascual identity. The whole gamut from free-from to precision is explored. http://avaxhome.ws/ebooks/graphics_drawing_design/2880468205ss.html |
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Balanced Website Design: Optimising Aesthetics, Usability and Purpose
Dave Lawrence / Soheyla Tavakol, «Balanced Website Design: Optimising Aesthetics, Usability and Purpose» Springer | ISBN 1846285186 | 1 edition (November 24, 2006) | PDF | 14.9 Mb | 240 pages Synopsis: "Balanced Website Design" (BWD) is a new methodology that fuses the strengths of traditional structured, stepped, and iterative approaches and a sharp focus on defining and achieving the desired characteristics of purpose, usability and aesthetics - absolutely essential requirements for any website. The book includes discussions of new perspectives on usability and aesthetics in the special context of website design. "BWD" is suitable for all types of websites, for individual and/or team projects, and should prove to be of significant value for even the most experienced of website designers. "BWD" provides guidance, structure and detailed documentation/process support for the activity of designing and implementing your next website - helping you maximise its effectiveness and relevance. It includes: a stepped, iterative, comprehensively structured, and easy to follow approach to website design; an approach that identifies and balances design needs with specific design ideas across each of aesthetics, usability and purpose components; new perspectives on usability and aesthetics; specially designed documentation provided to facilitate and support each process step; a methodology that is applicable to all types of website, and to all project scenarios; and resource based support via the book's website. http://www.ebookee.com/Balanced-W...-Usability-and-Purpose_35230.html |
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A Practical Guide to Graphics Reporting: Information Graphics for Print, Web & Broadcast
Jennifer George-Palilonis, “A Practical Guide to Graphics Reporting: Information Graphics for Print, Web & Broadcast” Focal Press | 2006 | ISBN: 0240807073 | 200 pages | PDF | 13,6 MB A Practical Guide to Graphics Reporting explains all of the most important skills and theoretical considerations for creating diagrams, charts, maps, and other forms of information graphics intended to provide readers with valuable visual and textual news and information. Research and writing skills as they relate to graphics reporting are explained, as well as illustration techniques for maps and diagrams, rules for creating basic charts and diagrams, and the various types of uses for maps in graphics reporting. While other texts related to these topics may address similar skill sets, A Practical Guide to Graphics Reporting uniquely teaches these skills in the context of journalistic storytelling and visual reporting. Newspapers, magazines, online publications, and various other media employ information graphics reporters. Studying this text in conjunction with instruction in journalistic visual storytelling prepares you to enter this field. This text offers a solid foundation for print and online graphics reporters and helps beginners and professionals alike become better, well-rounded visual communicators. While other texts related to these topics may address similar skill sets, A Practical Guide to Graphics Reporting uniquely teaches these skills in the context of journalistic storytelling and visual reporting. Newspapers, magazines, online publications, and various other media employ information graphics reporters. Studying this text in conjunction with instruction in journalistic visual storytelling prepares you to enter this field. This text offers a solid foundation for print and online graphics reporters and helps beginners and professionals alike become better, well-rounded visual communicators. *Teaches the foundational skills every graphics reporter must learn to create engaging graphics *Each chapter includes interviews with experts and professionals in the field of graphics reporting and news design *CD-ROM provides more depth with examples of interactive, animated information graphics http://avaxhome.ws/ebooks/graphic...cal_Guide_Graphics_Reporting.html |
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Kalligraphie. Die Kunst des schönen Schreibens
Christine Hartmann, Christian Scheffler, “Kalligraphie. Die Kunst des schönen Schreibens” Falken-Vlg., Niedernh. | 1994 | ISBN: 3806842639 | 119 pages | PDF | 5,6 MB Umfassende Einführung in die Kunst des schönen Schreibens - Detaillierte Schrittfür-Schritt-Zeichnungen zum Nacharbeiten - Vorstellung zahlreicher Schriften - Alles über Werkzeug, Papier, Farben und Arbeitsplatz http://avaxhome.ws/ebooks/eLearning_book/Kalligraphie_Kunst.html |
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The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, 2nd edition by Edward R. Tufte Publisher: Graphics Press | 2 edition (May 2001) | ISBN: 0961392142 | Pages: 197 | PDF | 12.7 MB A timeless classic in how complex information should be presented graphically. The Strunk & White of visual design. Should occupy a place of honor--within arm's reach--of everyone attempting to understand or depict numerical data graphically. The design of the book is an exemplar of the principles it espouses: elegant typography and layout, and seamless integration of lucid text and perfectly chosen graphical examples. Very Highly Recommended. http://avaxhome.ws/ebooks/The_Vis..._of_Quantitative_Information.html |