The Illustrator’s Handbook:

Over 3,000 Pictures Which Can be Used Without Fee or Permission

Description

The Illustrator’s Handbook is a gold mine for the commercial artist, the designer, the teacher, and a fine acquisition for any publisher, or anyone who utilizes graphics in publicity.

 

Illustrators XII: The Twelfth Annual of American Illustration

 

Description*

Illustrators XII was published for the Society of Illustrators. A showcase of the best contemporary illustration of the 1970-71 award-winners and other selections chosen for the Society of Illustrators Annual National Exhibition. Commercially and aesthetically pleasing. Recommended to both commercial art students and professionals.

Where to Find It and Borrowing Time

Illustrators XII is shelved as Call # NC975 .I5 1971.

As a book it can be found on Bookstack 2 - Shelf 4. This book can be checked out for a period of 2 weeks for students, faculty and staff.

 

 

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Adobe InDesign CS6 Revealed

 

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Graphic design professionals and design students alike have embraced Adobe InDesign as the industry standard for page layout software--and they're mastering it with Adobe InDesign CS6 Revealed. A thorough, in-depth exploration of the latest release, this highly visual book covers all the fundamental concepts, starting with the workspace and proceeding logically and intuitively to more advanced topics. Chock full of new lessons covering new features, this edition retains its step-by-step tutorials and user-friendly design, resulting in a resource that is comprehensive, clear, and effective. The Data Files used to complete the projects found in the book are now available online. For access information please refer to the directions available in the preface of the book.

 

 

Meggs’ History of Graphic Design, Fifth Edition

 

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This is the unrivaled, comprehensive, and award-winning reference tool on graphic design recognized for publishing excellence by the Association of American Publishers. Now, this Fifth Edition of Meggs' History of Graphic Design offers even more detail and breadth of content than its heralded predecessors, revealing a saga of creative innovators, breakthrough technologies, and important developments responsible for paving the historic paths that define the graphic design experience. In addition to classic topics such as the invention of writing and alphabets, the origins of printing and typography, and postmodern design, this new Fifth Edition presents new information on current trends and technologies sweeping the graphic design landscape—such as the web, multimedia, interactive design, and private presses, thus adding new layers of depth to an already rich resource.

 

The Graphic Design Exercise Book

 

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Graphic designers like to be creatively challenged. The design briefs in The Graphic Design Exercise Book act as sparks to fire your creativity and exercises to broaden your skill set. As prompts for developing your own personal projects they can lead to unexpected developments and revitalized portfolios, helping you break into new and lucrative areas of the design industry.

 

 

HTML & CSS: Design and Build Websites

 

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Every day, more and more people want to learn some HTML and CSS. Joining the professional web designers and programmers are new audiences who need to know a little bit of code at work (update a content management system or e-commerce store) and those who want to make their personal blogs more attractive. Many books teaching HTML and CSS are dry and only written for those who want to become programmers, which is why this book takes an entirely new approach.

 

 

Making and Breaking the Grid: A Graphic Design Layout Workshop

 

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For designers working in every medium, layout is arguable the most basic, and most important, element. Effective layout is essential to communication and enables the end user to not only be drawn in with an innovative design but to digest information easily.

Making and Breaking the Grid is a comprehensive layout design workshop that assumes that in order to effectively break the rules of grid-based design, one must first understand those rules and see them applies to real-world projects.

 

 

The Web Collection Revealed: Adobe, Dreamweaver CS6, Flash CS6, Photoshop CS 6

 

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You can now maximize and integrate the design and development power of Adobe Creative Suite 6 with The Web Collection Revealed. This one-of-a-kind text features Adobe Dreamweaver, Adobe Flash, and Adobe Photoshop in one resource, and provides practical experience with each software application through projects and learner-friendly tutorials. Also, a full chapter on integration demonstrates how to move effortlessly from one application to another, while Power User Shortcuts and New Features icons point out key changes effective with the release of CS6. The Web Collection Revealed provides the information and practice you need to build professional-quality websites, using all three of these Adobe applications. The Data Files used to complete the projects found in the book are now available online. For access information please refer to the directions available in the preface of the book. 

 

 

Color and Design

 

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From products we use to clothes we wear, and spaces we inhabit, we rely on colour to provide visual appeal, data codes and meaning. Color and Design addresses how we understand and experience colour, and through specific examples explores how colour is used in a spectrum of design-based disciplines including apparel design, graphic design, interior design, and product design.

Through highly engaging contributions from a wide range of international scholars and practitioners, the book explores colour as an individual and cultural phenomenon, as a pragmatic device for communication, and as a valuable marketing tool.
 

 

Thinking with Type: A Critical Guide for Designers, Writers, Editors, & Students

 

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Thinking with Type is the definitive guide to using typography in visual communication, from the printed page to the computer screen. This revised edition includes forty-eight pages of new content, including the latest information on style sheets for print and the web, the use of ornaments and captions, lining and non-lining numerals, the use of small caps and enlarged capitals, as well as information on captions, font licensing, mixing typefaces, and hand lettering. Throughout the book, visual examples show how to be inventive within systems of typographic form—what the rules are and how to break them. Thinking with Type is a type book for everyone: designers, writers, editors, students, and anyone else who works with words. The popular online companion to Thinking with Type (www.thinkingwithtype.com) has been revised to reflect the new material in the second edition.

 

 

Adobe Illustrator CS6 Revealed

 

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Adobe Illustrator CS6 Revealed offers you comprehensive coverage in all areas of Adobe Illustrator. Beginning with fundamental concepts and progressing to in-depth exploration of the software's full set of features, these step-by-step lessons offer you a guided tour of all the program's great features - including an illustrated tutorial on "how to draw with the Pen tool" that you won't find in any other book. This new edition highlights extensive coverage of important and exciting new features, including dramatic improvements to Illustrator's built-in tracing utility and a major upgrade for creating patterns.

 

 

Adobe Photoshop CS6 Revealed

 

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Adobe Photoshop has long provided cutting-edge technology for sophisticated digital editing, and Adobe Photoshop CS6 Revealed provides a solid foundation for those looking to learn this industry-standard program. Real-world, practical examples and step-by-step instruction throughout offer well-rounded, comprehensive coverage of both artistic and technical features. With extensive four-color artwork and screenshots that support and clarify key concepts, Adobe Photoshop CS6 Revealed is a valuable resource that will give readers the confidence they need to edit and enhance digital images with skill and ease. The Data Files used to complete the projects found in the book are now available online. For access information please refer to the directions available in the preface of the book.

 

 

Adobe Dreamweaver CS6: Classroom in a Book

 

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Creative professionals seeking the fastest, easiest, most comprehensive way to learn Adobe Dreamweaver CS6 choose Adobe Dreamweaver CS6: Classroom in a Book from the Adobe Creative Team. The 15 project-based lessons in this book show you step by step everything you need to know to work in Dreamweaver CS6. You’ll learn to create a professional website without having to write code by hand.

This completely revised CS6 edition also covers HTML5, CSS3, and media queries for responsive web design. The book also shows how to create HTML-based headings, paragraphs, lists, and tables; insert graphics and Photoshop Smart Objects; add links to text and images; apply cascading styles sheets; and customize the Dreamweaver workspace. You’ll also learn to add interactive elements to your sites, such as HTML5-compatible video and animation, get guidance for working with code, and finally publish a finished site to the Web.

The companion DVD includes all lesson files so you can work along with the book, as well as, two hours of free video tutorials from Adobe Dreamweaver CS6 Learn by Video.

 

Drawing Competition

Prove that you are the Ultimate Drawing Champion! 

On Thursday, May 2nd, from 1:30-2:30 face off against your fellow students by developing a character and developing an environment. 

What do you win? Eternal flame and glory. PLUS an "Award of Awesomeness" bestowed upon you by the great Roy Wilson. 

Force: Dynamic Life Drawing for Animators

Force: Dynamic Life Drawing for Animators

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Force: Dynamic Life Drawing for Animators is key to understanding how to capture forceful poses with dynamic drawing. It is informative, concise, and packed full of inspirational illustrations. Capture the force in your life drawing subjects with this practical guide to dynamic drawing techniques - packed with superb, powerfully drawn examples that show you how to: 

* Bring your work to life with rhythmic drawing techniques
* Create appealing and dynamic poses in your drawings
* Experience the figure's energy in three dimensional space
* Use the asymmetry of straight and curved lines to clarify the direction of force in the body
* Build on your foundational anatomy and figure drawing skills to animate your drawings
*Apply the theory of force to your on-location and animal drawing observations

Whether you are an animator, comic book artist, illustrator or fine arts' student you'll learn to use rhythm, shape, and line to bring out the life in any subject while Mike Mattesi's infectious enthusiasm will have you reaching for your pencils!
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Where to Find It and Borrowing Time

Dynamic Life Drawing for Animators is shelved as Call # NC765 .M38 2006. As a book it can be found on Bookstack # - Shelf #. This book can be checked out for a period of 2 weeks for students, faculty and staff. 

About the Author*

Mike Mattesi is the owner and founder of Entertainment Art Academy. He has been a professional production artist and instructor for the last fifteen years with clients including Disney, Marvel Comics, Hasbro Toys, ABC, Microsoft, Electronic Arts, DreamWorks and Nickelodeon.

Force: Character Design from Life Drawing

Force: Character Design from Life Drawing

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Force: Character Design from Life Drawing shows you how to use life drawing to discover the poses, features and personalities which form the basis of character and then build, develop and 'PUSH' your drawings to new heights of dramatic and visual impact for believable characters audiences can relate to. 

• Unlock your imagination and put theory into practice with detailed exercises to sharpen your skills
• See how it's done with photographs of models and the characters they inspired
• Use creative life drawing to create original, eye catching characters that audiences can relate to

Where to Find It and Borrowing Time
Character Design from Life Drawing is shelved as Call # NC765 .M376 2008. 

As a book it can be found on Bookstack # - Shelf #. This book can be checked out for a period of 2 weeks for students, faculty and staff. 

About the Author*

Michael D Mattesi is the Director of the Entertainment Art Academy based in Southern California. He has been a professional production artist and instructor for almost 20 years with clients including Disney, Marvel Comics, Hasbro Toys, ABC, Microsoft, Electronic Arts, Dreamworks and Nickelodeon.

1,000 Retail Graphics

1,000 Retail Graphics

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1,000 Retail Graphics provides a wealth of graphic design inspiration from a variety of retail businesses, offering designers, retail marketers, and business owners a vast collection of innovative options. The retail industry is one of the most competitive and, as a result, challenging arenas for graphic designers. The expectation for creativity and originality is extremely high, yet the success rate of many retail ventures is quite low—so getting the marketing and branding right is essential for survival. The pages pop with ideas for promotions, signage, tags, advertisements, flyers, bags, logos, and ad premiums such as novelties, giveaways, and more.
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Where to Find It and Borrowing Time

1,000 Retail Graphics is shelved as Call # NK2195 .J43 2009. As a book it can be found on Bookstack # - Shelf #. This book can be checked out for a period of 2 weeks for students, faculty and staff. 

About the Author*

JGA has evolved to become one of the leading design, brand strategy and architectural firms specializing in transactional environments in the U.S. since 1971. Recognized as a Top Ten Retail Design Firm by Interior Design magazine and named winner in a myriad of environmental and graphic design competitions, JGA recent award-winning projects include: Brookstone, Hershey's, Jaguar, The North Face, Godiva Chocolatier, Spencer's and Metropark.

Principles of Web Design

Principles Of Web Design

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Principles of Web Design is the  features all-new sections on HTML5, CSS3, CSS page layouts, and enhanced navigation as well as technical updates and new screen shots throughout. Beginning with the Web design environment and the principles of sound Web design, readers will continue to planning site layout and navigation, and progress to Web typography, colors and images, working with CSS, and more

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Where to Find It and Borrowing Time

Item Name is shelved as TK5105.888.S583 2012. 

As a book it can be found on Bookstack 4 - Shelf 8. This book can be checked out for a period of 2 weeks for students, faculty and staff. 

About the Author*

Joel Sklar is an instructional designer and technical trainer specializing in HTML, XML, and web technologies. He has taught markup languages and web design to thousands of technical professionals in the New England area. Joel's consulting business offers a range of technical and design classes as well as customized courseware development.

Reviews*

By AMAZON Editorial:

"The approach in this proposal (user-centric web design) is something that I strongly agree with. It is why I have chosen this book over other web design books in my courses. I am excited about the new material about CSS positioning."

Read More of this review, including a description of each chapter, at AMAZON

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Description, About the Author, and Review taken from AMAZON: AMAZON and BARNES AND NOBLE: BARNES AND NOBLE