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 Ultimate Fashion Study Guide: The Design Process

 

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A one-step, HOW-TO, resource for introductory Fashion Design study. Provides the fundamentals required to quickly grasp the skills for success in a highly competitive industry. Packed with vital information, tips, templates, tools, techniques, inspiration and over 600 illustrations and images. Includes CD-ROM with design templates.

 

 

Sound Synthesis and Sampling

 

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Sound Synthesis and Sampling provides a comprehensive introduction to the underlying principles and practical techniques applied to both commercial and research sound synthesizers. This new edition has been updated throughout to reflect current needs and practices- revised and placed in a modern context, providing a guide to the theory of sound and sampling in the context of software and hardware that enables sound making. For the revised edition emphasis is on expanding explanations of software and computers, new sections include techniques for making sound physically, sections within analog and digital electronics. Martin Russ is well known and the book praised for its highly readable and non-mathematical approach making the subject accessible to readers starting out on computer music courses or those working in a studio.

 

 

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.

 

 

HTML5 & CSS3 for the Real World

 

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HTML5 and CSS3 for the Real World is ideal for any web designer or developer who wants to start using the latest generation of web technologies in their everyday work.

This book will teach you how to:

• understand the new semantic markup available in HTML5
• use CSS3 to make sites beautiful without sacrificing clean markup or resorting to complex workarounds
• employ native HTML5 video and audio in your pages
• use web fonts to enrich a site's typography
• make web applications accessible using WAI-ARIA
• make the most of the new HTML form elements.

 

The Fashion Designer’s Textile Directory: A Guide to Fabric’s Properties, Characteristics, and Garment-Design Potential

 

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This valuable materials directory for professional dressmakers and fashion designers is also a good reference source for students of fashion design, as well as for those who make their own garments. The author points out the best fabrics for creating specific garments, explaining how each fabric's qualities make it suitable for various items of apparel. Knowing which fabrics can support a structured silhouette is fundamental to fashion design, and this book explains the use of stiff or crisply textured fabrics for tailored garments, as well as soft textured fabrics for rounded forms. Ornamentation is also discussed, and includes advice on how to work with different fabrics to create what author Gail Baugh classifies as opulent, simple, and in-between decorative effects. 

 

 

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. 

 

 

JavaScript & jQuery: The Missing Manual

 

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JavaScript lets you supercharge your HTML with animation, interactivity, and visual effects—but many web designers find the language hard to learn. This jargon-free guide covers JavaScript basics and shows you how to save time and effort with the jQuery library of prewritten JavaScript code. You’ll soon be building web pages that feel and act like desktop programs, without having to do much programming.