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61. |  Design By Nature: Using Universal Forms and Principles in Design By: Maggie Macnab Publisher: New Riders Publication Date: 23-SEP-2011 Insert Date: 11-OCT-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Design By Nature: Using Universal Forms and Principles in Design In Design by Nature: Using Universal Forms
and Principles in Design, author Maggie Macnab takes you on an
intimate and eclectic journey examining the unending versatility of
nature, showing how to uncover nature’s ingenuity and use it
to create beautiful and compelling designed communications.
Written for designers and creative thinkers of all types, this book
will guide you through a series of unexpected a-ha! moments that
describe relationships among nature, art, science, technology, and
design. Through explanation and example, you will learn about
natural processes, consisting of...
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62. |  Storytellers: A Photographer’s Guide to Developing Themes and Creating Stories with Pictures By: Jerod Foster Publisher: New Riders Publication Date: 23-NOV-2011 Insert Date: 07-SEP-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Storytellers: A Photographer’s Guide to Developing Themes and Creating Stories with Pictures It's amazing how many images the world's photographers produce!
Professional or not, images surround us in our everyday lives. What
makes successful photographers stand out? What drives us to revisit
the same images over and over?
All images tell a story. Whether they're produced as works of art,
on assignment for National Geographic, or as part of a family
vacation, images say more than just a shutter speed, ISO, or
aperture setting. We make images for a reason.
Storytellers, by photographer/teacher Jerod Foster, focuses on
visual storytelling and how a deep knowledge of your process...
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63. |  The Passionate Photographer: Ten Steps Toward Becoming Great By: Steve Simon Publisher: New Riders Publication Date: 20-JUL-2011 Insert Date: 25-JUL-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: The Passionate Photographer: Ten Steps Toward Becoming Great Professional photographer, School of Visual Arts faculty member,
and co-host of the popular This Week in Photography podcast
Steve Simon shares 30 years of experience as he discusses the ten
crucial elements every photographer needs to know and do in order
to become truly great at their craft.
For photographers who are ready to challenge themselves to take
their craft to new heights, Steve Simon mentors through education,
inspiration, practical tips and photographic concepts that are both
immediately actionable and capable of being revisited time and
again throughout your photographic...
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64. |  Seductive Interaction Design: Creating Playful, Fun, and Effective User Experiences Publisher: New Riders Publication Date: 15-JUN-2011 Insert Date: 15-JUN-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Seductive Interaction Design: Creating Playful, Fun, and Effective User Experiences This book, based on the author's conference presentation, takes
a fresh approach to designing sites and interaction based on the
stages of seduction. This beautifully-designed book follows its own
principles of seduction and examines what motivates and causes
people to act. Topics include ways to create playful engagements
during the moment; how to put people at ease through sense-making,
reassurance, and clear communication; ways to grab attention
through language, visuals, and emotions; and how to continue
motivating long after the first encounter. The author goes further
and shows examples...
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65. |  By: Stefan G. Bucher Publisher: New Riders Publication Date: 31-JUL-2011 Insert Date: 10-JUN-2011 Slots: 1.0 | The secret to creative success lies not in knowing the right
answers, but in knowing how to ask the riqht questions--and this
little book is full of them! A veritable therapy session on paper,
344 Questions is composed entirely of questions designed to help
you determine where you are in your life and career, where you want
to be, and how to get there. Hopefully, you'll also laugh along the
way.
Each spread in this portable, pocket-sized book contains a series
of several questions illustrated in Stefan Bucher's unique,
whimsical, hand-lettered style. The questions are designed to get
you...
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66. |  By: J. D. Graffam Publisher: New Riders Publication Date: 12-MAY-2011 Insert Date: 21-MAY-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: CSS for Print Designers Print designers work in images, shapes, and
color: not code. The last thing many of them want to do is to
translate their work into mono-spaced tags and numbers, divs and
ids. But print designers can't ignore the web and producing a
design for the web has become a common part of a complete graphics
package. And, knowing the basics of CSS is an essential ingredient
for success.
CSS for Print Designers presents web design concepts using
metaphors that make sense to visual designers. Instead of using
terms like semantics and structure, the book simplifies the
language of web design using...
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67. |  Abduzeedo Inspiration Guide for Designers By: Fábio Sasso Publisher: New Riders Publication Date: 19-MAY-2011 Insert Date: 29-APR-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Abduzeedo Inspiration Guide for Designers Brazilian designer Fábio Sasso, who has wildly popular
design blog Abduzeedo, has created the definitive guide to design.
This book features interviews with designers and offers tutorials
on various design styles, an extension of what he does with his
site abduzeedo.com. Each chapter addresses a particular style,
e.g., Vintage, Neo-surrealism, Retro 80s, Light Effects, Collage,
Vector, and starts off with an explanation about the style and
techniques that go into that style. Next, the Adduzeedo Design
Guide shows images from different visual artists illustrating each
style. Fábio interviews a...
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68. |  By: Ben Greisler Publisher: New Riders Publication Date: 12-MAY-2011 Insert Date: 08-APR-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Photographers, videographers, and other creative content makers
are dealing with a new world of media that presents the challenge
of managing all their raw and prepared data produced in the
creative process. The framework for managing this data must go
beyond Digital Asset Management (DAM) to the holistic data
lifecycle perspective.
Enter Photographer's Guide to the Digital Lifecycle.
Offering much more than a DAM book—this is a comprehensive
guide to modern, real-world digital asset storage practices. It
goes beyond things like metadata and how to use DAM applications
and looks at the...
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69. |  Writing for Visual Thinkers: A Guide for Artists and Designers, Second Edition By: Andrea Marks Publisher: New Riders Publication Date: 31-MAR-2011 Insert Date: 19-MAR-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Writing for Visual Thinkers: A Guide for Artists and Designers, Second Edition Writing can be a challenge, especially for artists and designers
who tend to be more visual than verbal. Writing for Visual
Thinkers: A Guide for Artists and Designers is designed to help
people who think in pictures—a segment of learners that by
some estimates includes almost 30 percent of the
population—gain skills and confidence in their writing
abilities.
Writing for Visual Thinkers approaches the craft of writing
from many directions, all with the ultimate goal of unblocking the
reader's verbal potential. It offers a guide to mind mapping,
concept mapping, freewriting,...
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70. |  From Idea to App: Creating iOS UI, Animations, and Gestures By: Shawn Welch Publisher: New Riders Publication Date: 18-MAR-2011 Insert Date: 18-MAR-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: From Idea to App: Creating iOS UI, Animations, and Gestures Because iPhone development is so young, right
now apps are typically designed, developed and deployed by a single
person (or very small development team.) The designers are the
developers and vice versa. This book will leverage this distinction
by teaching designers how to design on top of native iOS metaphors,
tools and UI, while teaching native developers appropriate
application design and asset preparation....
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71. |  100 Things: Every Designer Needs to Know About People Publisher: New Riders Publication Date: 14-APR-2011 Insert Date: 08-MAR-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: 100 Things: Every Designer Needs to Know About People If you want to design intuitive and engaging web sites, apps,
print materials or products, then you need to know the psychology
that underlies people's behavior. 100 Things Every Designer Needs
to Know About People explores both the foundational and the latest
research in the psychology of the conscious mind and applies it to
design. What grabs and holds attention on a page or screen? What is
more important, peripheral vision or central vision? How much
information is too much at one time? How do you motivate people to
continue on to the next step? What line length should you use if
you want...
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72. | Overview: Inside LightWave 3D v10 LightWave is a software package used for rendering 3D images,
both animated and static. Version 10 is completely new and includes
an all new code engine with a new interface and feature sets.
Written by award-winning animator and trainer, Dan Ablan, this
down-to-earth, easy-to-follow guide offers an invaluable set of
project tutorials that teach readers the ins and outs of LightWave
and shows them the techniques they need to master this powerful 3D
software. The accompanying DVD features hours of high-quality video
training tutorials that will help readers take the projects in the
book to...
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73. |  Digital Alchemy: Printmaking techniques for fine art, photography, and mixed media Publisher: New Riders Publication Date: 20-DEC-2010 Insert Date: 02-FEB-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Digital Alchemy: Printmaking techniques for fine art, photography, and mixed media In Digital Alchemy, acclaimed printmaker Bonny Pierce Lhotka
shows how to turn your standard inkjet printer into a seemingly
magical instrument capable of transforming your printed images into
true works of art. Using plenty of visuals and straightforward
terms, Lhotka walks you step-by-step through over a dozen projects.
Forget printing on boring old paper, in Digital Alchemy,
you’ll learn how to transfer and print images to a variety of
surfaces including metal, wood, fabric, stone, and plastic using
the techniques Lhotka’s spent years developing.
If you’re a photographer looking for...
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74. |  Welcome to Oz 2.0: A Cinematic Approach to Digital Still Photography with Photoshop, Second Edition By: Vincent Versace Publisher: New Riders Publication Date: 07-DEC-2010 Insert Date: 21-JAN-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Welcome to Oz 2.0: A Cinematic Approach to Digital Still Photography with Photoshop, Second Edition Still photography doesn't have to mean static images, a fact
nobody understands better than well-known photographer and
Photoshop Hall of Famer Vincent Versace. In this book, Vincent
details his cinematic approach to evoke time and its passage in
still photographic images, and provides a wealth of practical and
artistic guidance for anyone with a serious interest in digital
photography. Whether readers are looking to enrich their Photoshop
skills, broaden their understanding of conceptual and aesthetic
principles, get a handle on lighting and color theory, or simply
inject some life into...
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75. |  The Elements of User Experience, Second Edition: User-Centered Design for the Web and Beyond Publisher: New Riders Publication Date: 16-DEC-2010 Insert Date: 14-JAN-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: The Elements of User Experience, Second Edition: User-Centered Design for the Web and Beyond Web design is more than just creating clean code and sharp
graphics. A site that really works fulfills strategic objectives
while meeting users needs. Even the best content and the most
sophisticated technology won't help you balance those goals without
a cohesive, consistent user experience to support it.
The Elements of User Experience cuts through the complexity of
user-centered design for the Web with clear explanations and vivid
illustrations that focus on ideas rather than tools or techniques.
Jesse James Garrett gives readers the big picture of Web user
experience development, from...
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76. |  Vector Basic Training: A Systematic Creative Process for Building Precision Vector Artwork By: Von R. Glitschka Publisher: New Riders Publication Date: 22-DEC-2010 Insert Date: 14-JAN-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Vector Basic Training: A Systematic Creative Process for Building Precision Vector Artwork Listen up, designers, and wipe those grins
off your faces! It’s time to get serious about your design
work. For too long you’ve allowed yourself to go soft,
relying on your software to do all of your creative work for you.
This book will NOT show you how to use every tool and feature in
Adobe Illustrator. This book WILL, however, teach you the
importance of drawing out your ideas, analyzing the shapes, and
then methodically building them precisely in vector form using the
methods covered in this book.
In Vector Basic Training, acclaimed
iillustrative designer Von Glitschka takes you through...
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77. |  Stunning CSS3: A Project-Based Guide to the Latest in CSS By: Zoe Mickley Gillenwater Publisher: New Riders Publication Date: 09-DEC-2010 Insert Date: 14-JAN-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Stunning CSS3: A Project-Based Guide to the Latest in CSS CSS3, the latest version of the web's visual style language, is
wildly popular among the industry's top designers, but still in
development by the W3C, and new to many users. In Stunning CSS, Zoe
Gillenwater, author of the well-received Flexible Web Design, uses
a project-based approach and step-by-step instructions to teach
designers how to create cutting-edge web sites that take advantage
of some of the exciting new features of CSS3. Each chapter
demonstrates a standalone web design technique that can be
integrated into any project the reader is working on. The reader
will learn the most...
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78. |  Clout: The Art and Science of Influential Web Content By: Colleen Jones Publisher: New Riders Publication Date: 03-DEC-2010 Insert Date: 10-JAN-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Clout: The Art and Science of Influential Web Content Results. Everyone wants them, whether to sell more products,
spread good ideas, or win more funding. In our busy digital world,
the way to results is influencing people on the web. But how?
An ad campaign won't cut it. A Twitter account doesn't guarantee
it. Manipulative tricks will backfire. Instead, you need quality,
compelling web content that attracts people and engages them for
the long haul.
Clout explains the key principles of influence and how to
apply them to web content. Along the way, those principles come to
life with lots of practical examples. With this...
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79. |  Designing the Obvious: A Common Sense Approach to Web and Mobile Application Design, Second Edition Publisher: New Riders Publication Date: 16-NOV-2010 Insert Date: 16-DEC-2010 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Designing the Obvious: A Common Sense Approach to Web and Mobile Application Design, Second Edition Designing the Obvious belongs in the toolbox of every
person charged with the design and development of Web-based
software, from the CEO to the programming team. Designing the
Obvious explores the character traits of great Web applications and
uses them as guiding principles of application design so the end
result of every project instills customer satisfaction and loyalty.
These principles include building only whats necessary, getting
users up to speed quickly, preventing and handling errors, and
designing for the activity. Designing the Obvious does not
offer a one-size-fits-all...
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80. |  Ordering Disorder: Grid Principles for Web Design By: Khoi Vinh Publisher: New Riders Publication Date: 23-NOV-2010 Insert Date: 27-NOV-2010 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Ordering Disorder: Grid Principles for Web Design This book is a highly readable, plain-language introduction to
the concepts behind grids in interaction design, as well as a
primer on their practical usage in solving design problems in
online media. It is intended to serve as both an inspirational
reference as well as a useful guide for designing with grid
principles. Its focus will be primarily on web design, but will
also touch upon design for mobile devices, application design and
interaction design at large....
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