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Logo Design Love: A Guide to Creating Iconic Brand Identities By: David Airey Publisher: New Riders Publication Date: 18-DEC-2009 Insert Date: 20-NOV-2009 | Overview: Logo Design Love: A Guide to Creating Iconic Brand Identities This is the Rough Cut version of the printed book.
In Logo Design Love, Irish graphic designer
David Airey brings the best parts of his wildly popular blog of the
same name to the printed page. Just as in the blog, David fills
each page of this simple, modern-looking book with gorgeous logos
and real world anecdotes that illustrate best practices for
designing brand identity systems that last.
David not only shares his experiences working with clients'
including sketches and final results of his successful designs' but
uses the work of many well-known designers to explain...
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2. |  Designing a Digital Portfolio, Second Edition By: Cynthia L. Baron Publisher: New Riders Publication Date: 17-AUG-2009 Insert Date: 30-SEP-2009 Bookshelf Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Designing a Digital Portfolio, Second Edition This is the Safari online edition of the printed book.
Portfolios have always been artists' most valuable tools for
communicating their talents to the outside world, whether to
potential employers or galleries or clients. But the days of
sketches and slides have given way to arrangements of digital
assets that are both simpler and more complex than their
traditional analog counterparts.
Instructor and design professional Cynthia Baron covers all the
facets that artists need to know, from choosing the best work for a
particular audience to using various file formats to...
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3. | Overview: Developing with Web Standards This is the Rough Cut version of the printed book.A companion to Jeffrey Zeldman's Designing with Web Standards,
this book approaches standards from a more tactical and
instructional point of view. Today's web designers and developers
need to update their skills and knowledge and get away from
out-of-date table and font-based approaches. In Developing with Web
Standards, they will learn current best practices in
standards-based development. The topics covered are based on the
author's extensive experience from the professional development
trenches and will give readers a thorough grounding in...
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4. | Overview: Microformats Made Simple This is the Rough Cut version of the printed book.
Microformats are widely used by some of the most important sites
on the Web including Google, Yahoo, Facebook, and Twitter. Web
designers and architects of these sites understand the power and
flexibility of microformats and are taking advantage of their
capabilities. Web designers of any site can improve their site's
effectiveness by employing microformats correctly. That's where
this book excels.
In Microformats Made Simple, author Emily Lewis demystifies the
code behind this set of simple open data formats that are designed
for...
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5. |  Designing for Interaction: Creating Innovative Applications and Devices, Second Edition By: Dan Saffer Publisher: New Riders Publication Date: 14-AUG-2009 Insert Date: 27-AUG-2009 Bookshelf Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Designing for Interaction: Creating Innovative Applications and Devices, Second Edition This is the Safari online edition of the printed book.Designing for Interaction is an introduction to the practice of
interaction design, the design discipline behind such products as
the iPhone and other touchscreen devices and innovative Web sites
like Flickr. Aimed at new practitioners and students--as well as
user experience professionals and developers--it is a comprehensive
look at the discipline, from current methods to its future. This
guide takes a holistic approach looking at interaction design for
the Web, software, and devices. This new edition adds information
on design strategy,...
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6. |  ActionScript for Multiplayer Games and Virtual Worlds By: Jobe Makar Publisher: New Riders Publication Date: 23-JUL-2009 Insert Date: 27-AUG-2009 Bookshelf Slots: 1.0 | Overview: ActionScript for Multiplayer Games and Virtual Worlds This is the Safari online edition of the printed book.
The demand for multiplayer games and virtual worlds has exploded
over the last few years. Not only do companies want them for site
stickiness through social networking, but developers have
tremendous interest in exploring this niche area. While developing
multiplayer content is challenging, it isn’t as difficult as
you might think, and it is fun and highly rewarding!
ActionScript for Multiplayer Games and Virtual Worlds explains
fundamental multiplayer concepts from connecting to a server to
real-time latency hiding techniques. In...
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7. |  Fundamentals of Game Design, Second Edition By: Ernest Adams Publisher: New Riders Publication Date: 14-SEP-2009 Insert Date: 26-JUL-2009 Bookshelf Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Fundamentals of Game Design, Second Edition This is the Safari online edition of the printed book.To create a great video game, you must start with a solid game
design: A well-designed game is easier to build, more entertaining,
and has a better chance of succeeding in the marketplace. Here to
teach you the essential skills of player-centric game design is one
of the industry’s leading authorities, Ernest Adams, who
offers a first-hand look into the process, from initial concept to
the final tuning.
Now in its second edition, this updated classic reference offers a
complete and practical approach to game design, and includes
material...
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Scriptin’ with JavaScript and Ajax: A Designer’s Guide Publisher: New Riders Publication Date: 17-AUG-2009 Insert Date: 23-JUN-2009 | Overview: Scriptin’ with JavaScript and Ajax: A Designer’s Guide This is the Rough Cut version of the printed book.JavaScript is the brains of your Web page—it enables you
to modify a document’s structure, styling, and content in
response to user actions without requesting new pages from the
server. Scriptin' with JavaScript and Ajax teaches you how to
master this powerful and elegant language so you can develop
intuitive user interactions that take the user experience to new
levels of sophistication and responsiveness.
Today’s application-like Web experiences (such as
Salesforce.com and Google Maps) and Web 2.0 sites (such as
Flickr.com and Twitter) are...
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Photographing Nature: A Photo Workshop from Brooks Institute’s Top Nature Photography Instructor Publisher: New Riders Publication Date: 03-NOV-2009 Insert Date: 18-JUN-2009 | Overview: Photographing Nature: A Photo Workshop from Brooks Institute’s Top Nature Photography Instructor This is the Rough Cut version of the
printed book.
Anyone can photograph nature—just step outside and you're on
location. But becoming a good nature photographer takes
expert training. In Photographing Nature, Ralph Clevenger,
whose images have appeared in such publications as Audubon
and National Geographic, shares the techniques he's been
using and teaching to aspiring nature photographers for the last 25
years in his popular nature photography course at the elite Brooks
Institute.
Each chapter of this gorgeous four-color course-in-a-book opens
with a spectacular photo spread from the...
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10. |  Within the Frame: The Journey of Photographic Vision By: David duChemin Publisher: New Riders Publication Date: 01-MAY-2009 Insert Date: 11-JUN-2009 Bookshelf Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Within the Frame: The Journey of Photographic Vision This is the Safari online edition of the printed book.
Within the Frame is not another How To book on
Photography; it’s a Why-To book. It’s a
book about the passionate photography of people, places, and
cultures. It is a book about chasing your vision on a global scale
and telling those stories as clearly and passionately as possible
with compelling photography.
David DuChemin takes you along on his own personal journey chasing
his photographic vision around the world as he stops in the
following exotic destinations: Prague, Kathmandu, Vietnam, and
Samoa. Images created on the journey...
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