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1. |  By: John McWade Publisher: Pearson France Publication Date: 13-MAR-2013 Insert Date: 12-JUN-2013 Slots: 1.0 |
Dans cet ouvrage, qui regroupe un florilège des meilleurs projets professionnels publiés dans son célèbre magazine de graphisme, Before & After, John McWade offre une présentation approfondie des principes de base du graphisme, avant de partager concrètement techniques et procédés. Dans un style simple et convivial, il analyse différentes créations graphiques abouties – brochures, lettres d'information, sites web, cartes de visite et autres supports visuels – et explique le pourquoi et le comment de leur réussite. À votre tour, inspirez-vous de ces exemples et employez ces mêmes techniques...
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2. |  Processing 2: Creative Coding Hotshot By: Nikolaus Gradwohl; Publisher: Packt Publishing Publication Date: 20-MAY-2013 Insert Date: 04-JUN-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Processing 2: Creative Coding Hotshot
Learn Processing with exciting and engaging projects to make your computer talk, see, hear, express emotions, and even design physical objects
Teach your computer to create physical objects, visualize data, and program a custom hardware controller
Create projects that can be run on a variety of platforms, ranging from desktop computers to Android smartphones
Each chapter presents a complete project and guides you through the implementation using easy-to-follow, step-by-step instructions
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Processing makes it convenient for developers, artists, and designers to...
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3. |  Burn Your Portfolio: Stuff they don’t teach you in design school, but should By: Michael Janda Publisher: New Riders Publication Date: 04-JUN-2013 Insert Date: 04-JUN-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Burn Your Portfolio: Stuff they don’t teach you in design school, but should It takes more than just an art school
degree and a killer portfolio to succeed as a creative
professional. Your behavior, work ethic, and interpersonal skills
have as much to do with your success as your ability to use
Photoshop, InDesign, and Illustrator. In Burn Your
Portfolio, you’ll learn how to behave like a seasoned pro
with straight-from-the-trenches advice on the real-world practices,
professional do’s and don’ts, and unwritten rules of
business that you just don’t learn in class.
You’ll learn why:
Every Position Can Be Electrifying
Brainstorms Are 90 Percent Bad...
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4. |  By: Ruthann Godollei Publisher: Quarry Books Publication Date: 15-MAR-2013 Insert Date: 09-APR-2013 Slots: 1.0 |
Whether your band is just starting out or touring the nation, here’s how you can build its identity by making your own unique gig posters, custom T-shirts, album covers, record sleeves, and stickers. Fans want cool and creative band merchandise, and this book gives you the tools and information you need to create your own.
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5. |  By: Nikita Prokhorov Publisher: New Riders Publication Date: 17-MAR-2013 Insert Date: 19-MAR-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Typography, when coupled with unbridled creativity,
craftsmanship, and obsession, can take the mesmerizing form of an
ambigram. Ambigrams are typographic designs that combine optical
illusion, symmetry, and visual perception. The resulting word or
phrase can be read in any number of orientations, viewpoints, or
directions.
Here is your master class in the art and craft of the ambigram!
Curated by graphic and ambigram designer Nikita Prokhorov, this
book offers a thorough introduction to the esoteric artistic
movement made popular by Dan Brown’s novel Angels &
Demons. You’ll find...
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6. |  A Graphic Design Student's Guide to Freelance: Practice Makes Perfect By: Ben Hannam Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Publication Date: 09-OCT-2012 Insert Date: 12-MAR-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: A Graphic Design Student's Guide to Freelance: Practice Makes Perfect
A complete guide to freelance graphic design—created specifically for design students
Why wait until you graduate? Freelancing is a great way to jumpstart your career in graphic design. It lets you apply what you've been learning in school, close the gaps in your education with real-world experience, enhance your portfolio—and make a little money at the same time.
A Graphic Design Student's Guide to Freelance: Practice Makes Perfect covers everything you need to know to begin successfully freelancing as a designer, including how to set up your business, deal with legal and financial...
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7. |  Classroom in a Book InDesign CS6 By: Publisher: Addison-Wesley Verlag Publication Date: 23-AUG-2012 Insert Date: 22-FEB-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Classroom in a Book InDesign CS6
Hier lernen Sie schnell und einfach Adobe InDesign CS6 und holen das Beste aus dem Programm heraus. In 14 Lektionen behandelt dieses Buch grundlegende und fortgeschrittene Techniken. Darüber hinaus geht es natürlich um die neuen Funktionen. Die CD liefert das Original-Adobe-Trainingsmaterial passend zu den Buch-Lektionen und eine Menge Video-Trainings von video2brain. Hier finden Sie Downloads zu diesem Titel.
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8. |  By: Adobe Press Publisher: Pearson France Publication Date: 09-NOV-2012 Insert Date: 31-DEC-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Adobe® InDesign® CS6
La méthode la plus rapide, la plus simple et la plus complète pour maîtriser Adobe InDesign CS6 ! Classroom in a Book, collection au succès mondial, vous aide à découvrir facilement et rapidement les fonctionnalités des logiciels Adobe. Elle apporte ce qu'aucun autre ouvrage ou programme de formation ne propose : des supports pour travaux pratiques conçus spécialement par des experts en produits Adobe.
Les seize leçons de cet ouvrage couvrent l'ensemble des notions de bases d'Adobe InDesign CS6 et vous fournissent une multitude d’astuces et de techniques pour vous aider à optimiser votre...
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9. |  Dialogues with Creative Legends and Aha Moments in a Designer’s Career, First Edition By: David Calvin Laufer; Richard Saul Wurman Publisher: New Riders Publication Date: 17-DEC-2012 Insert Date: 22-DEC-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Dialogues with Creative Legends and Aha Moments in a Designer’s Career, First Edition In Dialogues with Creative Legends,
you will find answers to some of the perplexing questions talented
people confront. From these dialogues emerge a startling range of
ideas, from beginning a creative career to developing client
relationships, mentoring, and the role of design thinking in
society. The author's gradual revelations about the intertwined
contributions of creator and patron will resonate with students and
practitioners in all the creative professions. This remarkable book
explores the role of creativity in commerce and culture. It's a
quest for livelihood and meaning that is at...
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Circos Data Visualization How-to By:Â Tom Schenk Jr.; Publisher:Â Packt Publishing Publication Date:Â 23-NOV-2012 Insert Date:Â 26-NOV-2012 Slots:Â 1.0 | Overview: Circos Data Visualization How-to
Create dynamic data visualizations in the social, physical, and computer sciences with the Circos data vizualization program
Transform simple tables into engaging diagrams
Learn to install Circos on Windows, Linux, and MacOS
Create Circos diagrams using ribbons, heatmaps, and other data tracks
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Companies, non-profit organizations, and governments are collecting a large amount of data. Analysts and graphic designers are faced with a challenge of conveying data to a wide audience. This book introduces Circos, a creative program to display tables in an engaging...
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11. |  By: Rainer Griesbaum; Ivica Rogina Publisher: Wiley-VCH Verlag Publication Date: 03-AUG-2011 Insert Date: 19-NOV-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: LaTeX für Dummies
LaTeX ist mehr als Textverarbeitung. Erfahren Sie in diesem Buch, wie Sie LaTeX-Dokumente erstellen, Texte in LaTeX formatieren, Tabellen, Abbildungen und Formeln in den Text integrieren und Inhaltsverzeichnisse generieren. Mit DVD.
Note: The ebook version does not provide access to the companion files.
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12. |  By: Gavin Gavin Ambrose; Paul Paul Harris Publisher: AVA Publishing Publication Date: 01-NOV-2012 Insert Date: 07-NOV-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Basics Design 07: Grids Basics Design 07: Grids (second edition) by Gavin Ambrose and Paul Harris looks at the principles behind grid usage in graphic design. This book gives readers the ability to tackle a wide variety of problems creatively and effectively. It has been updated to address the new media contexts created by modern technology and as such the section on web design has been expanded, and many new case studies added. This popular title is a useful handbook for both students and practising designers. With clear diagrams, concise definitions and contemporary case studies, it is the definitive guide to...
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13. |  By: James J. Mainvald; Cathy Palmer Publisher: Pearson France Publication Date: 10-DEC-2010 Insert Date: 05-NOV-2012 Slots: 1.0 |
Écrit tout particulièrement pour les graphistes, les maquettistes et les responsables de production utilisant InDesign, ce livre vous apprend à automatiser vos travaux, sur la base d'exemples concrets, en ne vous apprenant du XML que ce qui vous est réellement utile dans votre métier.
XML simplifie aussi bien l'importation que l'exportation des contenus dans vos maquettes et permet d'accélérer les processus de travail pour la création d'imprimés ou de pages web. Il permet d'automatiser l'importation de textes et d'images en nombre dans une maquette ou de recycler le contenu d'une...
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14. |  Interactive Design: An Introduction to the Theory and Application of User-centered Design By: Andy Pratt; Jason Nunes Publisher: Rockport Publishers Publication Date: 01-NOV-2012 Insert Date: 20-OCT-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Interactive Design: An Introduction to the Theory and Application of User-centered Design
User experience design is one of the fastest-growing specialties in graphic design. Smart companies realize that the most successful products are designed to meet the needs and goals of real people the users. This means putting the user at the center of the design process.This innovative, comprehensive book examines the user-centered design process from the perspective of a designer. With rich imagery, Interactive Design introduces the different UX players, outlines the user-centered design process from user research to user testing, and explains through various examples how user-centered...
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15. |  By: Jason Tselentis Publisher: Rockport Publishers Publication Date: 01-MAY-2012 Insert Date: 04-SEP-2012 Slots: 1.0 |
This comprehensive resource for graphic designers will help you merge traditional print design skills with new technology to create imaginative, informative, and useful online experiences for clients and ultimately the end users.
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16. |  The Functional Art: An introduction to information graphics and visualization By: Alberto Cairo Publisher: New Riders Publication Date: 22-AUG-2012 Insert Date: 31-AUG-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: The Functional Art: An introduction to information graphics and visualization Unlike any time before in our lives, we have access to vast
amounts of free information. With the right tools, we can start
to make sense of all this data to see patterns and trends that
would otherwise be invisible to us. By transforming numbers into
graphical shapes, we allow readers to understand the stories those
numbers hide. In this practical introduction to understanding and
using information graphics, you’ll learn how to use data
visualizations as tools to see beyond lists of numbers and
variables and achieve new insights into the complex world around
us. Regardless of the kind of...
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17. |  The Designer's Guide to Color Combinations By: Leslie Cabarga Publisher: North Light Books Publication Date: 01-JAN-2012 Insert Date: 09-AUG-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: The Designer's Guide to Color Combinations If you're from the "I don't know zip about color - but I know what I like" school of color theory, this book's for you. You won't find color wheels or letures on color harmony here... just 500+ tried-and-true color combinations derived from actual design work - posters, packages, even giftwrap - created over the past century by designers, artists and color experts. You'll find historical color combinations from the Victorian period, Art Deco era, Far-Out Sixities, Rave craze - plus current color combiantions, such as limited color, "bad color" and much more. Even if you don't know what you're...
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18. |  By: Kelvin Smith Publisher: AVA Publishing Publication Date: 01-JUL-2012 Insert Date: 25-JUL-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: The Publishing Business The Publishing Business: From p-books to e-books by Kelvin Smith is a modern guide to the publishing process. It explores how publishing is adapting to the digital culture, describes current roles and practices, and provides much food for thought on how publishers can ensure their skills remain relevant in the digital age.
Using popular and current examples, Kelvin Smith demonstrates that to succeed in the future, publishers must prove their commitment to producing accurate, attractive and well edited content, their ability to innovate pioneering digital technologies and their dedication to...
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19. |  InDesign CS6: Visual QuickStart Guide By: Sandee Cohen Publisher: Peachpit Press Publication Date: 25-JUN-2012 Insert Date: 11-JUL-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: InDesign CS6: Visual QuickStart Guide InDesign CS6: Visual QuickStart
Guide highlights the important new features, as well as
covering the ones readers have relied on in previous versions of
InDesign. Complete coverage of InDesign CS6's new features
includes: tools for easily outputting to various devices such as
phones and notebooks, including Alternate Layouts, Liquid Layouts,
and new content management tools; linked content tools, too more
easily allow repurposing of content; PDF forms creation feature,
including extensive library resources; enhanced selection and
drawing tools. Users will learn how to create and...
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20. |  By: Eva Ruhland; Bastian Reiter Publisher: Addison-Wesley Verlag Publication Date: 01-MAY-2012 Insert Date: 30-JUN-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Gute Gestaltung
Gute Gestaltung kann man lernen.
Dieses Buch zeigt Ihnen in 10 Workshops die wichtigsten Gestaltungsregeln für jede Produktart, von der Grafik über die Fotografie bis zur Website. Wenn Sie die vielen Praxisbeispiele mit den "So" - und "So nicht" - Kästen sehen, werden Sie sich mit Vergnügen ins "Besser werden" stürzen.
Fragebögen mit persönlichen W-Fragen ("Welche Wirkung wünschen Sie sich", "Wer ist Ihr Adressat...") bringen Sie weiter. Die Beherzigung von Farb- und Layout-Grundregeln bringt verblüffende Änderungen und Ergebnisse, die sich sehen lassen können. So sorgen...
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