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Unlock the secrets to becoming a successful graphic designer with 'The Path to Becoming a Graphic Design: Making Your Passion a Profession'. Authored by a seasoned graphic designer and art director, this book goes beyond mere creativity, delving into the often-overlooked aspects of the profession. From defining graphic design to actionable steps on launching your career, each chapter offers invaluable insights. Explore topics like learning graphic...
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The essential and bestselling guide to typography from beloved design educator Ellen Lupton-revised and expanded to include new and additional voices, examples, and principles, and a wider array of typefaces.
"Thinking with Type is to typography what Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time is to physics."-I Love Typography
The bestselling Thinking with Type in a revised and expanded third edition: This is the definitive guide to using typography...
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John Wiley & Sons
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[2021]
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Adobe Creative Cloud makes the most popular tools used by designers, photographers, and other creative professionals accessible in a single place. Adobe Creative Cloud All-in-One For Dummies is the ultimate one-stop reference guide for how to use them all. Whatever gets your creative juices flowing, you'll find the in-depth guidance required to deliver the results you want, from polishing-up photos and images to creating illustrations and designs....
64) Words to Live By
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Words to Live By is a gorgeous book of 50 illustrated quotes by 50 inspiring women.
Discover intelligent and powerful quotes such as: "Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement" by Helen Keller, "Turn your wounds into wisdom" by Oprah Winfrey, "Every great dream begins with a dreamer" by Harriet Tubman, and more.
This visually stunning book is filled with Jade Purple Brown's custom illustrated typography, alongside her bold, colorful illustrations...
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Design School: Type is an instructive guide for students, recent graduates, and self-taught designers. You'll get a comprehensive introduction to typography, a crucially important skill that underpins practically every aspect of graphic design These guided lessons offer in-depth analysis of all the major areas of theory and practice used by experienced professional designers. Each section is interspersed with tests designed to help you retain the...
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Illustrated guide with over 60 rough layout ideas for designing eye-catching eBook covers for digital publishing. Written by a professional graphic designer with easy to remember layout names and a brief description of each layout concept. Includes hints on type, color, sizing and position of graphics. Can be used by authors, graphic designers, and students interested in learning page layout techniques or for DYI cover design.
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Andrew Airpump ask'd his Aunt her ailment, Davy Dolldrum dream'd he drove a Dragon, Jumping Jackey jeer'd a Jesting Juggler, and Rory Rumpus rode a raw-bon'd Race-horse among other antics in this antique alphabet of tongue twisters. Originally published in 1836, this charming collection of whimsical rhymes was redesigned 100 years later by some of the twentieth century's most celebrated typographers. The artists volunteered their services and worked...
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Here is a complete, comprehensive drawing reference for design students and professionals alike who want to implement drawing as a professional tool. In Drawing for Graphic Design, Timothy Samara empowers readers to add drawing to their design vocabulary, featuring case studies of commercial projects from start to finish along with a showcase of real-world projects that integrate drawing as an intrinsic part of their visual communication. Filled with...
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Masters of Science Fiction and Fantasy Art profiles and celebrates the work of today's leading practitioners of art of the fantastic, as well as a handful of gifted newcomers from around the globe. The range and impact of their work is both inspiring and far-reaching. These 28 masters have created images for television, movies, gaming, museum exhibits, theme park rides, and every area of publishing. Some of the artists featured only employ traditional...
70) Never Use Futura
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It's everywhere, including the moon (on the commemorative plaque left by Apollo 11 astronauts), Nike sneakers, the artworks of Barbara Kruger, Ed Ruscha, and Jenny Holzer, 2001: A Space Odyssey credits, Domino's Pizza boxes, Absolut Vodka bottles, and Red Bull cans. Richard Nixon used it for his presidential campaign, as did Hillary Clinton. Indeed, Futura is one of the most used fonts in the world today-the typeface of modern design-more so even...
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Multi award-winning designer, typographer and TED speaker, Craig Ward, presents his first self-authored book - Popular Lies About Graphic Design. An attempt to debunk the various misconceptions, half truths and, in some cases, outright lies which permeate the industry of design. Lovingly designed and written both passionately and irreverently, Ward pulls from his ten years of experience to tackle lighter subjects such as design fetishists, Helvetica's...
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Reprinted from a rare portfolio of abstract design by two notable French illustrators, published in Paris in the 1920s. The 87 designs, which reflect the influences of Cubism and Neo-Impressionism and the emergence of the Art Deco aesthetic, are in a variety of useful shapes and sizes, each faithfully reproduced and royalty-free.
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Between 75 to 80% of all books are sold online, whether they are hardback, paperback or digital. That means the first cover a customer is likely to see is going to be about 160 pixels tall or smaller. That, in turn, means that some design techniques that used to work are no longer viable. Learn the 21st Century approach to book cover design because people do judge a book by its cover.
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Tu vois ce que je veux dire ? » L'expression est banale. Plus qu'une vraie question, c'est un tic de langage, un lieu si commun qu'on ne l'entend plus. À l'autre, on demande de voir quelque chose que l'on veut dire, comme si ce basculement image/langage allait de soi. Cet écart entre le voir et le dire est le sujet principal de cet essai dans lequel Clément de Gaulejac propose de réfléchir au rle de la figuration dans la production du sens....
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A complete guide to making computer artworks, from dynamic action scenes to fantasy landscapes.
Today, digital art appears everywhere - in print, on television, and in the movies. With the rapid advancement of digital art tools, illustration using these methods of is often faster and more effective.
This illustrated guide shows you how to create digital artworks using Photoshop and other popular software platforms. Award-winning illustrator David...
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Life as a design student is filled with questions. Rochester Institute of Technology Associate Professor of Design Mitch Goldstein has many answers, shared in clear, clever, and sage advice that is helpful for students at any level of their education, as well as anyone thinking about attending design school and wondering what it's really all about.
For design students and art professionals, Goldstein is a brilliant resource for real-world thoughts...
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An Alphabet Apart
In Letters, the art and poetry of the English alphabet comes alive through rhythm and rhyme in philosophically charged verse. Much can be learned about a people by the language they use, but what can be said of the letters of that language? This playful treatise on the English alphabet explores the art and philosophy of some letters as they gained form in one artist's eye and expression in the language of a wondering wordsmith....
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Love is one of the most profound, mysterious, and complicated emotions known to human beings. There are many types of love, which can be, expressed in numerous ways. We seek to establish a means of relating to another to achieve deep and meaningful fulfillment that nurtures and sustains us. Love is commonly, experienced by way of a romantic relationship with a partner with whom we feel compatible.
Loving another has many events that can affect us...
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Este documento partió del interés de actualizar el texto "Anotaciones sobre la definición del campo publicitario", realizado en 2005. Además de las reflexiones sobre el campo y la disciplina de la publicidad, este texto aborda las lógicas de producción de valor y de producción de conocimiento en el campo publicitario. Estos nuevos temas no son excluyentes con el énfasis que el primer documento hace en los procesos comunicativos y semióticos...
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Balancing Social, Professional, and Artistic Views
What does it mean to be a designer in today's corporate-driven, over-branded global consumer culture? Citizen Designer, Second Edition, attempts to answer this question with more than seventy debate-stirring essays and interviews espousing viewpoints ranging from the cultural and the political to the professional and the social. This new edition contains a collection of definitions and brief case...
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