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Rex Ray: Art and Design

August 20, 2010

Now you can buy this book online: www.amazon.com Rex Ray’s highly collectible artwork is coveted in design as well as art circles. His color-bursting, curvaceous art graces the walls of high-design hotels, world-class museums, and hip restaurants, yet remains, as acclaimed author Douglas Coupland puts it in his foreword, “unslick, but superslick at the same [...]

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Book Design – Alternative Graphic Handbook

August 20, 2010

Graphics Design illustration taken by LaStonata.

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The Non-Designer’s Design Book: Design and Typographic

July 28, 2010

Outlines the essentials of page layout, emphasizing the four concrete principles of design–proximity, alignment, repetition, and contrast–in an illustrated volume that features before and after examples of page design. Original. (All Users). The Non-Designer’s Design Book: Design and Typographic Principles for the Visual Novice

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Technical Drawing

July 25, 2010

Comprising a book and a CD-ROM, this package contains step-by-step explanations of technical drawing procedures. It includes many problems, and has been updated to include a photo program, revised illustrations, enhancement of problems to reflect ANSI standards, and CAD material.

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The Little Book of Shocking Global Facts (Little Book Of…

July 15, 2010

How is it that the developed world spends billions of dollars annually on weaponry, while the poor of the developing world have no access to education, medicines or even clean drinking water? What exactly is the relationship between cheap goods on the high street and the wage-slavery of sweatshops? How have large corporations branded the [...]

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Making Comics: Storytelling Secrets of Comics, Manga and

June 11, 2010

Scott McCloud tore down the wall between high and low culture in 1993 with Understanding Comics, a massive comic book about comics, linking the medium to such diverse fields as media theory, movie criticism, and web design. In Reinventing Comics, McCloud took this to the next level, charting twelve different revolutions in how comics are [...]

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The DC Comics Encyclopedia

June 10, 2010

This is the book that comic-book fans all over the world have been waiting for – a unique and definitive, one-volume encyclopedia of more than 1000 of the classic characters created by comics giant DC Comics. Superman, Batman, Green Lantern, The Joker, Catwoman…all the world-renowned super heroes and super villains are here, as well as [...]

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5 design books you should own

June 7, 2010

The Internet is full of information about design: educational articles, tutorials, rants,… there is a lot you can learn online. However, design books are still one of the best learning resources you can find. Reading books allows you to concentrate better and fully cover a topic, the following books should help you to do just [...]

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Maira Kalman: Various Illuminations (of a Crazy World)

June 6, 2010

From children’s books to New Yorker covers, fashion to philosophical musings, this first retrospective book on the beloved illustrator, author, and designer Maira Kalman is an inventory of imaginative genius certain to delight her many fans. The world as seen through Kalman’s eyes is a quirky, slightly off-kilter place as colourful and varied as a [...]

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The Non-Designer’s Design Book

May 26, 2010

So you have a great concept and all the fancy digital tools you could possibly require—what’s stopping you from creating beautiful pages? Namely the training to pull all of these elements together into a cohesive design that effectively communicates your message. Not to worry: This book is the one place you can turn to find [...]

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The Animator’s Survival Kit–Revised Edition: A Manual of

May 15, 2010

The definitive book on animation, from the Academy Award-winning animator behind Who Framed Roger Rabbit?Animation is one of the hottest areas of filmmaking today–and the master animator who bridges the old generation and the new is Richard Williams. During his fifty years in the business, Williams has been one of the true innovators, winning three Academy [...]

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Complete Digital Photography, Third Edition (Digital

May 12, 2010

Digital photography has arrived once and for all. No longer do photographers have to be defensive because they prefer digital. Thanks to new technologies, digital cameras at all ends of the price spectrum can rival their film counterparts. If you have shifted from traditional to digital photography, and need to know what’s different about shooting [...]

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Non-Designer’s Design Book, The (3rd Edition)

May 12, 2010

A lot has happened in the world of digital design since the first edition of this title was published, but one thing remains true: There is an ever-growing number of people attempting to design pages with no formal training. This book is the one place they can turn to find quick, non-intimidating, excellent design help [...]

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The Art of How to Train Your Dragon

May 8, 2010

This official illustrated tie-in book showcases over 350 spectacular images from the DreamWorks Animation feature film, based on Cressida Cowell’s popular children’s book.How to Train Your Dragon is the story of a scrawny teenaged Viking, Hiccup Horrendous Haddock the Third, who lives on the island of Berk in the North Sea. Hiccup is a member [...]

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Layout Workbook: A Real-World Guide to Building Pages in

May 8, 2010

New in Paperback! An inspired resource for creating excellent layouts Layout Workbook is one of five volumes in Rockport’s series of practical and inspirational workbooks that cover the fundamental areas of the graphic design business. In this edition, author Kristin Cullen tackles the often perplexing job of nailing down a layout that works. More than [...]

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Design Elements: A Graphic Style Manual

May 8, 2010

The graphic design equivalent to Strunk & White’s The Elements of Style This book is simply the most compact and lucid handbook available outlining the basic principles of layout, typography, color usage, and space. Being a creative designer is often about coming up with unique design solutions. Unfortunately, when the basic rules of design are [...]

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