The beginner's guide to Chinese painting :flowers

Anyone interested in traditional Chinese painting will find these four volumes useful for self-study. Each of the four volumes teach amateur brush painters to execute the intricacies of Chinese brush painting. Beginning with the separate parts and then progressing to the composition, these volumes feature exquisite illustrations that will enable the learner to pick up the basics as if in a clas…

SPAN: span the boundary between space and graphics

The book features a variety of graphic elements and their applications in different spaces. The visual elements do not only display the philosophy of spatial decoration, but also create a great interaction with audience, providing many insights into the visual relationship between graphics and space. With the use of different motifs in different spatial situations, this book shows the powerful …

Recharge your design batteries : creative challenges to stretch your imagination

· Provides exercises to jump start creativity and overcome creative blocks · Contains inspirational examples of awareness-raising tactics and the stunning work that resulted · Includes interviews and anecdotes from a wide range of international designers Designers often find themselves going down the same route time and again, and feel in need of an injection of ideas. Recharge Your Design B…

Batik fabled cloth of Java

Batik: Fabled Cloth of Java is richly illustrated with color plates of the finest antique and contemporary batik from thirty museums and private collections around the world. From the royal courts of Yogyakarta and Cirebon to the coastal towns of Pekalongan, Surabaya and Lasem, Inger McCabe Elliot takes the reader on a spellbinding tour of Java's north coast examining the customs, cultures and …

Keeksotisan batik Jawa Timur

On textile designs of batik of Jawa Timur Province.

The independent design guide

The availability of high design at affordable prices has created a new generation of consumers who are looking for unusual and one-of-a-kind objects. A growing collector’s market has fueled the interest in young, emerging designers, whose work has become highly sought after, and galleries are opening everywhere to help meet this new demand. This is the first publication to present these recen…

Handwritten : expressive lettering in the digital age

An illustrated survey of hand-crafted letter typography cites recent trends and the use of hand-drawn graphics in mainstream marketing and popular culture, drawing on an extensive array of samples organized under such headings as, "Scrawl, "Script," and "Simulate."

logolounge 5: 2,000 International Identities by Leading Designers

The fifth volume in the best-selling LogoLounge series brings together an exciting collection of 2,000 totally new logos from designers worldwide submitted to LogoLounge.com, the largest collection of logo designs in the world. The front of the book contains an inspiring series of articles, featuring top-notch design work from such world design leaders as Lippincott, Felix Sockwell, Fragile, Ca…

The in-house design handbook

· As many as 50% of graphic designers work in-house across a variety of different industries and market sectors · Explores the day-to-day challenges of working in-house from a design perspective · Provides advice on how to network with other designers and how to keep in touch with the wider design community and creative trends In-House Design in Practice is a unique practical and inspiration…

999 Logo design elements

Each logo element in 999 Logo Design Elements is a distinct and standalone piece that offers designers the capability to develop hundreds of thousands of logo variations on the themes. The elements include banners, arrows, ovals, swooshes, geometric shapes, and hundreds of creative parts that can be pulled together to create original logo designs. Featured throughout the book are examples of lo…

Graphic translation: a graphic design project guide

The process of graphic translation produces drawings of instant recognition and startling visual interest. Graphic translation is as much art as it is design, and focuses on the creation of an image with the visual means of abstraction, reduction, and interpretation with point, line, plane, shade, and shadow. Over 300 examples portray a multitude of individual approaches to the drawing system a…

Graphics explained

"Seven design categories are examined, including work for new clients, good causes, wide open briefs, repeat business, low budget jobs, collaborations, and working to short deadlines. The book compares 'like with like' by lining up seven projects, one from each category, by each of the seven featured designers."--Cover p. [4].

Idea+ ology

Great design is something that makes you pause and think. That’s because there is a pure concept behind that design. Without a strong concept, design is merely an arrangement of elements within the parameters of a given format, resulting in design that is purely decorative. Void of the inspiration that makes design transcendent, the audience is left disengaged and intellectually/emotionally i…

Filming the fantastic: a guide to visual effects cinematography

Don't waste valuable time and budget fixing your footage in post! Shoot the effects you want effectively and creatively the first time. This full-color step-by step guide to visual effects cinematography empowers you to plan out and execute visual effects shots on a budget, without falling into the common pitfall of using high-end computer graphics to "fix it in post." Learn how to effectively …

101 top digital photography tips

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Film propaganda in britain and nazi germany

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The new digital photography manual

Philip Andrews' manual provides new users with a comprehensive overview of the techniques needed to produce high-quality images using modern digital cameras. The author also covers the jargon, ideas and theory of this new technology. Previous ed.: published as The digital photography manual, 2002.

Smaug : unleashing the dragon

Come face to face with Smaug the Magnificent, the most realistic, breathtaking and destructive dragon ever to appear on screen, in this gallery of exclusive images that tell the story of how he was created. Smaug is possibly the most memorable character in JRR Tolkien’s The Hobbit: a huge, malevolent, fire-breathing, talking dragon! But while he makes quite an impact in the book, in Peter Jac…

Lighting For Fasion Indoor Lighting

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Ansel Adams and the photographers of the american west

This book offers a broad collection of striking photographs--some familiar, many rare--by both well-known and unknown photographers. A distinguised historian of photography, the author, Eva Weber, brings a special perspective to this book with her discussions of the subjects and themes that have persisted and pervaded the photographs of the American West.