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Now available in paperback, this all star tribute to one of the biggest rock 'n' roll bands ever features glorious concert and behind the scenes photography from top names in rock photography, from their first 1968 show as Led Zeppelin through the 2007 reunion. Also included are more than 200 rare concert posters, backstage passes, tickets, LPs and singles, T shirts, buttons, and more from the United States, UK, Canada, Germany, France, and Japan, all comprising a book as epic as the band it honors. And if that's not enough, top American and English rock journalists from Rolling Stone, Creem, Billboard, cover every Zeppelin LP in depth, while some of rock's top performers reflect on the band's legacy. An appendix features the complete discography. |
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This book is the fourth book in the Essential series following Layout Essentials, Typography Essentials, and Packaging Essentials. It outlines and demonstrates basic logo and branding design guidelines and rules through 100 principles including the elements of a successful graphic identity, identity programs and brand identity, and all the various strategies and elements involved. |
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This new volume presents a vast array of work within the corporate sector-solutions that have helped business clients succeed. This book not only provides hundreds of innovative examples of great design for business, but also examines the critical thinking behind the featured work and addresses the challenges those designers overcame. |
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«The Design Masters'» series profiles 20-30 current design leaders in each subject category including type, identity/logos, packaging/product design, annual reports/brochures, and publications. Each profile is approximately 8-10 pages showing the designer's best work in the category and discussing why they're so successful in this category. This, the second in the Master's series, features those who have made a name for themselves in the print design world with annual reports, brochures, and catalogs.» |
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Developed by a group of experienced designers from the apparel industry these inspired images are great for printing onto t-shirts and other clothing and accessories, CDs flyers, web pages and even as references for tattoo art. The illustrations are provided as print reference in the pages of the book and also provided on a companion CD-Rom where the files are available as both Illustrator EPS files and JPEG files, making them easy to modify and customise. |
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How much would a course on drawing cost given by the top 100 international manga artists? How much would they charge to share their most highly valued techniques? This book brings together 100 manga artists and asks each one to offer 10 practical tips for the manga enthusiast on techniques, sources of inspiration, and the best way to build their portfolios. Detailed photographs, 1,000 in total, taken by the artists themselves serve to illustrate each of these 1,000 tips. |
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The Best of Cover Design features an innovative collection of book, magazine, catalogs, brochures and cover designs by top designers worldwide. The go-to sourcebook for cover design inspiration, this volume contains pages packed with innovative cover solutions from around the globe. This is the first Cover Design book in Rockport's bestselling Best of Series. |
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To illustrate how colors influence the message, this essential handbook starts with 10 layouts and applies more than 80 different color combinations to each, resulting in a vast collection of dynamic variations. Includes an interactive CD that allows users to choose layouts from the book, experiment with colors, and print them for reference. This tool illustrates the powerful role colors play in layout design. Selecting the right colors for any design project, whether personal от commercial, can make all the difference in whether a project communicates effectively to the designated audience. For most people, choosing the right colors is not an easy process. With this comprehensive collection, anyone can make effective and powerful choices for their design and client. Color Harmony: Layout opens with case studies of 10 featured designs; each study explains what the work was trying to achieve and why the particular palette was chosen. The book then follows with 21 chapters, headed by adjectives such as elegant, professional, or classic, that feature the palettes which best reflect the adjective. The chapters also include 10 designated layout designs in 4 different color combinations from that palette. The result: more than 800 color studies illustrating how varying color combinations can dynamically alter a given design and the message it communicates. Color Harmony: Layout is an insightful demonstration of the power of color and its ability to convey a message, as well as a time-saving handbook that all designers will turn to again and again. |
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This book celebrates the most outstanding editorial design produced in 2005. It is an essential reference tool for all graphic designers, educators, students, and editors. A panel of distinguished judges selected a winner of the magazine of the year competition and gave gold, silver, or merit awards for excellence to the most outstanding entries. |
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Photographer David Blattel treats every photo shoot as a work of art. When his subjects are the works of art produced by the motorcycling maestros from Milwaukee, the results are doubly beautiful. Art of Harley-Davidson Motorcycles pulls together the best of Blattel's Harley-Davidson portraiture-over 100 stunning machines-resulting in a breathtaking review of Harley-Davidson's greatest hits from the early 1900s to today. Harley-Davidson expert Dain Gingerelli puts each machine in historical and technical context with informed profiles. The result is a handsome, informative overview of Harley-Davidson's 100-plus years of style and innovation. |
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Now available in paperback, this is one of the bestselling titles from successful series The World's Top Photographers' Workshops, which pairs in-depth, practical advice with stunning images and personal tips from the world's acknowledged masters. Each title brings together the work of prominent professional photographers and pools their accumulated knowledge, focusing specifically on the fundamental technical aspects of photography — lighting; composition; color and tone; and imaging. Fashion and Advertising offers hardworking, incisive, and comprehensive advice on all aspects of the genre. Image portfolios are combined with each photographer's comments on the key influences behind their signature styles, introducing readers to the aesthetics of fashion and advertising photography and providing them with useful hints and tips. This book will appeal both to the professional and the amateur photographer who wishes to learn from the best in the field, and to everyone who appreciates world-class photography. |
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This comprehensive new edition of How to Design Cars Like a Pro provides an in depth look at modern automotive design. Interviews with leading automobile designers, analyses of past and present trends, studies of individual models and concepts, and much more combine to reveal the fascinating mix of art and science that goes into creating automobiles. This book is a must have for professional designers, as well as for automotive enthusiasts. |
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Judges in this edition include Emanuela Frigerio, Connie Birdsall, Graham Purnell, Miles Newlyn, Thomas Vasquez, Robert Matza, Kit Paul, and Sharon Werner. This book is packed with logos, logos, and more logos. It's a fast-paced book featuring one to six logos per page to allow designers to easily find ideas. Logos are among the most important elements a designer can create, so it is no surprise that they are always looking for new, fresh ideas. LogoLounge 3 delivers just that. |
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«Universal Methods of Design is an immensely useful survey of research and design methods used by today's top practitioners, and will serve as a crucial reference for any designer grappling with really big problems. This book has a place on every designer's bookshelf, including yours!» —David Sherwin, Principal Designer at frog and author of Creative Workshop: 80 Challenges to Sharpen Your Design Skills «Universal Methods of Design is a landmark method book for the field of design. This tidy text compiles and summarizes 100 of the most widely applicable and effective methods of design—research, analysis, and ideation—the methods that every graduate of a design program should know, and every professional designer should employ. Methods are concisely presented, accompanied by information about the origin of the technique, key research supporting the method, and visual examples. Want to know about Card Sorting, or the Elito Method? What about Think-Aloud Protocols? This book has them all and more in readily digestible form. The authors have taken away our excuse for not using the right method for the job, and in so doing have elevated its readers and the field of design. UMOD is an essential resource for designers of all levels and specializations, and should be one of the go-to reference tools found in every designer’s toolbox.» —William Lidwell, author of Universal Principles of Design, Lecturer of Industrial Design, University of Houston This comprehensive reference provides a thorough and critical presentation of 100 research methods, synthesis/analysis techniques, and research deliverables for human centered design, delivered in a concise and accessible format perfect for designers, educators, and students. Whether research is already an integral part of a practice or curriculum, or whether it has been unfortunately avoided due to perceived limitations of time, knowledge, or resources, Universal Methods of Design serves as an invaluable compendium of methods that can be easily referenced and utilized by cross-disciplinary teams in nearly any design project. This essential guide: — Dismantles the myth that user research methods are complicated, expensive, and time-consuming — Creates a shared meaning for cross-disciplinary design teams — Illustrates methods with compelling visualizations and case studies — Characterizes each method at a glance — Indicates when methods are best employed to help prioritize appropriate design research strategies Universal Methods of Design distills each method down to its most powerful essence, in a format that will help design teams select and implement the most credible research methods best suited to their design culture within the constraints of their projects.» |
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A unique directory of over 75 digital brushes, Photoshop Brush Directory is the essential resource for anyone retouching photographs or creating their own illustrations. When working in Photoshop, the choice of available brush effects for artworking and rendering is vast, as each brush option can be configured in dozens of different ways according to features like hardness, wetness, opacity, or flow. Photoshop Brush Directory takes the guesswork out of the selection, with accurate reproduction of more than 4,000 digital brush styles and settings, and clear instructions. The extensive gallery of brushes and settings offers creative stimulation, as well as being a practical tool that enables the user to select the right Photoshop brush settings for a particular job. Practical techniques introduce the beginner to basic working methods, and there is also a useful guide to shortcuts for more experienced users. |
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Feel like you’re buried in clutter? Are you in desperate need of an organizational overhaul? Having trouble finding your first-born underneath all those toys? With The Fast and Furious 5 Step Organizing Solution, you can turn your chaotic casa into a peaceful palace by simply applying this simple, time-saving method throughout your home: Step 1: Plan Step 2: Weed and Sort Step 3: Remove Step 4: Name to Create Boundaries Step 5: Containerize Author and professional organizer Susan C. Pinsky will show you the perfect and most maintainable method for every room and space in your home and how to achieve it in the fastest time possible. She’ll also provide you with tactical strategies and simple solutions for something you never thought possible: keeping it that way! Filled with inspirational and instructional photos—including real-life before and after photos of every room in a typical home—The Fast and Furious Five-Step Organizing Solution will show you what you need to do to achieve the results you only thought possible on television. Your dream home is just five steps away! |
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The Contemporary Design Details series takes a highly visual look at architectural design details that are more often dealt with in a technical textbook format. The books take readers on a tour of the best details designed by great architects around the world. The series provides a powerful presentation of the most challenging and evolving architectural and design categories. Sustainable Environments focuses on the type of architectural details in distinctive, sustainable residential spaces. It includes sections on components such as cooling or shading devices, building techniques that create minimal impact on the land, active systems and the use of new sustainable materials as well as those that are salvaged or recyclable. The book presents recent work by architects from around the globe in colour photographs and architectural drawings, and is structured according to categories of architectural detail. |
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Patios have featured in landscapes for thousands of years, but never have they been more popular than now, as homeowners discover the elegance, long life, and easy maintenance of stone and decorative concrete surfaces. Today's homeowners can build with mosaic tiles just like the ancient Persians, or natural stone like the Greeks, but they can also build amazing patios with coloured, interlocking geometric shapes, or they can stamp or stain poured concrete for truly amazing effects. The Complete Guide to Patios is a comprehensive guide that includes an introduction to the most popular building materials: a fool-proof method for design, planning and layout; detailed step-by-step projects to help readers build any one of 12 different types of patios; instructions for building popular patio accessories and features; and tips for maintaining and repairing all types of patios. |
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Today's homeowners seek the upscale, premium home styling offered by custom built-in shelving, storage units and cabinetry. Window seats, built-in entertainment centres, library walls, pub bars and kitchen banquettes are just some of the features found in luxury homes. These luxury features are now possible for do-it-yourself enthusiasts, with the help of this innovative book. The Complete Guide to Shelves & Built-ins shows readers how to achieve the finest built-ins by adapting stock cabinets and pre-made shelving to create amazing effects with only the most basic of carpentry skills. Other projects are based on traditional and classic cabinet-making methods. With more than 30 ingenious step-by-step projects, this book will help any homeowners achieve custom built-ins that add function and style to any home decor. |
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The design bar is at an all-time high for those brave enough to participate in the industry. Today's designers must be clear on all the steps necessary to create work that stands out in an increasingly competitive marketplace. Unfortunately, most design books only focus on type, color, and layout issues. The Design Matters series takes a more in-depth approach, allowing designers to learn not only how to create work that is aesthetically appealing, but also strategy-driven and smart. This book focuses on developing, creating and implementing brochure designs, while others in the series dissect packaging, logos, publications, and letterhead systems. Each book offers all the essential information needed to execute strong designs in concert with beautiful and well-crafted examples, so readers can successfully hit the mark every time. |
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