Sketchbook: Conceptual Drawings from the World's Most Influential Designers By Timothy O'Donnell
192 Pages | 2009 | ISBN: 1592535216 | PDF | 102 MB
This book explores influential designers’ sketchbooks as a truer reflection of a designer’s thought processes, preoccupations, and problem-solving strategies than can be had by simply viewing finished projects. Highly personal and idiosyncratic, sketchbooks offer an arena for unstructured exploration, a space free from all budgetary and client constraints.
Photoshop Techniques for Web Designers with Ben Gribbin 2012
Language: English | 03:40:00 | 1280x720 | .MP4 | 1.74 GB Genre: eLearning
Knowing how to use Photoshop is only the first step! Geared especially for new web designers, Ben Gribbin teaches important techniques and workflow tips that are vital to any web professional working in Photoshop. Learn how to craft custom assets and prepare a web design in Photoshop.
Photoshop for Designers Textures with Nigel French-iNKiSO
Language: English | 04:38 | 960x540 | .Mov | 1.4 GB Genre: eLearning
In this course, author Nigel French shows how to use textures to create visual interest, heighten realism, and add dimension to Photoshop artwork. The course demonstrates how to apply multiple filters and paint in effects with layer masks, combine textures with images using layer blending modes, use brushes to paint in and accentuate texture, and create brush presets by sampling textures from photographs. The course also shows how to automate the application of textures with actions. Exercise files accompany the course.
Photoshop for Designers Textures with Nigel French
Language: English | 04:38 hours | 960x540 | .Mov | AAC - 96Kbps | 1.4 GB Genre: eLearning
In this course, author Nigel French shows how to use textures to create visual interest, heighten realism, and add dimension to Photoshop artwork. The course demonstrates how to apply multiple filters and paint in effects with layer masks, combine textures with images using layer blending modes, use brushes to paint in and accentuate texture, and create brush presets by sampling textures from photographs. The course also shows how to automate the application of textures with actions. Exercise files accompany the course.
Photoshop for Designers - Layer Effects with Nigel French
Language: English | 03:03 hours | 960x540 | .Mov | 1.2 GB Genre: eLearning
For the first installment of Photoshop for Designers, Nigel French shows how to create editable, non-destructive effects such as shadows, glows, and bevels with layer effects in Photoshop. The course covers the use of layer effects like Drop Shadow, Inner Shadow, Bevel and Emboss, and Gradient Overlay, as well as how to combine effects with blending modes, transparency, and textures. With these techniques, designers can finesse type and graphics, control light, warp text, and extrude shapes, creating drama and adding depth to their compositions. Exercise files are included with the course.
Photoshop Down & Dirty Tricks for Designers by Corey Barker
English | PDF & MP4 | 384 Pages | 250.28 Mb
Corey Barker, Executive Producer of PlanetPhotoshop.com and one of the Photoshop Guys of Photoshop User TV, brings you this handy and inspiring volume in the Down & Dirty Tricks series. Yes, this book is an insane collection of some of the most mind-blowing Photoshop effects you’ve ever seen in one place. Ever wonder how that movie poster was created, or how they created that cool magazine ad, or maybe even how to take a seemingly mundane photo and give it the Hollywood treatment? Or maybe you just want to know how to do some really awesome stuff in Photoshop. Well, then, this book is for you! Whether you’re a designer, artist, or even a photographer, there’s something here for everyone. Moving through these projects, you’ll start to see the potential of Photoshop’s most powerful features and how, with a little experimentation, you can open up a whole new world of dazzling effects.
Drupal Development Tricks for Designers By Dani Nordin
70 Pages | Publisher: O'R{ei}lly M}edi-a 2012 | ISBN: 1449305539 | EPUB + PDF | 4 MB + 7 MB
Take your Drupal skills even further with valuable tricks for making site building truly efficient. In this concise guide—the third in a series by award-winning designer Dani Nordin—you’ll learn how to set up your own development environment, quickly update your modules, and use version control to protect yourself from bonehead mistakes.
Ingenious Mechanisms for Designers and Inventors
English | PDF | Collection | 130.75 MB
Each of the four volumes of Ingenious Mechanisms is an independent treatise on the subject of mechanisms. The books are similar in size and general character, but the contents are different. The mechanisms described are grouped into chapters according to general types.
Christine M. Piotrowski "Problem Solving and Critical Thinking for Designers"
192 pages | W--ey | 2011 | ISBN: 0470536713 | PDF | 3,4 MB
The essential guide to decision making and problem solving for the interior designer
The interior design profession requires effective problem solving and critical thinking, as they impact all phases of the design project and most work activities of the interior designer. Whether you are a student or professional designer, much of what you do involves these skills. Although most of us do not even think about what we do in terms of these activities, they are a constant part of design.
Linda Holtzschue, "Understanding Color: An Introduction for Designers, 4th Edition"
272 pages | Publisher: W/l.y | 2011 | ISBN: 0470381353 | EPUB/MOBI/PDF | 15 MB/19 MB/4 MB
Make Sound Color Choices
Now in an updated Fourth Edition, Understanding Color helps you connect the dots between your emotional, intuitive responses to color and the theories that explain them. From this authoritative and easy-to-follow resource, you'll learn how to use color more comfortably, creatively, and effectively than ever before.
Lynda.com - Photoshop CS3 for Designers (2008) | ISO | 3.06 GB
In Photoshop CS3 for Designers, instructor Ted LoCascio teaches graphic designers how to effectively use Photoshop for image manipulation and processing. He covers how to incorporate raw images into design workflows, use tools for special effects and retouching, integrate Photoshop with other Adobe applications, and save images for print. Photoshop CS3 for Designers guides graphics professionals through every step of the production workflow. Exercise files accompany the course.
J. D. Graffam, "CSS for Print Designers"
176 pages | N..w Ri..ers Pr..ss | 2011 | ISBN: 0321765885 | PDF | 11,3 MB
Print designers work in images, shapes, and color: not code. The last thing many of them want to do is to translate their work into mono-spaced tags and numbers, divs and ids. But print designers can’t ignore the web and producing a design for the web has become a common part of a complete graphics package. And, knowing the basics of CSS is an essential ingredient for success.
EcoHome - January/February 2012
True PDF | English | 56 Pages | 30.43 MB
EcoHome Magazine helps residential builders, remodelers, designers and product specifiers compete in the green building market by delivering clear, accurate, and actionable content on green building products and product trends, technical innovations and building science.
Digit@l Juic3 once again introduces a first of it's kind product line specifically tailored for the needs of motion
design professionals. Over a year in the making, this new library of crisp, clean live-action Motion Designer's
Silhouettes brings you an array of actors in various poses, gestures, and movements -- ready to breathe life
into your animations and tell a story with fluid motion and graphic boldness. These silhouette sequences will add
a professional high-end look to your work, giving you the best of both worlds - the fluidity of real life and the
sharp graphic symbolism of an animated silhouette -- all in a drag-and-drop element that even a novice motion
designer will find easy to integrate into any project. Express a thought, evoke an emotion, or convey an idea
without adding the complexity of an actor's features or clothing to detract from the simplicity of your message.
Captured live in the Digital Juice green screen studio, on a RED ONE at 3K resolution, these clips were shot under
very controlled conditions, specifically for the purpose of making Silhouettes. Each clip was then meticulously
hand rotoscoped and keyed to achieve the highest quality possible results from the high-resolution source material.
