Web Design Bibliography

the importance of ideas, research, drawing and experimentation for the illustrator. The book features a wide range of work, demonstrating diverse visual languages, context, ideas, techniques and skills. It also looks at the ways in which illustrators develop their own personal visual language. Contemporary illustrators from all over the world engaged in a diverse range of approaches to the discipline have contributed their artwork and commentaries on visual thinking and the working process.
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    Information Design Workbook: Graphic approaches, solutions, and inspiration plus 20 case studies
    By Kim Baer, Jill Vacarra
    Rockport Publishers, May 2008
    ISBN: 9781592534104
    240 pages, $40.00

    This book leads you through the mindset that support good information design, giving you an overview of the types of processes and tools you can use to create effective information design. It shows real-world examples of successful projects, and presents interviews with some of the premier practitioners working in the field today.
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    Creative Photoshop: Digital Illustration and Art Techniques, covering Photoshop CS3
    By Derek Lea
    Focal Press, July 2007
    ISBN: 9780240520469
    376 pages, $39.94

    This book shows you how to use Photoshop in unorthodox ways to transform the ordinary into the extraordinary. The author’s work is a unique combination of original photography, traditional illustration, and digital art. If you are a digital artist, illustrator, cartoonist, graphic artist or designer who is familiar with Photoshop, but want to push the program to the limit, this book is for you. Learn how to get professional results from the paint features in Photoshop. Create sharp illustrations by combining vectors and pixels. Explore less-than-obvious composition methods, and discover the hidden potential in unlikely artistic resources and materials. Play around with texture using spray paint effects and scanned elements, or age faces and objects. Use stencil tags and comic book coloring techniques. Learn how to bring 3D art to life.
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    The Non-Designer’s Photoshop Book: Essential imaging techniques for design
    By Robin Williams, John Tollett
    Peachpit Press, July 2011
    ISBN: 9780132732925
    240 pages, $34.99

    Many designers and photographers own the entire suite of Adobe creative products, but they manage to learn only one or two of the applications really well. This full color book uses a series of individual exercises to teach image-editing tasks in Adobe Photoshop specifically to designers, who need to enhance their photos for use in brochures, advertising, Flickr, Facebook, websites, and so on.
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    Storytellers: A Photographer’s Guide to Developing Themes and Creating Stories with Pictures
    By Jerod Foster
    New Riders, November 2011
    ISBN: 9780132853088
    288 pages, $44.99

    It’s amazing how many images the world’s photographers produce! What makes successful photographers stand out? What drives us to revisit the same images over and over? Whether they’re produced as works of art, on assignment for National Geographic, or as part of a family vacation, images say more than just a shutter speed, ISO, or aperture setting. We make images for a reason. This book focuses on visual storytelling and how a deep knowledge of your process and your personal vision can create stronger images. Storytelling often requires the use of certain lenses, apertures, or light modifiers, but the story is what holds everything together. This beautifully written and illustrated guide will help you connect the how-tos of digital photography with the who, what, when, where and why of storytelling to bring your vision and your images to life!
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    Basics Illustration 02: Sequential Images
    By Mark Wigan
    AVA Publishing, September 2007
    ISBN: 9782940439850
    176 pages, $29.95

    This book identifies sequential image-making as a rich area of original and innovative work, which is leading the resurgence in the art of illustration. The book addresses the professional, cultural, theoretical and historical contexts of sequential illustration, and explores the fundamental language of the narrative image-maker across a wide range of media. In this title, international illustrators, animators,