Total 60 eBooks Found For Category Graphics & Design
Learning Autodesk 3ds Max 2008 Foundation
- ISBN:
- 0240809270
- Authors:
- Autodesk
Learning Autodesk® 3ds Max® 2008 | Foundation is your shortcut to learning 3ds Max quickly and effectively. You'll get hands-on experience with the key tools and techniques through easy-to-follow, step-by-step project-based lessons, while learning to model, animate, apply materials and render in both the games & design visualization pipelines. By the end of the book you'll have a sense of the entire production process as you work on...
Python Programming on WIN32: Help for Windows Programmers
- ISBN:
- 1565926218
- Authors:
- Mark Hammond, Andy Robinson, Hammond Mark, Robinson Andy
Python is growing in popularity; based on download statistics, there are now over 450,000 people using Python, and more than 150,000 people using Python on Windows. Use of the language has been growing at about 40 percent per year since 1995, and there is every reason to believe that growth will continue. Despite Python's increasing popularity on Windows, Python Programming on Win32 is the first book to demonstrate how to use it as a serious...
How To Be a Graphic Designer Without Losing Your Soul
- ISBN:
- 1568985592
- Authors:
- Adrian Shaughnessy
Designers are quick to tell us about their sources of inspiration, but they are much less willing to reveal such critical matters as how to find work, how much they charge, and what to do when a client rejects three weeks of work and refuses to pay the bill. How to be a graphic designer without losing your soul addresses the concerns of young designers who want to earn a living by doing expressive and meaningful work, and who want to avoid...
No-Copy Advertising
- ISBN:
- 2880467403
- Authors:
- Lazar Dzamic
No-copy advertising does exactly what it says - promotes, publicises and sells without the use of words. Using examples from television, billboard, print and the Internet, Lazar Ozamic examines an intriguing variety of ads from the international arena. The unique relationship between consumer and brand - formed and developed by this method of advertising - is discussed, and (no)copywriters talk about their approach.
Street Logos
- ISBN:
- 0500284695
- Authors:
- Tristan Manco
Subverted signs, spontaneous drawings, powerful monolithic symbols, and curious characters represent a worldwide outdoor gallery of free contemporary art. Graffiti art is constantly changing. Fresh coats of paint and newly pasted posters appear overnight in cities across the world. New artists, new ideas, and new tactics displace faded images in a perpetual process of renewal and metamorphosis. From Los Angeles to Barcelona, Stockholm to Tokyo,...
Nanocrystalline Metals and Oxides: Selected Properties and Applications (Electronic Materials: Science & Technology)
- ISBN:
- 0792376277
Nanostructured materials have at least one dimension in the nanometer range. They became a very active research area in solid state physics and chemistry in recent years with anticipated applications in various domains, including solar cells, electronics, batteries and sensors. Nanocrystalline metals and oxides are dense polycrystalline solids with a mean grain size below 100 nm. This book is intended to give an overview on selected properties...
Envisioning Information
- ISBN:
- 0961392118
- Authors:
- Edward R. Tufte
A remarkable range of examples for the idea of visual thinking, with beautifully printed pages. A real treat for all who reason and learn by means of images. -- Rudolf Arnheim
Drawing From Life: The Journal as Art
- ISBN:
- 1568984456
- Authors:
- Jennifer New
Who hasn't, at one time or other, kept a journal? The impulse to record our daily lives on paper is nothing if not universal. Still, only a few of us have the discipline to make it past the first few entries, and fewer still manage to create diaries whose insight and visual beauty can inspire anyone but their authors. Drawing from Life: The Journal as Art is an exploration of these exceptions—books of obsessive wonder filled to their borders...
100% Evil
- ISBN:
- 1568985266
- Authors:
- Nicholas Blechman, Christoph Niemann
"There's evil in the world."—George W. BushAnd lots of it. The question is, just what does it look like? A politician? An ex-girlfriend? Your landlord? Your boss? Hanna Arendt said it was banal. The Red Sox think of the Yankees. And in this hilarious, disturbing, quirky, and brilliant little book, noted illustrators Nicholas Blechman and Christoph Niemann present a catalog of their own misanthropic imaginings. The two met in 1997, when...
Pioneers Of Modern Graphic Design (Mitchell Beazley Art & Design)
- ISBN:
- 184000939X
- Authors:
- Jeremy Aynsley
Graphic design plays an integral role in modern life, its influence felt everywhere from the poster to the web page. This comprehensive reference work profiles over 60 of the most influential designers worldwide, from early leaders of the genre including Peter Behrens to Saul Bass, Neville Brody, and exponents of today's digital technology such as Jonathan Barnbrook. The book also covers the studios and movements that played major roles in the...
Handbook of Cellular Metals: Production, Processing, Applications
- ISBN:
- 3527303391
The past few years have seen an increasing interest in porous metallic materials, especially in foams made of aluminum or aluminum alloys. The stimulus for this lies in recent process developments which promise materials with better quality and lower cost. Moreover, the environment for the application of new materials has greatly changed. Nowadays higher demands for passenger safety in automobiles or for easy materials recycling make metal foams...
New Carbons - Control of Structure and Functions
- ISBN:
- 0080437133
The discovery of fullerenes and nanotubes has greatly stimulated the interest of scientists and engineers in carbon materials, and has resulted in much scientific research. These materials have provided us with many interesting ideas and potential applications, some of them practical and some simply dreams for the future. In the early 1960s, carbon fibers, glass-like carbons and pyrolytic carbons were developed which were quite different from...
Reading Images: The Grammar of Visual Design
- ISBN:
- 0415319153
- Authors:
- Gunther Kress
This second edition of the landmark textbook Reading Images builds on its reputation as the first systematic and comprehensive account of the grammar of visual design. Drawing on an enormous range of examples from children's drawings to textbook illustrations, photo-journalism to fine art, as well as three-dimensional forms such as sculpture and toys, the authors examine the ways in which images communicate meaning. Features of this fully...
Manga For Dummies (For Dummies (Sports & Hobbies))
- ISBN:
- 0470080256
- Authors:
- Kensuke Okabayashi
If you love Manga, you’ll eat Manga For Dummies, right up. This step-by-step guide shows you how to create all of your favorite Manga characters from rough sketch through final full-color renderings. You’ll build your skills as you draw animals, mythical creatures, superheroes, teenagers, and villains—along with their weapons, cars, and homes. Soon you’ll be inventing your own characters and placing them in stylish poses and stirring...
Consuming Traditions: Modernity, Modernism, and the Commodified Authentic
- ISBN:
- 0195372697
- Authors:
- Elizabeth Outka
In an unprecedented phenomenon that swept across Britain at the turn of the nineteenth century, writers, advertisers, and architects began to create and sell images of an authentic cultural realm paradoxically considered outside the marketplace. Such images were located in nostalgic pictures of an idyllic, pre-industrial past, in supposedly original objects not derived from previous traditions, and in the ideal of a purified aesthetic that might...
Udon's Art of Capcom
- ISBN:
- 1897376995
- Authors:
- UDON, Alvin Lee, Arnold Tsang, Jo Chen, Omar Dogan
On the eve of the 20th anniversary of the Street Fighter franchise, Udon Entertainment is proud to present this special volume commemorating the studio's involvement with legendary video game company Capcom. Beautifully reproduced images from Street Fighter, Darkstalkers, Rival Schools, Mega Man, Devil May Cry and more are showcased in this lush 300-page art book. Included are rare book covers, pin-ups, sketches, and merchandising artwork by...
Professional Manga: Digital Storytelling with Manga Studio EX
- ISBN:
- 0240810287
- Authors:
- Steve Horton, Jeong Mo Yang
Combine high-end manga storytelling theory and advice with the tools for digital creation in Manga Studio, guided by expert professional manga-ka. You'll discover manga storytelling techniques, from speed lines to technology, from toning to big sound effects. Steve Horton and Jeong Mo Yang then show you how best to accomplish these techniques using the leading manga art creation program, Manga Studio EX. Every ounce of theory is backed up with...
Graphic Design Portfolio-Builder: Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator Projects
- ISBN:
- 0321336585
- Authors:
- Sessions.edu
Self-paced, self-guided instruction is all well and good, but at the end of the day, most people could use a little feedback--especially when they're ready to build a design portfolio and hit the job market. Not to worry, this book provides actual instructor feedback along with the self-paced, individualized instruction in Photoshop and Illustrator that designers need. Written by the faculty of New York-based, accredited online design school...
Jesus in the Talmud
- ISBN:
- 0691129266
- Authors:
- Peter Schafer
Scattered throughout the Talmud, the founding document of rabbinic Judaism in late antiquity, can be found quite a few references to Jesus--and they're not flattering. In this lucid, richly detailed, and accessible book, Peter Schäfer examines how the rabbis of the Talmud read, understood, and used the New Testament Jesus narrative to assert, ultimately, Judaism's superiority over Christianity. The Talmudic stories make fun of Jesus' birth from...
TEX in Practice: Volume 1: Basics (Monographs in Visual Communication)
- ISBN:
- 0387975950
- Authors:
- Stephan v. Bechtolsheim
TEX has always been regarded as the most elegant and powerful system for computer typesetting. However, its widespread use, beyond academia, was hampered by its complexity. Recently, fairly good TEX implementations have come out for PCs putting TEX on the desks of many people: writers, designers, desktop publishers, engineers, and consequently, the interest in TEX has surged. What is needed at this point is a book that teaches step-by-step how...
Director MX 2004 Games: Game Development with Director
- ISBN:
- 0240519493
- Authors:
- Nik Lever
Nik Lever guides designers, animators and web developers through the art, animation and programming skills needed to produce games in Director for Internet, CD or DVD distribution. He moves from the introductory coverage of Lingo with explanations of how easily Director's programming language can be mastered, on to more advanced tips and tricks, including coverage of the Havok physics simulation system and 3D maths. All of this is presented in a...
The Focal Easy Guide to Adobe ® Encore T DVD 2.0
- ISBN:
- 0240520041
- Authors:
- Jeff Bellune
Software programs are complex, the books that explain them shouldn't be. This thoroughly illustrated, full-color guide explains everything you need to know to get up and running quickly with Adobe Encore DVD 2.0 without any extraneous information or complicated, detailed explanations. The author focuses solely on the key features you will need to start producing and mastering professional-quality DVDs immediately in order to avoid overloading...
Rendering with mental ray & 3ds Max
- ISBN:
- 0240808932
- Authors:
- Joep van der Steen
Realize your vision with stunning renders of your 3ds Max projects that can only be achieved with a powerful engine like mental ray. Beginning with a concise review of the essential concepts, you proceed to step-by-step tutorials that teach you how to render scenes with indirect light or with specific effects, such as depth of field and motion blur. Contour line shading and various other mental ray features are presented in detail, then you...
The Swastika: Constructing the Symbol (Material Cultures)
- ISBN:
- 041510095X
- Authors:
- Malcolm Quinn
Despite the enormous amount of material on the subject of Nazism, there has been no substantial work on its emblem, the swastika. This original and controversial contribution examines the role that the swastika played in the construction of the Aryan myth in the nineteenth century, and its use in Nazi ideology as a symbol of party, nation and race, treating it as symbolic phenomenon in a cultural context. By identifying the swastika as a...
The Complete Guide to Digital Graphic Design
- ISBN:
- 0500285608
- Authors:
- Bob Gordon, Maggie Gordon
A visually stunning review of the fast-changing world of graphic design, this book will be essential reading for anyone involved in this broadest of industries. Its succinct but comprehensive coverage of the multitude of technical issues confronting today's graphic designers, coupled with breathtaking examples of graphics from around the world, makes it ideal for those already employed in graphics who feel the need to improve their technical and...
ActionScript for Flash MX: The Definitive Guide, Second Edition
- ISBN:
- 059600396X
- Authors:
- Colin Moock
Updated to cover Flash MX, the newest version of Macromedia Flash, ActionScript for Flash MX: The Definitive Guide , Second Edition is the one book no serious Flash developer should be without. Author Colin Moock, one of the most universally respected developers in the Flash community, has added hundreds of new code examples to show new Flash MX techniques in the real world: how to draw circles, save data to disk, convert arrays to onscreen...
Concept Design: Works from Seven Los Angeles Entertainment Designers (v. 1)
- ISBN:
- 0972667601
- Authors:
- Harold Belker, Steve Burg, James Clyne, Mark Goerner, Nick Pugh, Neville Page, Scott Robertson
LightWave 3D 8 Texturing (Wordware Game and Graphics Library)
- ISBN:
- 1556222858
- Authors:
- Leigh van der Byl
Creating interesting and detailed surfaces for objects and characters in 3D is a process many artists find complex and confusing. LightWave 3D 8 Texturing demystifies this task with a thorough discussion of how to use the various LightWave 3D tools to create stunning textures. * Utilize texturing theory to create any type of surface you wish. * Use the various options in the Surface Editor to affect your textures. * Work with textures using...
HYUNDAI ELANTRA 1996-2001 (Haynes Manuals)
- ISBN:
- 156392451X
- Authors:
- Chilton
Total Car Care is the most complete, step-by-step automotive repair manual you'll ever use. All repair procedures are supported by detailed specifications, exploded views, and photographs. From the simplest repair procedure to the most complex, trust Chilton's Total Car Care to give you everything you need to do the job. Save time and money by doing it yourself, with the confidence only a Chilton Repair Manual can provide.
Gilera Runner, DNA, Ice and Stalker Scooters Service and Repair Manual: 1997 to 2004 (Haynes Service and Repair Manuals)
- ISBN:
- 1844251632
- Authors:
- Phil Mather
Antique Maps
- ISBN:
- 0714829544
- Authors:
- Carl Moreland
This is a standard reference work, incorporating a general historical background, methods of map making, practical advice on collecting old maps and a list of the major map makers. Organized country by country, it refers to over 600 cartographers active between 1450 and 1850.
An Essential Introduction to Maya Character Rigging with DVD
- ISBN:
- 0240520823
- Authors:
- Cheryl Cabrera
Discover the concepts and techniques required to rig engaging CG character models with Maya in this unique book and DVD package. The stunning color images show just what you can achieve, and the detailed step-by-step tutorials show exactly how to achieve them. Every technique and tip is backed up with practical tutorials, using the models, student work and tutorial assets on the companion DVD to offer a crash course in this vital skill. With...
Art Nouveau Motifs CD-ROM and Book (Dover Pictorial Archives)
- ISBN:
- 0486995194
- Authors:
- Dover
black-and-white motifs depict languid ladies, enchanting florals, and other designs that add panache to any print project. All rendered in the sensuous, curvilinear style of Art Nouveau, these enchanting designs can also be adapted for use as borders or cornerpieces for a virtually unlimited number of art and craft uses. Disk contains all items in book.
Introduction to Graphical Modelling
- ISBN:
- 0387950540
- Authors:
- David Edwards
Graphic modelling is a form of multivariate analysis that uses graphs to represent models. These graphs display the structure of dependencies, both associational and causal, between the variables in the model. This textbook provides an introduction to graphical modelling with emphasis on applications and practicalities rather than on a formal development. It is bsed on the popular software package for graphical modelling, MIM, a freeware version...
The Mathematica GuideBook for Symbolics (w/ DVD)
- ISBN:
- 0387950206
- Authors:
- Michael Trott
This comprehensive, detailed reference for symbolic computation with Mathematica provides the reader with a working knowledge of Mathematica in general and a detailed knowledge of key aspects of Mathematica needed to create the fastest, shortest and most elegant implementations to solve symbolic problems from the natural and physical sciences. The Guidebook gives the user a deeper understanding of Mathematica by instructive implementations,...
PowerPoint Advanced Presentation Techniques
- ISBN:
- 0764568817
- Authors:
- Faithe Wempen
* The first and only book to focus exclusively on advanced PowerPoint techniques, this latest addition to our successful Power Pack series shows veteran users how to harness sophisticated program features-and take their presentations to the next level * Techniques covered include putting together design templates and color schemes, working with master layouts, importing and manipulating digital photos and video clips, creating sophisticated...
Visualizing Categorical Data
- ISBN:
- 1580256600
- Authors:
- Michael Friendly
This book offers many new and more easily accessible graphical methods for representing categorical data using SAS software. Graphical methods for quantitative data are well developed and widely used. However, until now with this comprehensive treatment, few graphical methods existed for categorical data. In this innovative book, Friendly presents many aspects of the relationships among variables, the adequacy of a fitted model, and possibly...
Wish You Were Here: An Essential Guide to Your Favorite Music Scenes-from Punk to Indie and Everything in Between
- ISBN:
- 006157371X
- Authors:
- Leslie Simon
A snarky, fact-filled look at the people and places that made the indie/punk scene what it is today The American underground music scene is exploding everywhere—not just in New York City and L.A. (although we've got those cities covered too!): In Washington, D.C. . . . Ian MacKaye and Fugazi inspired the straightedge culture, which had kids everywhere drawing black X's on their hands in magic marker. In Omaha, Nebraska . . . A young Conor...
Precalculus Functions and Graphs: A Graphing Approach
- ISBN:
- 0618394761
- Authors:
- Ron Larson, Robert P. Hostetler, Bruce H. Edwards
As part of the market-leading Graphing Approach series by Larson, Hostetler, and Edwards, Precalculus Functions and Graphs: A Graphing Approach, 4/e, provides both students and instructors with a sound mathematics course in an approachable, understandable format. The quality and quantity of the exercises, combined with interesting applications, cutting-edge design, and innovative resources, make teaching easier and help students succeed in...
Creating Dynamic Presentations with Streaming Media (Bpg-Other)
- ISBN:
- 0735614369
- Authors:
- Matt Lichtenberg, Jim Travis
With CREATING DYNAMIC PRESENTATIONS WITH STREAMING MEDIA, you don’t have to be a digital media professional to produce stunning digital media. This easy-to-follow handbook introduces Microsoft® Producer for PowerPoint® 2002—an all-in-one tool for turning ordinary slides, audio, video, and still images into impressive online presentations. From product demos to documentaries, e-learning to executive briefings, you’ll discover how to make...
Shape Analysis and Structuring (Mathematics and Visualization)
- ISBN:
- 3540332642
Several techniques have been developed in the literature for processing different aspects of the geometry of shapes, for representing and manipulating a shape at different levels of detail, and for describing a shape at a structural level as a concise, part-based, or iconic model. Such techniques are used in many different contexts, such as industrial design, biomedical applications, entertainment, environmental monitoring, or cultural heritage....
Modeling and Reasoning with Bayesian Networks
- ISBN:
- 0521884381
- Authors:
- Adnan Darwiche
This book provides a thorough introduction to the formal foundations and practical applications of Bayesian networks. It provides an extensive discussion of techniques for building Bayesian networks that model real-world situations, including techniques for synthesizing models from design, learning models from data, and debugging models using sensitivity analysis. It also treats exact and approximate inference algorithms at both theoretical and...
Archimedes to Hawking: Laws of Science and the Great Minds Behind Them
- ISBN:
- 0195336119
- Authors:
- Clifford Pickover
Archimedes to Hawking takes the reader on a journey across the centuries as it explores the eponymous physical laws--from Archimedes' Law of Buoyancy and Kepler's Laws of Planetary Motion to Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle and Hubble's Law of Cosmic Expansion--whose ramifications have profoundly altered our everyday lives and our understanding of the universe. Throughout this fascinating book, Clifford Pickover invites us to share in the...
Gulliver's Travels (Saddleback's Illustrated Classics)
- ISBN:
- 1562549022
- Authors:
- Jonathan Swift
This series features classic tales retold with attractive color illustrations. Educators using the Dale-Chall vocabulary system adapted each title. Each 70-page, softcover book retains key phrases and quotations from the original classics.
Jane Eyre (Saddleback Illustrated Classics)
- ISBN:
- 156254912X
- Authors:
- Charlotte Bronte
This series features classic tales retold with attractive color illustrations. Educators using the Dale-Chall vocabulary system adapted each title. Each 70-page, softcover book retains key phrases and quotations from the original classics.
Kidnapped (Saddleback Illustrated Classics)
- ISBN:
- 1562549162
- Authors:
- Robert Louis Stevenson
This series features classic tales retold with attractive color illustrations. Educators using the Dale-Chall vocabulary system adapted each title. Each 70-page, softcover book retains key phrases and quotations from the original classics.
Moby Dick (Illustrated Classics)
- ISBN:
- 1562549243
- Authors:
- Herman Melville
This series features classic tales retold with attractive color illustrations. Educators using the Dale-Chall vocabulary system adapted each title. Each 70-page, softcover book retains key phrases and quotations from the original classics.
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (Saddleback's Illustrated Classics)
- ISBN:
- 1562549502
- Authors:
- Jules Verne
This series features classic tales retold with attractive color illustrations. Educators using the Dale-Chall vocabulary system adapted each title. Each 70-page, softcover book retains key phrases and quotations from the original classics.
Julius Caesar (Saddleback's Illustrated Classics)
- ISBN:
- 1599051451
- Authors:
- William Shakespeare
This series features classic Shakespeare retold with graphic color illustrations. Each 64-page softcover book retains key phrases and quotations from the original play.
King Lear (Saddleback's Illustrated Classics)
- ISBN:
- 1599051478
- Authors:
- William Shakespeare
This series features classic Shakespeare retold with graphic color illustrations. Each 64-page softcover book retains key phrases and quotations from the original play.
Twisted Journeys 3: Terror in Ghost Mansion (Graphic Universe)
- ISBN:
- 0822567768
- Authors:
- Paul D. Storrie
Your worst fears come true when you're trapped in a very haunted house! Every Twisted Journeys(tm) graphic novel lets YOU control the action by choosing which path to follow. Which twists and turns will your journey take?
Silent Hill: Paint It Black
- ISBN:
- 1932382658
- Authors:
- Scott Ciencin, Shaun Thomas
Painter and semi-professional slacker Ike finds his dark muse in the mist-enshrouded, monster-infested reaches of Silent Hill. Then the sexy, survivalist-trained, gun-toting cheerleader Cheryl and her teammates arrive to rock his world. Creatures attack, cheerleaders disappear, and the gloves come off! Will anything survive?
Almuric (Planet Stories)
- ISBN:
- 1601250436
- Authors:
- Robert E. Howard
The creator of Conan looks to the stars in one of fantasy's most enduring science fantasy classics! Robert E. Howard's Almuric is a savage planet of crumbling stone ruins and debased, near-human inhabitants. Into this world comes Esau Cairn, Earthman, swordsman, murderer. Only he can overthrow the terrible devils that enslave Almuric, but to do so he must first defeat the inner demons that forced him to abandon Earth. Filled with vile beasts and...
Reading Japan Cool: Patterns of Manga Literacy and Discourse
- ISBN:
- 0739127535
- Authors:
- John Ingulsrud, Kate Allen
The characters, the stories, and the sensibilities coming out of Japanese animation, manga, and video games are together called Japan Cool. The origins of the movement are in manga, the practices of the readers, the diversity of the titles, and the sheer number of works.
The Tale Of Genji
- ISBN:
- 1595820639
- Authors:
- Yoshitaka Amano
Yoshitaka Amano has been praised around the world for his lush watercolors and evocative work dealing with myth and legend. In The Tale of Genji, Mr. Amano brings his considerable talent to retelling one of the most famous of Japanese myths. Written by Murasaki Shikibu shortly after 1000 AD and considered by most scholars to be the first novel ever written, The Tale of Genji is the story of the romantic adventures of Genji, the amazingly...
Manga Studio For Dummies (For Dummies (Computer/Tech))
- ISBN:
- 0470129867
- Authors:
- Doug Hills
Love Manga? The newest features of Manga Studio help you bring your ideas to life! The tools available in the latest version of this powerful program make it easy to turn your computer into your drawing board, and Manga Studio For Dummies makes it easy to get started. Discover how to use Manga Studio to begin creating comics in manga or Western styles, add color to your creations, and share them with your adoring public. It’s a breeze once you...
Introduction to Functional Analysis (Oxford Graduate Texts in Mathematics, 2)
- ISBN:
- 0198514859
- Authors:
- Reinhold Meise, Dietmar Vogt
This book was written for students of mathematics and physics who have a basic knowledge of analysis and linear algebra. It can be used as a textbook for courses and/or seminars in functional analysis.
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