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The Best of Newspaper Design: 25th Edition, part of RockportÆs highly respected series, presents the winning entries from the Society for News DesignÆs 2003 competition. Featuring work selected by a panel of judges from more than 14,000 international publication entries, this inspirational volume sets the bar for excellence in journalistic design. Bold, full-color layouts feature the best-of-the-best in news, features, portfolios, visuals, and more, and each entry is accompanied by insightful commentary on the elements that made the piece a standout winner. Every industry professional aspires to one day see his or her work in this book.

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Product Description: Exploring Multimedia for Designers covers the essential concepts and technologies of text, graphics, animation, audio, and video and how they are interwoven to create multimedia products. This user-friendly book introduces the essential concepts and technologies without heavy technical complexities...read more

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Provides instructions and tutorials on using the GIMP image editor to retouch photographs, create new artwork, and create composites of multiple images.

A guide to Web design basics covers HTML, lists, links, tables, and frames, authoring programs, Web graphics applications, navigation systems, and information and interface design.

Three hundred full-color illustrations capture the full array of modern digital technology and its applications in contemporary graphic design, discussing the various new media available to artists and designers and their use in such fields as advertising, television, CD-ROM design, and retail spaces, with information on important designers, exhibits, and the experience of working in a rapidly changing field. Original.

Demonstrates 3D texturing techniques while reviewing 3D imaging fundamental for professional designers.

Product Description: The craft of graphic design requires mastery of typographic design and of the digital applications used to execute it--these companion guides build capacities in both of these areas together. The Design Concepts book will guide readers to observe and reflect on how type functions and to develop strategies for creative typographic expression...read more

Product Description: Learn design theory and practical know-how from the award-winning author/design team, Robin Williams and John Tollett! Robin Williams introduced design and typographic principles to legions of readers with her best-selling Non-Designer's book series...read more

Product Description: The only Apple-authorized guide to Final Cut Express HD 3.5, this book delivers the techniques you need to make movie magic with DV or HDV footage. Each chapter presents a complete lesson in an aspect of video editing and finishing, with hands-on projects to complete as you go...read more

Product Description: With the Illustrated Series' signature, two-page spread format, presenting lessons in a clean, easy-to follow layout, this exciting new title covers all of the features you know need know to create exciting home movies using Adobe Premiere Elements 2...read more

Product Description: Filmmaking is entering a new era. Mini-DV filmmaking is the new folk music, the new punk rock, the new medium in which anyone can tell their story. "$30 Dollar Film School, Second Edition" is an alternative to spending four years and a hundred-thousand dollars to learn the filmmaking trade...read more

Product Description: The idea that "measuring quality is the key to developing high-quality software systems" is gaining relevance. Moreover, it is widely recognised that the key to obtaining better software systems is to measure the quality characteristics of early artefacts, produced at the conceptual modelling phase...read more

Product Description: 21st Century Game Design is not just a book about game design. It's an answer to two important questions: who are we designing games for and how do we do it best? Written by industry pros, the book teaches designers how to design better games from a why perspective...read more

Product Description: THE BRAND GAP is the first book to present a unified theory of brand-building.  Whereas most books on branding are weighted toward either a strategic or creative approach, this book shows how both ways of thinking can unite to produce a “charismatic brand”—a brand that customers feel is essential to their lives...read more

Product Description: Patterns in Game Design provides professional and aspiring game designers with a collection of practical design choices that are possible in all types of games. These choices, called patterns, are used to illustrate the varying types of gameplay found in games...read more

Product Description: Welcome to the latest volume of ShaderX! This all-new collection is packed with insightful new techniques, innovative approaches to common problems, and practical tools and tricks that will help you in all areas of shader programming...read more