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Book Robin Williams Design Workshop  Second Edition

Download or read book Robin Williams Design Workshop Second Edition written by Robin Williams and published by Pearson Education. This book was released on 2006-08-10 with total page 781 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. Now she and designer/co-author John Tollett take you to the next level of creative design with practical advice and lessons in composition, visual impact, and design challenges. Presented in Robin and John's signature style—writing that is so crystal clear, it's accessible to absolutely anyone—and illustrated with hundreds of full-color design examples, the ideas in this book tackle design theory, visual puns, and layout and graphics strategies for real-world projects. Developing designers will appreciate the authors' imaginative approach and well-chosen examples. Discover practical and effective design principles and concepts—and how to apply them to virtually any project. Learn why some designs are attention-getting and others are not. Learn how to choose just the right look—corporate or casual, classic or trendy—for specific types of projects, such as business cards, letterhead and envelopes, newsletters and brochures, logos, advertising, and more. Test your design acumen by comparing before-and-after examples. Find a wealth of inspiration for your own design projects. Gain insight into the design process by studying the work of guest designers, who offer their personal commentary and insights.

Book Robin Williams Handmade Design Workshop

Download or read book Robin Williams Handmade Design Workshop written by Robin Williams and published by Peachpit Press. This book was released on 2009-12-09 with total page 674 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the course of the last several years, the DIY market has exploded spawning magazines, books, movies and fueling the growth of the online, handmade marketplace. In Robin Williams Handmade Design Workshop: Create Handmade Elements for Digital Designs, best-selling author Robin Williams and Carmen Sheldon take designers away from their computers and show them, step-by-step, how to use traditional artist's tools to create handmade elements for their digital artwork. The authors provide a wealth of new ideas to jump-start creativity and get graphic designers thinking in new ways. Each how-to is illustrated with tons of photos to show how to use paints, inks, textures, modeling pastes, and more to create handmade materials that can then be scanned in and used to create one-of-a-kind print projects or web sites. Examples of finished projects and Web sites are featured throughout the book to provide both instruction and inspiration for designers to use in their own projects.

Book Robin Williams DVD Design Workshop

Download or read book Robin Williams DVD Design Workshop written by John Tollett and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robin Williams DVD Design Workshop provides a clear, accessible introduction to the world of DVD menu design and authoring. If you're an amateur video artist, home-movie buff, or professional designer, you can use this book as a great introduction to learning how to create DVDs for your personal use or professional projects. John Tollett, David Rohr, and Robin Williams make it easy by presenting necessary technical information and design inspiration in the classic informal and friendly style that has made Robin's books continual best-sellers. Robin Williams DVD Design Workshop provides all of the information you need to understand the DVD authoring process and to get started with your own DVD projects. You'll learn about the advantages of the DVD format, applications of DVD technology, hardware requirements, and the pros and cons of various consumer vs. prosumer DVD authoring tools. The book also includes overviews of leading Mac and PC DVD authoring software tools, such as iDVD, MyDVD, DVD Studio Pro, DVD Producer and more. To get you inspired, the authors include examples of successful (and sometimes unusual) DVD interface designs from professional designers and major Hollywood studios. Valuable outsource resources for packaging and distributing your own DVD are also included.

Book Writer s Guide to Book Proposals

Download or read book Writer s Guide to Book Proposals written by Anne Hart and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2004-04-19 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is your new author's guide to writing winning book proposals and query letters. Learn how to find free media publicity by selling solutions to universal problems. The samples and templates of proposals, query letters, cover letters, and press kits will help you launch your proposed book idea in the media long before you find a publisher. Use excerpts from your own book proposal's sample chapters as features, fillers, and columns for publications. Share experiences in carefully researched and crafted book proposals and query or cover letters. Use these templates and samples to get a handle on universal situations we all go through, find alternatives, use the results, take charge of challenges, and solve problems-all in your organized and focused book proposals, outlines, treatments, springboards, and query or cover letters.

Book Cover Letters  Follow Ups  Queries and Book Proposals

Download or read book Cover Letters Follow Ups Queries and Book Proposals written by Anne Hart and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2004 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once your cover letter is positioned first to be noticed, then how do you position the letters to be noticed for the longest time in a number of situations? What kind of thank-you letters work best? How do you ask for help in finding a job from a letter to a stranger, acquaintance, or business networking contact? How do you write a cover letter that will never be misinterpreted as a sales pitch or autobiography? How do you plan, write, and format an outstanding book proposal that lets the reader see the bottom line--profit for the publisher? Positioning your goal or project first means going where no one has gone before. It's where the competition is missing. Go where no one else has gone before when you plan, write, and format great cover letters, follow-up letters, and book proposals. Cover and follow-up letters or proposals could be applied to book proposals, book proposal cover letters, written marriage proposals, pre-nuptials, and courting. Cover letters could apply to love letters, letters to friends and relatives, business contacts at trade shows, or literary agents. How do you use cover and follow-up letters to position first your resumes, proposals, relationship communications, marketing or sales connections and connections? After cover letters, how to you plan, write, and position first your follow-up letters? What types of letters bring people together? Act as a catalyst? Get you an interview? Position you first for inclusion in a job, business, or relationship? What type of letters position first, attract, and sell what you can do without looking like sales letters? What types of cover and follow-up letters are best sent with a resume?

Book The Non designers Design Book

Download or read book The Non designers Design Book written by Robin Williams and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Defines page layout and design principles and explains how to use space, color, and type to create dynamic-looking documents and Web pages.

Book Digital Storytelling

    Book Details:
  • Author : Carolyn Handler Miller
  • Publisher : Taylor & Francis
  • Release : 2004
  • ISBN : 0240805100
  • Pages : 474 pages

Download or read book Digital Storytelling written by Carolyn Handler Miller and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2004 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first professional book to explore and analyze digital storytelling across interactive media and genres-this book examines how digital storytelling draws on classic narrative techniques and utilizes interactive digital technologies to create today's entertainment.Digital Storytelling explains key strategies for conveying narrative through digital technologies, based on personal experience and numerous case studies, providing project managers, interactive content designers, and writers with the tools necessary for planning a successful interactive project, including ideas for product development and conceptualization. Detailed planning processes for all types of interactive projects are discussed, including videogames, massively multiplayer online games, the Internet, interactive TV, cross-media productions, smart toys, virtual reality, immersive environments, wireless devices, kiosks, and DVDs. The book also covers topics such as: structure, characters and emotions; tackling projects for children; finding work and staying employed; and more.Miller has written Digital Storytelling for the professional and the student, and details what interactive content developers and project managers need to know in a clear, enthusiastic manner.

Book The Design of Sites

    Book Details:
  • Author : van Duyne (Douglas K.)
  • Publisher : Addison-Wesley Professional
  • Release : 2003
  • ISBN : 9780201721492
  • Pages : 822 pages

Download or read book The Design of Sites written by van Duyne (Douglas K.) and published by Addison-Wesley Professional. This book was released on 2003 with total page 822 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Creating a Web site is easy. Creating a well-crafted Web site that provides a winning experience for your audience and enhances your profitability is another matter. It takes research, skill, experience, and careful thought to build a site that maximizes retention and repeat visits.

Book Robin Williams Mac Os X Book

Download or read book Robin Williams Mac Os X Book written by Robin Williams and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 740 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No matter how many bells and whistles a new operating system offers--and with Mac OS X 10.3 Panther the list is a long one--using that new OS can be an intimidating process. Unless, of course, you have Robin Williams in your corner: In this volume she once again works her magic by providing a gentle and friendly introduction to Mac OS X Panther. In these pages, Robin covers not just the basics of using a Mac under Mac OS X--printing, sending e-mail, exchanging files, surfing the Internet--but all of the important new and improved features as well: working with Panther's all-new Finder, using Expose to work with windows, getting started with iChat AV, expanded coverage of networking, improved Web access with the Safari browser, working with Mail, and lots more.

Book Robin Williams design workshop

Download or read book Robin Williams design workshop written by John Tollett and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Robin Williams Cool Mac Apps

Download or read book Robin Williams Cool Mac Apps written by John Tollett and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prepare to pounce! This book offers all the friendly, practical instruction you need to immediately take advantage of the powerfully enhanced applications that come pre-installed with Mac OS X Panther. Through tutorials, tips, and techniques you'll learn how to use each of the powerful apps--both individually and as part of an integrated, interactive suite. Robin and John also cover the features of the immensely popular .Mac account and its applications. Whether you're a new or veteran user, you'll welcome this volume's easy approach to all that's new (and not so new) in Panther's application collection. You'll find an entire chapter on GarageBand, Apple's new consumer-level music-making software. You'll also learn everything about getting on the Internet and using email, including the greatest web browser, Safari; the way-cool iChat AV, which adds audio and video to instant messaging; an updated iTunes, which includes access to the revolutionary Apple iTunes Music Store; a powerfully updated iCal with its enhanced alarms and robust time zone support; haunting new visual effects in iMovie; updated features in the .Mac applications, including iSync, Backup, Virex, Mail, Homepage, iCards; and much more.

Book The Mac is Not a Typewriter

Download or read book The Mac is Not a Typewriter written by Robin Williams and published by Peachpit Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Simple yet indispensable typographic advice is offered by a leading graphic design and typography expert. This edition has 20 new pages including a fonts chapter updated to reflect current typography and software/hardware standards.

Book Job Coach Life Coach Executive Coach Branding Letter   Resume Writing Service

Download or read book Job Coach Life Coach Executive Coach Branding Letter Resume Writing Service written by Anne Hart and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2005-10-07 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here's how to start your personal service business. Develop an icon, logo, and motto for your coaching clients. As a job or career coach, an executive coach, or a life coach, you will be presenting and classifying your client's competencies, writing resumes, cover letters, and creating a wide variety of business correspondence including sales letters, news releases, and direct mail copy. You will be planning events for your clients and their prospective employers. You'll need to really work a room to find clients as well as niches or jobs for clients when networking at professional associations and trade shows. Most frequently, you'll be asked to write, evaluate, and repackage resumes, cover letters, and other summaries of qualifications of your clients. A resume is a summary of qualifications. A career coach helps clients find success by taking step-by-step detailed, concrete strategies that solve specific problems, get results, and reach a defined goal. A resume writing business online can be combined with a career coaching enterprise. The steps are outlined here for you to follow in chronological order to open and operate a resume-writing service business and also a career coaching enterprise, online from your home, mobile location, or office. You can telecommute online and still help people find direction by offering information, training, or consulting services. Here's how to open an online business at home presenting and packaging your clients' competencies. Make your living writing resumes, business letters, and being a job coach. Help clients obtain appoints for interviews that may eventually lead to finding work. Write and repackage resumes and all types of business correspondence-from cover letters and follow-ups to direct mail or trade show sales letters.

Book Macs on the Go

    Book Details:
  • Author : John Tollett
  • Publisher : Pearson Education
  • Release : 2006
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 244 pages

Download or read book Macs on the Go written by John Tollett and published by Pearson Education. This book was released on 2006 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now that you have a Mac laptop, you have everything you need to be a Road Warrior-a mobile computing expert. Grab your Mac laptop and let John and Robin show you how to realize the full potential of mobile computing. Be productive, be creative, or just have a lot of fun while you're on the go! Whether you're traveling from one room to the other, from home to office, or even to another country, Macs on the Go! shows you how to take advantage of the power of mobility. You'll learn how to: - Modify your Network settings for connectivity. - Use the Mac's built-in software to keep in touch. - Receive and send email from almost anywhere in the world. - Customize Network settings. - Use iChat to video conference or audio chat while on the go. - Keep in touch using .Mac Group pages or iWeb for blogs, photo pages, and movie pages. - Take advantage of cool .Mac account features. And you'll learn about: - Bluetooth and Wi-Fi technology. - Wireless connections and Hotspots. - Using a mobile phone to connect to the Internet. - File sharing while on the go. - Advanced Road Warrior tips.

Book Robin Williams Design Workshop and Non Desginer s Design Book

Download or read book Robin Williams Design Workshop and Non Desginer s Design Book written by Robin Williams and published by . This book was released on 2004-06 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Creative Workshop

    Book Details:
  • Author : David Sherwin
  • Publisher : HOW Books
  • Release : 2010-11-24
  • ISBN : 1600617972
  • Pages : 240 pages

Download or read book Creative Workshop written by David Sherwin and published by HOW Books. This book was released on 2010-11-24 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever struggled to complete a design project on time? Or felt that having a tight deadline stifled your capacity for maximum creativity? If so, then this book is for you. Within these pages, you'll find 80 creative challenges that will help you achieve a breadth of stronger design solutions, in various media, within any set time period. Exercises range from creating a typeface in an hour to designing a paper robot in an afternoon to designing web pages and other interactive experiences. Each exercise includes compelling visual solutions from other designers and background stories to help you increase your capacity to innovate. Creative Workshop also includes useful brainstorming techniques and wisdom from some of today's top designers. By road-testing these techniques as you attempt each challenge, you'll find new and more effective ways to solve tough design problems and bring your solutions to vibrant life.

Book Books In Print 2004 2005

Download or read book Books In Print 2004 2005 written by Ed Bowker Staff and published by R. R. Bowker. This book was released on 2004 with total page 3274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: