Alf Yarwood provides a practical, structured course of work matched to the latest release of AutoCAD. After introducing first principles and the creation of 2D technical drawings, he goes on to demonstrate the construction of 3D solid and surface model drawings and rendering. All the new features of the 2009 software release are taken into account and the increasing emphasis on 3D solid modelling in the software is reflected in the book. The 2D chapters are also suitable for those learning how to use AutoCAD LT 2009. Suitable for all new users of AutoCAD, this book is particularly applicable to vocational and introductory level undergraduate courses in engineering and construction. It is an ideal textbook for the City & Guilds Computer Aided Design and Engineering qualifications (4353 and 2303)and the relevant CAD units of BTEC National and BTEC Higher National Engineering and Construction schemes from Edexcel.
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Japanese Brush Painting
Japanese brush painting is a relatively recent development and emerged out of the Buddhist schools of calligraphy (Shodo). The ancient art of Japanese brush painting, or sumi-e, is strikingly beautiful, simple and pure, yet strong and resonant. Closely related to Zen philosophy, the art of sumi-e is executed with black ink on white rice paper using bamboo brushes. Subjects in Japanese brush painting include landscapes, flowers, or animals, anything that suggests a closeness to the natural world.
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Japanese Brush Painting
Japanese brush painting is a relatively recent development and emerged out of the Buddhist schools of calligraphy (Shodo). The ancient art of Japanese brush painting, or sumi-e, is strikingly beautiful, simple and pure, yet strong and resonant. Closely related to Zen philosophy, the art of sumi-e is executed with black ink on white rice paper using bamboo brushes. Subjects in Japanese brush painting include landscapes, flowers, or animals, anything that suggests a closeness to the natural world.
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User Experience Re-Mastered: Your Guide to Getting the Right Design
Good user interface design isn't just about aesthetics or using the latest technology. Designers also need to ensure their product is offering an optimal user experience. This requires user needs analysis, usability testing, persona creation, prototyping, design sketching, and evaluation through-out the design and development process.
User Experience Re-Mastered takes tried and tested material from best-selling books in Morgan Kaufmann's Series in Interactive Technologies and presents it in typical project framework. Chauncey Wilson guides the reader through each chapter, introducing each stage, explaining its context, and emphasizing its significance in the user experience lifecycle. This gives readers practical and easily applicable direction for creating web sites and web applications that ensure the ultimate experience. A must read for students, those new to the field, and anyone designing interfaces for people!
A guided, hands-on tour through the process of creating the ultimate user experience - from testing, to prototyping, to design, to evaluation
Provides tried and tested material from best sellers in Morgan Kaufmann's Series in Interactive Technologies
Presents material from luminaries field in a straightforward, easy to digest format ideal for students and those new to the field
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User Experience Re-Mastered: Your Guide to Getting the Right Design
Good user interface design isn't just about aesthetics or using the latest technology. Designers also need to ensure their product is offering an optimal user experience. This requires user needs analysis, usability testing, persona creation, prototyping, design sketching, and evaluation through-out the design and development process.
User Experience Re-Mastered takes tried and tested material from best-selling books in Morgan Kaufmann's Series in Interactive Technologies and presents it in typical project framework. Chauncey Wilson guides the reader through each chapter, introducing each stage, explaining its context, and emphasizing its significance in the user experience lifecycle. This gives readers practical and easily applicable direction for creating web sites and web applications that ensure the ultimate experience. A must read for students, those new to the field, and anyone designing interfaces for people!
A guided, hands-on tour through the process of creating the ultimate user experience - from testing, to prototyping, to design, to evaluation
Provides tried and tested material from best sellers in Morgan Kaufmann's Series in Interactive Technologies
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Graphic Design America 3: Portfolios from the Best and Brightest Design Firms from Across the U.S.
- Jenny Sullivan, "Graphic Design America 3: Portfolios from the Best and Brightest Design Firms from Across the U.S."
- Rockport Publishers | 2005 | ISBN: 1592531261 | 246 pages | PDF | 56,3 MB
- The latest installment in Rockport's Graphic Design America series is sure to top the previous two best-selling volumes. Like its predecessors, Graphic Design America 3 profiles more than 35 of the graphic designers and graphic design firms in the United States. The work being produced in America is wonderful, varied, and influential around the globe, which is the reason for the success of the first two books.
- Each profile will feature a wide selection of the designers' or design firms' recent work that shows off a range of both their talents and breadth of style, as well as noted accomplishments and an overview of their signature style.
- What is the status of graphic design in America today? Where is graphic design in America heading? This book provides the answers through the work profiles and essays by noteworthy writers in the graphic design industry.
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Graphic Design America 3: Portfolios from the Best and Brightest Design Firms from Across the U.S.
- Jenny Sullivan, "Graphic Design America 3: Portfolios from the Best and Brightest Design Firms from Across the U.S."
- Rockport Publishers | 2005 | ISBN: 1592531261 | 246 pages | PDF | 56,3 MB
- The latest installment in Rockport's Graphic Design America series is sure to top the previous two best-selling volumes. Like its predecessors, Graphic Design America 3 profiles more than 35 of the graphic designers and graphic design firms in the United States. The work being produced in America is wonderful, varied, and influential around the globe, which is the reason for the success of the first two books.
- Each profile will feature a wide selection of the designers' or design firms' recent work that shows off a range of both their talents and breadth of style, as well as noted accomplishments and an overview of their signature style.
- What is the status of graphic design in America today? Where is graphic design in America heading? This book provides the answers through the work profiles and essays by noteworthy writers in the graphic design industry.
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Little Landscapes by Priscilla Hauser
- Little Landscapes by Priscilla Hauser
- Sterling | 2008 | ISBN: 1402752695 | English | 130 pages | PDF | 35.60 Mb
- Priscilla Hauser has earned her title as the world’s “First Lady of decorative painting.” Her efforts to educate and inspire began in 1972 with the founding of the National Society of Tole and Decorative Painters and continues strong today. Here, the bestselling author applies her decades of experience to show crafters how to make a big impact on a small canvas. She starts with painting basics, including proper techniques for brushstrokes, and continues with her patented, easy-to-follow techniques for capturing grass, land, water, and trees. Through 15 of her own gorgeous works, Hauser shows readers how to combine all of those elements to create beautiful landscapes. Exquisite color photographs guide aspiring painters through every step of the process.
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Little Landscapes by Priscilla Hauser
- Little Landscapes by Priscilla Hauser
- Sterling | 2008 | ISBN: 1402752695 | English | 130 pages | PDF | 35.60 Mb
- Priscilla Hauser has earned her title as the world’s “First Lady of decorative painting.” Her efforts to educate and inspire began in 1972 with the founding of the National Society of Tole and Decorative Painters and continues strong today. Here, the bestselling author applies her decades of experience to show crafters how to make a big impact on a small canvas. She starts with painting basics, including proper techniques for brushstrokes, and continues with her patented, easy-to-follow techniques for capturing grass, land, water, and trees. Through 15 of her own gorgeous works, Hauser shows readers how to combine all of those elements to create beautiful landscapes. Exquisite color photographs guide aspiring painters through every step of the process.
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Design Research Now: Essays and Selected Projects
- Ralf Michel, "Design Research Now: Essays and Selected Projects"
- Birkhäuser Architecture | 2007 | ISBN: 3764384719 | 254 pages | PDF | 3,2 MB
- Design is becoming a recognised academic discipline, and design research is the driving force behind this transformation. Design Research Now Essays and Selected Projects charts the field of design research with introductory essays and selected research projects. The authors of the essays, all leading international design scholars, stake out positions on the most important issues of design research. They locate the significance of design research at the interface with technological development, describe what makes it a necessary ingredient of the continued development of the design disciplines, and assign it a seminal role in the relevant developments
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- The essays are supplemented by the presentation of recently completed research projects from universities in the Netherlands, the UK and Italy.
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Perspective Drawing Handbook
- Joseph D'Amelio, "Perspective Drawing Handbook"
- Dover Publications | 2004 | ISBN: 0486432084 | 96 pages | PDF | 43,8 MB
- Concise, thoughtfully written text on drawing and sketching, accompanied by more than 150 simply drawn illustrations, provides important information on such subjects as diminution, foreshortening, convergence, shade and shadow, and other visual principles of perspective. Illustrations depict a sense of space and depth, demonstrate vanishing points and eye level.
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Perspective: A New System for Designers
- Perspective: A New System for Designers By Jay Doblin
- Publisher: Watson-Guptill 1950 | 68 Pages | ISBN: 0823074196 | PDF | 58 MB
- The classic book.
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Architect's Drawings: A selection of sketches by world famous architects through history
- Architect's Drawings: A selection of sketches by world famous architects through history By Kendra Schank Smith
- Publisher: Architectural Press 2005 | 224 Pages | ISBN: 0750657197 | PDF | 11 MB
- The sketch is a window into the architects mind. As creative designers, architects are interested in how other architects, particularly successful ones, think through the use of drawings to approach their work. Historically designers have sought inspiration for their own work through an insight into the minds and workings of people they often regard as geniuses. This collection of sketches aims to provide this insight. Here for the first time, a wide range of world famous architects' sketches from the Renaissance to the present day can be seen in a single volume. The sketches have been selected to represent the concepts or philosophies of the key movements in architecture in order to develop an overall picture of the role of the sketch in the development of architecture. The book illustrates the work of designers as diverse as Andrea Palladio, Erich Mendelsohn, Sir Edwin Lutyens, Gianlorenzo Bernini, Le Corbusier, Michelangelo, Alvar Aalto, Sir John Soane, Francesco Borromini, Walter Gropius, and contemporary architects Tadao Ando, Zaha Hadid and Frank Gehry to name but a few. Each chronologically placed sketch is accompanied by text providing details about the architect's life, a look at the sketch in context, and the connection to specific buildings where appropriate. Style, media and meaning are also discussed, developing an explanation of the architect's thinking and intentions.
- As creative designers themselves, architects are interested in how other architects, particularly successful ones, think and draw and approach their work. Historically designers have sought inspiration for their own work through an insight into the minds and workings of people they often regard as geniuses. This collection of sketches aims to provide this insight.
- Listed chronologically each sketch will be accompanied by a text which provides: A short synopsis/history of the architect's life; a look at the sketch in this context; the connection to a specific building (where appropriate); techniques of the sketch: style and media; meaning - what the sketch shows about the architect's thinking and intentions followed by a select bibliography for each section.
- · Sketches from prominent architects, drawn from an international selection
- · A unique insight into how architects use sketches to develop and transfer complex concepts into physical form, enabling readers to improve the connection between their own ideas and designs
- · Reveals the secrets of the most successful sketching techniques used by architects for today's designers
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Perspective: A Guide for Artists, Architects and Designers (Repost)
- Perspective: A Guide for Artists, Architects and Designers By Gwen White
- Publisher: Batsford Ltd 1989 | 80 Pages | ISBN: 0713434120 | PDF | 12 MB
- This classic study of perspective is an absolute must for any serious students of design, benefiting amateurs and professionals alike. Dozens of examples are illustrated, including parallel, angular, and oblique perspectives, as well as ascending and descending planes. Other images show how to create a “cone of rays,” and add depth and realism to curved objects. The techniques can be used for laying out a garden, predicting the shadow effects of a tall building, and accurately capturing the interplay of angles, light, and shadow.
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