Designers Books

Every year this book makes me stoked. All the best publication design for that year. Can't go wrong ordering this sight unseen year afetr year.

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The cover and the craftsmanship of this book nearly warrant its purchase alone. The work of French designer Laurent Fétis is absolutely stunning. His style and originality has been featured on the covers of bands like Tahiti 80 and Mellow while working for labels such as Emperor, Minty Fresh, Escalator, Emi, Virgin, Universal.. and so on. His work has also been exhibited at the Pompidou Centre (Paris Museum of Modern Art). If you like colorful, vibrant, hip and swanky graphic design, buy this book. It will look great on your coffee table or as an addition to your design book collection. Enjoy.

Rich Shupe & crew have made a terrific guide for transitioning from AS2 to AS3. Their examples are clearly written, typically showing code written in both versions and pointing out the advantages of AS3 by comparison. Speaking as someone who uses flash as a designer primarily, his book as gone a great way towards making AS3 a lot less intimidating. Great job, highly recommend it.

In this exciting "Twilight 2000" module, the players learn that a radical group living in the Ozark region of the United States have captured an airship and are using it to wreac havoc on the countryside. This entertaining module provides information about the Ozarks region, the bandits, and several different encounters. As a GM, I used this module with my gaming group, and it was very entertaining. I highly recommend this module for T-2000 players and GMs. There is enough encounters to create an entire campaign within the Ozarks region. Will the bandits succeed? Play this module and let your gaming group decide.

The collaberation between black and white and color photos is appealing to the senses. Fashion is shown mostly through the images of super models and superstars. Included are photos spanning the decades and the world, with people of all races and ages portrayed. The portraits are refreshing and truly creative, using graphic design in just the right amount. Overall I would rate this as one of the top five fashion books one must have! I also recommend 10 Years of Dolce & Gabbana if you like this book for the great photography and design.

I bought this as a present for my nephew, along with a field trip of downtown Detroit, where we spend an afternoon spotting Albert Kahn buildings. He loved it and continues to reread this book! It has the right amount of history, a good story and explains basic architectural terms.

This book is amazing!If you are a graphic designer, I suggest you pick it up. It's loaded with yummy graphics, illustrations and more. A definit designer's must have.

American Car Design Now is the benchmark book in car design as business management, as sculpture and as psychology. It lays a foundation and sets a standard for intelligent writing on car design, writing that trains your eye to see more. The book is built on interviews with key designers and design managers at Ford, Chrysler and General Motors. In three major sections it reveals and explores how managers make decisions about the broad concepts and how basics such as proportion and line, as well as defining details make or break the visual success of a design. The author coaxes inarticulate designers to reveal how they work, how the mind, the eye and the hand create car designs that thrill or bore us. Visual concepts in the mind of the author reveal things that would go unnoticed by designer and observers unequipped with these concepts. Visual analyses of the designs of specific cars show how and why many great car design concepts become dull blobs when translated into production cars. Analyses refer to photos illustrating the author' points. A rich set of interviews with significant car designers is appended. Finally there is a fundamental glossary of car design terms that is a must-have.

Car-design is a complex intersect of art, business and psychology that this book captures but does not simplify. You will earn what you learn from this book, but your effort will be rewarded. My only complaint that this book's handsome graphic design often does not track the text closely enough. Some photo references are incorrect, missing or distant from their discussion. Nevermind that: this book is essential reading for anyone involved in car design. Buy it now; get express shipping; take time off to read it.

This is an important book of original victorian and art deco shoe patterns.
It explains how to design shoe pattern styles that vary decorative elements, something not covered in basic fashion shoe courses.
[ISBN: 0979665124]

There are original, historic filigree patterns and some text discussing the important fashion movement named "Parisian Style" which was part of Victorian fashions. Clear diagrams explain how patterns relate to shoe lasts, and teaches basic pattern drafting off shoe lasts for women, men or childrens shoes. Book dimensions 11"x14" hardcover only.

Reprints can be ordered by your bookstore or library at www.rexkelly.org/books.html.

An important book for fashion designers, theater companies, and libraries.

It's the best blank book I've ever read!