Explore the fundamentals of typography with this practical new guide. An instructional reader rather than historical survey, Design Elements: Typography Fundamentals uses well-founded, guiding principles to teach the language of type and how to use it capably. Designers are left with a solid ground on which to design with type. Limitless potential for meaningful and creative communication exists—this is the field guide for the journey!

Graphic Design Cookbook: Mix & Match Recipes for Faster, Better Layouts

Leonard Koren & R. Wippo Meckler
142 Pages PDF | 39 MB 

Before & After Master Collection 1999-2010
The DVD contains 50 Printed Editions, 99 PDF Articles | RAR 876 MB

Before & After Master Collection contains more than 1,000 pages and 10,000 pictures to make out and show step by step art of design. You'll find the secrets of the page layouts, creating typography with color and pictures, create a beautiful design web pages, ads, brochures, logos, posters, presentations and much more!

Who's Hungry? Magazine #8, Summer 2013

    

Focus: Love: Your World, Your Images

Publisher: Lark Books; 1 edition (March 2, 2010)

Language: English | ISBN-10: 1600595634 | ISBN-13: 978-1600595639

180 Pages HQ PDF | 80 MB

• Every unique photograph begins with an original point of view

• The first book in a brand-new photographic series—shot mostly by amateurs—about seeing the world from a brand-new perspective!

• Amateurs, by definition, work for love alone—so what subject could be more fitting for the first entry in a brand-new series focusing on the art of the amateur photographer than that potent symbol of love: the heart?  Through their snapshot-hungry eyes, these photographers glimpse hearts everywhere: in graffiti scrawled on an alleyway wall, in paper cut by a child, and in nature’s worn stones scattered on a forest floor. All that’s necessary is to open our eyes…which is what this collection inspires us to do.

LogoLounge 5: 2,000 International Identities by Leading Designers
Rockport | Bill Gardner, Catharine Fishel | 2011 | HQ PDF | ISBN: 1592535275 | 193 pages | 103 Mb

The fifth volume in the best-selling LogoLounge series brings together an exciting collection of 2,000 totally new logos from designers worldwide submitted to LogoLounge.com, the largest collection of logo designs in the world. The front of the book contains an inspiring series of articles, featuring top-notch design work from such world design leaders as Lippincott, Felix Sockwell, Fragile, Cato Purnell, Chermayeff & Geismar, Mattson Creative, Moving Brands, Origin Communications, and Hulsbosch. The second part of the book contains 2,000 logos logically organized by category (typography, crests, people, mythology, nature, sports, and so on), plus additional articles on the latest work by Interbrand, Design Ranch, Von Glitschka, Landor and more.

LogoLounge 4: 2,000 International Identities by Leading Designers
Rockport | Bill Gardner, Catharine Fishel | 2011 | HQ PDF | ISBN: 1592536689 | 377 pages | 107 Mb

Fourth volume in the best-selling LogoLounge series provides 2,000 logos from designers worldwide. This book, like the previous titles in the series, is compiled in association with LogoLounge.com, a website that was launched by Bill Gardner in 2002. The site is dedicated to logos. Top designers and design firms are hand picked and invited to be “foundation members.” Foundation and website members each supply multiple logos to the site. Each LogoLounge book presents thousands of logos that have been added to the site, providing designers with an invaluable source for design inspiration and a resource for design solutions. The first portion of the book profiles 10 top designers recent work in the area of logo design; the second part of the book contains almost 2,000 logos organized by logo design (typography, people, mythology, nature, sports, etc.).

LogoLounge 3: 2,000 International Identities by Leading Designers
Rockport | Bill Gardner, Catharine Fishel | 2011 | HQ PDF | ISBN: 1592535100 | 377 pages | 105 Mb

A searchable database of more than 36,000 logos by keyword is available by subscription on the popular website, www.logolounge.com, launched in 2002 by author Bill Gardner. If you don't have a subscription but would still like to see the best logos on the site created by top designers who often maintain low profiles, then the new paperback edition of LogoLounge 2 is for you.

Features 2,000 logos and provides fresh inspiration to anyone looking to direct the design of their own identity.

When LogoLounge debuted in hardcover, it was the first in a series celebrating the work of top logo designers on the innovative Logo Lounge website.

• Some things in art cannot be cheated, and if they are truly understood they can have a huge impact on the quality of your work. We call these Art Fundamentals. These fundamental rules have been used and exploited by artists of every description for hundreds of years, and are just as applicable today when digital painting as they were back then when they were discovered by traditional artists. Composition, perspective, depth and emotion are all tricky topics to understand and to paint effectively, yet in this fantastic eBook is all the advice you need to master these art fundamentals and apply them in your own workflow. 

Layout Workbook: A Real-World Guide to Building Pages in Graphic Design

• An inspired resource for creating meaningful design, Layout Workbook is one of five volumes in Rockport's series of practical and inspirational books that cover the fundamental areas of graphic design. In this edition, author Kristin Cullen tackles the often perplexing job of nailing down a layout that works. More than a collection of great examples, this book is a valuable resource for students, designers, and creative professionals who seek design understanding and inspiration.

Brand Identity Essentials: 100 Principles for Designing Logos and Building Brands
Rockport | Kevin Budelmann, Yang Kim, Curt Wozniak | 2010 | HQ PDF | ISBN: 159253578X | 209 pages | 100 Mb

This book is the fourth book in the Essential series following Layout Essentials, Typography Essentials, and Packaging Essentials. It outlines and demonstrates basic logo and branding design guidelines and rules through 100 principles including the elements of a successful graphic identity, identity programs and brand identity, and all the various strategies and elements involved.

 Master Lighting Guide for Portrait Photographers By Christopher Grey
 128 Pages | ISBN: 1584281251 | PDF | 12 MB

Time-tested lighting strategies that will improve the quality of a portrait are detailed in this book for beginning photographers. Terminology used by industry pros is explained, the equipment needed to create professional results is outlined, and the unique role that each element of the lighting setup plays in the studio is explored. Photographers learn how color, direction, form, and contrast affect the final portrait. The concise text, photo examples, and lighting diagrams enable photographers to easily achieve traditional lighting styles that have been the basis of good portraiture since the advent of the 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, Melbourne to Milan, wall spaces are a breeding ground for graphic and typographic forms as artists unleash their daily creations.

The Rough Guide to Guitar
Rough Guides | 2011 | ISBN-10: 1848365853 | 320 Pages | PDF | 30 Mb 

• The Rough Guide to Guitar" is a one-stop shop for all your guitar-related needs - whether you're buying, playing, gigging, recording or a complete beginner. Covering everything from the basics a new player needs to hints and tips for experienced guitarists, and even how to successfully start a band. Written by Dave Hunter, one of the world's leading guitar authors and contributor to "Guitar Player" and "Vintage Guitar" magazines, "The Rough Guide to Guitar" covers it all, in a language that players of all experiences and ages will understand and enjoy. From classic rock guitar sounds through to indie, punk and psychadelic, and from home recording methods to how to put a band together; "The Rough Guide to Guitar" is the guide for you.

100 Habits of Successful Freelance Designers: Insider Secrets for Working Smart & Staying Creative
Steve Gordon Jr. | 2009 | HQ PDF | ISBN: 1592535127 | 191 pages | 101 Mb

• Good habits are found in every part of the design process, from promoting yourself well in order to land the client, to working with that client, to achieving the desired results on press. 100 Habits of Successful Freelance Designers reveals solutions from a wide range of freelance designers whose years of experience have helped them find not only the most creative solutions for their clients’ design needs, but also the most successful solutions. This book also focuses on the daily habits that inspire these designers to stay creative and business strategies to be successful when working on your own.

• Need answers quickly? Adobe Illustrator CS6 on Demand provides those answers in a visual step-by-step format. We will show you exactly what to do through lots of full color illustrations and easy-to-follow instructions.

• 1000 More Graphic Elements is the follow-up to the extremely successful 1000 Graphic Elements, published in 2004. This edition features 1000 new unique graphic embellishments across all kinds of projects, from books to brochures, invitations to calendars to annual reports. It is often the smallest detail that can turn a project from ordinary to spectacular. Inspiration will be at your fingertips with examples of specialty processes such as diecutting and embossing, unique materials, fasteners, specialty inks, binders and more.