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Design Graphics: Drawing Techniques for Design Professionals
This book emphasizes drawing as a mental as well as physical exercise, the text helps students draw designs on paper faster and easier, showing them how visual communication with clients can provide better, more economical design solutions. Practical, straightforward, and reader-friendly, Design Graphics provides more complete coverage of the basics, making concepts and techniques accessible to students with highly diversified educational and technical backgrounds.
Drawing as Expression: Techniques and Concepts
Having taught Drawing I for over a decade years, Sandy Brooke wrote this book to help students better understand the process, concepts, and techniques of drawing. Teaching students of all levels how to combine their critical thinking skills with intuition and technical knowledge to create a visual language through drawing, the text covers key drawing techniques, the function of drawing, and the concepts associated with successful drawing
Drawing Distinctions: The Varieties of Graphic Expression
Patrick Maynard surveys the rich and varied practices of drawing, from the earliest markings on cave walls to the complex technical schematics that make the modern world possible, from cartoons and the first efforts of preschoolers to the works of skilled draftspeople and the greatest artists, East and West. Despite, or perhaps because of, its ubiquity, drawing as such has provoked remarkably little philosophical reflection. Nonphilosophical writing on the topic tends to be divided between specialties such as art history and mechanics.
Michelangelo Drawings: Closer to the Master
One of the best known and most influential artists in the history of art, Michelangelo was a prolific sculptor, painter, architect, and draftsman. This lovely book focuses on more than 250 of his drawings executed in chalk, charcoal, and pen and ink. Distinguished art historian Hugo Chapman examines this array of works and discusses how the act of drawing figured prominently in Michelangelo’s work.
Vitamin D: New Perspectives in Drawing
Vitamin Doffers a fresh and pioneering overview of the current state and underlying significance of drawing as an artistic medium. It highlights the originality and innovation with which contemporary artists in the genre - from across the world and in a vast variety of contexts - experiment with a diversity of styles and statements.

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Colour Mania
Green with envy. Feeling blue. White lies. Grey areas. In every language spoken on earth human beings use colors to express themselves. Colour Mania brings together an eclectic group of talented designers who have one thing in common: they are artists who simply can't get enough of one particular color be that red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple, black or white. This book offers a depth of understanding of individual colors that is unprecedented.
Color Basics
A guide to color theory and application for the beginning student, COLOR BASICS provides a versatile reference for art students. With a modular, two-page spread format, COLOR BASICS uses strong visual examples from art and design and the natural world.
Contemporary Color: Theory & Use
This book features a balanced examination of theory and its practical application in a technology-driven world. Topics range from color perception, color harmonies, pigments, colorants, and paints to digital color and 3D design. An intriguing discussion of the psychological impact of color and the future of color add a stimulating dimension to the book. Thoughtful contributions on creativity and best practices round out the inclusive coverage.
Color Harmony Logos: More than 1,000 Colorways for Logos that Work
This guide to matching colours and logos opens with a discussion on how to choose colours for logos and follows with a number of case studies where colour is a dominant factor. It then takes 26 adjectives from its predecessor 'Complete Color Harmony' and shows one logo for each adjective in 60 different colour combinations.
Black : The History of a Color
Black--favorite color of priests and penitents, artists and ascetics, fashion designers and fascists--has always stood for powerfully opposed ideas: authority and humility, sin and holiness, rebellion and conformity, wealth and poverty, good and bad. With its striking design and compelling text, Black will delight anyone who is interested in the history of fashion, art, media, or design.
Blue - the History of a Color
Blue has a long and topsy-turvy history in the Western world. Once considered a hot color, it is now icy cool. With an exceptionally elegant design and strikingly illustrated with one hundred color plates, Blue tells the fascinating history of our favorite color and the cultures that have hated it, loved it, and created great art with it.
A Perfect Red: Empire, Espionage, and the Quest for the Color of Desire
A Perfect Red recounts the colorful history of cochineal, a legendary red dye that was once one of the worlds most precious commodities. Treasured by the ancient Mexicans, cochineal was sold in the great Aztec marketplaces, where it attracted the attention of the Spanish conquistadors in 1519. Shipped to Europe, the dye created a sensation, producing the brightest, strongest red the world had ever seen. A Perfect Red tells their stories -- true-life tales of mystery, empire, and adventure, in pursuit of the most desirable color on earth.
Color Design Workbook: A Real-World Guide to Using Color in Graphic Design
This workbook allows readers to explore colour through the language of the professionals. It supplies tips on how to talk to clients and use colour in presentations along with historical and cultural meanings and colour theory.
The Language of Colour: An Introduction
The Language of Colourprovides a fresh and innovative approach to the study of colour from the co-author of the best-selling textbook, Reading Images. Moving on from the meanings of single colours, Theo van Leeuwen develops the theory that many different features shape the way we attach meaning to the colours we see in front of us, and the idea that colour schemes are more important than individual colours.
Understanding Color: An Introduction for Designers
This book reflects on the latest issues in colour theory and the use of colour in design, while retaining its earlier comprehensive approach and straightforward explanations of complex topics.

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