Author: Chris Lefteri
Publisher: RotoVisio
Keywords: design, inspirational, materials
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2007-01-01
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 2940361509
ISBN-13: 9782940361502

This informative and attractive book will provide education and inspiration for design professionals and students alike.Materials for Inspirational Design provides today’s designer with a myriad of material possibilities. The book introduces the properties of wood, metal, glass, ceramics and plastic, all in an informative and inspirational format. The book covers a wide range of information its inclusion of both everyday, familiar products and those that are new, exciting and unexpected.The book is highly informative in that each application is introduced with detailed authorial comment,

Authors:Roger Hicks, Frances Schultz,
Publisher: Rotovisio
Keywords: lighting, techniques, second, professional, guide, special, effects, photography, life
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2005-10-02
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 2940361304
ISBN-13: 9782940361304

Every picture featured in "Still Life and Special Effects Photography" is accompanied by a description of how the lighting was achieved, while clear illustrations showing each lighting set-up help readers achieve the same effect. The first section is dedicated to shooting conventional still-life subjects (such as food, product shots and natural flora), and the second to the more challenging field of special-effect photography (montage, multiexposure, mirrors and props, constructing simple room sets, etc). Now available new in paperback, this should be an indispensable book for anyone who would

Author: Magdalene Keaney
Publisher: Rotovisio
Keywords: workshops, world, photographers, top, advertising, fashion
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 2007-09-04
List price: $34.95
ISBN-10: 294037824X
ISBN-13: 9782940378241

The World’s Top Photographers’ Workshops is a dynamic series that brings big-name professional photographers together in a roundtable-style format. These artists discuss and explore the fundamental technical aspects of photography: lighting, composition, color, tone, and imaging. Stunning images and in-depth interviews plus checklists and tips-and-hints panels make these books beautiful as well as practical. Fashion and Advertising, the first title, offers hardworking advice plus image portfolios combined with the photographers’ comments on their influences and signature styles.

Author: Giles Calver
Publisher: RotoVisio
Keywords: design, handbook, essential, packaging
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2003-12-01
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 2880466180
ISBN-13: 9782880466183

This compact-format sourcebook is highly visual, packed with top international packaging designers’ contemporary work, with essays on the surrounding issues. What Is Packaging? lays the foundations and professional guidelines for best practice when designing contemporary packaging. It opens with several short essays which define good packaging design and the issues faced by designers in this field. Design basics such as format, layout and typography are explored within the context of packaging design, taking into account genre-specific elements such as product information, branding, mark

Author: Natalie Avella
Publisher: RotoVisio
Keywords: japan, graphic
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2004-11-01
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 2880467713
ISBN-13: 9782880467715

From the kitsch cuteness of the ubiquitous Hello Kitty to the cult of manga and anime, Japanese design has long paved the way for the West to follow. Graphic Japan goes beyond this well-known territory to reveal the myriad styles of design produced in Japan today, from packaging to posters, typography to new media. Contemporary Japanese graphic design is a unique collision of traditional cultural influences and a focused thrust towards modernization on global terms. No other country has found itself modernized so quickly while retaining such a distinct way of life, and the resulting graphic in

Author: Rod Ashford
Publisher: Rotovisio
Keywords: revised, photography, nude, lighting
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 2007-10-02
List price: $34.95
ISBN-10: 2940378312
ISBN-13: 9782940378319

Lighting a nude can be challenging. How does a photographer turn a naked body into a work of art? Learn the top tips and techniques from Lighting for Nude Photography, now in a fully revised and updated edition of the acclaimed original. The photographs, including full nude art photos, semi-nude erotica, and much more, are beautiful and inspiring, and the lighting on each is fully explained and diagrammed. New, updated text, diagrams, equipment, and techniques reveal how to use every type of lighting from natural light, to simple lighting setups, to complex multi-light arrangements. * Complete

Authors:Lee Skolnick, Jan Lorenc, Craig Berger,
Publisher: RotoVisio
Keywords: design, handbooks, essential, exhibition
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2007-08-30
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 2940361665
ISBN-13: 9782940361663

A Practical tool to unlock the mechanics of exhibition design and production.What is Exhibition Design? is the ultimate guide to the many facets of this rapidly emerging discipline, from retail design to museums and trade shows û every field that applies graphic information to place and object.This unrivalled handbook is a guide to the world of exhibition design, exploring what constitutes successful design and how it works. It clarifies the roles of the various design skills involved in exhibition design, and explores how new technology and materials expand the possibilities for both form an