The creation of apps for Apple's iPhone is now a huge, and global, business, with hundreds of thousands of developers, entrepreneurs and companies attracted by the potential rewards. But games, functional apps, and promotional apps alike depend on attractive, intuitive design for their appeal, and most fail to find a significant audience. With this book, youll be able to turn your great app idea into a functioning design that it is ready for coding, or apply graphic design skills to this exciting and lucrative marketplace. You will have a clearly visualised concept and a focussed sales plan - and your app will stand out in an app store that is worth well over a billion pounds every year.

The Iphone App Design Manual /anglais

Computers & Technology

ILEX

Programming

Colour is one of the most powerful tools at a designers disposal, yet few truly understand how much it can do for them, and the immediate difference it will make to the popularity and success of their website. This is the complete guide to creating a unique, practical and appropriate colour palette for any web design project. Building on the basics, starting with essential - often misunderstood - terminology and an understanding of traditional colour palettes, the book then moves on to practical, real-world examples of sites with fantastic colour schemes. A one-stop shop for a complete knowledge of digital colour, this book will give the designer the confidence to create their own palettes and apply colour successfully to their designs.

Colour for Web Design /anglais

Arts & Photography

Graphic Design

Copying is how we learn. It is the oldest, grandest tradition and essential to an artist's development. Featuring 20 masterpieces by Michelangelo, Modigliani, Matisse and more, The Nude Sketchbook is the first in an innovative new series that combines careful study with independent expression. Each image is paired with a helpful prompt offered by iconic artists, critics and art historians, with plenty of blank space to practice and explore within the theme. Complete with a brief history of life drawing and an introduction to the draughtsman's toolkit, this guided sketchbook equips artists with everything necessary to develop their style and skills. Collect the whole series to broaden your artistic lexicon.

The Nude Sketchbook

Drawing

Ilex Press

With centuries of artistic wisdom, The Portrait Sketchbook offers everything you need to train your eye, hand and mind. Explore and experience the creative processes of iconic craftsmen to realise your own original style; quickly sketch passers-by with Da Vinci; create a ghostlike form with Seurat; master Ingres's evocation of the most kissable lips; and adopt Lucian Freud's liberating directness. Featuring 20 works and a host of helpful prompts from leading artists, critics and art historians - as well as plenty of blank space to practice in - the book will guide you to a fresh understanding of the tools, materials and skills necessary to master this most personal subject.

The Portrait Sketchbook

Understand the body's framework, grace and utility, and each vital element in this cunningly guided sketchbook. Anatomical mastery was critical to Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci's success. They understood that to draw a figure you must first learn its underlying architecture. Touching on structural drawing, the skeleton, musculature and modelling, this sketchbook includes 20 pioneering examples of anatomical study alongside helpful directions from celebrated artists, scientists and art historians. Whether drawing hands with Raphael, an eye with Escher, a foot with da Vinci or a torso with Giacometti, you will come to understand each element of the body and how they form a whole. The masterpieces, wisdom and glossary included in these aided sketchbooks together offer a strong foundation for artistic progression, and there's plenty of blank space to work your thoughts through. Gain the technique and confidence you need to produce accomplished results.

The Anatomy Sketchbook

Line, shape, space, composition and depth is most simply understood through the study and practice of still life drawing. The artist can enjoy the freedom of arranging objects exactly as desired, testing perception and pushing the boundaries of reality. Littered with ingenious prompts to help explain different methodologies and approaches, this guided sketchbook will help you to master proportion, tone, color, texture and form by copying the masters. Find 20 revelatory still life drawings by leading artists through history included, from Da Vinci and Hokusai, through to Picasso and Freud. Look at things with a fresh eye, relish color and build confidence by putting into practice a range of essential drawing techniques.

The Still Life Sketchbook

Enjoy stunning shots of the world's favourite buildings in this phenomenal spot-the-difference photographic collection. Each of the 40 challenging puzzles will boost your observation skills while the fun, fact-filled captions will take you on your own architectural guided tour. Travel the globe, from Venice to Beijing, from London to New York. Marvel at the magnitude of the Taj Mahal and be wowed by many more architectural treasures.

Spot the Difference Architecture: 40 Brain-Bending Photographic Puzzles

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Crafts & Hobbies

Fashions in graphic design change with bewildering rapidity, but any graphic designer with a sound grasp of the fundamental skills will be able to cope with new trends while producing work of lasting worth. "Graphic Design Pocket Essentials" covers graphic design on every scale, from signage schemes as big as a building to web buttons just a few pixels across. The book gives solid, in-depth advice on how to ascertain what your client really needs, before amazing them with a design that transcends their expectations, and covers the busiest areas of commercial practice: print, advertising, packaging, signage, web design and many more. Real-world examples are analysed, and there is a wealth of technical information on every aspect of the design process.

GRAPHIC DESIGN POCKET ESSENTIALS /ANGLAIS

Nothing catches the eye like an appropriate, well-drawn illustration and digital technology has transformed the potential for their use in commercial and media contexts. High quality illustrations are constantly in demand and a designer with a sure grasp of digital illustration will find their skills invaluable. This practical volume offers sound advice to anyone who needs to create digital illustrations, manipulate existing images, or work in 3D or moving illustrations. The work of leading professionals is analysed, and real-world examples are broken down: there are chapters on digital painting, digital drawing and professional practice. With "Illustration Pocket Essentials", students, artists and graphic designers alike will create stunning illustrations fit for any purpose.

ILLUSTRATION POCKET ESSENTIALS /ANGLAIS

Language:Chinese.Paperback. Pub Date: October 2012 Pages: 192 in Publisher: Ilex Actors often say they only really is true for assume the identity of their character when they have donned the Dressing up in costumes painstakingly created for them by the CHANGTENG TRADE designer In this volume of the Filmcraft series sixteen of the world's greatest costume designers come together to share their inspiration and knowledge with the world. They provide insights into the challenges of building a team. working with budgets. and collaboration with production designers. actors and directors. Designers featured include Academy Award winners like Aggie Guerard Rodgers. Janty Yates and Lindy Hemming and nominees Julie Weiss and Mary Zophres. and BAFTA winner Michael Kaplan.

FilmCraft: Costume Design /anglais

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