SPECIAL SHRINKWRAPPED BUNDLE! Get inspired for your next web design project with this hefty collection of more than 1,300 well-designed sites categorized by color, style, theme and more. Author Patrick Mcneil, creator of popular web design blog designmeltdown.com, has cataloged thousands of sites, and showcased in these books are the very best examples. Whether you're brainstorming with a coworker or explaining your ideas to a client, these books provide a powerful communication tool you can use to jumpstart your next project.

The Web Designer's Idea Book

Computers & Technology

McNeil, Patrick

Web Development & Design

How Design Books

This incredible book houses a collection of 100 swipeable layouts that readers can use to create their own pieces--everything from newsletters and ads to letterheads and brochures. An invaluable introductory section reviews the core techniques for creating layouts. Next, designers are introduced to the layouts themselves. Each layout includes a full background on the piece, the reasoning behind each solution and details on how special constraints were handled. In many instances, several solutions are given to the same problem, illustrating that there is always more than one way to solve a layout and design problem. This book also includes: * Quick access to dozens of layout solutions including specs * Special techniques that can be used to enhance any layout * Insights into the factors that helped to make each layout an effective piece * Tips and advice for dealing with common problems such as working within client restrictions and handling ads with lots of visuals

Quick Solutions to Great Layouts

Arts & Photography

Davis, Graham

Graphic Design

Put the power to design logos and type in your own hands!
Why be a designer who must rely upon preexisting typefaces and clip art when you can become the kind of designer who creates logos, fonts and lettering of your own? Leslie Cabarga, author of the bestselling Designer's Guide to Color Combinations, has created a textbook of type for the experienced graphics professional as well as the beginning student of design.
You'll learn how to:
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<li>Create innovative logo design traditionally and on the computer</li>
<li>Develop a discerning eye for quality lettering and logo design</li>
<li>Design your own custom-made fonts</li>
<li>Build a profitable business as a logo, font and lettering designer</li>
</ul>
 It's the most comprehensive treatise on logos, fonts and lettering available!
The easy-to-read, fun-to-browse, picture-heavy format makes learning to letter a snap. The Logo, Font &amp; Lettering Bible provides the start-to-finish information you need to succeed in today's competitive design market.

Logo Font & Lettering Bible: A Comprehensive Guide to the Design, Construction and Usage of Alphabets and Symbols

Cabarga, Leslie

THE NEXT BIG IDEA IS OUT THERE—YOU JUST HAVE TO KNOW HOW TO SPOT IT Creativity is crucial to business and design success. How do you unleash bursts of creativity, increase occurrences of spontaneity and ultimately find great ideas? Through anecdotes, interviews, quotes, tips, creative exercises and success stories from the biggest corporations in the country, author Sam Harrison shows you how to think outside the box—then throw away the box for good. You’ll be encouraged to: *Listen and observe *Step outside your daily routine *Explore through travel *Find ideas in nature *Break out of ruts *Learn from mistakes *Get past the surface *Connect existing ideas Busy professionals CAN learn how to peek under the mundane to find the magical, to find insights rather than information, and to learn what makes their clients laugh, cry, scream—and ultimately buy. "One good idea is all you need to change your life; this book shows you how to find it." —Brian Tracy, author of Getting Rich Your Own Way " If the best way to find a good idea is to find lots of ideas, then here’s the best guidebook I know for your hunt." —Brian Collins, Collins Design "Exercise for the brain is just as important as exercise for the body. In Ideaspotting, Sam Harrison stretches your mental muscles in a way you’ll never forget." —Al Ries, author of The Origin of Brands

Ideaspotting: How to Find Your Next Great Idea

Harrison, Sam

Business & Money

GO WITH YOUR GUTImportant decisions are too often influenced by fear or self-doubt. So how can you learn to trust your instincts and make wise business decisions?
Let best-selling author Karen Salmansohn show you the way. She explores the reasons why we are conditioned to quash our gut instincts, and why it's imperative that we learn to reverse that thinking. Inside you'll find easy-to-implement exercises - along with research, anecdotes and success stories - guaranteed to improve your decision-making abilities and to help pave the way to career success.

Gut: How to Think from Your Middle to Get to the Top

Salmansohn, Karen

Job Hunting & Careers

Understand the Significance of Symbols in Your Design Work
Our world is comprised of a handful of very simple patterns that have been a part of human design since the beginning of time and have eternal significance.
Decoding Design reveals how common symbols and shapes - like circles, squares and triangles - resonate at a gut level and can lend greater meaning to a design. By deconstructing famous logos and other sample designs, you'll learn how to communicate complex information quickly and intuitively with universal and meaningful patterns. You'll also uncover how other disciplines, such as philosophy, math, and physics, influence great design and can help you present ideas in a holistic and compelling manner.
Whether you're a designer, student, or marketing professional, Decoding Design will show you the deeper meaning behind the symbols you encounter everyday, and how to better use those symbols to create an impactful relationship with the viewer.

Decoding Design: Understanding and Using Symbols in Visual Communication

Maggie Macnab

History & Criticism

Write a letter to yourself ... in the futureTake part in a sociological experiment that taps into a culture obsessed with the future and all that it entails: self-improvement, anxiety, technological change, even global affairs. What do you think your life will be like in one year ... in five years ... in twenty years? The fascinating letters in this collection are alternately sweet, sad, funny, desperate, angry and hopeful as they peek into the lives of ordinary people from around the world as they reveal their most intimate hopes and fears.
The idea is simple - people can visit www.futureme.org and write letters to themselves to be delivered at some point in the future. Since the website was created, it has collected more than 400,000 letters, many of them open to the public. With time-capsule appeal, this book collects the best of those letters to provide a glimpse into the lives of everyday people, providing a sometimes humorous, sometimes poignant, but always insightful look into our culture and society - and ultimately ourselves.

Dear Future Me: Hopes, Fears, Secrets, Resolutions

Sly, Matt

Patrikios, Jay

Networking & Cloud Computing

What Is a Corporate Creative?
There is no unique branch of design known as in-house design, nor skills possessed solely by in-house designers. The corporate creative is a designer who simply works in an in-house environment. While there are benefits to working in a corporate environment (access to more resources, greater security, better benefits, more regular hours and camaraderie), in-house designers also have to deal with many frustrating and demoralizing challenges.
This book focuses on key strategies and tactics to help you establish yourself and your team as powerful players in your company. Experienced in-house designer Andy Epstein shows you how to:
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<li>Communicate clearly and effectively</li>
<li>Hire and train a winning team</li>
<li>Work with other departments within the company</li>
<li>Maximize efficiency within your group</li>
<li>Cut through the red tape to create great design</li>
</ul>
Surviving--and more importantly, succeeding--as a creative in the corporate environment requires you to be a project manager as well as a designer, a businessperson as well as a creative. The Corporate Creative provides all the tools you need to achieve success.

The Corporate Creative: Tips and Tactics for Thriving As an In-house Designer

Epstein, Andy

From marketing and promotion to client communication, this is a practical guide covering everything designers need to know for achieving success.

The Savvy Designer's Guide to Success: Ideas and Tactics for a Killer Career: A Searchable PDF on CD

Fisher, Jeff

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