Comments on: The Tuesday Morning Book Club | New Tutorials | Contest Winner

By: D Klecan

D Klecan — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 06:13:57 +0000

One more…..any book published by AVA, http://www.avabooks.ch/ You can purchased them from Amazon. They publish digital photography, graphic arts design, books etc. It is just a nice change of pace to read and view work from a European POV.

By: d Klecan

d Klecan — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 06:09:09 +0000

Veronica: I second your choice, Before and After Page Design by McWade. I would add is that their web-based magazine is basically just more chapters of that book. Each issue is a basically a beautifully designed project from start to finish, period. Brochure, business card, website….you name it, they are all a wonderful source of inspiration when starting a new project and you are drawing a blank. (www.bamagazine.com)

Another book is Crumble, Crackle and Burn by Von Glitschka. In addition to the book it provides, on a DVD, 120 textures to add to your image. The book has beautiful examples from all types of artists on how they used his textures. But once again I have to recommend the website. I wish he would publish his tutorials! He demonstrates design/illustration projects from beginning to end. My favorites (which nobody ever talks about) are the projects that failed or the projects that were “killed” by art directors and where to go from there. http://www.illustrationclass.com/

By: Veronica Phillips

Veronica Phillips — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 05:39:20 +0000

RC:

Here are a few volumes I’d like to add to your list:

The first book I’d recommend to anyone considering the design business is: The Creative Business Guide to Running A Graphic Design Business – Cameron S. Foote.

Then I’d add:
Idea Index, Layout Index, Color Index & Design Basic Index, all by Krause
Before & After Page Design – McWade
Design Elements (A Graphic Style Manual)- Timothy Samara
Universal Principals of Design – Lidwell/Holden/Butler
What is Exhibition Design – Lorenc/Skolnick/Berger
Commercial Photoshop – Bert Monroy

By: Doug Zeliff

Doug Zeliff — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 16:30:38 +0000

RC,
Awesome! I just sent my info. Thanks and keep up the good work.
Blessings,
Doug

By: Brett

Brett — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 16:21:15 +0000

For more web design related books I would definitely add to this list:

Designing The Obvious
Don’t Make Me Think
The Design of Websites
Communicating Web Design

And for some quick inspiration check out any of the Web Index books. They are just snap shots from thousands of different sites. Good stuff.

Pick them up on Amazon and save yourself about 30 to 50% of each.