Books
HTML & CSS
A book about code that doesn’t read like a 1980s VCR manual…
21.Feb.2012
Digging Into WordPress
The DiW PDF/eBook features 400+ pages of practical WordPress wisdom, presented in regular or widescreen format with clear, easy-to-read type and color-coded chapters. Includes hyperlinked URLs, copy-&-paste code snippets, and searchable content.
30.Jul.2011
Brand Identity Essentials
This book is the fourth book in the Essential series following Layout Essentials, Typography Essentials, and Packaging Essentials. It outlines and demonstrates basic logo and branding design guidelines and rules through 100 principles including the elements of a successful graphic identity, identity programs and brand identity, and all the various strategies and elements involved.
12.Mar.2011
WordPress and Ajax
An in-depth guide on using Ajax with WordPress. The WordPress and Ajax book will provide you a firm foundation on using Ajax with WordPress.
20.Jan.2011
Responsive Web Design
From mobile browsers to netbooks and tablets, users are visiting your sites from an increasing array of devices and browsers. Are your designs ready?
26.Nov.2010
The Elements of Content Strategy
Content strategy is the web’s hottest new thing. But where did it come from? And why does it matter?
25.Nov.2010
HTML5 for Web Designers
The HTML5 spec is 900 pages and hard to read. HTML5 for Web Designers is 85 pages and fun to read. Easy choice.
24.Nov.2010
CSS3 for Web Designers
From advanced selectors to generated content to the triumphant return of web fonts, and from gradients, shadows, and rounded corners to full-blown animations, CSS3 is a universe of creative possibilities.
23.Nov.2010
jQuery 1.4 Reference Guide
A comprehensive exploration of the popular JavaScript library
19.Nov.2010
HTML5: Designing Rich Internet Applications
Implement the powerful new multimedia and interactive capabilities offered by HTML5, including style control tools, illustration tools, video, audio, and rich media solutions. Reinforce your practical understanding of the new standard with demo applications and tutorials, so that execution is one short step away.
21.Jul.2010
Building iPhone Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
if you know HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, you already have the tools you need to develop your own iPhone apps. With this book, you’ll learn how to use these open source web technologies to design and build apps for the iPhone and iPod Touch on the platform of your choice-without using Objective-C or Cocoa.
01.Apr.2010
Trek: David Carson, Recent Werk
The latest volume featuring the graphic work of David Carson is full to bursting—nearly 500 pages’ worth—of the color, splashy text and eye-catching design for which he’s been termed “the most famous graphic designer in the world.”
27.Mar.2010
The Elements of Typographic Style
This lovely, well-written book is concerned foremost with creating beautiful typography and is essential for professionals who regularly work with typographic designs.
27.Mar.2010
Grid Systems in Graphic Design
From a professional for professionals, here is the definitive word on using grid systems in graphic design.
27.Mar.2010
Adobe InDesign CS4 Classroom in a Book
Adobe InDesign CS4 Classroom in a Book contains 14 lessons. The book covers the basics of learning page layout with Adobe InDesign and provides countless tips and techniques to help you become more productive with the program. Explore typography and color, and learn more about creating tables and using styles.
22.Mar.2010
The Web Designer’s Idea Book
The Web Designer’s Idea Book includes more than 700 websites arranged thematically, so you can find inspiration for layout, color, style and more.
22.Mar.2010
Fingerprint
“Fingerprint” offers insight into this fusion of the digital and the hand-wrought, with dozens of examples of some of the best work in the industry, including design that includes hand-lettering elements and design that incorporates collage.
22.Mar.2010
Making and Breaking the Grid
Making and Breaking the Grid is a comprehensive layout design workshop that assumes that in order to effectively break the rules of grid-based design, one must first understand those rules and see them applies to real-world projects.
22.Mar.2010
After Photography
“After Photography” examines the myriad ways in which the digital revolution has fundamentally altered the way we receive visual information, from photos of news events taken by ordinary people on mobile phones to the widespread use of image surveillance.
10.Mar.2010
Designers Don’t Read
Designers Don’t Read is a love song to graphic design and graphic designers. Austin Howe is a creative director, writer, advocate, and cheerleader for design – but not a designer. He believes in the wonder and exuberance of someone who gets paid – by clients – to do what he loves. Howe believes that advertising and design must merge, but merge with design in the leadership role.
09.Mar.2010
Design School Confidential
Every great design school in the world is defined, in part, by the work of its students at any given time. The various project challenges given to a class determine the success of a school’s pedagogy, but also the ingenuity of its faculty and students. This book features fifty real-world class assignments from top design programs at universities around the world, and examines the resulting student projects.
08.Mar.2010
Designing For The Greater Good
This first-ever book of its kind, Designing for the Greater Good, features hundreds of illustrated examples of the best nonprofit and cause-related design worldwide, plus 24 inspiring case studies and insights into great nonprofit branding campaigns.
07.Mar.2010
Look Both Ways: Illustrated Essays on the Intersection of Life and Design
Look Both Ways is a collection of fully illustrated essays on the intersection of graphic design, love, life, behavior, rituals, brands, perceptions, music, art, even physics. It is a broad compendium of living and thinking in today’s world of design by one of its most popular personalities.
06.Mar.2010
Way Through Doors by Jesse Ball
When Selah Morse sees a young woman get hit by a speeding taxicab, he rushes her to the hospital. The girl has lost her memory; she is delirious and has no identification, so Selah poses as her boyfriend.
03.Mar.2010
Brought to Light: Photography and the Invisible, 1840–1900
Explore the world of early experimental photography in this fascinating book of illuminating stereographs, gelatin silver prints and collotypes.
03.Mar.2010
Look at me
Look at me: Photographs from Mexico City by Jed Fielding (Hardcover)
03.Mar.2010
Making and Breaking the Grid
For designers working in every medium, layout is arguably the most basic, and most important, element. Effective layout is essential to communication and enables the end user to not only be drawn in with an innovative design but to digest information easily.
28.Feb.2010
Logo Design Love
There are a lot of books out there that show collections of logos. But David Airey’s “Logo Design Love” is something different: it’s a guide for designers (and clients) who want to understand what this mysterious business is all about.
28.Feb.2010
Adobe Flash CS4 Professional Classroom in a Book
Adobe Flash CS4 Professional Classroom in a Book contains 10 lessons. The book covers the basics of learning Adobe Flash CS4 Professional and provides countless tips and techniques to help you become more productive with the program.
28.Feb.2010