R. Williams

Over the course of the last several years, the DIY market has exploded spawning magazines, books, movies and fueling the growth of the online, handmade marketplace. In Robin Williams Handmade Design Workshop: Create Handmade Elements for Digital Designs, best-selling author Robin Williams and Carmen Sheldon take designers away from their computers and show them, step-by-step, how to use traditional artists tools to create handmade elements for their digital artwork. The authors provide a wealth of new ideas to jump-start creativity and get graphic designers thinking in new ways. Each how-to is illustrated with tons of photos to show how to use paints, inks, textures, modeling pastes, and more to create handmade materials that can then be...

Дата выхода: декабрь 2009

These days, its not just corporate marketing directors tasked with giving computer-based presentations—anyone forced to stand in front of a crowd and talk for more than three minutes had better know how to put together a slide presentation. Youre not a professional designer, but you want your slides to look professional. What do you do? Robin Williams, the beloved, best-selling non-designers designer (with over 850,000 copies of The Non-Designers Design Book in print!) who has taught an entire generation the basics of design and typography. In The Non-Designers Presentation Book, Robin expands upon the design principles introduced in her award-winning Non-Designers series. She explains four fundamental principles of good design as...

Дата выхода: декабрь 2009

Robin Williams has taught millions what makes for good design and why, never forgetting that most of us don\'t speak jargon--and she does it all with a disarming sense of humor. Now Robin, with coauthors John Tollett and Dave Rohr, translates the principles of creative, effective design to the Web in Robin Williams Web Design Workshop. Learn from these pros everything you need to know about Web design, including the ways that color, fonts, clip art, photographs, and layout can work together to create the visual impression you want. Robin doesn\'t just tell you about good Web design, she shows you, walking you through every step of the design process, from site planning and layout to navigation design and functionality--the book is...

Издательство: Peachpit Press
Дата выхода: май 2000

This book is for the secretary laying out an office newsletter, the entrepreneur designing her own advertising, the student wanting a better-looking term paper, or the professional creating a lasting impression with a new client. As a book of general design principles, it doesn\'t matter what computer one is using, or whether one is using a computer at all - the principles and terminology of good design remain the same. Robin assumes that readers simply want to know how to make pages look better. She equips them with the four basic concepts used in virtually every well-designed job. Dozens of real-world examples enliven the text and demonstrate that Robin practices what she preaches: Good design does indeed capture the reader\'s...

Издательство: Peachpit Press
Дата выхода: май 2000