Web Design Bibliography by Safari Books Online Content Team

Burtenshaw, Nik Mahon, Caroline Barfoot
    AVA Publishing, November 2006
    ISBN: 9782940439911
    184 pages, $30.50

    This book examines the current practices, organizational models and media options for creative advertising, and emphasizes the working practice of the modern advertising agency as well as the conceptual and creative side. Advertising is renowned for being a highly creative and visual medium, but many advertising textbooks are descriptive and text-heavy. Using a wealth of visual examples taken from real campaigns, and accompanied by explanatory text, the book focuses on the various media available to the advertiser, the thinking and planning behind the campaign strategy, the construction of the brief, and the creative solution and execution of the advertising campaign. Engaging interviews with advertising professionals are accompanied by student exercises and checklists to underpin the theory and encourage a practical application of creative thinking.
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    Abduzeedo Inspiration Guide for Designers
    By Fabio Sasso
    New Riders, May 2011
    ISBN: 9780132684651
    216 pages, $39.99

    This book features interviews with designers and offers tutorials on various design styles. Each chapter addresses a particular style, such as Vintage, Neo-surrealism, Retro 80s, Light Effects, Collage, and Vector, and starts off with an explanation about the style and techniques that go into that style. The author interviews a master of each style, such as, in the case of 80s, James White. Then he wraps up the chapter with a tutorial showing the elements and techniques for creating that style in Photoshop. This book is meant for beginning to intermediate designers as well as more experienced designers looking for inspiration, and focuses on styles that can be applied both to web and print.
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    The Smashing Idea Book: From Inspiration to Application
    By Cameron Chapman
    John Wiley & Sons, October 2011
    ISBN: 9781119978756
    416 pages, $29.19

    Unlike most other books available on the shelf that only provide thumbnail images, this book offers a lavish array of timeless and enduring graphic designs, photos, images, and web site designs. It then goes one step further to present you with practical guidance on how to apply this inspirational selection to your own designs. You’ll benefit from the coverage on current trends as well as valuable advice on where to go online to discover your own sources of inspiration.
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    Anatomy of Design: Uncovering the Influences and Inspiration in Modern Graphic Design
    By Steven Heller, Mirko Ilic
    Rockport Publishers, March 2009
    ISBN: 9781592535545
    208 pages, $30.00

    This book dissects fifty examples of graphic design piece by piece, revealing an array of influences and inspirations.
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    The Business of Graphic Design (Video)
    By Bryan Peterson
    XTrain, September 2008
    ISBN: 00000SPM3BSE01001
    2 hours 10 minutes, $79.99

    This video will teach you the value of design. You can be a creative person, and make money being a designer. This video covers business models, employer/employee expectations, the value of design and more!
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    100 Habits of Successful Freelance Designers: Insider Secrets for Working Smart & Staying Creative
    By Steve Gordon Jr.
    Rockport Publishers, May 2009
    ISBN: 9781592535125
    192 pages, $40.00

    This book was written to help aspiring design freelancers see their way to an independent future; to help established freelancers regain clarity, passion, inspiration, and focus; and to offer everyone some hard-won wisdom from a wide range of creative folks who are out there making it happen for their clients and themselves each and every day.
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