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Evans, Marilyn

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Pantone Guide to Communicating With Color

EISEMAN, Leatrice

The Creative Professional's Guide to Money teaches creatives everything they need to know about the financial side of running a creative business. Creatives - which include anyone promoting their own creative services (designers, copywriters, photographers, illustrators, interior designers, web designers, and more) - are great at their work, but when it comes to running the financial side of their business, most would rather not talk about it. This book focuses on proven techniques and resources used by a wide range of successful creatives to manage their business finances. Expert advisers are interviewed on topics such as accounting, taxes, contracts and financial planning. Using examples, case studies, and real-life stories from actual creatives, this book addresses:<ul>
<li>How to build the financial structure of a creative business from the ground up</li>
<li>How to set up and achieve long-term financial goals and plan for a prosperous retirement</li>
<li>Common financial mistakes small business owners make and how to avoid them</li>
<li>How to handle taxes and insurance</li>
<li>How to perform day-to-day accounting tasks</li>
<li>How to create a budget and adhere to it</li>
<li>What to charge for work and how to determine a profit margin</li>
<li>How to talk about money with clients and prospects</li>
</ul>

The Creative Professional's Guide to Money: How to Think About It, How to Talk About it, How to Manage It

Benun, Ilise

Personal Finance

Ornaments and motifs add something special to creative projects, but not all creatives can devote the hundreds of hours necessary to developing them. Flourish. Banner. Frame. is an amazing library of 555 original symbols, floral motifs, border treatments, frills, banners, shields, crests, ornaments, decorative frames, placards and cartouches. Each design element has been crafted with vector precision, and you can use this artwork within the context of your own projects, whether they are personal or professional in nature. There are 10 real-life examples in the book, so you can be inspired by top designers and illustrators. This extensive volume of ornaments and motifs is easy to use for any design or illustration project: publication layouts, book covers, website backgrounds, t-shirt graphics, scrapbooks, textiles, crafts, stencils, tattoosand everything in between. Whether you are a beginner or an advanced design professional, you’ll turn to this resource again and again for years to come. Royalty-free ornaments included on DVD for your use!

Flourish. Banner. Frame.: 555 Ornaments and Motifs for Design and Illustration

Arts & Photography

Von, Glitschka

Graphic Design

Now with digital color swatches!Let Color Index, Revised Edition turbo-charge your creativity all over again for any print or web project. With more than 1100 color combinations, updated RGB formulas, and downloadable digital swatches, this new edition is d to help you pick the perfect color palette more efficiently than ever before.From progressive colors to natural tones, Color Index, Revised Edition makes choosing hues for any job easy! You'll start working with color in exciting new ways to create original, eye-catching designs that pop off the page.Just look through the book, find a palette that works for your project and then import it into whatever program you're using - Illustrator, InDesign or Photoshop. It's never been easier.So go ahead. Explore and experiment with color. Now you've got everything you need, right in the palm of your hand.Other books in the Index series by Jim Krause:Idea IndexLayout IndexColor I

Color Index

Krause, Jim

• Updated to reflect changes in the soon-to-be-released Adobe CS5 • Explores the essential aspects of key areas of print and screen-based design • Step-by-step projects and inspirational examples • Offers insight into the technological issues and step-by-step skills needed to bring design to a professional standard • Historical background on key topics

The Designer's Desktop Manual, 2nd Edition

Simmons, Jason

<ul>
<li>A complete guide to making and using digital brushes with Adobe illustrator</li>
<li>Includes 300 high-quality, royalty-free, and original brushes on the accompanying CD</li>
<li>Step-by-step tutorials show how to make, amend, and apply brushes</li>
<li>Features inspirational work created with brushes</li>
</ul>
 The Vector Brush Sourcebook is a one-stop resource for designers and illustrators who want to learn more about illustrator brushes—how to make them, apply them, edit them, and use them to stunning effect. Digital brushes are powerful and flexible tools that can speed up and enhance the creative workflow; this book will help unleash their potential. The book includes extensive galleries showing 300 different brushes, along with details about how they were made. Each brush is also included on the accompanying CD, providing users with a wealth of creative opportunities. Step-by-step tutorials demonstrate key techniques, and inspiring visuals show how vector brushes can be used to create standout graphics.

The Vector Brushes Sourcebook: 300 Unique Brushes for Digital Illustration

Portnoi, Emily

What is Creative Stuff? Creative Stuff is inspiring and colorful. Creative Stuff can be messy, witty and wonderful. Creative Stuff is a tool that brings humor and fun to the creative process. Creative Stuff is full of puzzles, games, activities and thought-starters. Creative Stuff is a workbook for visual creatives, and youÆre holding it right now. Exercise your imagination through interactive games and challenges, sharpen your brainpower with puzzles and brain teasers, and find inspiration when you need it most! This workbook will jumpstart creativity and brainstorming for visual thinkers—you know who you are! Every page will stimulate the senses and get those creative juices flowing fast and furious.

Creative Stuff: An Activity Book for Visual Thinkers

Gouveia, Dave

Chris Elkerton

GREAT GRAPHIC DESIGN ON A BUDGET is a cost-cutting primer and a sourcebook of ideas for creating first-rate designs on minimal budgets. It teaches you simple tricks of the trade and reveals innovative and unexpected ways for designers to cut the costs, but not lose on the quality, of their designs. An international showcase of eye-catching and memorable campaigns—all created on tight budgets—shows how successful these ideas and techniques can be. This invaluable manual will provide you with resources for free fonts and art, explain how to maximize print runs, profile inspiring ways of using recycled materials, and demonstrate dynamic alternatives to art. It even offers tips and techniques for achieving professional printing jobs in your studio.

Great Graphic Design on a Budget: How to Do More with Less

Witham, Scott

Don't Wait for Inspiration to Strike Whether you're facing a new logo project or you've reached a block in your current work, The Logo Brainstorm Book will inspire you to consider fresh creative approaches that will spark appealing, functional and enduring design solutions. Award-winning designer Jim Krause (author of the popular Index series) offers a smart, systemic exploration of different kinds of logos and logo elements, including: <ul>
<li>Symbols</li>
<li>Monograms</li>
<li>Typographic Logos</li>
<li>Type and Symbol Combinations</li>
<li>Emblems</li>
<li>Color Palettes</li>
</ul>
 Through a combination of original, visual idea-starters and boundary-pushing exercises, The Logo Brainstorm Book will help you develop raw logo concepts into presentation-ready material.

The Logo Brainstorm Book: A Comprehensive Guide for Exploring Design Directions

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