The Digital Designer's Bible
afterglow (571 points) | Fri, 2005-09-02 11:32
Killing time one afternoon in a bookstore, I came across The Digital Designers Bible. I've never been keen on learning by wading through computer or design manuals, but something in the tone of the writing caught my eye. Written by a number of industry veterans, it covers a good range of topics for print and screen designers.
The normal problem with these books is the wishy washy language and bland generic information about design. However this book covers very common problems and issues that every designer will have come across.
It's not afraid to favour a particular program or method if it is the most efficient and common.There is some sage business advice for freelancers & studio managers . Also included is a reference guide for print terms and paper guidelines as well as comprehensive chapters on proofing, printing processes, workflows, xhtml, fonts and more. Highly recommended for any designer, regardless of experience.
You can view a 1mb PDF sample of some of the topics such as font conventions and good file naming.
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I bought the book from amazon a couple of months ago, it really is a useful guide for most aspects of designing, studio, workflow and general advice. I found it answered a lot of questions that I had but did'nt ask people when I had the chance.
I also highly recommended book to anyone with an interest in working in the creative world.
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Maybe we'll start seeing correct usage of apostrophes and quotation marks now! The most visible culprit of misuse seems to come from the motion graphics industry.
I got hold of this at the weekend and it is a really useful resource. Most of these books are written by and aimed at lame ass DTP guys so you end up reading that Times New Roman is a fantastic typeface for laying out a magazine :(
This book is full of real world, useful tips and techniques on stuff like colour correction, photography and imaging, typography, studio set-up and management, basic web terminology and technologies. All written in a professional informative manner, I think even the most experienced designer will learn something useful, even if it's the difference between slug and bleed like me!
I would say that every designer worth his salt should get it, but that would probably be a little strong ;)
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After all these recommendations my expectations are a mile high. :) Thanks!
The fonts there on the book cover there looks great, this looks like it if anyone's interested:
Expressway Book-Regular
http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/typodermic/expressway/book-regular/charmap.html
I thought it was Interstate. Expressway looks very similar but the diagonals are all wrong on the ascenders and decenders. nice try though ;)
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You are right, it looks more like interstate, the two looks very similar tho,
but Interstate looks a whole lot better, thanks for the correction!
There seems to be a free version of Expressway available for download at the Myfonts.com site.
http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/typodermic/expressway/free/
I went to check this book out on Amazon and noticed another book by the name of "The Digital Designer's Bible : The Print and Web Designers' Toolkit for Stress-Free Working Practice". Judging from the titles they seem like they would be very similar. Does anyone have any insight on the differences between the two?
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Looks to me like an earlier imprint of the same publication.
I am in the UK and the one on Amazon.com may just be a slightly different US version.
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That is probably exaclty what it is.
Thanks for the reply.
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