by Deke McClellandDesign Invitational serves as an inspiring look at how some of the greats do what they do so well.
__ For example, Louis Fishauf, an illustrator who makes colorful, whirligig-style compositions, was chosen to work with transparencies in Illustrator, an application at which he was already an expert. Michael Mabry, who mixes his own hand-drawn lettering into his pieces, was more than happy to work in InDesign to make the fluid layouts in his poster. And Ian Kovalik of hillmancurtis.com, a pro with Macromedia's Flash, instead used Adobe's LiveMotion for his Web animation.
__ Although it looks like an infomercial for Adobe software, the Deke and the people he interviews try hard to hide the blatant lip service to Adobe. But the book is less about the tools and more about the thought processes behind using those tools. Step-by-step sidebars show, for example, how to execute a perfect rainbow gradient or make a painterly eye (from the magical hand of photorealist illustrator Michael Elins), but this is not really a how-to manual for Adobe software--that is, unless you count the very important lesson of "how to think and work creatively." * Adobe Master Class: Design Invitational - by Deke McClellandPaperback - 240 pages Bk&Cd-Rom edition, Adobe Press; Dimensions (in inches): 0.73 x 9.32 x 8.40 * from the Design Department. Keywords for this item are: Design and Publishing: graphic design, layout, aesthetics, arts -- You can find many other titles from this department here!
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