Edition: Pap/Cdr
Publication date: 2001-10-26
Dewey code: 745
RRP: £17.99
Price: £1.69
Review Full-color Holiday Vignettes (Dover Full-Color Electronic Design) / Dover Publications Inc.:
Edition: 2Rev Ed
Publication date: 1998-07-22
Dewey code: 005.72
RRP: £36.99
Price: £18.95
Review HTML Web Magic / New Riders:
Edition: 1
Publication date: 1994-11-07
Dewey code: 620.82
RRP: £130.00
Price: £118.91
Review A Guide to Practical Human Reliability Assessment / Taylor & Francis:
Edition: Pap/Cdr
Publication date: 2006-07-24
Dewey code: 745.4
RRP: £17.99
Price: £6.14
Review William Morris Designs (Full-Color Electronic Design) (Full-Color Electronic Design) / Dover Publications Inc.:
Authors
- Lorien House
- Ellen Pearlman
Dewey code: 006.6869
RRP: £31.99
Price: £24.18
Review SVG for Web Developers / Prentice Hall:
Authors
- Anthony A. Apodaca
- Larry Gritz
Dewey code: 778.5345
RRP: £58.99
Price: £29.41
Review Advanced RenderMan: Creating CGI for Motion Pictures (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Computer Graphics) / Morgan Kaufmann:More powerful and inspiring than the superheroes it moves on the big screen, the Renderman 3D graphics engine pushes animation towards the photorealistic as anyone who has seen the A Bug's Life, The Iron Giant or Toy Story movies could attest. Advanced RenderMan, written by two long-time employees of Pixar Animation and early participants who helped define of the RenderMan standard, is a clear, concise and technical exploration of this computer graphics and animation rendering tool. The first section introduces RenderMan, computer graphics concepts, and mathematics, followed by a section on "Scene Description". This includes chapters on "Describing Models and Scenes in RenderMan" and "Handling Complexity in Photorealistic Scenes". Sections 3 and 4, "Shading" and "Tricks of the Trade", supply the meat of the book and make it worth the cost of admission. These sections include examples and insight from not only a technical perspective, but a cinematic one. The chapter "Storytelling Through Lighting" should be required reading for beginning computer animation artists. There are numerous colour plates, including some rendering tests from Toy Story. These show the same scene (Andy's room) using different lighting and colour palettes, each suggesting a different time of day. Given the difficulty of the book's subject, 3D artists or animators with limited technical chops, amateurs or hobbyists may be better served by something more general. [+]This is, however, an outstanding reference for CG technical directors, or for anyone with experience in graphics and 3D programming. It is filled with coding examples used to create RenderMan shaders, and case studies citing which techniques were used to create a specific look in, for example, Toy Story or A Bug's Life. The book has no accompanying CD, but the publisher maintains a web site from which code snippets and examples can be downloaded. At first, this seemed inconvenient, and merely a way to cut production costs, but one quickly realises that this is an excellent way to keep the examples current. The field of computer graphics and animation is moving at the speed of light, and the examples and tutorials must move with it. But have no fear-RenderMan is here. -Mike Caputo, Amazon. com.
Publication date: 2004-03-11
Dewey code: 391
RRP: £49.99
Price: £16.70
Review Establishing Dress History (Studies in Design) / Manchester University Press:
Publication date: 2008-02-12
Dewey code: 746.92092
RRP: £35.00
Price: £23.99
Review Madame Grès: Sphinx of Fashion / Yale University Press:
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 1994-09-01
Dewey code: 702
RRP: £25.00
Price: £16.32
Review Medieval Illuminators and Their Methods of Work / Yale University Press:
Publication date: 2006-04-11
Dewey code: 392.54
RRP: £12.32
Price: £7.84
Review Grace Kelly: Icon of Style to Royal Bride (Philadelphia Museum of Art) / Yale University Press:
Creator: Florian Bohm
Publication date: 2005-11-20
Dewey code: 745
RRP: £39.95
Price: £26.24
Review KGID: Konstantin Grcic Industrial Design / Phaidon Press Ltd:
Publication date: 2007-11-01
Dewey code: 153.45
RRP: £9.99
Price: £4.45
Review Taking Things Seriously: 75 Objects with Unexpected Significance / Princeton Architectural Press:
Authors
- et al
- Angela Buttolph
- Richard Martin
- Suzy Menkes
- Melanie Rickey
- Alice Mackrell
Dewey code: 746.9203
Price: £29.95
Review The Fashion Book / Phaidon Press Ltd:James Abbe, a 1920s fashion photographer, and Zoran, the designer whose simple, monochromatic clothes were extremely popular in the 1970s, anchor the 500 entries in this massive encyclopedia of fashion. Each designer, photographer, model or icon gets a page with a large photo and informative but short caption. This has the wonderful effect of weighting each entry equally, thereby devoting the same amount of space to Charles Revson, creator of the Revlon cosmetics empire and relative makeup newcomer François Nars, pioneering clothing designer Mariano Fortuny and contemporary favourite Tom Ford. Clearly, a good set of eyes edited this book. It's a tall order to choose just one image to define the many facets of a designer, model, or photographer. The choices made here are excellent and often surprising. The indomitable Coco Chanel demonstrates the ease of movement her designs afforded women by briskly swinging her arm out to one side, while Kate Moss is shown at the height of her waifdom, likely the mode in which she will best be remembered. Model Linda Evangelista is pictured with curly locks of hair. It's obvious, too, that the editors employed the haphazard juxtaposition created by the alphabetical organization. Facing entries, no matter how seemingly incongruous, are united by a visual theme to spectacular effect. [+]The ovals made by the either screaming or yawning mouths of Kurt Cobain and his infant daughter are mirrored in a 1937 Jean Cocteau illustration of an Elsa Schiaparelli design. A model in a 1930s outfit by John-Frederics faces a portrait of post-punk design queen Betsey Johnson, whose floral outfit echoes the flowery silhouette behind the model. A troika of Robert Lee Morris bracelets matches the arcs of a bombed-out London building in a 1941 Cecil Beaton photo of a Digby Morton design. The vibrant prints of Emilio Pucci and Lilly Pulitzer fall together naturally. The reams of fabulous images and the inventive design alone make The Fashion Book a treat at any cost, but the low price-to-size ratio (like its cousins The Art Book and The Photography Book) makes it a real bargain.
Publication date: 2005-09-01
Dewey code: 729
RRP: £12.50
Price: £5.88
Review New Scandinavian Design (Designpockets) / teNeues Publishing (UK) Ltd:
Publication date: 1997-09-22
Dewey code: 741.6
RRP: £41.49
Price: £25.78
Review Click Here (Lynda Weinman's Web Design Guides) / New Riders:
Authors
- Leena Singh
- Leonard Drucker
Dewey code: 621.3815
RRP: £87.00
Price: £35.69
Review Advanced Verification Techniques: A Systemc Based Approach for Successful Tapeout / Springer:
Edition: Pap/Cdr
Publication date: 2000-02-01
Dewey code: 741
RRP: £13.99
Price: £5.77
Review Oriental Designs - CD-Rom and Book (Dover Electronic Clip Art) / Dover Publications Inc.:
Publication date: 2002-04
Dewey code: 720.94551
RRP: £45.00
Price: £27.85
Review Florence: The City and Its Architecture / Phaidon Press Ltd:
Authors
- David Hands
- Jack Ingram
- Robert Jerrard
Publication date: 2002-04-11
Dewey code: 658.575
RRP: £30.99
Price: £27.66
Review Design Management Case Studies / Routledge:
Publication date: 2005-09-01
Dewey code: 914
RRP: £9.95
Price: £8.25
Review Barcelona (Cool Shops) (Cool Shops) / teNeues Publishing (UK) Ltd:
| Browse Design Studies:
Models & Brands:
Full-color Holiday Vignettes (Dover Full-Color Electronic Design), HTML Web Magic, A Guide to Practical Human Reliability Assessment, William Morris Designs (Full-Color Electronic Design) (Full-Color Electronic Design), SVG for Web Developers, Advanced RenderMan: Creating CGI for Motion Pictures (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Computer Graphics), Establishing Dress History (Studies in Design), Madame Grès: Sphinx of Fashion, Medieval Illuminators and Their Methods of Work, Grace Kelly: Icon of Style to Royal Bride (Philadelphia Museum of Art), KGID: Konstantin Grcic Industrial Design, Taking Things Seriously: 75 Objects with Unexpected Significance, The Fashion Book, New Scandinavian Design (Designpockets), Click Here (Lynda Weinman's Web Design Guides), Advanced Verification Techniques: A Systemc Based Approach for Successful Tapeout, Oriental Designs - CD-Rom and Book (Dover Electronic Clip Art), Florence: The City and Its Architecture, Design Management Case Studies, Barcelona (Cool Shops) (Cool Shops) |
