ART Courses Playbook

Playing with Color is a workbook of color experiments for professional graphic designers, students of art and design, self-taught designers… anyone interested in color! It presents an accessible and playful approach to the serious study of color, and an exploration of the energy that color brings to design. Readers are encouraged to adopt a disciplined yet playful approach to visual problem solving. Each project provides color experience; each experience adds substance to the reader's color awareness. The book begins with thoughts on the philosophy of learning and the process of play. The experiments begin with the classic color exercises of Itten and Albers, followed by a series of original color design projects. Each experiment is expressed in a compelling display of words and images, designed to inspire and inform your embrace of color, form, material, and craft.

As an accomplished artist, it's essential that you master various principles and techniques, such as the use of line, light and shadow, perspective -- and of course, color. This book will teach you everything you need to know about color, both theory and practice. Opening chapters explain the color wheel, present color charts, and demonstrate how to use colors in different media. Chapters that follow emphasize practice with illustrated, step-by-step exercises that will strengthen your understanding of how to use color to its best effect, creating mood, expressing emotion, building textures, and exploring many different creative possibilities. The techniques explained and discussed in detail apply to all traditional color media, including oils, watercolors, acrylics, and pastels.

Created by two leading designer-educators as a very practical and very visual introduction to the art of graphic design, this richly illustrated full-color book offers clear explanations of the fundamental principles, award-winning examples of professional work, and diagrams that clearly show how these principles operate in successful design solutions. Coverage begins with primary design elements, moves on to the use of color, typography, and imagery, and concludes with an overview of the field of graphic design and related career options. The revised second edition adds new and insightful material on creative thinking, visual problem-solving, and research strategies used to pursue effective design solutions plus Web and New Media applications to reflect the most current media design trends -- all designed to prepare readers for success in every aspect of the ever-changing world of graphic design.

Beginning Design for 3D Printing is the full color go-to-guide for creating just about anything on a 3D printer. This book will demystify the design process for 3D printing, providing the proper workflows for those new to 3D printing, eager artists, seasoned engineers, 3D printing entrepreneurs, and first-time owners of 3D printers to ensure original ideas can be 3D printed. Beginning Design for 3D Printing explores a variety of 3D printing projects. Focus is on the use of freely available 3D design applications with step-by-step techniques that will demonstrate how to create a wide variety of 3D printable objects and illustrate the differences between splines, polygons, and solids. Users will get a deep understanding of a wide range modeling applications. They'll learn the differences between organic modeling tools, hard edge modeling, and precision, CAD-based techniques used to make 3D printable designs, practical products, and personalized works of art. Whether you are a student on a budget or a company exploring R & D options for 3D printing, Beginning Design for 3D Printing will provide the right tools and techniques to ensure 3D printing success.

"The 3D Printing Handbook" is written for designers and engineers wanting to master the key experts of 3D printing. This book provides: insight into the mechanisms behind all major 3D printing technologies; an understanding of the benefits and limitations of each technology; decision making tools for technology selection; actionable design advice and guidelines; and industry case studies from world-leading brands. -- From publisher's description.

A step-by-step instructional guide to understanding the fundamentals of game development with OpenGL. Right from the setup to the important features, we'll get a better understanding of games and the engines behind them.