Summary: This program offers a comprehensive introduction to the basic principles of Web site design. Applicable to online retail outlets, electronic newspapers, blogs, search engines, and other types of sites, it explains how to identify the target audience, determine the site's core purpose, apply Ben Schneiderman's eight golden rules of GUI design, address technological issues and matters of visual...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Wagner, Richard
Summary: Covers Web page publishing concepts, including using HTML and CSS, Microsoft Expression Web, Dreamweaver, Web graphics, JavaScript, and Flash.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Wiley 2011
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: All you need to get started is a computer and this programming guide, a book that's just right for beginners of any age to develop real coding skills. Follow the step-by-step instructions through six missions and you will learn HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Once you've helped secure the infamous Monk Diamond, continue to improve and test your expertise by coding your own projects and accomplishing...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2017
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Place a hold to request this item.Hoffman, Edward G.
Summary: Book Description: Keep up to date with this text that covers the advances in jigs and fixtures and provides an understanding of how and why jigs and fixtures are designed and built. Economy and simplicity in tool design principles are stressed throughout.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Delmar 1996
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 621.9 HOFArntson, Amy E.
Contents: Applying the art of design -- Graphic design history -- Perception -- Toward a dynamic balance -- Good gestalt -- Using text type -- Layout -- The dynamics of color -- Illustration and photography in design -- Advertising design -- Production: the tools and process -- Web design.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thomson/Wadsworth 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 741.6 ARNSummary: The sound system that goes into a hand-assembled Aston-Martin sports car must be special indeed. In this program, designers at Linn, a precision-engineering company specializing in state-of-the-art sound reproduction, draft and build a compact stereo for this elite automobile. Project leaders demonstrate the use of 3-D CAD in the drafting process. The outsourcing of a component provides a good...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: By working closely with potential customers as well as suppliers, manufacturers, and distributors, designers can optimize the products they create while keeping tooling and assembly costs down. In this program designers from Britain's Kinneir Dufort employ market research and model-making technology to redesign a peak flow meter, used by people with asthma to measure lung function. To keep up...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Summary: Working on schedule and within a budget is crucial in the fast-paced world of design, where success often depends on timing and products must be priced affordably. This program shows how the factors of time and money affect the design process. Case studies for the Apple iPad wall-mount and a go-kart sticker manufacturer highlight cost issues in the design process, including productivity,...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Polger, Mark Aaron
Summary: "This book provides tips and best practices for developing better library signage and provides guidance for creating a signage strategy"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: ALA Editions 2022
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1 available in Administration Reference, Call number: ADM OFFICE 025.5 POLSummary: "For beginner to intermediate artists, Saturday AM Presents How to Draw Diverse Manga demonstrates how to conceive and draw original characters that reflect diverse racial, ethnic, and gender identities, featuring work by the artists represented in Saturday AM magazine, a recognized global brand that unites the two biggest trends in Young Adult graphic novels/comic books: diversity and manga"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Pleasing the eye is important, but a skilled designer also pays attention to the consumer's mind, emotions, and needs. This program explores the basic elements of design and how they can be manipulated to create powerful visual and interactive experiences. Detailing the properties of line, shape, tone, point, texture, color, and letterform-and how designers organize these elements through...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: This program looks at the creation of two products as it explores the visual, tactile, and aesthetic factors that inform the design process. The 321 Water filter is an attractive personal water purifier aimed at health-conscious women. Tear Lab is a non-invasive medical tool for measuring salt levels in tears. Sharing prototypes and drawings with the camera, the designers of these products talk...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Zimmerman, Bradlyn
Summary: A unique addition to any space, live edge river tables combine artistic elegance with everyday functionality, and this beginner-friendly guide will show you everything you need to know to accomplish these stunning pieces yourself. Featuring detailed overviews and tutorials for every step of the process from start to finish, you'll learn how select the wood, prepare the slab, prepare and pour...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Fox Chapel Publishing 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 684.104 ZIMSharp, Sarah Elizabeth
Summary: Sew (and design!) graphic paper-pieced patterns! Learn about every stage of the process with piecing basics, a guide to pattern design, and choose-your-own-adventure design prompts to create your own FPP patterns. With an annotated overview of the best FPP methods, countless tips, and 30+ paper-pieced quilt blocks plus 7 design exercises to put your skills to the test, you'll have the tools you...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Craft Sew SharpSummary: Steven Berlin Johnson is the best-selling author of books on the intersection of science, technology, and personal experience. His book Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation examines environments that lead to breakthrough innovations. In this TEDTalk, Johnson says the Web is like a city: built by many people, completely controlled by no one, intricately interconnected,...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Summary: If you've ever wondered how to build a catapult or trebuchet, or wondered what you'd do with it once you've built one, then this book can help. Filled with anecdotes, plans, photographs, drawings and detailed descriptions of the workings and history of all the major types of catapults, these pages will help you get started in this fascinating hobby. You too will feel the joy of harnessing the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: RLT Industries 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 623 CATAdams, Katharina
Summary: Grasses are filigree plants of particular beauty, with a great richness of colours, shapes and textures. Including more than 180 stunning colour photographs, Grasses in the Garden: Design Ideas, Plant Portraits and Care celebrates the versatility of ornamental grasses year-round. It illustrates how to plant grasses for both subtle and explosive colour effects. A section on garden design with...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Garden Art Press 2015
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 635.964 ADASummary: The history of Western architecture can be viewed as a battle-namely, humanity vs. nature. But the green revolution has prompted new forms of building design that welcome in the natural world. This program surveys some of those advances and the architectural pioneers who create and implement them. Celebrated architect William McDonough explains his working methods and outlines designs for major...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Summary: "Eva Zeisel was one of the twentieth century's most influential ceramicists and designers of modern housewares. Her distinctive take on modern industrial design was inspired by organic form and brought beauty and playfulness to housewares, earning her designs a beloved place in midcentury homes. This richly illustrated volume--the first-ever complete biographical account of Zeisel's life and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2013
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 738.092 EVASummary: From its preparation to its enjoyment, the meal has always been a province of design. This program gathers six of today's leading designers for an exposition of objects used in the kitchen and dining room. Interviews with designers artfully blend with examples of their work, including spoons, cutlery, glasses, vases, and a Champagne stand by Ettore Sottsass; kettles, cooking pots, and espresso...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Coffin, Kimberly
Summary: "Find inspiration for your next project with this guide from top craft blogger Kimberly Coffin of Sweet Red Poppy that provides everything you need to know about your Cricut cutting machine and how to develop the skills needed to make beautiful projects with it. - Everything you need to know to create beautiful projects with your Cricut machine using paper, vinyl, fabric and more - Essential...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Get Creative 6 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 745.54 COFSummary: Graphic designers with the consulting firm Navy Blue must produce a new corporate identity for Digital Animations Group, a Scottish company on the cutting edge of 3-D technology. Their task is to create a logo that captures the company's spirit and works across different formats, such as on paper, signs, windows, and Web pages. This program follows the entire process, from sitting down with the...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: Information and communication technology is changing the fashion industry by helping make design, development, and sampling of textiles more efficient. This program takes viewers inside Coppernob, a London-based fashion house, where designers use ICT tools-sketching and visualization software and digital pattern-makers, plotters, and printers-to easily explore different color and style...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Callahan, Bill
Contents: Jim Cain -- Eid ma clack shaw -- The wind and the dove -- Rococo Zephyr -- Too many birds -- My friend -- All thoughts are prey to some beast -- Invocation of ratiocination -- Faith ; Void.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Drag City 2009