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Author
Publisher
A Book Apart
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
1st edition.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (54 pages)
Language
English
Description
Great content doesn't happen in a vacuum. It gets bogged down in teams, organizations, silos, and process. Beth Dunn helps you break the vacuum seal and bring unity and joy back to content. Cultivating Content Design gives you the power to fundamentally change your organization's approach to great content-with the tools and team you already have. With time and a little gumption, you'll be able to cement your position as a strategic content leader,...
Author
Series
Creative core volume 1
Publisher
New Riders
Pub. Date
©2015
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 volume) : illustrations
Language
English
Description
"Visual Design speaks design, through design, to designers, presenting 95 core design principles with concise text and a touch of visual wit. Author of the bestselling Index series on design basics, Jim Krause uses a combination of Helvetica and Dingbats to teach a wide range of design topics (both conceptually and compositionally related) in a one-topic-per-spread format. Using humor, practical tips, and inspiring visual examples, Krause makes it...
Author
Publisher
Peachpit Press
Language
English
Description
These days, it's not just corporate marketing directors tasked with giving computer-based presentations--anyone forced to stand in front of a crowd and talk for more than three minutes had better know how to put together a slide presentation. You're not a professional designer, but you want your slides to look professional. What do you do? Enter Robin Williams , the beloved, best-selling non-designer's designer (with over 850,000 copies of The Non-Designer's...
Author
Publisher
Focal Press
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
1 online resource
Language
English
Description
Complete, practical guide to handling colour graphics on the desktop for Mac and PC - from the scanning, creation and manipulation of images to processing for different colour output devices. Keep this handy book on your desk to help you achieve more professional-looking results in colour for a wide variety of tasks. An accompanying CD-ROM allows you to view practical examples of colour techniques in graphic design on the screen, demonstrating the...
6) Helvetica
Publisher
Plexifilm
Pub. Date
2007.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (80 min.) : sound color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 guide (8 pages : color illustrations ; 19 cm)
Language
English
Description
Helvetica is a documentary film about typography, graphic design and global visual culture. It looks at the proliferation of one typeface as part of a larger conversation about the way type affects our lives. An exploration of urban spaces and the type that inhabits them, Helvetica invites us to take a second look at the thousands of words we see every day.
Author
Publisher
O'Reilly Media, Inc
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
1st edition.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (81 pages)
Language
English
Description
Tell your story and show it with data, using free and easy-to-learn tools on the web. This introductory book teaches you how to design interactive charts and customized maps for your website, beginning with simple drag-and-drop tools such as Google Sheets, Datawrapper, and Tableau Public. You'll also gradually learn how to edit open source code templates like Chart.js, Highcharts, and Leaflet on GitHub. Hands-On Data Visualization for All takes you...
Author
Publisher
Wiley
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First Edition.
Physical Desc
1 online resource
Language
English
Description
"Drawing and sketching ideas in groups is a smarter way of thinking, communicating, and working. The core method of the book, FIVE DESIGNLOOPS, gives leaders simple drawing tools, techniques and examples of visual collaboration, that can be implemented, in any context, including meetings, strategy sessions, project planning, innovating, business plans, etc. For example, draw your strategy and hang it in the lunch room or next to the coffee machine....
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xii, 226 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"A leading data visualization expert explores the negative -- and positive -- influences that charts have on our perception of truth." -- From Amazon.com summary.
Author
Publisher
Portfolio/Penguin
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Desc
xi, 350 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Outlines effective strategies for preventing vocabulary misuse and overuse, explaining how to apply the author's "vivid thinking" principles to improve learning, share ideas, and overcome specific obstacles to productivity.
Author
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons, Inc
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (x, 229 pages) : color illustrations
Language
English
Description
"Over the past decade, visual communication has shifted from being an optional medium for transmitting information to an essential means of build connection and understanding. It has changed the way we tell stories and establish relationships -- and it has transformed the traditional agency model within the marketing, public relations, and design industries. Amy Balliett's book will explain how can marketers, PR professionals, and organizations can...
Author
Series
Trainer's Workshop Ser volume 2
Publisher
AMACOM
Pub. Date
2000
Physical Desc
1 online resource (xvii, 254 pages) : illustrations.
Language
English
Description
Atlanta-based trainer Bienvenu offers instruction and practical tools to develop and lead training sessions on presentation skills. Using her strategic communication model, she walks through all the phases of preparing a course, including class size, time requirements, selling the workshop to management, room setup, and other aspects. She includes worksheets, exercises, planning steps, scripts, lecture notes, overheads, and handouts.
Author
Publisher
Focal Press
Language
English
Description
This book looks at the fundamental problems a writer faces as a beginner learning to create content for media that is to be seen rather than read. It takes you from basic concepts to a first level of practice through explicit methods that train you to consistently identify a communications problem, think it through, and find a resolution before beginning to write. Through successive exercises, Writing for Visual Media helps you acquire the basic skills...
Author
Publisher
Avid Reader Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First Avid Reader Press hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
xix, 182 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Understanding numbers is essential - but humans aren't built to understand them. Chip Heath outlines specific principles that reveal how to translate a number into our brain's language. This book is filled with examples of extreme number makeovers, vivid before-and-after examples that take a dry number and present it in a way that people click in and say "Wow, now I get it!" This book will help math-lovers and math-haters alike translate the numbers...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Co
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
First Norton paperback edition.
Physical Desc
157 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"In today's data-driven world, professionals need to know how to express themselves in the language of graphics effectively and eloquently. Yet information graphics is rarely taught in schools or is the focus of on-the-job training. Now, for the first time, Dona M. Wong, a student of the information graphics pioneer Edward Tufte, makes this material available for all of us. In this book, you will learn: to choose the best chart that fits your data;...
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