Hot-Wiring Your Creative Process

Strategies for Print and New Media Designers

Curt Cloninger

260 pages, parution le 03/10/2006

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Résumé

Design philosophies can be useful, but inspiration, creative strategies, and efficient work habits are what really get the job done. Designer, instructor, and author Curt Cloninger provides a multitude of strategies, tools, and practices that readers can use to inject a big dose of creativity into just about any design project. With illustrations drawn from 20th-century French philosophy, medieval manuscripts, punkrock posters, and more, Curt's innovative text introduces readers to his personal toolkit for hot-wiring the creative process. You'll learn strategies to:

Recognize and believe in your creative powers
Develop effective methods for evaluating your own work
Draw inspiration from the past
Use standard software in experimental ways, and find nonstandard applications to create new effects
Maintain a personal design playground
Mine your subconscious with the Oblique Strategies Cards, developed by Brian Eno and Peter Schmidt
Un-stick your imagination by "blitz-designing" mock-ups

L'auteur - Curt Cloninger

Curt Cloninger is an artist, designer, author, and instructor in Multimedia Arts & Sciences at the University of North Carolina at Asheville. His book Fresh Styles for Web Designers: Eye Candy from the Underground (New Riders, 2002) is an industry standard on creative Web design solutions. Curt's art and design work has been featured in I.D. Magazine, HOW Magazine, The New York Times, Desktop Magazine, and at digital arts festivals from Korea to Brazil. He regularly speaks at international events such as HOW Design, South by Southwest, Web Design World, and FILE. His pirate signal broadcasts from lab404.com to facilitate lively dialog.

Sommaire

Introduction: What This Book Is and Is Not About
A Process Primer
Basic Creative Wisdom
Four Ways to Bypass Inertia
Mining Art and Design History
Varying Degrees of Derivation
How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love the Edit
Software and Systems
Maintaining a Personal Design Playground
The Five Realms of Design
Balance Forms and Reconcile Paradigms
Conclusion: Tag. You're It.
Exercices
Selected Resources
Credits
Index

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Caractéristiques techniques

	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	New Riders
Auteur(s)	Curt Cloninger
Parution	03/10/2006
Nb. de pages	260
Format	20 x 23
Couverture	Broché
Poids	574g
Intérieur	Quadri
EAN13	9780321350244
ISBN13	978-0-321-35024-4