New Riders Publishing

Inspiration guide for designers.

Highlighting seven contemporary graphic design styles, this inspiration and technical guide from Fábio Sasso of the design website and blog, Abduzeedo, provides design advice, examples, inspirational and informational interviews as well as practical instruction for creating digital graphics. Covering abstract, retro art, illustration, photo manipulation, lighting effects, vector art and neosurrealism, each chapter provides an explanation of the design style and underlying theory, full color example graphics, discussions with design professionals, and step by step-by-step instructions for accomplishing similar results with popular graphics software applications. (Annotation ©2011 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)

Photographer's guide to the digital lifecycle; real-life workflow scenarios for managing still and motion photography assets.

Intended not only for photographers but for all producers of digital products in need of organization, this guide to digital workflow provides practical advice for implementing best practices for data storage, management and retrieval. Beginning with an overview of the life cycle of digital products (photos, video, audio, etc.), the volume discusses the planning of creative workflow, organizing the ingest process, storage and server solutions, backups, archiving, data recovery and a variety of digital asset management applications and tools. Color illustrations, sidebars and screen shots complement the text and an appendix describes building one's own digital archiving IT infrastructure. Greisler is the owner of an IT services firm. (Annotation ©2011 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)