Best Practice: The Pros On Adobe Illustrator

Features

• Cover Type: Paperback with 272 pages
• Published by: Delmar Cengage Learning
• Edition: 1st Edition August 16, 2006
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 1418011444
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-1418011444
• Book Dimensions: 9.3 x 8 x 0.7 inches
• Weighs: 1.4 pounds

Product Description
Best Practice: The Pros on Adobe Illustrator inspires readers to explore the creative process and technical skill behind the work of leading contemporary digital artists. Highlighting skillful digital designers, Best Practice features interviews with the artists and deconstructs individual pieces of their work into how-to steps that readers can experiment with. Full of industry advice and hot techniques, this richly visual four-color book reinforces the key design and illustration principles that every designer requirements to know. Best Practice includes an initial review chapter to bring readers up to speed with Illustrator basics to ensure their success with the chapters that follow.

About The Author
Toni Toland has taught more than 1,000 students the nuances of concept development and design in the Ad Design program at Syracuse University¿s School of Art and Design, where she pioneered the first digital design and illustration courses in the country. Toni has also served as chair of the department of Visual Communications and as the director of the School of Art and Design at Syracuse. She spent the first ten years of her professional career working as an art director and creative director for numerous design studios, ad agencies and Town & Country magazine.

Reader Reviews
Amazon, please get this book up front in the search engines for Illustrator!!!! I stumbled on this book (and the Photoshop version) by accident. I love this book. It is so worn out that I might have to buy another copy. I take it to my Adobe illustrator classes and recommend it to everyone I see. I have to give them the exact spelling of the author and the book because that is the only way you can find the book on amazon!!! (Toni, you might want to change the title for your next edition) The book basically highlights 11 Illustrator artists' background and work. However, the best part of the book is that each artist has a unique way of using Illustrator for their work and each chapter provides instructions and excercises to learn these new techniques. If you want to get beyond the basic instructions provided by the few beginner books available on Illustrator and add more "professional" techniques to your arsenal.... get this book! I also like seeing new and different artists' work. I felt cheated when I got a subscribtion to Illustrator Magazine (now merged with Layers Magazine) and their website. They feature the same artists and artists' work that can be found in the WOW book, so it is refreshing to see other work. Comment (1) | | (Report this)