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20 free ebooks for designers

20 free ebooks for designers
There has always been a healthy market for commercial books written by experts, and this isn't likely to change any time soon: sometimes there's just no substitute for splashing your cash and getting high quality content in return. That said, there's a growing movement towards free and freemium content on the web, and the quality of the content is often on a par with the books you'd part with cash for. 5 must-read books for design students Obviously nobody can afford to print and distribute free physical books (with the exception of the excellent World Book Night movement), but in this age of tablets, smartphones and laptops the electronic book offers a fantastic, and very cheap, way to spread this content. So, with all that in mind, what content can you get for free in the field of design? A quick search on your favourite search engine will reveal hundreds of offerings, making it difficult to sift the wheat from the chaff. 01. 02. 03. 04. 05. 06. 07. 08. 09. 10. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17.

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28 PDF Ebooks Search Engines Where You Can Search And Download Free Ebooks E-books have become more and more popular and nowadays you can read ebooks on your personal computers, smart phones, PDAs or even digital devices such as Amazon Kindle. We have Google as our largest search engine. But when you try to search for a particular ebook on Google, you will get a lot of unrelated results such as the book reviews. 8 Things Every Creative Should Know Since graduating from design school eight years ago, Adam J. Kurtz has worked various full-time jobs in creative fields, from film production to advertising to designing gifs for BuzzFeed. But all the while, he was pursuing the work he loved on the side, through self-publishing zines and producing witty novelty wares like pins and stationery. That side hustle led the young designer and artist to develop his own business and become a published author. And in his latest book, he’s sharing advice for his peers.

Read to Lead: How to Digest Books Above Your “Level” I shouldn’t be able to read most of the books on my shelf. I never took a single classical history class and I cheated through most of Economics 001. Still, the loci of my library are Greek History and Applied Economics. And though they often are beyond me educationally, I’m able to comprehend them because of some equalizing tricks. A Guide to Preparing Files for Print With this guide, we are going to examine ways to prepare files for print, covering applications in the Adobe Creative Suite. The examples used are for InDesign, but can apply to Photoshop and Illustrator. This is a basic guide aimed to help people just starting out in the print design business or are looking to learn more about preparing files better to send to press.

SumatraPDF What is Sumatra PDF? Sumatra PDF is a free PDF, eBook (ePub, Mobi), XPS, DjVu, CHM, Comic Book (CBZ and CBR) reader for Windows. Sumatra PDF is powerful, small, portable and starts up very fast. 10 Great Tutorials to Create Interacive eBooks Using iBook Author Are you planning to give iBooks Author a place in your classroom? The video tutorials below will definitely give you a hand. As you know by now, iBooks Author is one of the formidable apps available in the iTunes store. It allow users to create interactive ebooks and share them with the rest of the world. The general process behind creating these interactive ebooks is pretty basic; however, there are certain features and tips teachers need to pay heed to in order to tap into its full potential.

15 Online Tools to Create E-Magazines, eBooks and Digital Newspapers Looking for an easy way to create your own digital magazine for online publication? Well you can do it pretty easily with the help of some online tools available on the Web. Today we’ve done a thorough research and short listed 15 e-magazine publishing tools that are absolutely worth your attention. The good news about these web-based tools is that they are free and easy-to-use. Their intuitive user interfaces let you being able to publish a professional looking e-magazine, ebooks and online newspapers in just a few steps. Additionally, these tools are highly customizable to suit users’ different digital publication needs.

The 16 best movie posters of 2016 Movie posters not only hint at the storyline of the film – it also gives the studio a chance to get creative (sometimes!). From illustration to photography, 3D art to clever typography placement, here we’ve picked out 16 of our favourite movie posters of 2016 that thought outside of the box. So, without further ado, in reverse order...

The 50 Books Everyone Needs to Read, 1963-2013 The thing about reading is this: it takes a long time. There are innumerable books in the world, and many more good ones than can be read by any mortal in a lifetime. It’s hard to choose — especially if you’re a slow reader. So, to go along with the list of the best albums from 1963-2013, here you will find a single must-read book from each of the last 50 years. Of course, this is by its very nature an absurd undertaking, and many books have gotten the short end of the stick — there’s no other way to do it. The choices here are influenced by the following: the stipulation that any specific author should not be chosen for more than one year, a general focus on fiction over other genres, and the tastes/whims/glaring prejudices of Flavorwire’s literary editor.

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