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	• Robin Williams Handmade Design Workshop: Create Handmade Elements for Digital Design Robin Williams, Carmen Sheldon Peachpit Press, 2009 - 240 pages average customer review:based on 14 reviews view larger image
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Any photography or crafts collection needs this

Handmade Design Workshop: Create Handmade Elements for Digital Design offers a fine inspirational survey of design work showing how to use traditional artist's tools to create hand-made elements for use in digital design work. From learning how to blow, salt, spray and sponge to exploring clay, collage and found objects, this shows how to create illustrations even if you can't draw, with the inclusion of photography into the mix. Any photography or crafts collection needs this.

Get your designer hands dirty for a change!

The Handmade Design Workshop by Carmen Sheldon and Robin Williams is a book I'm happy to have in my collection as a unique, design effects book. Being both a fine artist and designer, I was thrilled to have found a book that bridges what I felt I wanted to convey in my work- a blend of tactile with the simplicity of editing with the computer.

While in art school a had a great teacher who encouraged the design students not to just rely on computer effects, so we were able to create designs that had a humanistic, original feel. The authors of the book, Robin Williams and Carmen Sheldon, echo many of these same ideas. I have some of Robin's other books that I find just as helpful, instructional wise, but this particular book has been my favorite so far because it is so inspiring. And have an excuse not to stay glued to the computer!

Visual references and material guides were clearly laid out. And comparisons to similar digital effects were explained along with the new DIY approach for effects. I loved the textures suggested for background surfaces, from quick printing techniques (such as using found objects) to simple illustrative ideas (such as using torn paper collage or clay!)

Overall I was really impressed with the quality of the book and reminded how much we tend as designers get caught up in the day to day hustle of creation and rely on premade filters or other "from the box" digital effects. It's good to be reminded to get my designer hands dirty again and make some handmade elements!

K.Toft

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Great Job

Love the "just enough" text and very helpful, step by step photos to show how to do techniques.
I have tried some of these watercolor techniques just from the book and I was able to actually learn how to do it without having to pay for a class or watch someone live doing it. I'm going to use these techniques in my paintings - I'm not even a graphic artist but wanted to learn some neat effects for my watercolor and other paintings.

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"Must-have" resource book for your design library!

This is a wonderful resource book! It's filled with inspirational ideas for taking a design from "ho-hum" to "over the top". The materials and tools have been easy to find in my local art supply store. I just finished a design using the scratch board technique from this book and enjoyed it so much more than just working on my computer.

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Great book for breaking out of the mold and conformity, which is so difficult to break with Adobe so readily at our finger tips. Miss you Robin, love you mom.

Over the course of the last several years, the DIY market has exploded spawning magazines, books, movies and fueling the growth of the online, handmade marketplace. In Robin Williams Handmade Design Workshop: Create Handmade Elements for Digital Designs, best-selling author Robin Williams and Carmen Sheldon take designers away from their computers and show them, step-by-step, how to use traditional artist's tools to create handmade elements for their digital artwork. The authors provide a wealth of new ideas to jump-start creativity and get graphic designers thinking in new ways. Each how-to is illustrated with tons of photos to show how to use paints, inks, textures, modeling pastes, and more to create handmade materials that can then be scanned in and used to create one-of-a-kind print projects or web sites. Examples of finished projects and Web sites are featured throughout the book to provide both instruction and inspiration for designers to use in their own projects.

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