Digital Design Basics (with CD-ROM)

Learn to build and integrate strong design technique with computer tools with DIGITAL DESIGNS BASICS with accompanying CD-ROM! This art text integrates the instruction of digital imaging skills with design principles and art/design history, offering a unique combination of concept, theory, technique, and design instruction. Exercises such as Warming Up and In the Studio give you the opportunity to practice the concepts you learn. Use the accompanying CD-ROM to review material and apply what you have learned through step-by-step, illustrated How To Basics for software, Artist Portfolios, free scans of objects, clip art, and digital photographic imagery intended for the chapter assignments, as well as access to trial software and Freeware.

Bridging the realms of art and communications technology, Arnston (U. of Wisconsin-Whitewater) relates core aesthetic concepts to computer graphics software instruction in introducing the design techniques and computer skill sets of digital design. She covers techniques in Illustrator, Photoshop, and other programs, dealing with fundamental design concepts, design theory, and art/design theory along the way. The CD-ROM contains trial software and freeware and the color art and design examples from the text. Annotation ©2005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Amy E. Arntson is a Professor Emerita at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater where she taught art, design, and computer graphics for over twenty years. Her artwork is exhibited nationally and internationally. She has given presentations in Europe, Scandinavia, Central and South America, China, and the United States on the nature of design and perception. Currently a full-time artist and author, Professor Arntson is also the author of DIGITAL DESIGN BASICS (Thomson Wadsworth, 2006).