Finamore Design

Web Design: Port­fo­lios
Edited by Julius Wiede­mann
Pub­lisher: Taschen
ISBN: 3–8228-4043–2

Web Design: Port­fo­lios lists some of the most beau­ti­fully designed sites on the web today. These are the sites of design­ers, pho­tog­ra­phers, motion graph­ics artists, and illus­tra­tors. Each page con­tains a descrip­tion of the cre­ative con­cept that was the dri­ving force behind what would even­tu­ally become the final web­site, telling the story of the way the site was designed rather than the con­tent it con­tains. Taschen has done a great job of select­ing sites that present the artists work with ele­gance and style. Below selected screen­shots of the sites, the book lists the design­ers and pro­gram­mers names, the tools used (HTML, Flash, Java, etc.), awards, and devel­op­ment time and main­te­nance time for each. (more…)

Design­ing a Dig­i­tal Port­fo­lio
Author: Cyn­thia L. Baron
Pub­lisher: New Rid­ers Press
ISBN: 0735713944

No mat­ter what kind of artist you are, it seems that get­ting a job today with­out an online port­fo­lio is an impos­si­bil­ity. Design­ing A Dig­i­tal Port­fo­lio is the per­fect book for entry level and stu­dent artists who are design­ing their first port­fo­lios to sub­mit their work when job hunt­ing. It is filled with impor­tant infor­ma­tion, how­ever most of it is very basic and will only be a review for expe­ri­enced pro­fes­sion­als. This last fact aside, it is one of the most com­pre­hen­sive books on its topic that I have ever seen. From the title, I expected to find point­ers on prepar­ing images for the screen, or how to put them on a CD/DVD, etc. Those things are there, but the book begins in a log­i­cal place that I wouldn’t have con­sid­ered. (more…)

The Cult­ing of Brands : When Cus­tomers Become True Believ­ers
Author: Dou­glas Atkins
Pub­lisher: Port­fo­lio
ISBN: 1591840279

How does Apple, Nike, and Sat­urn attract cus­tomers who will­ing to devote their lives to the prod­ucts they prod­uct for no reward other than the inter­nal feel­ing that they have suc­cess­fully con­verted another non user into a believer of their favorite commodity?

Is it pos­si­ble you can do this with your own, or your clients com­pany? What is the secret? The answers are all within this book. (more…)

This link goes to a com­pre­hen­sive list of every­thing you will find on my book­shelf. My book­shelf con­tains every book that I have found in new and used book stores, online, some­times even at garage sales. The gen­res span brand­ing, adver­tis­ing, graphic design, cre­ative thought, and more.

By no means do I rec­om­mend every book on my shelves. Some of them are win­ners, some were a com­plete waste of pulp. The indi­vid­ual books reviewed in this cat­e­gory are the gems we found in the coal mine known as the bookstore.

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