New Releases by Robin Williams

※この商品はタブレットなど大きいディスプレイを備えた端末で読むことに適しています。また、文字だけを拡大することや、文字列のハイライト、検索、辞書の参照、引用などの機能が使用できません。 デザインの定番基本書＋図解の効果的な作り方が分かる小冊子のセットで、レイアウトもプレゼンもレベルアップ！ デザインの基本書『ノンデザイナーズ・デザインブック』に、プレゼンやレポート作りに役立つ『ノンデザイナーでも役立つ図解の基本』をセットにした商品。デザインの基本原則を学ぶとともに、わかりやすく美しい図の作り方、図解の効果的なデザイン法、デザイン法則と絡めての使い方が学べます。 『ノンデザイナーでも役立つ図解の基本』 1 図解とは 2 図解制作の基本 3 図解の「型」とスタイリング 4 わかりやすく美しい図のための20のテクニック 5 図解と4つの基本原則 ●Robin Williams(ロビン・ウィリアムズ) 主な著書に『Non-Designer''s Presentation Book』『Non-Designer''s Web Book』『Non-Designer''s Photoshop Book』など。 ●鷹野 雅弘（たかの・まさひろ） 株式会社スイッチ。グラフィックデザイン、エディトリアルデザイン、ウェブ制作の分野で、デザイン、オペレーション、設計・ディレクションなど、25年以上、第一線で手を動かし続けている。 ●荒砂 智之（あらすな・ともゆき） UIデザイナー。グラフィックデザイン会社、Web制作会社に勤務したのち、2020年にNTTコミュニケーションズのデザインスタジオ「KOEL Design Studio」に入社。業務システム、Webサイト、アプリに関する情報設計、UIデザインを手掛ける。 ※この商品は固定レイアウト型の電子書籍です。 ※この商品はタブレットなど大きいディスプレイを備えた端末で読むことに適しています。また、文字列のハイライトや検索、辞書の参照、引用などの機能が使用できません。 ※お使いの端末で無料サンプルをお試しいただいた上でのご購入をお願いいたします。 ※本書内容はカラーで制作されているため、カラー表示可能な端末での閲覧を推奨いたします

デザイナーでない人のための、デザインの定番基本書。待望の第４版！ デザインの「４つの基本原則」。これを知るだけで、あなたのデザインはずっとぐっと、良くなります。プロではなくても、読みやすいデザイン、伝わるプレゼン資料、わかりやすいレイアウトを作りたい。そんなあなたのための、デザインの基本書です。 ●本書の対象読者 仕事で、学習で、「デザイン」や「レイアウト」をしなければならない場面は、多々あります。本書は、プロではないし、デザインの学習に割ける時間はあまりないものの、自分の作るページや制作物を見栄え良くする方法を知りたい、という人のための本です。 ●本書の特徴 1.デザインの「4つの基本原則」がわかる 近接、整列、反復、コントラスト……デザインの4つの基本原則として知られるこれらを最初に提示したのは本書です。良い例、悪い例を挙げて、具体的に原則を解説していきます。 2.作例を多数解説 基本原則を適用して、名刺、チラシ、パンフレット、広告などをデザインする際のテクニックを解説しています。考え方だけでなく、どのように原則を使っていけば良いかが、よくわかるでしょう。 3.活字を用いたデザインを解説 文字および活字は、デザインにおいて大きな役割を担っています。コミュニケーションを強化するための、タイポグラフィの基本からアレンジまで、解説します。 4.日本語版での追加項目 日本語版での追加項目として、日本語を使ったデザインでの「4つの基本原則」の適用方法を、名刺、フライヤー、ウェブなどの作例を用いて解説しています。 『この本がデザイン学校の4年間の代わりになる、と言うつもりはありません。また、この小さな本を読めば、自動的に優れたデザイナーになれる、と言うつもりもありません。しかし、あなたがページを見る目は確実に変わるでしょう。この本の基本原則に従えば、あなたの作品が、もっとプロらしく、組織化され、一体化され、おもしろくなることを保証します。』（著者「まえがき」より） 第1版発売から18年ずっと売れ続けているロングセラー、待望の【第4版】の登場です。

『ノンデザイナーズ・デザインブック』の著者が教える資料作成の極意！ 本書は、良いプレゼンテーションのために役立つ原則を知ることができる本です。そもそも良いプレゼンテーションとはどのようにあるべきかから始まり、まずはプレゼンテーションのコンテンツを最適化するための4つの原則について紹介します。続いて、スライドのデザインを良くするための4つの原則も紹介します。最後に、ここまで紹介してきた原則には含まれない、プレゼンテーションをさらに良くするヒントが集められています。 本書で説明されている内容はまさに「原則」で、実行に移しやすい具体的なアドバイスでありながら、汎用的でさまざまなプレゼンテーションに使えるものです。社内における報告から、規模の大きな講演を行う方まで、広い範囲のプレゼンテーションに適用できる内容です。最近では、プレゼンテーションに対する期待値が全般的に上がっています。対外的に多くの聴衆に対して行うプレゼンテーションはもちろんのこと、社内における小規模なプレゼンテーションであっても、本書をお読みいただくことで、飛躍的に質を向上させ、内容の整理された、見やすく聞きやすいプレゼンテーションを行うことは、必ずあなたの役に立つことでしょう。 また、著者の既刊である『ノンデザイナーズ・デザインブック』をお読みいただいた方にとっては、『ノンデザイナーズ・デザインブック』で学んだことをベースに、さらにプレゼンテーションならではの役立つヒントを手に入れることができます。ぜひお手にとってご覧ください。

This guide provides a simple, step-by-step process to better design. Techniques promise immediate results that forever change a reader''s design eye. It contains dozens of examples.

For nearly 20 years, designers and non-designers alike have been introduced to the fundamental principles of great design by author Robin Williams. Through her straightforward and light-hearted style, Robin has taught hundreds of thousands of people how to make their designs look professional using four surprisingly simple principles. Now in its fourth edition, The Non-Designer''s Design Book offers even more practical design advice, including a new chapter on the fundamentals of typography, more quizzes and exercises to train your Designer Eye, updated projects for you to try, and new visual and typographic examples to inspire your creativity. Whether you''re a Mac user or a Windows user, a type novice, or an aspiring graphic designer, you will find the instruction and inspiration to approach any design project with confidence. THIS ESSENTIAL GUIDE TO DESIGN WILL TEACH YOU The four principles of design that underlie every design project How to design with color How to design with type How to combine typefaces for maximum effect How to see and think like a professional designer Specific tips on designing newsletters, brochures, flyers, and other projects.

Annotation Many designers and photographers own the entire suite of Adobe creative products, but they manage to learn only one or two of the applications really well. This volume includes many individual exercises designed specifically to teach the tools and features in Illustrator that designers (as opposed to illustrators) need to use.

Many designers and photographers own the entire suite of Adobe creative products, but they manage to learn only one or two of the applications really well. This new addition to the popular Non-Designer’s books from best-selling authors Robin Williams and John Tollett uses a series of individual exercises to teach image-editing tasks in Adobe Photoshop CS5.5 specifically to designers, who need to enhance their photos for use in brochures, advertising, Flickr, Facebook, websites, and so on. In this fun, full-color, straight-forward guide to Photoshop CS5.5, you’ll learn: Basic photo editing, such as how to smooth out wrinkles, remove blemishes, lose a little weight, clean up dust and scratches, brighten and sharpen the image, delete people, remove or add space in the middle of a photo, and more How to further manipulate and enhance images with filters and effects How to draw and paint with customized brushes, and how to colorize a black-and-white image All about layers and how to take advantage of them How and when to use paths, layer masks, and clipping masks to increase your editing capabilities How to merge several photos into one panorama, use the Puppet Warp feature, remove lens distortion, and much more Whether you need to improve or edit your photos for your graphic design work or to upload to your Flickr or Facebook account, this book is the easiest path to mastering basic tasks in Photoshop.

Adopting a back-to-the-basics approach, this bestselling little Mac classic has been revised and overhauled to introduce users to OS X Lion. In the gentle, friendly, funny style that generations of computer users have come to know and love, author Robin Williams shows readers how to dive in and start working with the Mac and OS X Lion. This full-color little book walks readers through all of the key new features including Multi-Touch Gestures, Launchpad, Mission Control, the App Store, Mail, and much more. Using straightforward, jargon-free explanations delivered in logical, easy-to-follow sections, Robin is a new user''s personal guide, coaching and encouraging readers as they learn their way around the magic of the Mac and OS X Lion.

Provides information on creating an effective digital presentation, covering such topics as animation, plot, contrast, software, and handouts.

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.

Adopting a back-to-the-basics approach, this bestselling little Mac classic has been revised and overhauled to introduce users to Snow Leopard, Apple''s newest version of its operating system. In the gentle, friendly, funny style that generations of computer users have come to know and love, author Robin Williams shows readers how to dive in and start working with the Mac and OS X Snow Leopard. This full-color little book walks readers through all of the key new features in Snow Leopard. Using straightforward, jargon-free explanations delivered in logical, easy-to-follow sections, Robin is a new user''s personal guide, coaching and encouraging readers as they learn their way around the magic of the Mac.

In this book–now in full color for the first time–Robin returns to one of her favorite things: teaching new computer users how to use and enjoy the Macintosh! Sit down at your Mac and let Robin introduce you to its basic features. Follow Robin’s step-by-step directions, and you’ll soon feel comfortable, confident, and able to do just about anything you want to do on your Mac. From using the mouse to surfing the web, from menu commands to keyboard shortcuts, you’ll acquire exciting new computer skills–and you’ll have fun in the process.

Learn how to get the most out of Mac OS X version 10.5 Leopard with legendary teacher and a uthor Robin Williams. The Peachpit Learning Ser ies brings you the best-selling authors you know and love, on the topics that are near and dear to you, in a format that allows you to learn just what you need to know, and at your own pace. With this book, you can learn in your own way–whether it’s working through the lessons from start to finish, jumping straight to step-by-step exercises about new features, or looking up just what you need to know at that moment. There are hundreds of exciting tools and hidden gems in your Macintosh. And with the gentle yet expert hand of Robin Williams guiding you along the way, you will learn to take full advantage of all that Leopard has to offer. If you are new to Mac OS X, you''ll learn to use your Mac with help from a world-renowned teacher. From there, you can move on to customize it to suit the way you work. And if you''ve been using Mac OS X already, you''ll learn to use the new features in Leopard, like Spaces, Quick Look, and Time Machine, and explore all the enhancements to favorites like Mail and iChat.

Whether you have just moved into a new home and want to create a garden from scratch or simply adapt an existing plot, the informative text and structured record pages will guide you from inspiration to realization. Hardback with spiral binding, this is the place to organize your ideas, decide your priorities, find out how to survey your plot, sketch out designs and keep a photographic record of ''befores'' and ''afters'', as well as monitor your budget. Graph paper and storage pockets are included. Throughout is plenty of advice to help you create the garden of your dreams that fulfils your wishes and suits your lifestyle.

Combines two best-selling design classics by celebrated author Robin Williams to cover the fundamentals that govern good design and type.

Williams covers all aspects of managing research, creating an innovative culture, hiring and nurturing researchers, and interacting with customers, based on his experiences at IBM Research. He describes processes for establishing visions, creating strategies, developing plans, managing projects and measuring results. He explains the need for continuous evaluation and transformation of research over time, with examples, and also describes means for looking into the future.

If you''ve got something to say and want to join the podcasting revolution but don''t know how to start, this short and approachable guide from bestselling authors Robin Williams and John Tollett will teach you how to create and distribute podcasts using Apple''s easy-to-use audio and Web site tools. Using the Garageband and iWeb tools from Apple''s iLife 06 suite of tools, Robin and John show you how to create professional sounding and looking podcasts, including how to add chapter markers, artwork, sound effects, jingles, and musical accompaniment to your podcasts.

Learn design theory and practical know-how from the award-winning author/design team, Robin Williams and John Tollett! Robin Williams introduced design and typographic principles to legions of readers with her best-selling Non-Designer''s book series. Now she and designer/co-author John Tollett take you to the next level of creative design with practical advice and lessons in composition, visual impact, and design challenges. Presented in Robin and John''s signature style—writing that is so crystal clear, it''s accessible to absolutely anyone—and illustrated with hundreds of full-color design examples, the ideas in this book tackle design theory, visual puns, and layout and graphics strategies for real-world projects. Developing designers will appreciate the authors'' imaginative approach and well-chosen examples. Discover practical and effective design principles and concepts—and how to apply them to virtually any project. Learn why some designs are attention-getting and others are not. Learn how to choose just the right look—corporate or casual, classic or trendy—for specific types of projects, such as business cards, letterhead and envelopes, newsletters and brochures, logos, advertising, and more. Test your design acumen by comparing before-and-after examples. Find a wealth of inspiration for your own design projects. Gain insight into the design process by studying the work of guest designers, who offer their personal commentary and insights.

This work explores the social processes involved in technological innovation, particularly in relation to the Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs).

For those who want to tame Mac OS X Tiger, but who want to do so in the comfort of their own home, this Apple-certified guide makes it possible. Now readers can use the same curriculum that Apple features at its own stores and training centers, but at their own pace and in front of their own computer.