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Resources:

Required Texts (These have been ordered to the Engineers Bookstore. Call before you go, 404-221-1669, giving them the class number, LCC 2720, to make sure they're in stock):

__Design Basics Index
__Krause__ISBN 1581805012

__Understanding Comics
__McCloud__ISBN 006097625X

__Practices of Looking: An Introduction to Visual Culture
__Sturken__ISBN 0198742711

Recommended Instructional Texts:

WARNING: It's recommended that you examine the many options of instructional texts uncited here and then select each according to your own preferences

__Photoshop CS for Windows and Macintosh: Visual __QuickStart Guide
__Weinmann__ISBN 032121353X

__Illustrator CS for Windows and Macintosh:
__Visual Quickstart Guide
__Weinmann__ISBN 0321199553

__Dreamweaver MX 2004: The Missing Manual
__McFarland__ISBN 0596006314

__Macromedia Flash MX 2004 for Windows and __Macintosh: Visual QuickStart Guide
__Ulrich__ISBN 0321213440

__Hollywood 2D Digital Animation:
__The New Flash Revolution
__Corsaro__ISBN 159200170X

Suggested Texts:

__Visual Explanations:
__Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrative

__Tufte__ISBN 0961392126

__Logos Redesigned:
__How 200 Companies Successfully Changed Their Image
__Carter__ISBN 0060748052

__Homepage Usability:
__50 Websites Deconstructed
__
Nielsen__ISBN 073571102X

__Art and Visual Perception
__
Arnheim__ISBN 0520023277

Templates:

__100 Composition Template (Jpeg)

__100 Composition Template (Photoshop Document)

Links:

__Comprehensive Intro to Dreamweaver MX Website

__Dreamweaver MX Tutorials.PDF

__How to Add Multimedia to Dreamweaver MX

__Photoshop Links

__The Best (and Biggest) Digital Artist Community Online
__The work and critiques on this site are of outstanding quality.
__Post work here for harsh yet useful critiques.

__Free Font Archive
__To Install Downloaded Fonts: In Windows, you take the downloaded __fonts out of the ZIP archive and place them in the Start __Menu>Control Panel>Fonts Folder. The next time you run software __like Photoshop or Illustrator the font will be available.

__Huge Searchable Database of High-Quality Images

__Huge Searchable Database of High-Quality Sounds

Online Readings:

__The Consciousness of Consciousness

__Practices of Looking Chapter 1

__Practices of Looking Chapter 2

__IDEO Brainstorm Techniques

Supplies

__Caricature Assemblage Supplies