- "The Best Design Advice I Ever Got" with Alberto Cairo
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Alberto Cairo
- Aug 28, 2012
- Underneath the packaging, an infographic serves a very simple purpose—to educate. Alberto Cairo, professor of information graphics and visualization at the University of Miami and author of The Functional Art: An introduction to information graphics and visualization, talks about the importance of making infographics work on an instructional level.
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- 10 Practical Logo Design Tips
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By
David Airey
- Oct 14, 2014
- David Airey, author of Logo Design Love: A guide to creating iconic brand identities, 2nd Edition, shares ten tips that will help you think about how to design better logos.
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- 5 Tips for Building a Killer Portfolio
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Denise Anderson
- Mar 5, 2016
- Denise Anderson, author of Stand Out: Design a personal brand. Build a killer portfolio. Find a great design job., shares expert insights on building a book of work that represents the style, type, and industry-specific work you want to do.
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- A Confederacy of Truth-Tellers: The Bright (But Challenging) Future of Small or Independent Visualization Teams
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Alberto Cairo
- Aug 27, 2013
- Big media is fading and, with it, the way in which society has traditionally informed itself about relevant issues. Alberto Cairo, author of The Functional Art: An Introduction to Information Graphics and Visualization, discusses whether a new generation of small, creative, candid, and committed teams of visual communicators will become effective watchdogs for our future.
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- A Quick Tour of Adobe Illustrator (2022 Release)
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Brian Wood
- May 18, 2022
An introduction to basic drawing tools in Adobe Illustrator, from creating a new document to drawing shapes, applying color, and working with type and brush strokes.
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- A Roadmap for Creating an Effective Content Strategy
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Meghan Casey
- Jul 22, 2015
- Brain Traffic content strategist Meghan Casey, author of The Content Strategy Toolkit: Methods, Guidelines, and Templates for Getting Content Right, talks about the content strategy framework that just might save your next website redesign project.
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- Adding special effects in Lightroom Classic
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Scott Kelby
- May 18, 2022
Scott Kelby shows you how to apply special effects to your photography using Adobe Lightroom Classic. Choose from presets, add vignettes, sun flares, and spotlights, or create a panorama or HDR with your color or black-and-white images.
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- Adding Transitions with Adobe Premiere Pro
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Maxim Jago
- Apr 17, 2024
Author Maxim Jago shows readers a glimpse into the art of using transitions in video editing with Adobe Premiere Pro.
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- Adobe Creative Cloud Desktop and Mobile Applications
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Joseph Labrecque
- Oct 25, 2022
Joseph Labrecque covers the basics of using Adobe Creative Cloud, including navigating the Desktop application, managing software versions, and accessing mobile apps and Creative Cloud Libraries.
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- Advanced Motion Tweening
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Russell Chun
- Jul 21, 2021
The advanced Motion Editor in Adobe Animate can help you create complicated animations with motion tweens. Learn to edit property curves, apply ease curves, and produce realistic motion with this sample chapter from Adobe Animate Classroom in a Book (2021 release).
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- Advanced Motion Tweening with Adobe Animate
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Russell Chun
- Mar 10, 2020
- Learn how to use the Motion Editor in Adobe Animate to edit property and ease curves and create more realistic motion.
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- An Interview with Jesse James Garrett
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Russ Unger, Jesse James Garrett
- Dec 21, 2010
- Russ Unger interviews Jesse James Garrett about the new edition of The Elements of User Experience, what's changed since the first edition was released in 2002, why client work is still important to him, and the relationship between UX and the video game industry.
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- An Introduction to MySQL
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Larry Ullman
- Jan 24, 2018
- See how to define a simple table using MySQL’s allowed data types and other properties and learn how to interact with the MySQL server using two different client applications.
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- Animal, Vegetable, or Mineral? Steve Krug on Why Users Like Mindless Choices
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Steve Krug
- Jan 27, 2014
- We face choices all the time on the Web. Steve Krug explains that making those choices mindless is one of the most important things you can do to make a site easy to use.
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- Animating Symbols with Motion Tweens
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Russell Chun
- May 18, 2022
Create animations in Adobe Animate using motion tweening. Learn to adjust almost any aspect of an object—position, color, transparency, size, rotation, and more—and export your animation as a movie.
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- Animating Text
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Lisa Fridsma, Brie Gyncild
- Jan 17, 2020
In this sample chapter from Adobe After Effects Classroom in a Book (2020 release), authors Fridsma and Gyncild teach you to create and animate text layers. You will learn to stylize text using the Character and Paragraph panels, apply and customize text animation presets, and more.
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- Animating with Modern Rigging
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Russell Chun
- Jun 26, 2023
Russell Chun explores the power of the Asset Warp tool in Animate to create and edit rigs, animate with classic tweening, and apply various bone types for precise control.
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- Author Talk: Alberto Cairo on the Functional Art of Infographics (Podcast Transcript)
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Alberto Cairo, Nancy Aldrich-Ruenzel
- Oct 16, 2012
- New Riders/Peachpit Publisher Nancy Ruenzel talks with Alberto Cairo, professor of information graphics and visualization at the University of Miami and author of The Functional Art: An introduction to information graphics and visualization. Alberto names some of his favorite designers and data visualizers working in the field today, and discusses the complex relationship between function and form.
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- Author Talk: David Airey on Working for Money, Designing for Love
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Nancy Aldrich-Ruenzel, David Airey
- Dec 21, 2012
- Publisher Nancy Aldrich-Ruenzel interviews author and designer David Airey about his most recent book, "Work for Money, Design for Love."
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- Author Talk: Mike Rohde on Sketchnoting
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Nancy Aldrich-Ruenzel, Mike Rohde
- Dec 7, 2012
- Publisher Nancy Aldrich-Ruenzel interviews author and sketchnoting pioneer Mike Rohde about his new book, The Sketchnote Handbook: the illustrated guide to visual note taking. They discuss the benefits of sketchnoting, Mike's specific style and techniques, and the rise of "the Sketchnote Army." Mike also touches on the documentary style video he recently released, The Sketchnote Handbook Video.
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