Handmade Design Workshop: Create Handmade Elements for Digital Design

✍ Scribed by Carmen Sheldon, Robin Williams

• Publisher: Peachpit Press
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 241
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Contents
Introduction
Why this book?
Materials
1 Surfaces on which to Create
2 Stuff to Put on your Surfaces
3 Transfer an Image to a Surface
4 Heat, Cut, Score, Perforate
5 Adhesives—Glue it Down
Texture your Surface
6 Crackle the Surface
7 Texturize with Modeling Paste
8 Create a Patina
9 Peel the Paint
10 Rub and Rag the Paint
11 Stamp Textures with Alcohol Inks
12 Texturize with Absorbent Ground and Washi Paper
13 Make Textures with Monoprints
14 Make Textures with Bubbles
Combine Techniques!
Paint Textures
15 Salt the Paint
16 Blow the Paint
17 Spray the Paint
18 Pour the Paint
19 Scratch the Paint
20 Sponge the Paint
21 Splatter the Paint
22 Paint with Resist
23 Stamp-Resist into the Paint
24 Bleach the Paint
25 Tape and Paint
26 Plastic Wrap and Paint
27 Paper Towels and Paint
Combine Techniques!
Paper & Metal Projects
28 Marble the Paper
29 Collage with Paper
30 Collage with Metal
31 Make your own Paper
32 Cast Paper 3D Images
33 Blind-Emboss the Paper
34 Gold-Stamp the Paper
35 Metal-Leaf an Image
36 Emboss with Powders
Combine Techniques!
Illustrative Techniques
37 Scratch into Scratchboard
38 Illustrate with Found-Object Art
39 Illustrate with Clay
40 Illustrate with Collage
41 How to Draw if you can’t Draw
Printing & Transfers
42 Roller Printing
43 Stamp Printing
44 Printmaking
With Rubber Carving Blocks
With Linoleum Blocks
With Wood Blocks
With Found Objects
45 Transfer Images
Transfer to Polymer Backing
Transfer Directly to Substrate
Transfer with Lazertran
Transfer with Packing Tape
Appendix: Resources
Index
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