4x4 Photoshop and Illustrator: Light/Dark - Softcover

Higgins, Nick; Luna, Adrian; Donohue, Sean; Gura, Jemma

9781903450451: 4x4 Photoshop and Illustrator: Light/Dark

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1903450454 ISBN 13: 9781903450451

Publisher: Friends of Ed, 2001

"You have to bend filters, push them to their limits, and tweak them out in order to get something new. I think it's important to wrestle full-on with these things, otherwise you risk producing lifeless and boring results." —Jemma Gura

The 4x4 Project invited four groundbreaking designers, celebrated for their experimental work, to create new works around the central theme of "Light and Dark."

Jemma Gura (aka lentil) is the creator of Prate.com
Sean Donohue is the creator of GoingonSix.com
Nick Higgins is a professional illustrator based in the U.K.
Adrian Luna is the creator of PurusDesign.com

In this book, you'll find the tools and the inspiration to take on the applications and beat them. Photoshop is the application of choice, with Illustrator also employed for its vector graphics capabilities, along with a little Auto-Illustrator for some random beauty.

This book immerses the reader in the four phases of the process:

Theory: personal accounts of the creative process, manifestos, diaries, mental sketchbooks, and associated ephemera
"Light and Dark": the finished original art works
Process: detailed, first-hand technical descriptions of the creation of each piece, along with original source files on the accompanying CD
Noise and interference: the four designers discuss, sample, and remix their colleagues' work

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From the Publisher:

The 4

The four authors of this book seem to have little in common. Read through the theory sections, look at the artworks: they are poles apart. But there are certain lines of longitude that connect them:

- a visual style that is distinctive, innovative and influential

- a hunger for the experimental and a tendency to take risks

- a wealth of experience and a firm control of the tools they use

We were excited by their work, we wanted to see how they would approach the same theme, we knew they would have a lot to say and even more to show.

The 4x4

Most books are fossils. Designers look back on their body of work, they discuss pieces they once created in response to motivations they once had. We sit on the outside and gaze in at the pinned exhibits.

This book is not a spectator and it is not a museum piece. The 4x4 Project is a catalyst and the authors words, the readers thoughts, the artworks and the theories are all ongoing reactions in the creative process.

This book is a laboratory where you can learn from and participate in experimentation.

The accompanying CD provides you with relevant source files for the tutorials, the final, exclusive artworks in unflattened PSD format and all remixes and digital hybrids spawned by the Project....the next step is yours.

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