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Book reviews of popular books about graphic design, publications design, layout, and desktop publishing Quark XPress, Print, QuarkXPress, Adobe Acrobat, InDesign, Color Management, Acrobat Forms, , Digital Design, Identity Solutions, Brands, Letterheads, Logos, Business Cards, Creative layout and more from user group leaders and members all around the world. You are encouraged to submit articles and reviews from your organization.

Desktop Publishing

• Adobe InDesign CS2 How-Tos: 100 Essential Techniques (Essentials) - This info-packed guide lets you get right down to work
• Hot-Wiring Your Creative Process - Recognize and believe in your creative powers
• Typographic Design: Form and Communication - Fourth Edition of the bestselling book on letters, typeography, visual communications and design aesthetics, and designing for legibility
• Type Rules! : The Designer's Guide to Professional Typography - One of our most recommended and most praised books
• Adobe Creative Suite 2 Classroom in a Book - Step-by-step, project-based lessons walk you through sample real-life projects
• Adobe Creative Suite 2 Workflow : Integrating the Tools, Increasing Your Productivity - This book can help you quickly learn how to take advantage of all that CS2 has to offer
• D.I.Y.: Design It Yourself - provides you with all the tools you'll need to create your own projects
• How to Wow with InDesign - You'll quickly master InDesign basics and advanced techniques
• The InDesign Effects Book - A stunning full-color guide to InDesign Effects
• Understanding Color : An Introduction for Designers - From theory to practice - enhance your skills in working with color
• The Adobe InCopy CS2 Book - how to take control of the copy-fitting process
• InDesign Type : Professional Typography - a comprehensive overview of all of InDesign's type features
• Wordplay : The Philosophy, Art, and Science of Ambigrams - Visual excitement in the making... for all graphic designers
• Meggs' History of Graphic Design - This is the quintensential book for serious graphic designers.
• The InDesign Effects Book - Desktop publishing and graphics meet in InDesign
• InDesign Production Cookbook - an all-star line-up of great Illustrator techniques
• QuarkXPress to InDesign: Face to Face - Moving from Quark to InDesign? Adobe hasn't really screwed up as badly as you think... once you have this book
• Adobe InDesign CS/CS2 Breakthroughs - InDesign for CS2 just the facts... get this one for sure
• Adobe Creative Suite 2 Classroom in a Book - Here's the whole suite in the easy to learn classroom setting
• Adobe InDesign CS2 Bible (Bible) - 900+ pages with everything you need to make the most of InDesign
• Adobe Acrobat 7 PDF Bible - completely updated and enhanced to cover the powerful new release of Adobe Acrobat...
• Before and After Graphics for Business - This is one of the books we classify as "must have" for designers and desktop publishers
• The New Graphic Design School - by Alan Swann:
• Design Literacy: Understanding Graphic Design - by Steven Heller: must-read for design professionals
• Goodbye Gutenberg: - by Valerie Kirschenbaum: Goodbye Gutenberg is more than just a book - it's a cultural heirloom for your family
• Adobe InDesign CS One-on-One - by Deke McClelland: Deke turns his sights to Adobe InDesign CS
• Moving to InDesign - From QuarkXPress, PageMaker to InDesign
• Real World Adobe Acrobat Pro 6 - all the new features in Adobe's Acrobat
• Creating a Newsletter in InDesign - Simple, direct, step-by-step instructions
• QuarkXPress 6 for Print and Web Design - by Michael Baumgardt
• Real World QuarkXPress 6 - by David Blatner
• QuarkXPress 6 Killer Tips - by Eda Warren
• Adobe Acrobat 6.0 Standard Classroom in a Book - by Adobe Creative Team, Adobe Creative Team
• Real World Adobe InDesign 2 - by Olav Kvern, David Blatner
• Real World Color Management - by Bruce Fraser, Fred Bunting, Chris Murphy
• InDesign for QuarkXPress Users - by David Blatner, Christopher Smith, Steve Werner
• Extending Acrobat Forms with JavaScript - by John Deubert

Graphic Design...

• Basics Design: Layout - Here's a spectacular visual treat for both beginner and veteran of design layout.
• Basic Design: Format (Basics) - an indispensable reference tool and a thorough knowledge of the building blocks of Graphic Design
• Design Literacy - by Steven Heller
• Design School - by Alan Swann -- "Sight is a process by which our brains decode the visual stimuli received from the eyes and turn these into an image of solid objects..."
• Before & After - by John McWade
• The Non-Designer's Design Book, Second Edition - by Robin Williams
• A Practical Guide to Digital Design : Designing with Your Computer Made Easy - by Pina Lewandowsky, Francis Zeischegg
• Identity Solutions: How to Create Effective Brands With Letterheads, Logos and Business Cards - by Amy Schell, Cheryl Dangel Cullen
• The Non-Designer's Design Book - by Robin Williams
• Design Basics for Creative Results - by Bryan Peterson
• The Brand Gap: How to Bridge the Distance Between Business Strategy and Design - by Marty Neumeier

Others of interest...

• Mac OSX Killer Tips Dan East is google-eyed over Kelby's OSX Tricks Book
• iMovie & iDVD: The Missing Manual Make Memorable Movies with iMovie 3 O'Reilly/Pogue Press Releases "iMovie 3 & iDVD: The Missing Manual"
• Mac OS X in a Nutshell Mac OS X in a Nutshell -- A Desktop Quick Reference -- the most complete guide to Apple's remarkable operating system.
• Shooting Digital Shooting Digital brings you Pro Tips for Taking Great Pictures with Your Digital Camera
• Apple Confidential 2.0 APPLE CONFIDENTIAL is The Definitive History of the World's Most Colorful Company, by Owen W. Linzmayer
• The Glitterguru on Photoshop: From Concept to Cool CVMUG Newsletter Editor, Victoria Maciulski reviews The Glitterguru on Photoshop
• New Book Teaches How to Design Cool Stuff New book shows you how to design cool stuff; makes good design easy for anyone.
• Adobe Illustrator cs Classroom in a Book Victoria Maciulski reviews Adobe Illustrator cs Classroom in a Book
• How To Do Everything With Your Digital Camera Louise Dawson, LWMug reviews How To Do Everything With Your Digital Camera
• Learning Unix for Mac OS X Panther Learning Unix for Mac OS X Panther - Beyond Panther--Unlocking Mac OS X's Unix Core
• Book Review: DVD Studio Pro 2 Victoria Maciulski reviews DVD Studio Pro 2, from the Apple Pro Training
• Security Warrior The best way to defend yourself is to understand your attacker in depth, "Security Warrior" by Cyrus Peikari and Anton Chuvakin reveals how your systems can be threatened.
• RELAX NG is "Relaxing" In his new book, author Eric van der Vlist introduces the Regular Language Description for XML Core--New Generation, or RELAX N
• Perl Template Toolkit Kathryn Barrett sends this review of the Perl Template Toolkit
• Degunking Windows Ballew and Duntemann show you how to really get that Windows machine cleaned up
• Adobe Photoshop cs Down & Dirty Tricks Victoria Maciulski reviews Adobe Photoshop cs Down & Dirty Tricks
• User's Guide to Mac OS X's Core The Inquisitive User's Guide to Mac OS X's Core

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• Troi File Plug-in for FileMaker Updated plug-in lets you manipulate your files and folders and use file and folder information directly from your FileMaker Pro databases.
• Slope Rider interactive snowboarding game This is a really fun interactive snowboarding game that isn't just for kids.
• Ultra-Mini Optical Mouse Daniel East reviews the Targus' Ultra-Mini Optical mouse -- "This is one small mouse! Designed for portability and affordability"
• Stop Motion Animation, Time Lapse Recording Frank Petrie reviews iStopMotion - "the ideal software for creating Stop Motion Animation (Claymation) and Time Lapse Recording."
• Send your spam to SpamSieve Frank Petrie looks at SpamSieve spam filtering software with Bayesian spam filtering
• Music Merchants meet Garage Band Daniel East reports on NAMM Conference 2004
• Free Photoshop-compatible Plugins PhotoFreebies is a collection of 10 Photoshop-compatible plugins for performing useful photo manipulations and effects.

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