Robin Williams Handmade Design Workshop: Create Handmade Elements for Digital Designs

Robin Williams taps into the handmade revolution with techniques digital designers can use to make their work truly unique.

- Co-authored by legendary designer Robin Williams.
- Step-by step demonstrations show how to use a variety of media to create. textures, graphic images, and typography for use in digital design projects.
- Each step-by-step technique shows designers how to use traditional artists' tools such as paints, inks, textures, modeling pastes, and more.

Over the course of the last several years, the DIY market has exploded spawning magazines (ReadyMade, Make), books, movies (Handmade Nation) and fueling the growth of the online, handmade marketplace, Etsy.com, which now has 2.1 million members who are currently selling over 3.4 million products to the tune of $87.5 million in 2008 alone. In today's troubled economy, designers have discovered that they can make their work stand out in a crowded retail marketplace at little additional cost and tremendous personal satisfaction by incorporating handmade elements. 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.