Book Title: Digital Foundations: Introduction to Media Design with the Adobe Creative Cloud

Subtitle: Revised Edition

Authors: xtine burrough and Michael Mandiberg

Book Description: Digital Foundations uses formal exercises of the Bauhaus to teach the Adobe Creative Suite. All students of digital design and production—whether learning in a classroom or on their own—need to understand the basic principles of design in order to implement them using current software. Far too often design is left out of books that teach software for the trade and academic markets. Consequently, the design software training exercise is often a lost opportunity for visual learning. This revised edition updates the original text for use with Adobe Creative Cloud 2017 software. Order a print copy: http://www.lulu.com/content/paperback-book/digital-foundations-introduction-to-media-design-with-the-adobe-creative-cloud-revised-edition/24461332

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Book Description

Digital Foundations uses formal exercises of the Bauhaus to teach the Adobe Creative Suite. All students of digital design and production—whether learning in a classroom or on their own—need to understand the basic principles of design in order to implement them using current software. Far too often design is left out of books that teach software for the trade and academic markets. Consequently, the design software training exercise is often a lost opportunity for visual learning.  This revised edition updates the original text for use with Adobe Creative Cloud 2017 software.

What is Digital Foundations?

Digital Foundations: Introduction to Media Design with the Adobe Creative Suite integrates the formal principles of the Bauhaus Basic Course into an introduction to digital media production with the Adobe Creative Suite, or the FLOSS graphics applications.

Why Digital Foundations is different

Most textbooks and software manuals in the current market do not include art and design history or visual principles. These books synthesize historical examples and traditional studio foundation exercises into smart, well-paced digital studio exercises. See it for yourself in Chapter 5 of Digital Foundations, where we explore Illustrator’s Color Picker window through Joseph Albers’ color exercises.

Digital media texts about Adobe Creative Suite, whether they are “Bibles”, “For Dummies” or “Classroom in a Books”, focus on tools and production tips. Digital Foundations is the only textbook that teaches visual skills through production tools. For example, look at our Table of Contents. It is organized by visual topics, including symmetry, line art, tonal scale, elements of motion, and more.

Digital Foundations is not specifically for dummies or classrooms. It was made for self-learners, artists, designers, as well as classroom applications. We wrote this book for our classrooms as well as for our parents!

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xtine burrough and Michael Mandiberg

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Graphical and digital media applications

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Title
Digital Foundations: Introduction to Media Design with the Adobe Creative Cloud
Authors
xtine burrough and Michael Mandiberg
Editors
Thomas Burton and Meredith Keene
Contributors
Revised and edited by Thomas Burton and Meredith Keene
License

“Digital Foundations – Intro to Media Design” by Xtine Burroughs and Michael Mandiberg is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 3.0  / This edition is a derivative from the original work, revised and edited by Thomas Burton and Meredith Keene. Content is available under Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike unless otherwise noted.

Primary Subject
Graphical and digital media applications
Publisher
Open Oregon Educational Resources
Ebook ISBN
978-1-63635-008-0
Print ISBN
978-1-63635-011-0