You have to at least know the basics, and this e-book is the perfect way to go through most of these basics in one go. The title alone should tell you how useful this could be for you and your freelance practice.
This is also applicable for designers who are currently working for an agency or the traditional employer, but are itching to break free. It tells you how to market your business, how to license your work, how to effectively communicate with clients, and other things that could help establish you as a real professional.
Visual hierarchy is important if you want your entire design to be as organized as possible. This also affects the way your audience sees your design. This e-book tells you how to create this hierarchy properly. Most of the e-books on this list tell you what to do and how to do it. But this e-book takes a different route. This makes it even more important than any other tutorial, as it allows you to understand the spirit of every design aspect and element.
The Future of Product Design is a report that looks deep into why products are designed the way they are, and how this impacts the way things are going to be designed from hereon out. You see, every product ever made starts with a purpose or ideal. Flat design is something that has become more popular with this newfound love for simplicity. This e-book discusses the best ways to use flat design and colors to make your work simple yet exceptionally appealing.
From teaching you ow to think like a designer to helping you deal with fear and doubt, from pushing you to get out of your creative rut to giving you tips on how to market your business online, it has compiled a lot of the basic knowledge that would help any designer get up on their feet and start establishing a name for themselves.
Note that logo making is not just about choosing a random image that looks nice, and pairing it up with the business name. This e-book lets you do that. The PPP Handbook has proven to be such a treasure trove of design knowledge that this download is now on its 3 rd version!
The 1 st version was just a simple handbook that gave details about pixels and the use of Photoshop. These basics, however, proved to be very useful to every designer that has come across it and downloaded it. Since then, it has evolved into the design bible that it is now. The Vignelli Canon gives you a wide spectrum of knowledge that will help you not only in terms of graphic design, but in product design, corporate design, and other aspects of the field as well.
How would this look like in print? Your designs may look great on your screen, but things may end up looking different the moment it goes through the printing process. This e-book gives you all the info you need on how to make all your designs print-worthy, especially if you made them using Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, Acrobat or InDesign. After all, proper knowledge of how all the tools work and how the elements go together will get you nowhere if your creative health is not as good as it should be.
But the real question here is this — are you using your creativity the right way? Set the Percent value to This sets each column to the same width. Select Add until five rows are displayed. Select all five rows, and the select Percent in the Size Type box. This sets each row to the same height. Select OK to accept your changes, and then select the smart tag glyph to close the smart tag panel.
In the Properties window, change the value of the Dock property to Fill. Now that the layout of the control is set up, you can populate the DemoCalculator control with buttons and a display. In the Properties window, expand the Font property node. Set Size to 14 , and set Bold to true for the TextBox control. A Button control is placed in the next open cell of the TableLayoutPanel control. In Toolbox , select the Button icon four more times to populate the second row of the TableLayoutPanel control.
Select all five Button controls by selecting them while holding down the Shift key. Select all 20 Button controls by selecting them while holding down the Shift key.
In the Properties window, expand the Margin property node. Set the value of All to 5. Select button10 and button20 , and then press Delete to remove them from the layout. Select button5 and button15 , and then change the value of their RowSpan property to 2.
When your control or form is populated with several controls, you may find it easier to navigate your layout with the Document Outline window.
The Document Outline window shows a tree view of the DemoCalculator control and its constituent controls. Container controls like the SplitContainer show their child controls as subnodes in the tree. You can also rename controls in place using the Document Outline window. In the Document Outline window, right-click button1 , and then select Rename.
Change its name to sevenButton. Using the Document Outline window, rename the Button controls from the designer-generated name to the production name according to the following list:. Using the Document Outline and Properties windows, change the Text property value for each Button control name according to the following list:.
On the designer surface, select all the Button controls by selecting them while holding down the Shift key.
Set Size to 14 , and set Bold to true for all the Button controls. This completes the design of the DemoCalculator control.
All that remains is to provide the calculator logic. The buttons on the DemoCalculator control have event handlers that can be used to implement much of the calculator logic. The Windows Forms Designer enables you to implement the stubs of all the event handlers for all the buttons with one selection. For more information, see How to: Test the run-time behavior of a UserControl. Select the border between the SplitContainer panels and drag it left and right. The TableLayoutPanel and all its child controls resize themselves to fit in the available space.
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