This book goes through all the techniques to get the design job done. There are detailed tips that makes you go,"Hey, I was in that situation before. So that's how they did it". Such as using strong cards as rulers so there are no ink smudges the next time the ruler is used -- It happens to me all the time.
All the concepts explained in the book are illustrated with pen and copic marker to great effect. It's a bundle of tips and techniques tackling almost all sorts of situations, from doing layout, lettering, product designs, figure drawings to storyboards and animatics. While you might think that this would spread the quality of content thin, it doesn't because the design concepts are pretty universal.
I think this is actually a design book that happens to be an exceptional art book at the same time. It's a great showcase of artwork from the author and collection of other art. The primary focus is to help designers present work with the greatest impact, fast.
Fans of copic markers will love this one.
Back of the book:
Visualizing and presenting your ideas convincingly is an indispensable part of day-to-day design, even in our age of digital design processes. No presentation is complete without layouts, storyboards or spontaneous sketches, often crucial to the outcome. No computer software, however good it is, can replace the non-computerized marker!
In this book, Gregor Krisztian and Nesrin Schlempp-Ülker explore and explain basic layout techniques, giving expert tips and demonstrating useful tricks employed by professionals. They show you how to present your ideas quickly and effectively, illustrating all stages of work with clear examples from teaching and practice. This will be an indispensable reference work for all professional designers and students - indeed, for anyone who wishes to present their ideas successfully and skilfully.
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Fantastic book!! ~ Written on Dec 17, 2008. 2 out of 2 users found this review helpful.
Since about 2 years ago, I wanted to learn and find out specifically more about how to use designer markers and create professional design drawings.- Generally rendering products and interior spaces. So, I searched for some books on Amazon and bought 'Sketching and Rendering Interior Spaces' which I found it slightly helpful learning about perspective and basic marker rendering. Then I also looked at reviews for 'Marker Magic: The Rendering Problem Solver for Designers' which looked pretty good but seemed to have too much writing. Including these two books which I have mentioned, other books about marker rendering seemed all pretty old, being published in late 80s and early 90s.
However, thankfully I came across with this book (Visualizing ideas) 1 year later (2007) in my local Waterstones. It's the BEST book I've seen about how to use marker pens. The book is FULL of colourful marker rendered images basically covering all areas of design including Fashion, architecture/interior, products, story board, cars... you name it. Also it even shows how to render food and landscapes with marker pens. If you perhaps find people quite hard to draw like my self, no problem. This book also explains how to draw people for different design areas, such as figures for fashion or small figures for architectural drawings.
What I like about this book is that it's visually engaging with lots and lots of images with notes and few paragraphs about what to do and how you render different things with markers. At the back of the book, there are few pages explaining common mistakes people make with markers and how to change them. (Like a Before and After format) Even though some of the sketches might look in 90s style, this book is not out-dated or old either. Overall, this book is very detailed and if you are interested in design and want to learn how to use marker pens, this book is HIGHLY recommended.
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