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Exclusive Excerpt: Adobe Illustrator CS2 @Work by Pariah S. Burke
By Team Designorati On 9th November 2005 @ 19:04 In Have You Seen | 2 Comments
Exclusive excerpt of new, projects-based how-to book on Adobe Illustrator CS2.
Designorati is proud to host an exclusive excerpt from Pariah S. Burke’s Adobe Illustrator CS2 @Work: Projects You Can Use on the Job, a projects-based book that teaches you Illustrator CS and CS2 in the context of real-world projects that graphic designers and illustrators must complete every day on the job in agencies, production departments, and freelance assignments. Adobe Illustrator CS2 @Work, which discusses why you would choose a particular tool, task, or methodology as well as how to use them, focuses on understanding and building an efficient workflow around Illustrator-based projects.
From the book’s introduction:
This book is not about teaching you software. This book is about showing you practical, efficient, and fun ways to use a tool, Adobe Illustrator CS2, to complete real-world, on-the-job projects and get your job done with as little wasted effort and as few headaches as possible.Most people don’t learn effectively when shown disconnected tasks utilizing generic subject matter.
Learning how to type text in one chapter, draw a flower with the Pen tool in another, and create envelope warps on a triangle in a third chapter, with hundreds of pages in between, will not teach you how to design a logo. Such books are wonderful for augmenting an existing workflow and finding new techniques. They don’t, however, help you get the job done quickly if you have to spend most of your working time flipping through the book and trying to decide if this section is more applicable and adaptable than this other section to the project your client needs by 5 o’clock.
[This book] contains the most common projects executed by the majority of Illustrator users at work. It’s the result of hundreds of your peers answering the question: Tell me about your job.
Adobe Illustrator CS2 @Work: Projects You Can Use on the Job is part of a new type of software learning book from Sam’s Publishing, the @Work series, which includes Adobe InDesign CS2 @Work by Cate Brosseau Indiano.
Most how-to books teach the broadest possible user base with task-based education—explaining how to draw a shape or add a drop shadow—disconnected tasks that leave the reader to figure out how to string them together to build a workflow. As everyone who has ever tried to learn from one of these books knows, task-based education fails the vast majority of learners.
The @Work series approaches the process of learning mission-critical applications like Adobe Illustrator CS2 and InDesign CS2 from the perspective of creative pros working in the real, make or break, deadline-driven world of graphic design, publishing, prepress, and illustration. Each chapter of Adobe Illustrator CS2 @Work and Adobe InDesign CS2 @Work is a complete project created every day on the job by real professional creatives. Each project begins with a blank page, and finishes with polished deliverables. Along the way, veteran designers, printing pros, and educators Burke and Indiano teach both how and why to use a particular tool, command, or technique.
Read cover to cover, each @Work book teaches and uses all the application’s features and functions, but, unlike task-based how-tos, reading these books cover to cover isn’t necessary to get your job done. Every chapter stands on its own as a fully hands-on, start-to-finish project that will teach you and get your work done at the same time. Work with provided sample assets or your client files, to produce real world projects and build complete, effective workflows.
Download the Designorati exclusive excerpt, the complete Adobe Illustrator CS2 @Work chapter 3: “Adding Logos and Artwork to Non-Flat Objects” in [1] PDF format (2.2 MB).
Would you like to read an excerpt from Cate Brosseau Indiano’s Adobe InDesign CS2 @Work? Quark VS InDesign.com [2] hosts the exclusive full-chapter excerpt, Chapter 9: “Developing a Newsletter.”
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