Concept Design: Works from Seven Los Angeles Entertainment Designers

Book Description
Concept Design contains nearly 300 original color works by the seven contributing designers. In addition to the 84 Concept Design pieces, support sketches and roughs appear throughout the book. Each piece is accompanied by text detailing the design ideas and/or illustration techniques used. Concept Design is printed with quality as our primary focus. The book is 9” x 12” in a vertical format with eight fold-out pages which allow for the printing of sixteen large horizontal images. No images cross the binding of the book, breaking the image.

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Concept Design 2: Works from Seven Los Angeles Entertainment Designers And Seventeen Guest Artists

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Seventeen guest artists are featured along with the original Seven Los Angeles Entertainment Designers from Concept Design 1 to show us worlds, vehicles, monsters and creations beyond the wildest imagination! Take a journey into the minds of talented and successful concept design professionals who are able to create for the sake of creation keeping the motto, "art for thought's sake” alive and well.

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Syd Mead's Sentury

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A showcase of Syd Mead's futuristic designs and illustrations including work for products, entertainment (movies, TV, interactive games, theme parks) Fantasy, Toys, Vehicles,architectual interriors and more.

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Studio Lighting Solutions: Expert Professional Techniques For Artistic And Commercial Success

Book Description
You get real world walk-throughs from some of the best product and advertising photographers in the business. Each page is a meal in itself. Projects are broken down and explained in short bite size one- or two-page chunks. This is perfect for digesting each project's results and techniques and trying them out on your own. Tips include all the technical details you want, such as lighting instruments used, camera settings, lenses, distances from lights to subject to camera and more.

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Residential Lighting:

A Practical Guide

Book Description
Residential Lighting is the complete guide to illuminating single-family homes.

• Examines the "how" behind the art of residential lighting.
• Emphasizes use of "light layering"-using variety of lighting sources together.
• Features more illustrations, room-based design strategies, common lighting mistakes, and a larger color section.

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Interior Lighting,

Fourth Edition

Book Description
The inspired illumination of any given space can amplify its aesthetic impact and take it from the pedestrian to the sublime. And, for years, this excellent reference has guided architects and designers in the achievement of lighting artistry. Enhanced with more than one hundred new illustrations, Interior Lighting for Designers, 4th Edition takes readers step-by-step through the lighting design process as it covers lighting terminology, perception, general design strategies, and much more.

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Complete Lighting Design: A Practical Design Guide for Perfect Lighting

Book Description
No matter how beautifully decorated a room is, it doesn't matter if no one can see it. Interior designers know the importance of good lighting placement, because it is the key that can literally transform a home. Although correct lighting placement is this book's central theme, it goes much further to discuss everything from basic lighting principles and practices to new technologies, issues of energy efficiency, and new trends in computer automation, followed by a practical guide for analysis and planning, execution, and installation, offering creative solutions to a wide range of illumination issues.

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Ultimate Lighting Design

Book Description
The lighting designer is at once an artist and an engineer. He uses the best technology available to reveal scope, space, and form—both in landscapes and in urban environments—and aims to do so in a way that achieves a functional, creative, and environmental result. This relatively recent profession is the focus of the latest title in teNeues' Ultimate series. Lighting Design presents an illustrated overview of Hervé Descottes' many projects. Founder of the renowned New York design firm L'Observatoire International, Descottes collaborated with architects such as Frank Gehry (Walt Disney Concert Hall, LA), Mario Botta, Jean Nouvel and OMA/Rem Koolhaas (three museums in Seoul, South Korea), and Richard Meier (Restaurant 66, New York City).

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Architectural Lighting

Design, 2nd Edition

Book Description
More than 35ew material, including more than 80 new color and black-and-white illustrations.
* Addresses new topics, such as light and health, ADA criteria and issues, value engineering, computer modeling techniques, and more.
* Covers major programming issues in lighting design and presents creative techniques for conceptualizing and visualizing lighted spaces.
* Describes a wide range of tools and methods for achieving desired lighting effects.
* Accompanying Web site offers additional material and resources.

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Still Life and Special Effects Photography:

A Guide to Professional Lighting Techniques, Second Edition

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Lighting: Good Ideas

Book Description
The Good Ideas series returns here to a broad subject of endless appeal to every homeowner, looking at lighting solutions for every space inside and outside your house. What difference does light make? The variations of lighting offer infinite possibilities for generating interesting variety and stylish environments in the home. One of the most important influences in conceptualizing a space is the control of light, whether it is natural or artificial. Careful lighting design is indispensable for creating ambiences that are not just livable but warm and comfortable as well. This practical reference gives detailed descriptions of different types of lighting and their characteristics, and presents a wide range of examples that can serve as inspiration for both professionals in the field and readers who are looking for sound and reliable advice.

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Creative Lighting Techniques for Studio Photographers

Book Description
This definitive guide to studio lighting explains and demonstrates universal lighting principles that help photographers think on their feet and master lighting theory and technique. Explained are essential concepts such as why light behaves the way it does and how to manipulate it to its best effect. Concrete, practical examples illustrate topics such as shooting light, dark, and reflective surfaces; mastering contrast control; modifying shadow formation to effectively shape mid- and light-colored objects; creating definition in black objects; and using Photoshop to fine-tune subjects. Instruction is also provided on creating simulated sunlight, painting with light, using softening filters, and lighting subjects in motion. Compelling photographs and numerous lighting diagrams are included. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

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Lighting: A Design Source Book

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Lighting is as integral a factor in any interior design plan as color, objects, and arrangement. Wilhide understands that lighting is more than simply what we see; it's also how we feel. Lighting is a central factor in how any space influences our moods. This big, lavish book provides practical help on positioning and installing light sources throughout every room of the home. Dramatically and beautifully illustrated with more than 300 color photographs, it also includes source lists for the specific fixtures and lamps shown. A casual perusal of the lively photographs alone will give the reader inspiration and fire the imagination for creative use of light for dramatic effect, to soothe or relax, to warm a room, or to cool it down visually. This book is not only fun to look at, but also practical and useful for any would-be decorator, beginner or professional.

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Still Life (Pro-Lighting)

Review
I work as a computer artist an animator, and constantly search for good books on lighting. In my opinion, this is one of the best lighting books available to the artist, along with the classic from John Alton "Painting with Light". Still Life (PLS) gives simple explanations of light setup, digramatic views of the situation, as well as comments from the photographers about what they were trying to achieve, and why they did certain procedures.

The light setups here are easily adaptable to suit whatever still life (including products) you are photographing/rendering, and I have found it easy to adapt certain lights used into the realm of 3D computer graphics (soft boxes etc are easy to recreate....)

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