Illustration School : Plants and Small Creatures

This book is introduction to illustration by Sachiko Umoto, one of the most popular illustrators. Introduce various ways of drawing illustrations, which you can follow by simply imitating examples. Both adults and children can enjoy learning illustration by following the step-by-step guide and printed guidelines. This volume contains more than 70 types of illustrations: cherry blossom, carnation, sunflower, rose, poinsettia, and bees, frog, etc.

The author: Sachiko Umoto
Price: 1200 yen + tax ( ISBN 978-4-86100-635-7 )
Format: 160 x 200 mm, 112pages (2C) Softcover with jacket Release Date: 26th, March 2009
Language: Japanese

*The book has been translated into Taiwanese / Korean / Chinese / English / French / German

See also:
- Illustration School : Cute Animals
- Illustration School : Happy People
- Illustration School : Magical Color Selection

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Shop Identity Series vol.5 TOKYO

There are always new shops opening in Tokyo. This book gives significant examples of the latest shop designs in this exciting city. It features every aspect of the design strategy of each shop, ranging from the exterior and interior views, to the card, pamphlet, DM, and packaging, graphic tools, etc. Include numerous examples of restaurants, patisseries, fashion boutiques, gadget shops, and interior shops that represent the latest trend of Tokyo.

Price: 4,800 yen + tax (ISBN 978-4-86100-599-2)
Format: 224 x 280 mm, 168 pages (Full Color), Softcover with Jacket
Language: English-Japanese Bilingual / Release Date: 26th March 2009

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THE FRONT LINE OF FASHION-Japanese Fashion Designers 100-

This book introduces up-and-coming 100 fashion designers who represent the forefront Japanese Fashion scene; including their profiles, brand concepts, collection pictures, contact information, and shop information. This book covers all cutting-edge Japanese Fashions.

Price: 3,800 yen + tax (ISBN 978-4-86100-618-0)
Language: English-Japanese Bilingual / Release Date: 24th February 2009


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Design and Applications -Design Theory and Practice of Illustrator, Photoshop and InDeign

Since DTP became standard, There is a growing need for learning of not only operating know-how but also design theory. It is very important to learn both at the same time, especially if you aspire to becoming a professional designer. This book contains 101 articles which are absolutely necessary techniques and theories of design: aesthetic and essential basic design theory, DTP Applications techniques (Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop and Indesign), knowledge of printing and paper, and Ideas of design. This book helps you to learn design theories and technique at the same time; highly recommend as a new design and DTP textbook for beginners and intermediates of designers. Additionally, this book contains vocabulary index of design, and information packets for logos, layouts, and colors.
This book is a complete master guidebook for designers; 101 article features in this book are all what you need to know as a professional designer. Include the fundamentals of beautiful and effective design, DTP techniques ( Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign etc.), printing techniques and variations of paper, plus various design ideas. It can be used as a design dictionary, and it serves also as a resource of logos, layout, and color schemes.


Author: Far, inc., SOUVENIR DESIGN
Price: 2,800 yen + tax (ISBN 978-4-86100-620-3)
Format: 214 x 174 mm, 224 pages (Full color), Softcover with jacket
Language: Japanese / Release Date: 24th February 2009

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Reference Books: DESIGN AND APPLICATIONS - Design theory and techniques of Illustrator, Photoshop and InDesign-

Since DTP became standard, There is a growing need for learning of not only operating know-how but also design theory. It is very important to learn both at the same time, especially if you aspire to becoming a professional designer. This book contains 101 articles which are absolutely necessary techniques and theories of design: aesthetic and essential basic design theory, DTP Applications techniques (Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop and Indesign), knowledge of printing and paper, and Ideas of design. This book helps you to learn design theories and technique at the same time; highly recommend as a new design and DTP textbook for beginners and intermediates of designers. Additionally, this book contains vocabulary index of design, and information packets for logos, layouts, and colors. This book is a complete master guidebook for designers.

Price: 2,800 yen + tax (ISBN 978-4-86100-620-3)
Format: 214 x 174 mm, 224 pages (Full Color)
Language: Japanese / Release Date: 24th February 2009

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FREE STYLE SCRAPS Series

This is full of resources containing many useful materials not only for design work but for preparation of presentations, web creation and making a variety of small items. Each category has over 1000 illustrations, all data is on attached CD-ROM with EPS and JPEG format.

Price: 3,000 yen + tax
Format: 150 x 195 mm (2C) Softcover with Jacket
Language: English-Japanese Bilingual
Contain 1 CD-ROM (Mac & Win HYBRID)

01: SILHOUETTE256 pages / 1104 scraps, Release Date: 25th July 2006, ISBN: 978-4-86100-412-8

02: PICTOGRAM224 pages / 1115 scraps, Release Date: 25th July 2006,ISBN: 978-4-86100-413-6

03: FRAME / LINE208 pages / 1261 scraps, Release Date: 25th November 2006, ISBN: 978-4-86100-434-9

04: GIRLIE224 pages / 1004 scraps, Release Date: 11th September 2007, ISBN: 978-4-86100-534-3

05: CLIPS256 pages / 1000 scraps, Release Date: 22nd January 2008, ISBN: 978-4-86100-547-3

06: HANDWRITING256 pages / 1200 scraps, Release Date: 22nd September 2008, ISBN: 978-4-86100-605-0

07: DECORATION224 pages / 1000 scraps, Release Date: 25th November 2008, ISBN: 978-4-86100-606-7

08: PIXEL224 pages / 2000 scraps, Release Date: 22nd February 2009, ISBN: 978-4-86100-607-4

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BUG BOOK Series: SMALL & EYE CATCHING GRAPHICS

BUG BOOK Label releases highly practical, unique design catalogs and products with ingenious ideas are all limited editions. Highly recommended for professional graphic designers.

This book introduces small and eye catching graphics; focusing on promotion materials such as a card, DM, a flier and novelty etc. - The theme is small and excellent promotion designs specially emphasized on ideas. Contains many exquisite graphics in printings, processes, ideas, and materials. Promotion designs have a restriction in budgets and distributions, but a lot of amazing ideas and values as collections.

Price: 13,000 yen + tax (ISBN 978-4-86100-533-6)
Format: 305 x 277 mm, 184 pages (Full Color) Hard Cover with a vinyl / German style biding
Language: English-Japanese Bilingual / Release Date: 24th January 2009


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