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Crumble, Crackle, Burn: 120 Stunning Textures for Design & Illustration

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Crumble Crackle Burn is not only an inspiring book for incorporating texture into design, but also an affordable tool for transforming your images with textures--you'll receive 120 royalty-free textures you can use immediately! The book features 60 textures with beautiful full-color examples of how each texture can be used. Plus, the included DVD contains an additional 60 textures that you can also use in your day-to-day design work!

Crumble Crackle Burn showcases work from some of the most talented artists in the country, giving insight on how to incorporate texture into backgrounds, and even how to use texture as an illustration and typographic tool.

With the interesting and varied textures included in this book, you can begin adding depth, dimension and visual interest to your work immediately. Glitschka also offers useful pointers to help you do your own texture explorations, so you can notice and capture interesting textures in your everyday life.

If you don't have the time or money to commission original photography or illustration, let Crumble Crackle Burn help you use stock imagery to its best advantage and let your imagination run wild! SYSTEM AND SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS
To access and use the textures on this DVD, you'll need at least 512 MB of RAM on either a Mac running OS X with DVD drive, or a PC running Windows XP with DVD drive. The following applications for Mac or Windows may also be necessary: Adobe Photoshop 7 or above, Adobe Illustrator 8 or above, Macromedia FreeHand 8 or above, CorelDraw 9 or above, and Adobe Acrobat or Acrobat Reader 4 or above. Sample usage files found on the DVD are only provided in native Adobe Illustrator CS2 and Photoshop CS2 formats.


PRODUCT DESCRIPTIONS:

Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 745.4
EAN: 9781581809589
ISBN: 1581809581
Label: How
Manufacturer: How
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 128
Publication Date: 2007-06-12
Publisher: How
Studio: How


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CUSTOMER REVIEWS:

crumble, crackle, brilliant -
Not only is the book a great source of inspiration, Von gives you the tools to make it work for yourself. The files included on DVD are nice and big and there are sample files included so you can see how he applies them. Awesome book--I'm hoping there will be a volume 2...

Great Resource for Illustrators and Designers Alike -
I attended Von Glitschka's "Illustrative Design" session at the 2008 HOW Design conference in Boston and was so inspired by his presentation and work that I decided to purchase his book of textures.

The textures provided are manipulated from actual photos that he has taken almost daily. While it is true that he does not provide detailed instruction on how to use the textures in the book, he does provide links to his website where you can find tutorials. The textures are grayscale and not "clip art", but are intended to be incorporated into your own work to create your own illustrations and designs, which is why I suspect he has not provided specific instructions for their use. The 60 sample illustrations included in the book cover a wide range of application and showcase each texture. You also get 60 bonus textures included on the DVD that are not highlighted in the book.

Get this book, get inspired, get creative, and have fun!

Love the textures! -
I ordered this book thinking it was a paper back and probably not very big. It turned out to be a large hardcover with 60 full page images of projects various artists created using Von's textures, which by the way, are shown on the opposite page in black and white so you really get an idea of how versatile the texture can be. At first I wasn't sure how to use them and wondered how the color was added, but if you just use your noggin it is pretty simple to figure out. (I am a beginning designer/student and believe me if I can do it anyone can...)

I love the book, love the textures and have many ideas of how I am going to use them in future projects. I also think the title is very fitting, I would highly recommend this book because any worthwhile artist/designer is going to appreciate the many creative opportunities the textures provide. Way to go Von !!

Texturama -
An excellent resource for designers - graphic to photographic. The other reviewers have the details. This is my personal thank you to Von for creating an excellent resource for creativity.

Great title, great textures, bad examples -
Can't say enough about the prepped textures ready to use and the included DVD with all the textures plus more is invaluable. Only downside of the book was the repetitive and elementary examples. Too many vector style examples. Would have enjoyed more photographic to graphic design applications as examples. But, nonetheless, very pleased with the book and DVD. Great buy and timesaver!

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