May 25, 2010

COMPOSITION
-Create the beautiful compositions using InDesign-







The bookbinding artist, Mr. Milky Isobe, and DTP Director of Toppan Printing Co., LTD. (one of the biggest printing company in Japan), Mr, Shinichi Konno, give you the lecture on the way to how compose the letters using InDesign, to make it look beautiful as a design and a data.This book is for users who have been already used InDesign in own way. And also for intermediate and experienced users who are not sure about the basic and important key techniques.CS5-compliant. Appended a download data.

-contents-
Prologue : What is beautiful composition?
Part 1 : Step by step of making a composition with InDesign -7 Stages-
Part 2 : Practice of InDesign
Stage 1 Let's decide the size of page
Stage 2 Let's decide the fundamental composition
Part 3 : Examples


The Author: Milky Isobe, Shinichi Konno
Price: 2,800 yen + tax (ISBN: 978-4-86100-673-9)
Format: 180 x 240 mm, 208 pages (Full color), Softcover with Jacket
Language: Japanese / Release Date: 25th May 2010

MOBILE USABILITY








Website Construction adapted for small screens of mobile media, details that allow users to see a site comfortably, how to make a form in which users can input easily-many practical tips for usability of mobile media are given with many illustrations and example.

The Author: IMJ mobile Inc.
Price: 2,500 yen + tax (ISBN: 978-4-86100-697-5)
Format: 182 x 257 mm, 160 pages (full color), Softcover with Jacket
Language: Japanese / Release Date: 25th May 2010

May 18, 2010

DESIGN BASIC BOOK
- The design rules for beginners - [Revised Edition]






This book is revised edition that released on March 2007 and made for design beginners. Using text and many practical examples, each key word is explained in a double-spread page with topics of interest for beginners such as typographies, colors, shapes and layouts. Since first edition is used for a textbook in many schools, this revised edition keeps the same topics and structure of former one, to be continuously used in these schools. Just few examples and comments are renewed for stay current.

-contents-
Chapter 01 : The invitation to design
Chapter 02 : Typography
Chapter 03 : Color
Chapter 04 : Shape and composition
Chapter 05 : Edit and layout


The author: Shinichi Ikuta, Yuji Ohmori, Atsushi Kameo
Price: 2,500 yen + tax (ISBN: 978-4-86100-695-1)
Format: 178x 216 mm, 200 pages (Full color), Softcover with Jacket
Language: Japanese / Release Date: 18th May 2010