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New Riders’ books focus on where design meets the Web. We provide a forum for the leading voices in creative and information technologies. Our books are focused on, and written for, the aspiring professional with whom we share our unique visions, expertise and inspiration.

Burn Your Portfolio

Burn Your Portfolio

Stuff they don't teach you in design school, but should

Michael Janda

Paperback, Jun 2013
ISBN13: 9780321918680
ISBN10: 0321918681
It takes more than just a design school education and a killer portfolio to succeed in a creative career. Burn Your Portfolio teaches the real-world practices, professional do's and don'ts, and unwrit...
Photography Q&A

Photography Q&A

Real Questions. Real Answers.

Zack Arias

Paperback, Jun 2013
ISBN13: 9780321929501
ISBN10: 0321929500
In Photography Q&A, author Zack Arias, takes the best of the 1,000+ questions that he fielded directly from the public for his blog project. These are questions that range across all aspects o...
Last Layer, The

Last Layer, The

New methods in digital printing for photography, fine art, and mixed media

Bonny Lhotka

Access Code, Apr 2013
ISBN13: 9780133373028
ISBN10: 0133373029
In The Last Layer–the follow-up to Digital Alchemy, her successful book on alternative printmaking techniques–Bonny Lhotka teaches how to make prints that take their inspiration from early...
Responsive Design Workflow
In our industry, everything changes quickly, usually for the better. We have more and better tools for creating websites and applications that work across multiple platforms. Oddly enough, design work...
Ambigrams Revealed

Ambigrams Revealed

A Graphic Designer's Guide To Creating Typographic Art Using Optical Illusions, Symmetry, and Visual Perceptio

Nikita Prokhorov

Paperback, Mar 2013
ISBN13: 9780321855473
ISBN10: 0321855477
An ambigram is a typographical creation that presents two or more separate words within the same physical space. Although ambigrams have been around since the 70s, they've only recently been thrust in...
Last Layer, The

Last Layer, The

New methods in digital printing for photography, fine art, and mixed media

Bonny Lhotka

Paperback, Mar 2013
ISBN13: 9780321905406
ISBN10: 0321905407
In The Last Layer–the follow-up to Digital Alchemy, her successful book on alternative printmaking techniques–Bonny Lhotka teaches how to make prints that take their inspiration from early...
Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 4 Book for Digital Photographers, The
Since Lightroom first launched, Scott Kelby's The Lightroom Book for Digital Photographers has been the world's #1 best-selling Lightroom book. In this latest version for Lightroom 4, Scott use...
Don't Make Me Think

Don't Make Me Think

A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability
2nd Edition

Steve Krug

Paperback, Sep 2005
ISBN13: 9780321344755
ISBN10: 0321344758
Adobe Photoshop CS6 Book for Digital Photographers, The
Updated for Adobe Photoshop CS6, this top-selling book breaks new ground by doing something for digital photography students that's rare–it cuts through the bull and shows them exactly "how to do...
Light It, Shoot It, Retouch It

Light It, Shoot It, Retouch It

Learn Step by Step How to Go from Empty Studio to Finished Image

Scott Kelby

Paperback, Sep 2011
ISBN13: 9780321786616
ISBN10: 0321786610
In Light It, Shoot It, Retouch It, bestselling author Scott Kelby focuses on the three necessary components of a great shot—the lighting and its setup, the shot itself, and the post-process...
Presentation Zen

Presentation Zen

Simple Ideas on Presentation Design and Delivery
2nd Edition

Garr Reynolds

Paperback, Dec 2011
ISBN13: 9780321811981
ISBN10: 0321811984
Best-selling author and popular speaker Garr Reynolds is back in this newly revised edition of his classic, best-selling book,Presentation Zen, in which he showed students there is a better way...
Logo Design Love

Logo Design Love

A Guide to Creating Iconic Brand Identities

David Airey

Paperback, Jan 2010
ISBN13: 9780321660763
ISBN10: 0321660765
In Logo Design Love, Irish graphic designer David Airey brings the best parts of his wildly popular blog of the same name to the printed page. Just as in the blog, David fills each page of this simple...
100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People
If you want to design intuitive and engaging web sites, apps, print materials or products, then you need to know the psychology that underlies people's behavior. 100 Things Every Designer Needs to Kno...
Professional Portrait Retouching Techniques for Photographers Using Photoshop
For the first time, Scott Kelby has assembled all of his best Photoshop techniques for professionally retouching portraits and collected them here in this groundbreaking new volume. Beginning with the...