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Visualizing Ideas: From Scribbles to Storyboards [Paperback]

Gregor Krisztian , Nesrin Schlempp-Ãlker
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  • Paperback: 204 pages
  • Publisher: Thames & Hudson (18 April 2006)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0500286124
  • ISBN-13: 978-0500286128
  • Product Dimensions: 28.8 x 23 x 2.2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 320,919 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Visualize and present your ideas quickly and effectively with the aid of this superbly illustrated book. Gregor Krisztian and Nesrin Schlempp-Ãlker explore and explain basic layout techniques, giving expert tips and demonstrating useful tricks employed by professionals. It is an indispensable reference work for all professional designers and students â indeed, for anyone who wishes to present their ideas successfully and skilfully.

About the Author

Nesrin Schlempp-Ulker is a freelance illustrator and teaches design technology at the University of Applied Sciences in Wiesbaden, Germany, where Gregor Krisztian works as a professor in the Design Faculty. Krisztian was also an advertising art director for many years, and continues to work as a freelance designer.

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
By Parka HALL OF FAME TOP 50 REVIEWER
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I like this book.

This book goes through all the techniques to get the design job done. There are detailed tips that makes you go,"Hey, I was in that situation before. So that's how they did it". Such as using strong cards as rulers so there are no ink smudges the next time the ruler is used -- It happens to me all the time.

All the concepts explained in the book are illustrated with pen and copic marker to great effect. It's a bundle of tips and techniques tackling almost all sorts of situations, from doing layout, lettering, product designs, figure drawings to storyboards and animatics. While you might think that this would spread the quality of content thin, it doesn't because the design concepts are pretty universal.

I think this is actually a design book that happens to be an exceptional art book at the same time. It's a great showcase of artwork from the author and collection of other art. The primary focus is to help designers present work with the greatest impact, fast.

Fans of copic markers will love this one.

Back of the book:

Visualizing and presenting your ideas convincingly is an indispensable part of day-to-day design, even in our age of digital design processes. No presentation is complete without layouts, storyboards or spontaneous sketches, often crucial to the outcome. No computer software, however good it is, can replace the non-computerized marker!

In this book, Gregor Krisztian and Nesrin Schlempp-Ülker explore and explain basic layout techniques, giving expert tips and demonstrating useful tricks employed by professionals. They show you how to present your ideas quickly and effectively, illustrating all stages of work with clear examples from teaching and practice. This will be an indispensable reference work for all professional designers and students - indeed, for anyone who wishes to present their ideas successfully and skilfully.

There are more pictures on my blog. Just visit my Amazon profile for the link.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Fantastic book!! 17 Dec 2008
By M. Kim
Format:Paperback
Since about 2 years ago, I wanted to learn and find out specifically more about how to use designer markers and create professional design drawings.- Generally rendering products and interior spaces.
So, I searched for some books on Amazon and bought 'Sketching and Rendering Interior Spaces' which I found it slightly helpful learning about perspective and basic marker rendering. Then I also looked at reviews for 'Marker Magic: The Rendering Problem Solver for Designers' which looked pretty good but seemed to have too much writing. Including these two books which I have mentioned, other books about marker rendering seemed all pretty old, being published in late 80s and early 90s.

However, thankfully I came across with this book (Visualizing ideas) 1 year later (2007) in my local Waterstones. It's the BEST book I've seen about how to use marker pens.
The book is FULL of colourful marker rendered images basically covering all areas of design including Fashion, architecture/interior, products, story board, cars... you name it. Also it even shows how to render food and landscapes with marker pens.
If you perhaps find people quite hard to draw like my self, no problem. This book also explains how to draw people for different design areas, such as figures for fashion or small figures for architectural drawings.

What I like about this book is that it's visually engaging with lots and lots of images with notes and few paragraphs about what to do and how you render different things with markers. At the back of the book, there are few pages explaining common mistakes people make with markers and how to change them. (Like a Before and After format)
Even though some of the sketches might look in 90s style, this book is not out-dated or old either.
Overall, this book is very detailed and if you are interested in design and want to learn how to use marker pens, this book is HIGHLY recommended.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
By imagiag
Format:Paperback
The book is greatly unbalanced, on one side are really great illustrations which get you inspired and wanting to do similar, on other side the writing is really weak and extremely arrogant at times.

Not only most pages lack even basic guidance on how to actually do things illustrated, it's often presented in an arrogant tone like "look how perfect this drawing i did is, especially notice this amazing detail here" - hints how to do the same? nah, why is it perfect? just because the author said so, process to get there? you need to be a master like author.

There's also very little written on actual topic of visualizing the ideas approaches, authors rather picked few generic areas from marker artist portfolio, and opted to show some examples of illustrations for each.

Besides this major flaw, there's another slight problem - whole book is written as promotional piece for COPIC brand, so "you'll notice how great COPIC product XYZ is for this" is on almost every page.

So the conclusion for me - good source of inspirational images for marker drawing, with never ever going to read any of the texts around them. Avoid if you look for actually learn something.
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