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Your True Academic Design Series

Hands-on tutorials with a project orientation designed to provide a thorough

knowledge and understanding of graphic design

Features:

•    Extensive End-of-Chapter Exercises include three levels of reinforcement exercises that emphasize hands-on skill development.

•    Portfolio Builder exercises at the end of every chapter require creative problem solving and the application of learned skills. The completed projects can be combined into a portfolio that will impress at job interviews.

•    Integrating Projects are designed to reflect real-world graphic design work, drawing on skills learned throughout the text.

•    Careers in Design feature offers advice, tips, and resources that will help you on your path to a successful career.

•    Full color format throughout!

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Your online resource for mastering graphic design

• Interactive Study Guide
• Data Project Files
• Online Exercises and Additional Projects
• Recent IT Articles
• Student Career Center
• . . . and much, much more!

 

About The Author

About the Author

Dean Bagley has been writing instructional books about Adobe Illustrator for a number of years. He first began when he wrote about Illustrator’s version 5.0. Dean received his degrees in Speech-English-Education from the University of South Florida in Tampa, Florida. Upon graduation he spent several years teaching English and Speech in secondary schools.

A multi-talented person, Dean has been in the Arts most of his life as a graphic artist, designer, cartoonist, typographer, writer, editor, and publication designer. He spent ten years working as Head of Advertising for his father in his well-known business in the fishing industry, Bagley Bait Company. It was during these years that Dean won both an ADDY Award and a first place award from the Florida Print Industry for the package and catalog design of their monofilament fishing line, Silver Thread.

Also a computer programmer in such languages as BASIC, Pascal, and dBase, Dean found himself in the world of the Internet where creates Web sites, animations and images for use on the Web, using Adobe Illustrator.

Dean also has his own line of children’s books about his cartoon character, Baggy Gator. These stories can be found online at http://baggygator.no-ip.com.